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NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME, by James Baldwin. Essayist Baldwin does not need the advantage of a black skin to give his work the cutting edge of indignation; his mind and style are sharp enough. As a Negro, he takes himself and his race as his subject matter, is always disturbingly provocative, though sometimes too bitter to be persuasive...
...prismatic mind, and Olga Carlisle lets Ilya Ehrenburg reveal his rich store of platitude. In Contact the bitterly brilliant Philip O'Connor presents a series of capsule interviews with aging writers of the British Establishment, "gentlemen in and out of letters," ranging from Bertrand Russell to Poet-Essayist Herbert Read. And in Evergreen Robert Stromberg shows another side of the late maligned (and malignable) Louis-Ferdinand Céline...
...this reckoning, Communism and the Resistance movement were the major episodes in the education of France's brilliant Poet-Essayist-Novelist Louis Aragon, 63. Aragon was always in revolt; before he became a Communist in 1927, he was one of the daddies of Dadaism and switched later to the surrealist movement. As an underground fighter, he fought with conspicuous gallantry against the Nazis. After the war, Aragon became anchor man on the French Communists' intellectual first team. Unlike fellow Communist Jean Paul Sartre-who has often strayed off the Red reservation-Aragon has dutifully echoed the party line...
...Crowther maintains. And for those who cannot, subtitles provide the sense without depriving anyone of the vital, special sound of the original. This way, everyone in the audience is served; with dubbing, a large portion of the audience is cheated. Crowther also dismisses completely, as the eminent novelist-critic-essayist Carl Van Vechten remarked in his letter, the sizable number of deaf people, for whom subtitled movies constitute almost the only satisfactory theatrical experience. In addition the preservation of the original sound acts as a check against the insidious kind of distortion and censorship that characterized the dubbed versions...
...Elwyn Brooks) White, 60, lives on a farm in North Brooklin, Me. and watches the change of seasons and the lives of men. For more than 30 years a contributor to The New Yorker, and now in semiretirement, White is a perceptive essayist; his topics range from the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun to the malaise of modern...