Alfred Kazin
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Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)
From the Review
April 23, 1998: Laughter in the Dark
Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Sherman
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life by Janet Hadda
April 9, 1998: God's Own Terrorist
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
November 20, 1997: The Long Voyage Home
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
October 9, 1997: A Single Jew
Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work edited by Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco
The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux
June 26, 1997: Struggles of a Prophet
The Actual by Saul Bellow
April 18, 1996: A Genius of the Spiritual Life
February 1, 1996: Hope for Labor (letter)
August 10, 1995: The Polish Invasion? (letter)
June 22, 1995: A Jew on Horseback
1920 Diary by Isaac Babel, edited and with an introduction and notes by Carol J. Avins, translated by H. T. Willetts
Collected Stories by Isaac Babel, translated by David McDuff
December 22, 1994: Escape Artist
The Book of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman, translated by Betsy Rosenberg
December 1, 1994: Her Holiness
April 22, 1993: The Way We Live Now
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes
January 28, 1993: Love at Harvard
Love's Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray by Forrest G. Robinson
December 17, 1992: The Middle Way
Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike
October 8, 1992: The Opera of 'The Scarlet Letter'
December 5, 1991: Reading Henry Roth (letter)
October 10, 1991: The Art of 'Call It Sleep'
November 23, 1989: American Gothic
November 5, 1987: Fallen Creatures
Rock Springs: Stories by Richard Ford
July 16, 1987: Trachtenberg the Brain King
More Die Of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow
February 26, 1987: Mencken and the Great American Boob
The Dreiser–Mencken Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser & H.L. Mencken, 1907–1945 Vol. I and II, edited by Thomas P. Riggio
Mencken and Sara, A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
November 20, 1986: Covering Washington (letter)
October 9, 1986: An Exchange on Ezra Pound
May 29, 1986: In Washington
March 13, 1986: The Fascination and Terror of Ezra Pound
October 10, 1985: New York: The Writer in the Powerhouse
June 14, 1984: 'Not One of Us'
March 29, 1984: A Nymph of the New
Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World by Barbara Guest
November 10, 1983: The Exceptional William James
A Stroll with William James by Jacques Barzun
June 30, 1983: Lincoln's 'Asiatic Style' (letter)
May 12, 1983: Saving the Free World: An Exchange
March 31, 1983: Saving My Soul at the Plaza
October 21, 1982: Feminism & Hannah Arendt (letter)
June 24, 1982: Woman in Dark Times
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
January 21, 1982: The Father of Us All
Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen
November 19, 1981: Easy Come, Easy Go
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
November 5, 1981: One of Us?
April 16, 1981: The Battler
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961 edited by Carlos Baker
February 19, 1981: Restoring 'Sister Carrie'
March 20, 1980: The Plot Thickens (letter)
November 22, 1979: Ford's Modern Romance
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
October 11, 1979: Boycott Taba (letter)
December 21, 1978: Missing Connections
The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Philip Simpson
September 30, 1976: Appeal for Kofi Awoonor (letter)
March 4, 1976: Detained in Ghana (letter)
January 23, 1975: "Your Lone and Loving Exile"
Henry James: Letters Volume I, 1843-1875 edited by Leon Edel
November 28, 1974: Tolstoy and His Quaker
December 13, 1973: No Thank You, Mr. President
The Imperial Presidency by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
May 17, 1973: Fiction and America (letter)
April 19, 1973: O'Hara, Cheever & Updike
April 5, 1973: Melville the New Yorker
January 25, 1973: Ford's Better Idea (letter)
December 14, 1972: New York Jew
November 2, 1972: Man of State
Memoirs 1950-1963 by George F. Kennan
June 29, 1972: Crisis in the NY Public Library (letter)
December 30, 1971: Displaced Person
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
June 3, 1971: Women Writers Are People (letter)
May 20, 1971: The Confidence of FDR
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
April 8, 1971: The World as a Novel: From Capote to Mailer
February 11, 1971: Heroines
January 7, 1971: School of the Arts (letter)
December 3, 1970: Though He Slay Me…
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
October 22, 1970: The Great American Poet
July 2, 1970: Our Flag
November 6, 1969: History and Henry Adams: II
October 23, 1969: History and Henry Adams
March 27, 1969: Josephine Herbst (1897–1969)
March 27, 1969: Protest (letter)
February 27, 1969: Up Against the Wall, Mama!
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
December 5, 1968: Stephen Crane, Inc.
Stephen Crane: A Biography by R.W. Stallman
October 24, 1968: The Ghost Sense
May 9, 1968: Violence in Oakland (letter)
March 28, 1968: Bellow's Purgatory
December 1, 1966: History as LBJ
Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power by Rowl Evans, by Robert Novak
November 25, 1965: On Perry Miller
The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War by Perry Miller
July 15, 1965: The Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol by Alan Trachtenberg
May 20, 1965: Radicals and Intellectuals
The New Radicalism in America, 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type by Christopher Lasch
January 14, 1965: Impressionist of Power
Henry Adams: The Major Phase by Ernest Samuels
March 19, 1964: The Vicar of Christ
The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth, Translated from the German by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
November 14, 1963: The Sweet Music of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mandate for Change, 1953-1956. The White House Years, Volume I by Dwight D. Eisenhower
June 1, 1963: Literary Realism
Documents of Modern Literary Realism edited by George J. Becker
February 1, 1963: Russian Sketches
Voices in the Snow by Olga Carlisle
Books by Alfred Kazin
God & the American Writer (1997)
A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin (1996)
Writing Was Everything (1995)
Our New York (1989)
A Writer's America: Landscape in Literature (1988)
Inmost Leaf: A Selection of Essays (1986)
A Walker in the City (1986)
An American Procession (1984)
Contemporaries, from the 19th Century to the Present (1982)
On Native Grounds, an Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature (1982)
Starting out in the Thirties
Starting out in the Thirties (1980)
New York Jew (1978)
Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer (1973)