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Connolly operated on a single ground rule, "the pursuit of quality." He pursued and printed such first-rate writers as T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden. Even in wartime, Connolly kept Horizon's standards up and its voice down, made the magazine a kind of semiprecious touchstone of the arts. Earnest literati in England and the U.S. used it to deck their coffee tables and to restock their mental shelves. In The Golden Horizon, Connolly picks a scant 600 pages to represent the original 10,000. The result suggests that Horizon often...
Divorced. Arthur Koestler, 48, Hungarian-born ex-Communist writer of political novels (Darkness at Noon) and politico-mystical essays (The Yogi and the Commissar); by his second wife, Mamaine Paget Koestler, 36; after almost four years of marriage, no children; in London...
Many recent novels and narratives have pictured Europe a dying continent, its citizens politically and intellectually stagnant. Arthur Koestler's Age of Longing and William Shirer's Mid-Century Journey, rather gloomy studies of Western Europe, have challenged the optimistic Crane Brinton. Hoping to find Europe not Entirely decayed, Brinton travelled to France and England searching "an antithesis to the thesis of the prophets of doom and the bellyaching intellectuals." Brinton's candid predisposition impugns the value of his evidence, for the reader can never decide just how much unfavorable information is purposely ignored...
Brinton's writing is quite lucid; in fact he often sacrifices accuracy to gain clarity in making his optimistic generalizations. In such a short book perhaps this is inevitable, but only audacity could permit him to criticize Koestler and Shirer for generalizing their pessimism. With Brinton's hope tipping the scales the other way, the reader is tempted to seek the balanced view somewhere in between...
...Encounter prints articles, fiction and poetry by writers from six countries, including the unpublished diaries of Virginia Woolf, essays by France's Albert Camus and British-born Christopher Isherwood, poetry by C. Day Lewis and Edith Sitwell. Among future contributors of articles and fiction for the magazine: Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, W. H. Auden, Aldous