Jack Richardson (1934–2012) was a playwright, novelist and drama critic. His 1960 play, The Prodigal, a retelling of Euripides’ Orestes, won an Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award. Richardson wrote dramatic criticism for The New York Times, Esquire and Commentary and was a frequent contributor to The Review.
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The Farbar Case
July 16, 1987
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An Oppressed Group
July 14, 1977
Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: An Encyclopedia of Sea Mammals by David J. Coffey
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A Tale of Long Ago
June 27, 1974
Ladies and GentlemenLenny Bruce!! by Albert Goldman from the journalism of Lawrence Schiller
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My Trip to Las Vegas
August 12, 1971
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It’s About Time
March 25, 1971
Mary
by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Michael Glenny
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Keeping Up with Updike
October 22, 1970
Bech: A Book by John Updike
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Easy Writer
July 2, 1970
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Master Builder
March 26, 1970
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
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The Aesthetics of Norman Mailer
May 8, 1969
Miami and The Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer
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Chasing Reality
March 13, 1969
Mosby’s Memoirs by Saul Bellow
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The Black Arts
December 19, 1968
Rebellion or Revolution? by Harold Cruse
Black Fire edited by LeRoi Jones, edited by Larry Neal
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
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The Trouble I’ve Seen
October 10, 1968
A Mass for the Dead by William Gibson
When I Was Last on Cherry Street by Harry Roskolenko
The Terrorized by Harry Roskolenko
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I Don’t Want to Go Home
August 1, 1968
The Pursuit of Happiness by Thomas Rogers
An Hour of Last Things by George P. Elliott
Melinda by Gaia Servadio
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Prop Art
April 11, 1968
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
The Answer by Jeremy Larner
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
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Regis Debray
July 13, 1967