Elizabeth Hardwick
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Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
From the Review
August 10, 2006: Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
February 10, 2005: Susan Sontag (1933–2004)
November 6, 2003: Funny as a Crutch
Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings selected and with notes by Sacvan Bercovitch
Nathanael West by Robert Emmet Long
Nathanael West: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Jay Martin
July 17, 2003: Among the Savages
The Golovlyov Family by Shchedrin, translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington, with an introduction by James Wood
Sketches of Provincial Life by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with notes by Frederic Aston
The History of a Town by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and edited by Susan Brownsberger
The Pompadours: A Satire on the Art of Government by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with an introduction by David Magarshack
September 26, 2002: On 'The Unpossessed'
June 27, 2002: Pilgrim's Progress
Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street by Richard Lingeman
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer
Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth edited by Richard Lingeman
July 19, 2001: Celebrities
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach
May 17, 2001: The Foster Father
November 16, 2000: The Torrents of Wolfe
O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life by Thomas Wolfe, text established by Arlyn Bruccoli, by Matthew J. Bruccoli
The Notebooks of Thomas Wolfe edited by Richard S. Kennedy, edited by Paschal Reeves
Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, edited by Park Bucker
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
The Web and the Rock by Thomas Wolfe
June 15, 2000: Melville in Love
March 23, 2000: Far from Rome
April 22, 1999: Head Over Heels
Monica's Story by Andrew Morton
January 15, 1998: Tru Confessions
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton
June 12, 1997: On Murray Kempton (1917–1997)
June 12, 1997: Paradise Lost
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
October 31, 1996: In the Wasteland
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
June 6, 1996: Family Values
In Contempt by Christopher A. Darden
Reasonable Doubts: The O.J. Simpson Case and the Criminal Justice System by Alan M. Dershowitz
The Search for Justice: A Defense Attorney's Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case by Robert L. Shapiro
I Want to Tell You by O.J. Simpson
August 10, 1995: Reckless People
Independence Day by Richard Ford
February 17, 1994: The Menendez Show
January 14, 1993: The Kennedy Scandals
JFK: Reckless Youth by Nigel Hamilton
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga by Doris Kearns Goodwin
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
A Question of Character: The Life of John F. Kennedy by Thomas C. Reeves
The Founding Father by Richard Whelan
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills
Of Kennedys and Kings by Harris Wofford
March 26, 1992: Mary McCarthy in New York
November 21, 1991: Mastering Masters (letter)
September 26, 1991: Wind from the Prairie
Carl Sandburg: A Biography by Penelope Niven
Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America by Edgar Lee Masters
Lincoln: The Man by Edgar Lee Masters
The West-Going Heart: A Life of Vachel Lindsay by Eleanor Ruggles
The Art of the Moving Picture by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Introduction by Stanley Kauffmann
November 22, 1990: On Washington Square
October 26, 1989: Basic Englishing
May 18, 1989: Citizen Updike
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike
August 18, 1988: Church Going
Jonathan Edwards by Perry Miller
Fathers of the Victorians by Ford K. Brown
Free Love and Heavenly Sinners: The Story of the Great Henry Ward Beecher Scandal by Robert Shaplen
Redemptorama by Carol Flake
January 21, 1988: Mrs. Wharton in New York
Edith Wharton: Novels (The House of Mirth, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence)
The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton
Old New York: False Dawn (The 'Forties), The Old Maid (The 'Fifties), The Spark (The 'Sixties), New Year's Day (The 'Seventies) by Edith Wharton
"Bunner Sisters" in Madame de Treymes and Others by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton: A Biography by R.W.B. Lewis
Portrait of Edith Wharton by Percy Lubbock
June 25, 1987: The Fictions of America
April 10, 1986: The Genius of Margaret Fuller
The Letters of Margaret Fuller Vol. 1: 1817–1838 Vol. 2: 1839–1841 Vol. 3: 1842–1844 edited by Robert N. Hudspeth
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli edited by R. W. Emerson, edited by W.H. Channing, edited by J.F. Clarke
Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller
The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings by Bell Gale Chevigny
The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller by Joseph Jay Deiss
Margaret Fuller, American Romantic: A Selection From Her Writings and Correspondence edited with an introduction and notes by Perry Miller
The American Transcendentalists: Their Prose and Poetry edited by Perry Miller
Margaret Fuller Ossoli by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller with an introduction by Julia Ward Howe
Italian Nationalism and English Letters by Harry W. Rudman
May 30, 1985: The Teller and the Tape
Mailer: His Life and Times by Peter Manso
December 20, 1984: Cheever, or The Ambiguities
Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever
October 11, 1984: The Case of Alexandr Bogoslovski (letter)
August 16, 1984: Somebody Out There
Something Out There by Nadine Gordimer
December 22, 1983: On the Eve: A Story
June 30, 1983: Ibsen's Secrets
December 2, 1982: Eyewitness ARTnews
March 4, 1982: A Bunch of Reds
Reds produced and directed by Warren Beatty, written by Warren Beatty, by Trevor Griffiths
December 17, 1981: Back Issues
July 16, 1981: Bartleby and Manhattan
April 3, 1980: Love It or Leave It!
Imagining America by Peter Conrad
October 11, 1979: Boycott Taba (letter)
August 16, 1979: The Portable Canterbury
Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness by Marshall Frady
Billy Graham: Evangelist to the World by John Pollock
Angels: God's Secret Agents by Billy Graham
May 18, 1978: Wives and Mistresses
Tolstoy Remembered by Tatyana Tolstoy, translated by Derek Coltman
Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter by Doris Langley Moore
A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak by Olga Ivinskaya, translated by Max Hayward
February 3, 1977: An Exchange on Fiction
November 25, 1976: Sense of the Present
Speedboat by Renata Adler
August 5, 1976: The "Excelsior" Affair (letter)
August 5, 1976: The Carter Question II: Piety and Politics
The Miracle of Jimmy Carter by Howard Norton, by Bob Slosser
The Gift of Inner Healing by Ruth Carter Stapleton
Why Not the Best? by Jimmy Carter
"I'll Never Lie to You" Jimmy Carter in His Own Words by Robert W. Turner
March 4, 1976: Detained in Ghana (letter)
March 4, 1976: Billie Holiday
June 12, 1975: A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam
December 12, 1974: Timon of Paris
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare, French version by Jean-Claude Carrière, directed by Peter Brook
November 14, 1974: Sue and Arabella
June 27, 1974: Sad Brazil
January 24, 1974: Philip Rahv (1908–1973)
October 18, 1973: Writing a Novel
June 14, 1973: Seduction and Betrayal II
May 31, 1973: Seduction and Betrayal: I
February 8, 1973: Bloomsbury and Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
Lytton Strachey: The Really Interesting Question and Other Papers edited by Paul Levy
December 14, 1972: Amateurs: Jane Carlyle
November 30, 1972: Amateurs: Dorothy Wordsworth & Jane Carlyle
November 2, 1972: On the Election
May 4, 1972: Working Girls: The Brontës
Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of a Genius by Winifred Gérin
Emily Brontë by Winifred Gérin
November 4, 1971: What Happens in Hedda (letter)
October 7, 1971: In Maine
August 12, 1971: On Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Crossing the Water (to be published September 8) by Sylvia Plath
April 8, 1971: Ibsen's Secret (letter)
April 8, 1971: Ibsen and Women III: The Rosmersholm Triangle
March 25, 1971: Ibsen and Women II: Hedda Gabler
March 11, 1971: A Doll's House
January 7, 1971: School of the Arts (letter)
January 7, 1971: Militant Nudes
Gimme Shelter Directed by David Maysles, by Albert Maysles, by Charlotte Zwerin
Ice Directed by Robert Kramer
Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy
Trash Produced by Andy Warhol, directed by Paul Morrissey
The Groupies Directed by Ron Dorfman, by Peter Nevard
September 24, 1970: Caesar's Things
Zelda by Nancy Milford
July 2, 1970: Useful Critic (letter)
February 12, 1970: The Theater of Grotowski
November 6, 1969: Scalp!
The Serpent by Jean Claude van Itallie, directed by Joe Chaikin
Indians by Arthur Kopit, directed by Gene Frankel
June 5, 1969: Dead Souls
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story by Carlos Baker
February 13, 1969: Reflections on Fiction
November 7, 1968: Mr. America
Wallace by Marshall Frady
September 26, 1968: Chicago
June 20, 1968: Notes on the New Theater
May 9, 1968: The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King
May 9, 1968: Violence in Oakland (letter)
February 1, 1968: Lark Pie (letter)
February 1, 1968: The Whole Hog
The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler, Directed by Edwin Sherin. produced by Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.)
January 18, 1968: Raising Hellman (letter)
December 21, 1967: The Little Foxes Revived
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, produced by Saint Subber, directed by Mike Nichols
October 12, 1967: The Crown Jewels
Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva
July 13, 1967: Regis Debray (letter)
June 1, 1967: Critics (letter)
April 20, 1967: Blow-Up
The Death of a President by William Manchester
April 6, 1967: Word of Mouth
La Turista by Sam Shepard
February 23, 1967: Hurrah!
American Hurrah by Jean-Claude van Itallie, Directed by Jacques Levy
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, Directed by Peter Hall
December 15, 1966: The Theater of Sentimentality
November 3, 1966: Auschwitz in New York
The Investigation by Peter Weiss
October 20, 1966: Straight Play
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
April 28, 1966: The Theater of Decadence
March 31, 1966: After Watts
Violence in the City—An End or a Beginning? by A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots
March 3, 1966: We Are All Murderers
The Condemned of Altona by Jean-Paul Sartre
January 6, 1966: Theater in New York
The Country Wife by William Wycherley
Inadmissible Evidence by John Osborne
The Devils by John Whiting
December 23, 1965: Wilson and the Academy (letter)
November 25, 1965: A Death at Lincoln Center
Danton's Death by Georg Büchner
August 5, 1965: Sense and Sensibility
The King of the Cats and Other Remarks on Writers and Writing by F.W. Dupee
April 22, 1965: Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness
November 5, 1964: The Oswald Family
October 8, 1964: Flannery O'Connor, 1925–1964
August 20, 1964: Sex and the Single Man
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
April 30, 1964: Lincoln Center (letter)
April 2, 1964: The Disaster at Lincoln Center
February 6, 1964: The Family Way
The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
January 23, 1964: Grub Street: Washington
October 31, 1963: Frost in His Letters
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
February 1, 1963: Grub Street: New York
February 1, 1963: Ring
The Ring Lardner Reader edited by Maxwell Geismar
From New York Review Books
 | The Unpossessed Tess Slesinger's 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life. |
 | Seduction and Betrayal Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life. |
 | Sleepless Nights An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years. |
 | Morte D'Urban This beautifully observed, often hilarious tale of a most unlikely Knight of Faith is among the finest achievements of an author whose singular vision assures him a permanent place in American literature. |
Books by Elizabeth Hardwick
Herman Melville (2000)
American Fictions (1999)
Sight Readings:: American Fictions (1998)
Bartleby in Manhattan: And Other Essays (1983)
The Ghostly Lover (1982)
Sleepless Nights (1979)
Seduction and Betrayal; Women and Literature (1974)