John Thompson

From the Review

May 29, 1986: Absent Friends (poem)

February 2, 1984: Ending on Paumanok (poem)

July 16, 1981: Clubland

The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels

October 23, 1980: Perilous Relations

A Soldier's Embrace by Nadine Gordimer

May 1, 1980: Hate in a Cold Climate

A Married Man by Piers Paul Read

The Pornographer by John McGahern

May 31, 1979: Bankruptcy and Revolt

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

December 21, 1978: Updike le Noir

The Coup by John Updike

October 27, 1977: Robert Lowell 1917–1977

November 25, 1976: Mended (letter)

October 14, 1976: Old Campaigners

Sea Grapes by Derek Walcott

Leaping Clear and Other Poems by Irving Feldman

March 4, 1976: Detained in Ghana (letter)

December 11, 1975: Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

January 23, 1975: At Least One Way

No Way by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Sheila Cudahy

Touch the Water, Touch the Wind by Amos Oz. translated by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the author

October 17, 1974: Caught Again

Something Happened by Joseph Heller

October 4, 1973: Smile (letter)

August 9, 1973: Last Testament

Recovery by John Berryman

September 23, 1971: In Africa

Jungle Lovers by Paul Theroux

Farquharson's Physique: And What It Did to His Mind by David Knight

The Wanderers by Ezekiel Mphahlele

This Earth, My Brother…An Allegorical Tale of Africa by Kofi Awoonor

Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem, translated by Ralph Manheim

January 29, 1970: Police Brutality (letter)

August 1, 1968: An Alphabet of Poets

A Look Round the Estate by Kingsley Amis

Short Poems by John Berryman

Words by Robert Creeley

The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht

Woodwo by Ted Hughes

Body Rags by Galway Kinnell

The Harvester's Vase by Ned O'Gorman

The Marches by James Scully

Iliad of Broken Sentences by Rosemary Tonks

April 11, 1968: Too Important to Be New

Dark Star by Ronnie Dugger

November 9, 1967: Only One-Seventh (letter)

September 28, 1967: Early Wilson

A Prelude by Edmund Wilson

Galahad and I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson

August 3, 1967: Good Man

Like a Conquered Province by Paul Goodman

Five Years by Paul Goodman

June 15, 1967: The Professionals

Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal

When She Was Good by Philip Roth

Go to the Widow-Maker by James Jones

April 20, 1967: Catching Up on Mailer

Cannibals and Christians by Norman Mailer

The Deer Park A Play by Norman Mailer

January 26, 1967: Permafrost

Robert Frost, The Early Years, 1874-1915 by Lawrance Thompson

Selected Prose of Robert Frost edited by Hyde Cox, edited by Edward Connery Lathem

Interviews with Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem

April 28, 1966: Poor Papa

Papa Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner

February 3, 1966: From Out of Nowhere

Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers by Stanley Elkin

The Nowhere City by Alison Lurie

December 23, 1965: Matthiessen and Updike

At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen

Of the Farm by John Updike

December 9, 1965: Corrective Critic

The Myth and the Powerhouse by Philip Rahv

October 14, 1965: India: The Saints Go to War

May 6, 1965: Poet's Novel, Novel Poem

The (Diblos) Notebook by James Merrill

Two Brothers by Philip Toynbee

June 11, 1964: The Stories of Peter Taylor

Miss Leonora When Last Seem by Peter Taylor

April 2, 1964: Auden (letter)

January 23, 1964: Auden Above the Snow Line

The Disenchanted Island: The Poetry of W. H. Auden: by Monroe K. Spears

February 1, 1963: New Novels

Eternal Fire by Calder Willingham

Occasion for Loving by Nadine Gordimer

Sissie by John A. Williams