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All Years = 10 Books, 135 Articles
Decade 1950s = 1 Book, 9 Articles
Year 1951 = 1 Article
Year 1954 = 1 Article
Year 1957 = 3 Articles
Year 1958 = 1 Article
Year 1959 = 1 Book, 3 Articles
Decade 1960s = 4 Books, 56 Articles
Year 1960 = 12 Articles
Year 1961 = 10 Articles
Year 1962 = 1 Book, 10 Articles
Year 1963 = 11 Articles
Year 1964 = 5 Articles
Year 1965 = 5 Articles
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Year 1968 = 1 Book, 2 Articles
Year 1969 = 1 Book, 1 Article
Decade 1970s = 1 Book, 44 Articles
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Year 1972 = 10 Articles
Year 1973 = 5 Articles
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Year 1979 = 1 Article
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Year 1981 = 1 Book, 7 Articles
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Year 1984 = 2 Articles
Year 1986 = 1 Article
Year 1987 = 1 Article
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Year 1989 = 1 Article
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Year 1991 = 2 Articles
Year 1994 = 1 Article
Year 1995 = 1 Article
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Year 2003 = 1 Article
Year 2004 = 1 Article
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[+]
Agonists and Agonizers, and a Utopian
(8 Reviews)
Benjamin de Mott
The Fall, by Albert Camus
The Fall
by Albert Camus
The Lost Steps
by Alejo Carpentier
Brothers and Sisters
by I. Compton-Burnett
Go In Beauty
by William Eastlake
Till We Have Faces
by C.S. Lewis
The Field of Vision
by Wright Morris
The Fountain Overflows
by Rebecca West
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
by Angus Wilson
The Hudson Review,
Spring 1957
, pp. 140-148
[+]
Alone in Cover-Up Country
(3 Reviews)
Benjamin Demott
Truth About Kent State, by Peter Davies
Truth About Kent State
by Peter Davies
An American Verdict
by Michael J. Arlen
The I. F. Stone's Weekly Reader
by I.F. Stone
The Atlantic Monthly,
October 1973
, pp. 115-119
Jewish Writers Today
America
Benjamin De Mott
A Place in the Establishment
Commentary,
February 1961
, pp. 127-134
America the Unimagining
Benjamin DeMott
The American Scholar,
Summer 1968
, pp. 409-418
American Tongue and Cheek
(1981)
Jim Quinn and Benjamin DeMott
A Populist Guide to Our Language
3
Reviews,
1
Readable
The Anatomy of "Playboy"
Benjamin DeMott
Commentary,
August 1962
, pp. 111-119
Books
[+]
Attacking Ecological Overkill
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Doomsday Syndrome, by John Royden Maddox
The Doomsday Syndrome
by John Royden Maddox
The Saturday Review,
October 28, 1972
, p. 77
[+]
The Author of "She"
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Rider Haggard, by Morton Norton Cohen
Rider Haggard
by Morton Norton Cohen
The Nation,
May 20, 1961
, p. 442
[+]
Back to Jessie
(Review)
Benjamin De Mott
Medieval English Poetry: The Non-Chaucerian Tradition, by John Speirs
Medieval English Poetry: The Non-Chaucerian Tradition
by John Speirs
The Hudson Review,
Summer 1959
, pp. 302-307
Books
[+]
Beyond the Conflict of Generations
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Fire Sermon, by Wright Morris
Fire Sermon
by Wright Morris
The Saturday Review,
August 21, 1971
, p. 19
Beyond the SATs
Benjamin DeMott
A Whole-Person Catalog That Works?
The Saturday Review,
May 4, 1974
, pp. 68-70
Bilingualism: A Symposium
Benjamin DeMott
The Nation,
March 17, 1979
, p. 266
The Body's Cage
(1959)
Benjamin DeMott
5
Reviews,
2
Readable
[+]
Books/Domesticate Madness
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Hotel New Hampshire, by John Irving
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
The Atlantic Monthly,
October 1981
, pp. 101-105
[+]
Born-Again First Novels
(2 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Prospect, by William Littlefield
Prospect
by William Littlefield
Dexterity
by Douglas Bauer
The Atlantic Monthly,
May 1989
, pp. 97-98
[+]
The Boys in the Sub-Basement
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The World of Haldeman-Julius, by Albert Mordell and E. Haldeman-Julius
The World of Haldeman-Julius
by Albert Mordell and E. Haldeman-Julius
The Nation,
December 31, 1960
, p. 529
Capital Letters
Benjamin DeMott
Morality Plays
The Harpers Monthly,
December 1994
, pp. 67-76
The Clearer World of Fiction
Benjamin DeMott
The Saturday Review,
October 19, 1968
, pp. 24-25
Life & Letters
[+]
Couple Trouble: Mod & Trad
(6 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Becoming Partners, by Carl R. Rogers
Becoming Partners
by Carl R. Rogers
Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong
In the Middle of a Life
by Richard B. Wright
Other Men's Daughters
by Richard Stern
Creative Divorce
by Mel Krantzler
Do With Me What You Will
by Joyce Carol Oates
The Atlantic Monthly,
December 1973
, pp. 122-127
[+]
Cozzens and Others
(4 Reviews)
Benjamin De Mott
By Love Possessed, by James Gould Cozzens
By Love Possessed
by James Gould Cozzens
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
The Velvet Horn
by Andrew Lytle
On the Line
by Harvey Swados
The Hudson Review,
Winter 1957
, pp. 620-626
[+]
Culture Watch
(3 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Back Where You Came from, by H. Bruce Franklin
Back Where You Came from
by H. Bruce Franklin
Education and Politics at Harvard
by Seymour Martin Lipset and David Riesman
We're Going to Make You a Star
by Sally Quinn
The Atlantic Monthly,
August 1975
, pp. 84-87
Culture Watch
Benjamin DeMott
The Atlantic Monthly,
December 1975
, pp. 100-109
[+]
Culture Watch
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Disposal of Liberty and Other Industrial Wastes, by Edgar Z. Friedenberg
The Disposal of Liberty and Other Industrial Wastes
by Edgar Z. Friedenberg
The Atlantic Monthly,
October 1975
, pp. 100-103
The Dead Writers
Benjamin DeMott
The Partisan Review,
July 1951
, pp. 401-410
Dirty Words?
Benjamin De Mott
The Hudson Review,
Spring 1965
, pp. 31-44
Books
[+]
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The New Professionals, by Ronald Gross and Paul Osterman
The New Professionals
by Ronald Gross and Paul Osterman
The Saturday Review,
March 10, 1973
, p. 64
An Unprofessional Eye
Donors: Dollars: Dolors
Benjamin DeMott
The American Scholar,
Summer 1962
, pp. 448-453
Editorial
Benjamin DeMott
The Culture Wars: Steps Toward Coexistence
The Saturday Review,
May 20, 1972
, p. 30
[+]
Elvis One More Time
(2 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
When Elvis Died, by Janice Gregory and Neal Gregory
When Elvis Died
by Janice Gregory and Neal Gregory
The Humanities in American Life
The Atlantic Monthly,
January 1981
, pp. 85-87
Essay: Junk Politics
Benjamin DeMott
A voter's guide to the post-literatre election
The Harpers Monthly,
November 2003
, pp. 35-43
Essay: Put on a Happy Face
Benjamin DeMott
Masking the differences between blacks and whites
The Harpers Monthly,
September 1995
, pp. 31-41
[+]
Essay: Whitewash as Public Service
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
How The 9/11 Commission Report defrauds the nation
The Harpers Monthly,
October 2004
, pp. 35-46
An Eye on the Weather (story)
Benjamin De Mott
The Hudson Review,
Autumn 1965
, pp. 359-369
An Unprofessional Eye
Eyiemu-o?
Benjamin DeMott
The American Scholar,
Spring 1963
, pp. 292-307
[+]
Fiction Chronicle
(10 Reviews)
Benjamin De Mott
Sow Not in Anger, by Jack Hoffenberg
Sow Not in Anger
by Jack Hoffenberg
Household Ghosts
by James Kennaway
The Greater Infortune
by Rayner Heppenstall
The Winter of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck
The American Express
by Gregory Corso
Clock Without Hands
by Carson McCullers
Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
The Demons
by Heimito von Doderer
Holy Week
by Louis Aragon
A New Life
by Bernard Malamud
The Hudson Review,
Winter 1961
, pp. 622-629
[+]
Fiction Chronicle
(4 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
The Double View, by Chandler Brossard
The Double View
by Chandler Brossard
The House of Five Talents
by Louis Auchincloss
The Inhabitants
by Julius Horwitz
Ceremony in Lone Tree
by Wright Morris
The Partisan Review,
Fall 1960
, pp. 748-759
[+]
The Frightful and the Sublime
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Master of the Return, by Tova Reich
Master of the Return
by Tova Reich
The Atlantic Monthly,
May 1988
, pp. 92-93
[+]
The Future of Feeling
(3 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Spearpoint, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Spearpoint
by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Neill! Neill! Orange Peel!
by A.S. Neill
On Learning and Social Change
by Michael Rossman
The Saturday Review,
September 16, 1972
, pp. 97-99
Glossing a Portuguese Diary
Benjamin De Mott
The Hudson Review,
Summer 1960
, pp. 261-269
Books
[+]
God's Plenty in a Flood of Proper and Improper Nouns
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
MF, by Anthony Burgess
MF
by Anthony Burgess
The Saturday Review,
March 27, 1971
, p. 31
[+]
Grading the Emanglons
(4 Reviews)
Benjamin De Mott
Justine, by Lawrence Durrell
Justine
by Lawrence Durrell
Balthazar
by Lawrence Durrell
Mountolive
by Lawrence Durrell
Clea
by Lawrence Durrell
The Hudson Review,
Autumn 1960
, pp. 457-464
The Great Narcotics Muddle
Benjamin DeMott
The Harpers Monthly,
March 1962
, pp. 46-53
Books
[+]
Growing Up Jewish and Literary
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Tormented Memoirs of Alfred Kazin
New York Jew
by Alfred Kazin
The Saturday Review,
May 13, 1978
, pp. 32-34
Hells and Benefits
(1962)
Benjamin DeMott
A Report on American Minds, Matters, and Possibilities
2
Reviews,
1
Readable
Books
[+]
Henry Miller: Rebel-Clown at Eighty
(2 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
My Life and Times, by Henry Miller
My Life and Times
by Henry Miller
Henry Miller
by Edward B. Mitchell
The Saturday Review,
December 11, 1971
, pp. 29-36
Hot-Air Meeting
Benjamin DeMott
The Harpers Monthly,
July 1975
, pp. 71-84
How to win at cocktails
Benjamin DeMott
The Saturday Evening Post,
August 14, 1965
, pp. 52-55
How to Write a College Novel
Benjamin De Mott
The Hudson Review,
Summer 1962
, pp. 243-252
The Imperial Middle
(1990)
Benjamin DeMott
Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Class
5
Reviews,
1
Readable
[+]
In and Out of Storytown
(5 Reviews)
Benjamin De Mott
The Grapes of Paradise, by H.E. Bates
The Grapes of Paradise
by H.E. Bates
Spring Song, and Other Stories
by Joyce Cary
The Go-Away Bird
by Muriel Spark
Among the Dangs
by George P. Elliott
Shadows on the Grass
by Isak Dinesen
The Hudson Review,
Spring 1961
, pp. 133-141
[+]
It's a Wonderful Life
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Home Town, by Tracy Kidder
Home Town
by Tracy Kidder
The New York Review of Books,
October 7, 1999
, pp. 16-18
Books
[+]
James Baldwin on the Sixties: Acts and Revelations
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
No Name in the Street, by James Baldwin
No Name in the Street
by James Baldwin
The Saturday Review,
May 27, 1972
, pp. 63-67
Killer Woman Blues
(2000)
Benjamin DeMott
Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power
1
Review,
1
Readable
[+]
Koestler's Kit
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Act of Creation, by Arthur Koestler
The Act of Creation
by Arthur Koestler
The Harpers Monthly,
January 1965
, pp. 92-93
Books
Lenny Bruce: Case Continued...
Benjamin DeMott
The Saturday Review,
March 25, 1972
, pp. 88-97
Letter from the Classes
Benjamin De Mott
The Hudson Review,
Summer 1961
, pp. 218-225
Letters
Chris Goddard, Jane W. Stedman, and Lord Zuckerman, ...
The New York Review of Books,
May 16, 1991
, pp. 64-68
Letters
Professor David Abraham, John Derbyshire, and Benjamin DeMott, ...
The New York Review of Books,
October 5, 2000
, pp. 54-56
Books
[+]
Life Carved to a Pointed End
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Collected Poems, 1916-1970, by Conrad Aiken
Collected Poems, 1916-1970
by Conrad Aiken
The Saturday Review,
January 30, 1971
, pp. 23-25
[+]
Lippmann's Troubling Legacy
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Walter Lippmann and the American Century, by Ronald Steel
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
by Ronald Steel
The Saturday Review,
September 1980
, pp. 68-69
An Unprofessional Eye
Literary Party
Benjamin DeMott
The American Scholar,
Summer 1961
, pp. 418-429
The Little Red Discount House
Benjamin De Mott
The Hudson Review,
Winter 1962
, pp. 551-564
Looking for Intelligence in Washington
Benjamin De Mott
Commentary,
October 1960
, pp. 291-300
Books
[+]
The Man Who Found the Wagons
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Franklin of Philadelphia, by Esmond Wright
Franklin of Philadelphia
by Esmond Wright
The Atlantic Monthly,
April 1986
, pp. 122-124
A Married Man
(1968)
Benjamin DeMott
3
Reviews,
1
Readable
An Unprofessional Eye
The Math Wars
Benjamin DeMott
The American Scholar,
Spring 1962
, pp. 296-311
[+]
A Minor Faulkner
(Review)
Benjamin De Mott
The Source of Light, by Reynolds Price
The Source of Light
by Reynolds Price
The Saturday Review,
April 1981
, p. 72
Books & the Arts
Mins Shaughnessy: Meeting Challenges
Benjamin DeMott
The Nation,
December 9, 1978
, p. 645
Books
[+]
Mod Masses, Empty Pews
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
A Month of Sundays, by John Updike
A Month of Sundays
by John Updike
The Saturday Review,
March 8, 1975
, p. 20
Books
[+]
Modeling a New Mind from a Brain-Breaking Vision
(2 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot
The Waste Land
by T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot
T. S. Eliot: A Memoir
by Robert Sencourt and Donald Adamson
The Saturday Review,
November 27, 1971
, pp. 35-36
[+]
Momentous Questions, Few Answers
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
American Civilization, by Daniel Boorstin
American Civilization
by Daniel Boorstin
The Saturday Review,
January 20, 1973
, p. 64
[+]
Monge and Other Destinations
(10 Reviews)
Benjamin De Mott
The Mansion, by William Faulkner
The Mansion
by William Faulkner
Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov
The Cave
by Robert Penn Warren
Pursuit of the Prodigal
by Louis Auchincloss
Men Die
by Harold Louis Humes
Best Short Stories from the Paris Review
The Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
by Alan Sillitoe
Half Moon Haven
by Martin Russ
A Day in Spring
by Ciril Kosmac
The Hudson Review,
Winter 1959
, pp. 618-626
Books
[+]
The Moral Structure of a Masterpiece: Joyce's "Ulysses"
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Ulysses on the Liffey, by Richard Ellmann
Ulysses on the Liffey
by Richard Ellmann
The Saturday Review,
May 13, 1972
, pp. 67-69
Books
[+]
The "More Life" School and James Dickey
(2 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Deliverance, by James Dickey
Deliverance
by James Dickey
The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead, and Mercy
by James Dickey
The Saturday Review,
March 28, 1970
, pp. 25-26
Life & Letters
[+]
Moses & Memories
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro
The Power Broker
by Robert A. Caro
The Atlantic Monthly,
December 1974
, pp. 106-113
[+]
The Necessity in Art of a Reflective Intelligence
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
them, by Joyce Carol Oates
them
by Joyce Carol Oates
The Saturday Review,
November 22, 1969
, pp. 71-72
[+]
The New Books
(8 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Musclemen and Dreamers
The Strength to Dream
by Colin Wilson
Big Sur
by Jack Kerouac
The Thin Red Line
by James Jones
What a Way to Go
by Wright Morris
Morte D'Urban
by J.F. Powers
TV in America: The Morality of Hard Cash
by Meyer Weinberg
The Compleat Politician
by Murray B. Levin and George Blackwood
The Scientific Life
by Theodore Berland
The Harpers Monthly,
October 1962
, pp. 90-99
[+]
The New Books
(12 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Seasonable Truths
Mandate for Change, 1953-1956
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest
by Edmund Wilson
The Presidential Papers
by Norman Mailer
Beyond the Melting Pot
by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan
New York Landmarks
by Alan Burnham
The Most of A.J. Liebling
by William Cole and A.J. Liebling
The McLandress Dimension
by Mark Epernay
The Nation Transformed
by Sigmund Diamond
The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald
by Andrew Turnbull and F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Reader for Parents
by Anna W.M. Wolf
The Island
by Robert Creeley
I Hear Thunder
by Samuel Selvon
The Harpers Monthly,
December 1963
, pp. 106-117
[+]
The New Books
(8 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Cultural Politics: 1963
Against the American Grain
by Dwight Macdonald
America, America
by Elia Kazan
The Cape Cod Lighter
by John O'Hara
Children Is All
by James Purdy
Anatomy of Britain Today
by Anthony Sampson
The Seven Deadly Sins
by Angus Wilson, Edith Sitwell, Cyril Connolly, and Patrick Leigh Fermor, ...
The Making of a Poem
by Stephen Spender
John Adams
by Page Smith
The Harpers Monthly,
January 1963
, pp. 90-93
[+]
The New Books
(6 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
The Writer as Middleman
A Primer on Government Spending
by Robert L. Heilbroner and Peter L. Bernstein
The Radical Right: The New American Right
by Daniel Bell
The Cherry Tree
by Geoffrey Grigson
The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Reuben A. Brower
The Water Beetle
by Nancy Mitford
My Enemy's Enemy
by Kingsley Amis
The Harpers Monthly,
July 1963
, pp. 88-92
[+]
The New Books
(7 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Designs for the New Politics
On Revolution
by Hannah Arendt
The Christian in Politics
by Arthur Walter James
Rationalism in Politics, and Other Essays
by Michael J. Oakeshott
The Great Ascent
by Robert L. Heilbroner
Inside Politics: The National Conventions, 1960
by Paul Tillett
The Deadlock of Democracy
by James MacGregor Burns
The Politics of Hope
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Harpers Monthly,
March 1963
, pp. 105-114
[+]
The New Books
(7 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Slightly cheerful news about our schools
Education and the New America
by Solon T. Kimball and James E. McClellan, Jr.
Where, When, and Why: Social Studies in American Schools
by Martin Mayer
The Miseducation of American Teachers
by James D. Koerner
Education and National Purpose
The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States
by Fritz Machlup
The Challenge of Automation for Education
by Luther Harris Evans and George E. Arnstein
The Effects of Federal Programs on Higher Education
by Harold Orlans
The Harpers Monthly,
May 1963
, pp. 106-111
[+]
The New Books
(7 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Poets, Presidents, and Preceptors
The Group
by Mary McCarthy
Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr
by Jean-Paul Sartre
John Keats: The Making of a Poet
by Aileen Ward
JFK: The Man and the Myth
by Victor Lasky
John F. Kennedy, President
by Hugh Sidey
Journeys Toward Progress
by Albert O. Hirschman
Notebooks, 1935-1942
by Albert Camus
The Harpers Monthly,
October 1963
, pp. 98-109
[+]
The New Books
(7 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Of Snobs & Taxes & Unimpressed Men
One Fat Englishman
by Kingsley Amis
The New University Wits and the End of Modernism
by William Van O'Connor
Can I Get There by Candlelight?
by Julius Horwitz
The Selected Letters of Bernard Berenson
by Arthur K. McComb and Bernard Berenson
The Great Treasury Raid
by Philip M. Stern
Taxpayers' Hayride
by Julius Duscha
Because I Was Flesh
by Edward Dahlberg
The Harpers Monthly,
April 1964
, pp. 106-109
[+]
The New Books
(7 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
The Way We Feel Now
The Wapshot Scandal
by John Cheever
Composition No. 1
by Marc Saporta
The Sense of Life in the Modern Novel
by Arthur Mizener
An Education in Georgia
by Calvin Trillin
Adventures in Public Service
by Delia Kuhn and Ferdinand Kuhn
Labor Today
by B.J. Widick
The Little Girls
by Elizabeth Bowen
The Harpers Monthly,
February 1964
, pp. 111-116
[+]
The New Books
(10 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
The Need for Watering Places
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
Oyster River: One Summer on an Inland Sea
by George R. Millar
Discovery: The Autobiography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson
by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Marshall Field III
by Stephen Becker
The Human Shape of Work
by Peter L. Berger
The Meaning of History
by Erich Kahler
Essays of a Humanist
by Julian Huxley
Accident
by Elizabeth Janeway
On Ice
by Jack Gelber
Behold Goliath
by Alfred Chester
The Harpers Monthly,
June 1964
, pp. 114-119
[+]
The New Books
(2 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Character Building: '64
The Valley of Bones
by Anthony Powell
A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
The Harpers Monthly,
September 1964
, pp. 106-109
An Unprofessional Eye
The New Irony
Benjamin DeMott
Sickniks and Others
The American Scholar,
Winter 1962
, pp. 108-119
Books
[+]
New Longings Abroad in the Land
(3 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
A Way of Seeing, by Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux
A Way of Seeing
by Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux
In the Country of the Young
by John W. Aldridge
The Uses of Disorder
by Richard Sennett
The Saturday Review,
July 4, 1970
, p. 23
Books
[+]
The New Sexistentialism
(7 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
The New Sexual Revolution, by Lester A. Kirkendall and Robert N. Whitehurst, ...
The New Sexual Revolution
by Lester A. Kirkendall and Robert N. Whitehurst, ...
The Puritan Jungle
by Sara Harris
Infidelity
by Brian Richard Boylan
The Groupsex Tapes
by Paul Rubenstein and Herbert Margolis
Group Sex
by Gilbert D. Bartell
The Female Eunuch
by Germaine Greer
The Prisoner of Sex
by Norman Mailer
The Saturday Review,
July 10, 1971
, p. 21
[+]
Notes of a Son and Brother
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
The New York Review of Books,
September 21, 2000
, pp. 44-46
Notes on the American Press
Benjamin DeMott
Commentary,
April 1962
, pp. 306-312
Books and the Arts
[+]
The Old Chief of Quincy
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Adams-Jefferson Letters, by Lester J. Cappon, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, ...
The Adams-Jefferson Letters
by Lester J. Cappon, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, ...
The Nation,
December 26, 1959
, p. 489
Books
[+]
'One Hell of a Professor'
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Flood: A Romance of Our Time, by Robert Penn Warren
Flood: A Romance of Our Time
by Robert Penn Warren
The Reporter,
July 2, 1964
, pp. 34-35
The One Right Way to Write and Think?
Benjamin DeMott
The American Scholar,
Winter 1972
, pp. 53-62
Reviews
[+]
Operation Jesus
(Review)
Benjamin De Mott
The New English Bible,
The New English Bible
The Hudson Review,
Autumn 1961
, pp. 437-443
Ordinary Critics
Benjamin DeMott
The Harpers Monthly,
March 1981
, pp. 84-87
Books
[+]
Papa's Mama Trouble
(2 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Hemingway, by Kenneth S. Lynn
Hemingway
by Kenneth S. Lynn
William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist
by Stephen B. Oates
The Atlantic Monthly,
July 1987
, pp. 91-92
An Unprofessional Eye
Party Apolitics
Benjamin DeMott
The American Scholar,
Autumn 1962
, pp. 595-602
The Peace Corps' Secret Mission
Benjamin DeMott
The Harpers Monthly,
September 1961
, pp. 63-66
Books
[+]
Pick of the List
(6 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972, by Edmund Wilson and Elena Wilson
Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972
by Edmund Wilson and Elena Wilson
Lazarus
by Andre Malraux
The Ice Age
by Margaret Drabble
Infants of the Spring
by Anthony Powell
Essays of E. B. White
by E.B. White
Samuel Johnson
by W. Jackson Bate
The Saturday Review,
August 20, 1977
, pp. 62-63
Planting Pheasants
Benjamin De Mott
An Atlantic "First"
The Atlantic Monthly,
January 1954
, pp. 49-54
An Unprofessional Eye
Project for Another Country
Benjamin DeMott
The American Scholar,
Summer 1963
, pp. 451-457
Books
[+]
Radiant Devotions
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Virginia Woolf: A Biography, by Quentin Bell
Virginia Woolf: A Biography
by Quentin Bell
The Saturday Review,
December 9, 1972
, p. 67
[+]
Reading They've Liked
(2 Reviews)
Benjamin De Mott
Fiction of the Fifties, by Herbert Gold
Fiction of the Fifties
by Herbert Gold
Advertisements for Myself
by Norman Mailer
The Hudson Review,
Spring 1960
, pp. 143-148
Readings
Benjamin DeMott
The L.L. Bean Sublime
The Harpers Monthly,
September 1984
, p. 27
[+]
Recycling Art
(2 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood
Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood
Night
by Edna O'Brien
The Saturday Review,
April 7, 1973
, pp. 85-86
Rediscovering Complexity
Benjamin DeMott
The Atlantic Monthly,
September 1988
, pp. 67-82
Books Considered
[+]
Television
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
In the Name of the People, by Adam B. Ulam
In the Name of the People
by Adam B. Ulam
The New Republic,
June 4, 1977
, pp. 26-27
[+]
Decisions for War
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Eleanor: The Years Alone, by Joseph P. Lash
Eleanor: The Years Alone
by Joseph P. Lash
The Saturday Review,
August 19, 1972
, pp. 56-58
[+]
Revision: Mobile Souls
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Constance Garnett
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Constance Garnett
The Harpers Monthly,
October 1984
, pp. 87-92
Books
[+]
Saul Bellow and the Dogmas of Possibility
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Mr. Sammler's Planet, by Saul Bellow
Mr. Sammler's Planet
by Saul Bellow
The Saturday Review,
February 7, 1970
, pp. 25-26
Life & Letters
[+]
The Significant Self
(3 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Miriam at Thirty-Four, by Alan Lelchuk
Miriam at Thirty-Four
by Alan Lelchuk
Something Happened
by Joseph Heller
The Private Future
by Martin Pawley
The Atlantic Monthly,
October 1974
, pp. 104-108
Books in Review
[+]
A Sleep of Teachers
(Review)
Benjamin De Mott
The New Professors, by Robert O. Bowen
The New Professors
by Robert O. Bowen
Commentary,
September 1960
, pp. 258-260
Statement and Struggle
Benjamin De Mott
A Note on Teaching against the Environment
Daedalus,
Winter 1963
, pp. 21-29
Supergrow
(1969)
Benjamin DeMott
Essays and Reports on Imagination in America
4
Reviews,
1
Readable
Surviving the 70's
(1971)
Benjamin DeMott
4
Reviews,
1
Readable
An Unprofessional Eye
Suspended Youth
Benjamin DeMott
The American Scholar,
Winter 1963
, pp. 107-112
Sweet, Sour & Transcendental---Writers That Is
Benjamin Demott
The Saturday Review,
November 11, 1978
, pp. 40-43
Reviews
[+]
Time Styles
(8 Reviews)
Benjamin De Mott
Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough
Lament for a City
by Henry Beetle Hough
Dragon's Wine
by Borden Deal
The Journey
by Jiro Osaragi
The Householder
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Our Visit to Niagara
by Paul Goodman
Night
by Francis Pollini
Moderato Cantabile
by Marguerite Duras
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
by Anthony Powell
The Hudson Review,
Winter 1960
, pp. 602-611
[+]
Touching Reality
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
How to Survive in Your Native Land, by James Herndon
How to Survive in Your Native Land
by James Herndon
The Saturday Review,
September 18, 1971
, p. 72
Books
[+]
Toward a More Human World
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Briefing for a Descent into Hell, by Doris Lessing
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
by Doris Lessing
The Saturday Review,
March 13, 1971
, pp. 25-26
The Trouble with Friendship
(1996)
Benjamin DeMott
Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Race
1
Review
[+]
A Troublemaker
(Review)
Benjamin De Mott
The Democratic Vista, by Richard Chase
The Democratic Vista
by Richard Chase
The Hudson Review,
Autumn 1958
, pp. 474-482
An Unprofessional Eye
TV Trials
Benjamin DeMott
The American Scholar,
Autumn 1961
, pp. 576-587
[+]
Two Liberals, One Aesthete
(3 Reviews)
Benjamin De Mott
Politics and the Novel, by Irving Howe
Politics and the Novel
by Irving Howe
The Mirror in the Roadway
by Frank O'Connor
Society and Self in the Novel
by Mark Schorer
The Hudson Review,
Autumn 1957
, pp. 465-471
Books in Review
[+]
Two Views of Leslie Fiedler
(Review)
Paul Levine and Benjamin DeMott
Love and Death in the American Novel, by Leslie Fiedler
Love and Death in the American Novel
by Leslie Fiedler
Commentary,
May 1960
, pp. 439-446
An Unprofessional Eye
Benjamin DeMott
Docket No. 15883
The American Scholar,
Spring 1961
, pp. 232-237
Books and the Arts
[+]
The Uses of Anti-Americanism
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The American Invasion, by Francis Williams
The American Invasion
by Francis Williams
The New Republic,
March 9, 1963
, p. 22
Book Reviews
[+]
Vidal's History Lesson
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Creation, by Gore Vidal
Creation
by Gore Vidal
The Saturday Review,
March 1981
, pp. 64-65
Books
[+]
Vonnegut's Otherworldly Laughter
(6 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Saturday Review,
May 1, 1971
, p. 29
[+]
The West Virginian
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
For Common Things, by Jedediah Purdy
For Common Things
by Jedediah Purdy
The New York Review of Books,
March 9, 2000
, pp. 17-18
What is Patriotism?
Benjamin DeMott
The Nation,
July 15, 1991
, p. 85
When the Money Stops
Benjamin DeMott
The Saturday Review,
December 9, 1972
, pp. 59-61
[+]
When We Were Young and Poor
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator, by Norman Rockwell and Thomas Rockwell
Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator
by Norman Rockwell and Thomas Rockwell
The Nation,
April 2, 1960
, p. 299
[+]
Where There's a Will
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Pursuit of...Charm
The Pursuit of Virtue, and Other Tory Notions
by George F. Will
The Nation,
March 27, 1982
, p. 353
Life & Letters
[+]
White House, Jailhouse, Oyster House
(3 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Notes on Some New Mobilities
An American Life
by Jeb Stuart Magruder
Working
by Studs Terkel
Blue-Collar Journal
by John Royston Coleman
The Atlantic Monthly,
August 1974
, pp. 74-77
Who's On First?
Benjamin DeMott
The Harpers Monthly,
July 1981
, pp. 68-71
Books
[+]
Will the Real Shakespeare Please Stand Up?
(6 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Shakespeare's Lives, by Samuel Schoenbaum
Shakespeare's Lives
by Samuel Schoenbaum
Shakespeare
by Anthony Burgess
The Sole Voice
by Philip Burton
The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642
by Andrew Gurr
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
by Isaac Asimov
Iago
by Stanley Edgar Hyman
The Saturday Review,
November 7, 1970
, pp. 31-34
Books
[+]
The William Buckley Problem: Case of Nonsupport
(3 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
The Governor Listeth, by William F. Buckley Jr.
The Governor Listeth
by William F. Buckley Jr.
The Jeweler's Eye
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Quotations from Chairman Bill
by William F. Buckley, Jr. and David Franke
The Saturday Review,
August 8, 1970
, p. 29
Books
[+]
The With-It Boys in England
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Popular Arts, by Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel
The Popular Arts
by Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel
The Reporter,
October 21, 1965
, pp. 55-56
[+]
Women Without Men
(2 Reviews)
Benjamin DeMott
Surpassing the Love of Men, by Lillian Faderman
Surpassing the Love of Men
by Lillian Faderman
The Company of Women
by Mary Gordon
The Atlantic Monthly,
March 1981
, pp. 86-89
[+]
The Writing Teacher
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
Copey of Harvard, by J. Donald Adams
Copey of Harvard
by J. Donald Adams
The Nation,
June 4, 1960
, p. 494
[+]
The Wrong Road
(Review)
Benjamin DeMott
The Electric Interurban Railways in America, by George W. Hilton and John F. Due
The Electric Interurban Railways in America
by George W. Hilton and John F. Due
The Nation,
May 21, 1960
, p. 455
You Don't Say
(1966)
Benjamin DeMott
Studies of Modern American Inhibitions
3
Reviews,
1
Readable
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