In 1947, Lionel Trilling, the prominent literary critic, published a novel entitled The Middle of the Journey. While conducting research in the archives at Columbia University, Geraldine Murphy discovered a second novel-a clean, well-crafted "third" of a book that Trilling described as having "poin[...]

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One of Orwell s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War. "The New Yorker"
In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found him[...]

This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of "Commentary" magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Long before the rise of Cultural Studies as an academic pursuit, in the pages of the best literary magazines of the day, Robert [...]