Edmund Wilson
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Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County.
From the Review
August 14, 1986: Visiting Malraux and Nabokov
August 14, 1980: Notes from the Thirties
March 17, 1977: Edmund Wilson On Writers and Writing
March 3, 1977: Edmund Wilson: Letters to John Dos Passos
February 17, 1977: Edmund Wilson's Letters: To and About F. Scott Fitzgerald
October 18, 1973: Two Letters by Edmund Wilson
February 10, 1972: The Monsters of Bomarzo
November 18, 1971: The First Waste Land—II
May 20, 1971: Voskresit' (letter)
February 25, 1971: Notes on Tolstoy
Tolstoy by Henri Troyat
Tolstoy by Henri Troyat, translated by Nancy Amphoux
February 25, 1971: Pirated Edition (letter)
February 11, 1971: Slavism (letter)
December 3, 1970: Notes on Pushkin
March 26, 1970: On "All Men Are Mad"
January 29, 1970: Jesus's Signature (letter)
June 5, 1969: Fruit Salad (letter)
October 10, 1968: The Fruits of the MLA: II. Mark Twain
September 26, 1968: The Fruits of the MLA: I. "Their Wedding Journey"
Their Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells, edited by John K. Reeves
March 14, 1968: Writers Behind Barbed Wire (letter)
January 4, 1968: An Open Letter to Mike Nichols
January 12, 1967: The Lamentable Tragedy of the Duke of Palermo
April 14, 1966: Bookmaking (letter)
February 17, 1966: Dangerous Animal (letter)
September 30, 1965: Wilson's Russian Usage (letter)
August 26, 1965: Letters: the Strange Case of Nabokov and Wilson (letter)
July 15, 1965: The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
Eugene Onegin Volume IV, v + 316 A Novel in Verse by Alexandr Pushkin, Translated from the Russian, with a commentary, by Vladimir Nabokov
June 1, 1963: Every Man His Own Eckermann
From New York Review Books
 | Memoirs of Hecate County Written in a fine clear style that is not in the least dated, Memoirs of Hecate County deserves to stand among the finest accomplishments of twentieth-century American fiction. |
 | To the Finland Station Wilson combines his polymathic talents as critic, journalist, historian, and novelist, making this one of the greatest works by twentieth-century America's greatest man of letters. |
 | Peasants and Other Stories No one understood as clearly and finely as Anton Chekhov the tragedy of life's trivialities, no one before him showed men with such merciless truth the terrible and shameful picture of their life in the dim chaos of bourgeois everyday existence.—Maxim Gorky |