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Johnson insists he has no quarrel with the "new critics" who assert that a literary work should require no knowledge to be understood outside of that presented in the book itself. He maintains, however, that a knowledge of the author's life can very often throw further illumination on his...
Although he knows less about moviemaking than the average scriptwriter knows about lepidoptery (one of Nabokov's scholarly specialties), the novelist himself wrote the movie adaptation. He had at first refused, but reconsidered after dreaming one night, while traveling in Italy, that he was reading the screenplay. Says he...
Leverett's towers glowed with a dim bleakness last night under a partial blackout imposed by John J. Conway, Master of the House. Conway's reason: some 30 of the lightbulbs set in the ceilings behind the windows have exploded over the past few days. Under the circumstances, Conway advised...
Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still casts its warm, affectionate illumination on Negro life on Chicago's South Side; La Plume de Ma Tante remains a vintage French revue; My Fair Lady and The Music Man head the musical comedy division.
Invented. As the carnival death watch continues, townspeople chained in the Platonic cave of illusion begin "to break through to the heart of the dark mystery which was themselves." By the time Isaac has at last reported that Jasper is dead, a number of astonishing and preposterously pat character changes...