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...faithful chronicle of the Civil War, its reprint readers will get a healthy dose of contemporary literature, including serial installments of Dickens' Great Expectations. If the resurrection outlasts the Civil War period (the weekly died in 1916), readers will also see some of the best work of Cartoonist Thomas Nast, whose Tammany tiger and Republican elephant put in early appearances in the magazine...
...nursed the university press, started a lecture series that lures such literary lights as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. He also started the Texas Quarterly, which appears next month with an all-English issue featuring such authors as Henry Green and Angus Wilson, a cover by Punch Cartoonist Rowland Emmett. (An all-Texas issue is in the works...
...cartoonist named Axel Rex emerges out of Margot's past, and his urbane chitchat somehow convinces Albinus that three is no crowd. Besides, Axel stills Albinus' qualms with a ploy at least as old as Restoration comedy: he confides to Albinus that he is really a homosexual. Soon clouds mass amid the comic lightning. After a series of tragic plot incidents, Albinus drives into a telephone pole, but lives on, blinded. What follows is more climactic and cruel than the book's actual ending. Axel silently shares the house and Margot, while the pair mulct the pitiable...
...lacks good looks or money, the two top things, as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it. Lacking popularity, the non-hero decides to be different (Nathan wants to be an artist), but he invariably deserts his goal and runs rabbit-scared for life's lettuce (Nathan becomes a cartoonist and creates a Chaplinesque tramp called "Rollo the Magnificent...
...private terrors of his characters. Dry and courteous, only child of a high school mathematics teacher in Shillington, Pa., he brings to mind Picasso's picture Boy Leading a Horse and bears a pleasant resemblance to the lad. As a boy. Updike wanted to be a cartoonist for Disney or The New Yorker, and after Harvard he studied drawing at Oxford. He no longer draws or paints but is acute enough to know that his writing "is excessively pictorial." He began sending work to The New Yorker at 15, but it was not. until seven years later that...