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  1. [+]
    Agonists and Agonizers, and a Utopian (8 Reviews)
    Benjamin de Mott
    The Fall, by Albert Camus
    1. The Fall by Albert Camus
    2. The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
    3. Brothers and Sisters by I. Compton-Burnett
    4. Go In Beauty by William Eastlake
    5. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
    6. The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
    7. The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
    8. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1957, pp. 140-148
  2. [+]
    Alone in Cover-Up Country (3 Reviews)
    Benjamin Demott
    Truth About Kent State, by Peter Davies
    1. Truth About Kent State by Peter Davies
    2. An American Verdict by Michael J. Arlen
    3. The I. F. Stone's Weekly Reader by I.F. Stone
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1973, pp. 115-119
  3. Jewish Writers Today
    America
    Benjamin De Mott
    A Place in the Establishment
    Commentary, February 1961, pp. 127-134
  4. America the Unimagining
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Scholar, Summer 1968, pp. 409-418
  5. American Tongue and Cheek (1981)
    Jim Quinn and Benjamin DeMott
    A Populist Guide to Our Language
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  6. The Anatomy of "Playboy"
    Benjamin DeMott
    Commentary, August 1962, pp. 111-119
  7. Books
    [+]
    Attacking Ecological Overkill (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Doomsday Syndrome, by John Royden Maddox
    1. The Doomsday Syndrome by John Royden Maddox
    The Saturday Review, October 28, 1972, p. 77
  8. [+]
    The Author of "She" (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Rider Haggard, by Morton Norton Cohen
    1. Rider Haggard by Morton Norton Cohen
    The Nation, May 20, 1961, p. 442
  9. [+]
    Back to Jessie (Review)
    Benjamin De Mott
    Medieval English Poetry: The Non-Chaucerian Tradition, by John Speirs
    1. Medieval English Poetry: The Non-Chaucerian Tradition by John Speirs
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1959, pp. 302-307
  10. Books
    [+]
    Beyond the Conflict of Generations (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Fire Sermon, by Wright Morris
    1. Fire Sermon by Wright Morris
    The Saturday Review, August 21, 1971, p. 19
  11. Beyond the SATs
    Benjamin DeMott
    A Whole-Person Catalog That Works?
    The Saturday Review, May 4, 1974, pp. 68-70
  12. Bilingualism: A Symposium
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Nation, March 17, 1979, p. 266
  13. The Body's Cage (1959)
    Benjamin DeMott
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  14. [+]
    Books/Domesticate Madness (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Hotel New Hampshire, by John Irving
    1. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1981, pp. 101-105
  15. [+]
    Born-Again First Novels (2 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Prospect, by William Littlefield
    1. Prospect by William Littlefield
    2. Dexterity by Douglas Bauer
    The Atlantic Monthly, May 1989, pp. 97-98
  16. [+]
    The Boys in the Sub-Basement (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The World of Haldeman-Julius, by Albert Mordell and E. Haldeman-Julius
    1. The World of Haldeman-Julius by Albert Mordell and E. Haldeman-Julius
    The Nation, December 31, 1960, p. 529
  17. Capital Letters
    Benjamin DeMott
    Morality Plays
    The Harpers Monthly, December 1994, pp. 67-76
  18. The Clearer World of Fiction
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Saturday Review, October 19, 1968, pp. 24-25
  19. Life & Letters
    [+]
    Couple Trouble: Mod & Trad (6 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Becoming Partners, by Carl R. Rogers
    1. Becoming Partners by Carl R. Rogers
    2. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
    3. In the Middle of a Life by Richard B. Wright
    4. Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern
    5. Creative Divorce by Mel Krantzler
    6. Do With Me What You Will by Joyce Carol Oates
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1973, pp. 122-127
  20. [+]
    Cozzens and Others (4 Reviews)
    Benjamin De Mott
    By Love Possessed, by James Gould Cozzens
    1. By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens
    2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    3. The Velvet Horn by Andrew Lytle
    4. On the Line by Harvey Swados
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1957, pp. 620-626
  21. [+]
    Culture Watch (3 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Back Where You Came from, by H. Bruce Franklin
    1. Back Where You Came from by H. Bruce Franklin
    2. Education and Politics at Harvard by Seymour Martin Lipset and David Riesman
    3. We're Going to Make You a Star by Sally Quinn
    The Atlantic Monthly, August 1975, pp. 84-87
  22. Culture Watch
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1975, pp. 100-109
  23. [+]
    Culture Watch (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Disposal of Liberty and Other Industrial Wastes, by Edgar Z. Friedenberg
    1. The Disposal of Liberty and Other Industrial Wastes by Edgar Z. Friedenberg
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1975, pp. 100-103
  24. The Dead Writers
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Partisan Review, July 1951, pp. 401-410
  25. Dirty Words?
    Benjamin De Mott
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1965, pp. 31-44
  26. Books
    [+]
    Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The New Professionals, by Ronald Gross and Paul Osterman
    1. The New Professionals by Ronald Gross and Paul Osterman
    The Saturday Review, March 10, 1973, p. 64
  27. An Unprofessional Eye
    Donors: Dollars: Dolors
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Scholar, Summer 1962, pp. 448-453
  28. Editorial
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Culture Wars: Steps Toward Coexistence
    The Saturday Review, May 20, 1972, p. 30
  29. [+]
    Elvis One More Time (2 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    When Elvis Died, by Janice Gregory and Neal Gregory
    1. When Elvis Died by Janice Gregory and Neal Gregory
    2. The Humanities in American Life
    The Atlantic Monthly, January 1981, pp. 85-87
  30. Essay: Junk Politics
    Benjamin DeMott
    A voter's guide to the post-literatre election
    The Harpers Monthly, November 2003, pp. 35-43
  31. Essay: Put on a Happy Face
    Benjamin DeMott
    Masking the differences between blacks and whites
    The Harpers Monthly, September 1995, pp. 31-41
  32. [+]
    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
  33. An Eye on the Weather (story)
    Benjamin De Mott
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1965, pp. 359-369
  34. An Unprofessional Eye
    Eyiemu-o?
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Scholar, Spring 1963, pp. 292-307
  35. [+]
    Fiction Chronicle (10 Reviews)
    Benjamin De Mott
    Sow Not in Anger, by Jack Hoffenberg
    1. Sow Not in Anger by Jack Hoffenberg
    2. Household Ghosts by James Kennaway
    3. The Greater Infortune by Rayner Heppenstall
    4. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
    5. The American Express by Gregory Corso
    6. Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
    7. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
    8. The Demons by Heimito von Doderer
    9. Holy Week by Louis Aragon
    10. A New Life by Bernard Malamud
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1961, pp. 622-629
  36. [+]
    Fiction Chronicle (4 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Double View, by Chandler Brossard
    1. The Double View by Chandler Brossard
    2. The House of Five Talents by Louis Auchincloss
    3. The Inhabitants by Julius Horwitz
    4. Ceremony in Lone Tree by Wright Morris
    The Partisan Review, Fall 1960, pp. 748-759
  37. [+]
    The Frightful and the Sublime (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Master of the Return, by Tova Reich
    1. Master of the Return by Tova Reich
    The Atlantic Monthly, May 1988, pp. 92-93
  38. [+]
    The Future of Feeling (3 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Spearpoint, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
    1. Spearpoint by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
    2. Neill! Neill! Orange Peel! by A.S. Neill
    3. On Learning and Social Change by Michael Rossman
    The Saturday Review, September 16, 1972, pp. 97-99
  39. Glossing a Portuguese Diary
    Benjamin De Mott
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1960, pp. 261-269
  40. Books
    [+]
    God's Plenty in a Flood of Proper and Improper Nouns (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    MF, by Anthony Burgess
    1. MF by Anthony Burgess
    The Saturday Review, March 27, 1971, p. 31
  41. [+]
    Grading the Emanglons (4 Reviews)
    Benjamin De Mott
    Justine, by Lawrence Durrell
    1. Justine by Lawrence Durrell
    2. Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
    3. Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
    4. Clea by Lawrence Durrell
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1960, pp. 457-464
  42. The Great Narcotics Muddle
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Harpers Monthly, March 1962, pp. 46-53
  43. Books
    [+]
    Growing Up Jewish and Literary (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Tormented Memoirs of Alfred Kazin
    1. New York Jew by Alfred Kazin
    The Saturday Review, May 13, 1978, pp. 32-34
  44. Hells and Benefits (1962)
    Benjamin DeMott
    A Report on American Minds, Matters, and Possibilities
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  45. Books
    [+]
    Henry Miller: Rebel-Clown at Eighty (2 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    My Life and Times, by Henry Miller
    1. My Life and Times by Henry Miller
    2. Henry Miller by Edward B. Mitchell
    The Saturday Review, December 11, 1971, pp. 29-36
  46. Hot-Air Meeting
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Harpers Monthly, July 1975, pp. 71-84
  47. How to win at cocktails
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Saturday Evening Post, August 14, 1965, pp. 52-55
  48. How to Write a College Novel
    Benjamin De Mott
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1962, pp. 243-252
  49. The Imperial Middle (1990)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Class
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  50. [+]
    In and Out of Storytown (5 Reviews)
    Benjamin De Mott
    The Grapes of Paradise, by H.E. Bates
    1. The Grapes of Paradise by H.E. Bates
    2. Spring Song, and Other Stories by Joyce Cary
    3. The Go-Away Bird by Muriel Spark
    4. Among the Dangs by George P. Elliott
    5. Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1961, pp. 133-141
  51. [+]
    It's a Wonderful Life (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Home Town, by Tracy Kidder
    1. Home Town by Tracy Kidder
    The New York Review of Books, October 7, 1999, pp. 16-18
  52. Books
    [+]
    James Baldwin on the Sixties: Acts and Revelations (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    No Name in the Street, by James Baldwin
    1. No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
    The Saturday Review, May 27, 1972, pp. 63-67
  53. Killer Woman Blues (2000)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  54. [+]
    Koestler's Kit (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Act of Creation, by Arthur Koestler
    1. The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler
    The Harpers Monthly, January 1965, pp. 92-93
  55. Books
    Lenny Bruce: Case Continued...
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Saturday Review, March 25, 1972, pp. 88-97
  56. Letter from the Classes
    Benjamin De Mott
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1961, pp. 218-225
  57. Letters
    Chris Goddard, Jane W. Stedman, and Lord Zuckerman, ...
    The New York Review of Books, May 16, 1991, pp. 64-68
  58. Letters
    Professor David Abraham, John Derbyshire, and Benjamin DeMott, ...
    The New York Review of Books, October 5, 2000, pp. 54-56
  59. Books
    [+]
    Life Carved to a Pointed End (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Collected Poems, 1916-1970, by Conrad Aiken
    1. Collected Poems, 1916-1970 by Conrad Aiken
    The Saturday Review, January 30, 1971, pp. 23-25
  60. [+]
    Lippmann's Troubling Legacy (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Walter Lippmann and the American Century, by Ronald Steel
    1. Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel
    The Saturday Review, September 1980, pp. 68-69
  61. An Unprofessional Eye
    Literary Party
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Scholar, Summer 1961, pp. 418-429
  62. The Little Red Discount House
    Benjamin De Mott
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1962, pp. 551-564
  63. Looking for Intelligence in Washington
    Benjamin De Mott
    Commentary, October 1960, pp. 291-300
  64. Books
    [+]
    The Man Who Found the Wagons (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Franklin of Philadelphia, by Esmond Wright
    1. Franklin of Philadelphia by Esmond Wright
    The Atlantic Monthly, April 1986, pp. 122-124
  65. A Married Man (1968)
    Benjamin DeMott
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  66. An Unprofessional Eye
    The Math Wars
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Scholar, Spring 1962, pp. 296-311
  67. [+]
    A Minor Faulkner (Review)
    Benjamin De Mott
    The Source of Light, by Reynolds Price
    1. The Source of Light by Reynolds Price
    The Saturday Review, April 1981, p. 72
  68. Books & the Arts
    Mins Shaughnessy: Meeting Challenges
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Nation, December 9, 1978, p. 645
  69. Books
    [+]
    Mod Masses, Empty Pews (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    A Month of Sundays, by John Updike
    1. A Month of Sundays by John Updike
    The Saturday Review, March 8, 1975, p. 20
  70. Books
    [+]
    Modeling a New Mind from a Brain-Breaking Vision (2 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot
    1. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot
    2. T. S. Eliot: A Memoir by Robert Sencourt and Donald Adamson
    The Saturday Review, November 27, 1971, pp. 35-36
  71. [+]
    Momentous Questions, Few Answers (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    American Civilization, by Daniel Boorstin
    1. American Civilization by Daniel Boorstin
    The Saturday Review, January 20, 1973, p. 64
  72. [+]
    Monge and Other Destinations (10 Reviews)
    Benjamin De Mott
    The Mansion, by William Faulkner
    1. The Mansion by William Faulkner
    2. Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
    3. The Cave by Robert Penn Warren
    4. Pursuit of the Prodigal by Louis Auchincloss
    5. Men Die by Harold Louis Humes
    6. Best Short Stories from the Paris Review
    7. The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
    8. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
    9. Half Moon Haven by Martin Russ
    10. A Day in Spring by Ciril Kosmac
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1959, pp. 618-626
  73. Books
    [+]
    The Moral Structure of a Masterpiece: Joyce's "Ulysses" (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Ulysses on the Liffey, by Richard Ellmann
    1. Ulysses on the Liffey by Richard Ellmann
    The Saturday Review, May 13, 1972, pp. 67-69
  74. Books
    [+]
    The "More Life" School and James Dickey (2 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Deliverance, by James Dickey
    1. Deliverance by James Dickey
    2. The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead, and Mercy by James Dickey
    The Saturday Review, March 28, 1970, pp. 25-26
  75. Life & Letters
    [+]
    Moses & Memories (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro
    1. The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1974, pp. 106-113
  76. [+]
    The Necessity in Art of a Reflective Intelligence (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    them, by Joyce Carol Oates
    1. them by Joyce Carol Oates
    The Saturday Review, November 22, 1969, pp. 71-72
  77. [+]
    The New Books (8 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Musclemen and Dreamers
    1. The Strength to Dream by Colin Wilson
    2. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
    3. The Thin Red Line by James Jones
    4. What a Way to Go by Wright Morris
    5. Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
    6. TV in America: The Morality of Hard Cash by Meyer Weinberg
    7. The Compleat Politician by Murray B. Levin and George Blackwood
    8. The Scientific Life by Theodore Berland
    The Harpers Monthly, October 1962, pp. 90-99
  78. [+]
    The New Books (12 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Seasonable Truths
    1. Mandate for Change, 1953-1956 by Dwight D. Eisenhower
    2. The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest by Edmund Wilson
    3. The Presidential Papers by Norman Mailer
    4. Beyond the Melting Pot by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan
    5. New York Landmarks by Alan Burnham
    6. The Most of A.J. Liebling by William Cole and A.J. Liebling
    7. The McLandress Dimension by Mark Epernay
    8. The Nation Transformed by Sigmund Diamond
    9. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Andrew Turnbull and F. Scott Fitzgerald
    10. A Reader for Parents by Anna W.M. Wolf
    11. The Island by Robert Creeley
    12. I Hear Thunder by Samuel Selvon
    The Harpers Monthly, December 1963, pp. 106-117
  79. [+]
    The New Books (8 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Cultural Politics: 1963
    1. Against the American Grain by Dwight Macdonald
    2. America, America by Elia Kazan
    3. The Cape Cod Lighter by John O'Hara
    4. Children Is All by James Purdy
    5. Anatomy of Britain Today by Anthony Sampson
    6. The Seven Deadly Sins by Angus Wilson, Edith Sitwell, Cyril Connolly, and Patrick Leigh Fermor, ...
    7. The Making of a Poem by Stephen Spender
    8. John Adams by Page Smith
    The Harpers Monthly, January 1963, pp. 90-93
  80. [+]
    The New Books (6 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Writer as Middleman
    1. A Primer on Government Spending by Robert L. Heilbroner and Peter L. Bernstein
    2. The Radical Right: The New American Right by Daniel Bell
    3. The Cherry Tree by Geoffrey Grigson
    4. The Poetry of Robert Frost by Reuben A. Brower
    5. The Water Beetle by Nancy Mitford
    6. My Enemy's Enemy by Kingsley Amis
    The Harpers Monthly, July 1963, pp. 88-92
  81. [+]
    The New Books (7 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Designs for the New Politics
    1. On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
    2. The Christian in Politics by Arthur Walter James
    3. Rationalism in Politics, and Other Essays by Michael J. Oakeshott
    4. The Great Ascent by Robert L. Heilbroner
    5. Inside Politics: The National Conventions, 1960 by Paul Tillett
    6. The Deadlock of Democracy by James MacGregor Burns
    7. The Politics of Hope by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    The Harpers Monthly, March 1963, pp. 105-114
  82. [+]
    The New Books (7 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Slightly cheerful news about our schools
    1. Education and the New America by Solon T. Kimball and James E. McClellan, Jr.
    2. Where, When, and Why: Social Studies in American Schools by Martin Mayer
    3. The Miseducation of American Teachers by James D. Koerner
    4. Education and National Purpose
    5. The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States by Fritz Machlup
    6. The Challenge of Automation for Education by Luther Harris Evans and George E. Arnstein
    7. The Effects of Federal Programs on Higher Education by Harold Orlans
    The Harpers Monthly, May 1963, pp. 106-111
  83. [+]
    The New Books (7 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Poets, Presidents, and Preceptors
    1. The Group by Mary McCarthy
    2. Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr by Jean-Paul Sartre
    3. John Keats: The Making of a Poet by Aileen Ward
    4. JFK: The Man and the Myth by Victor Lasky
    5. John F. Kennedy, President by Hugh Sidey
    6. Journeys Toward Progress by Albert O. Hirschman
    7. Notebooks, 1935-1942 by Albert Camus
    The Harpers Monthly, October 1963, pp. 98-109
  84. [+]
    The New Books (7 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Of Snobs & Taxes & Unimpressed Men
    1. One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
    2. The New University Wits and the End of Modernism by William Van O'Connor
    3. Can I Get There by Candlelight? by Julius Horwitz
    4. The Selected Letters of Bernard Berenson by Arthur K. McComb and Bernard Berenson
    5. The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern
    6. Taxpayers' Hayride by Julius Duscha
    7. Because I Was Flesh by Edward Dahlberg
    The Harpers Monthly, April 1964, pp. 106-109
  85. [+]
    The New Books (7 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Way We Feel Now
    1. The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
    2. Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta
    3. The Sense of Life in the Modern Novel by Arthur Mizener
    4. An Education in Georgia by Calvin Trillin
    5. Adventures in Public Service by Delia Kuhn and Ferdinand Kuhn
    6. Labor Today by B.J. Widick
    7. The Little Girls by Elizabeth Bowen
    The Harpers Monthly, February 1964, pp. 111-116
  86. [+]
    The New Books (10 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Need for Watering Places
    1. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
    2. Oyster River: One Summer on an Inland Sea by George R. Millar
    3. Discovery: The Autobiography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
    4. Marshall Field III by Stephen Becker
    5. The Human Shape of Work by Peter L. Berger
    6. The Meaning of History by Erich Kahler
    7. Essays of a Humanist by Julian Huxley
    8. Accident by Elizabeth Janeway
    9. On Ice by Jack Gelber
    10. Behold Goliath by Alfred Chester
    The Harpers Monthly, June 1964, pp. 114-119
  87. [+]
    The New Books (2 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Character Building: '64
    1. The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell
    2. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
    The Harpers Monthly, September 1964, pp. 106-109
  88. An Unprofessional Eye
    The New Irony
    Benjamin DeMott
    Sickniks and Others
    The American Scholar, Winter 1962, pp. 108-119
  89. Books
    [+]
    New Longings Abroad in the Land (3 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    A Way of Seeing, by Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux
    1. A Way of Seeing by Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux
    2. In the Country of the Young by John W. Aldridge
    3. The Uses of Disorder by Richard Sennett
    The Saturday Review, July 4, 1970, p. 23
  90. Books
    [+]
    The New Sexistentialism (7 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The New Sexual Revolution, by Lester A. Kirkendall and Robert N. Whitehurst, ...
    1. The New Sexual Revolution by Lester A. Kirkendall and Robert N. Whitehurst, ...
    2. The Puritan Jungle by Sara Harris
    3. Infidelity by Brian Richard Boylan
    4. The Groupsex Tapes by Paul Rubenstein and Herbert Margolis
    5. Group Sex by Gilbert D. Bartell
    6. The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
    7. The Prisoner of Sex by Norman Mailer
    The Saturday Review, July 10, 1971, p. 21
  91. [+]
    Notes of a Son and Brother (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
    1. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
    The New York Review of Books, September 21, 2000, pp. 44-46
  92. Notes on the American Press
    Benjamin DeMott
    Commentary, April 1962, pp. 306-312
  93. 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, ...
    1. The Adams-Jefferson Letters by Lester J. Cappon, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, ...
    The Nation, December 26, 1959, p. 489
  94. Books
    [+]
    'One Hell of a Professor' (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Flood: A Romance of Our Time, by Robert Penn Warren
    1. Flood: A Romance of Our Time by Robert Penn Warren
    The Reporter, July 2, 1964, pp. 34-35
  95. The One Right Way to Write and Think?
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Scholar, Winter 1972, pp. 53-62
  96. Reviews
    [+]
    Operation Jesus (Review)
    Benjamin De Mott
    The New English Bible,
    1. The New English Bible
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1961, pp. 437-443
  97. Ordinary Critics
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Harpers Monthly, March 1981, pp. 84-87
  98. Books
    [+]
    Papa's Mama Trouble (2 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Hemingway, by Kenneth S. Lynn
    1. Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn
    2. William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist by Stephen B. Oates
    The Atlantic Monthly, July 1987, pp. 91-92
  99. An Unprofessional Eye
    Party Apolitics
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Scholar, Autumn 1962, pp. 595-602
  100. The Peace Corps' Secret Mission
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Harpers Monthly, September 1961, pp. 63-66
  101. Books
    [+]
    Pick of the List (6 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972, by Edmund Wilson and Elena Wilson
    1. Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972 by Edmund Wilson and Elena Wilson
    2. Lazarus by Andre Malraux
    3. The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble
    4. Infants of the Spring by Anthony Powell
    5. Essays of E. B. White by E.B. White
    6. Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate
    The Saturday Review, August 20, 1977, pp. 62-63
  102. Planting Pheasants
    Benjamin De Mott
    An Atlantic "First"
    The Atlantic Monthly, January 1954, pp. 49-54
  103. An Unprofessional Eye
    Project for Another Country
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Scholar, Summer 1963, pp. 451-457
  104. Books
    [+]
    Radiant Devotions (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Virginia Woolf: A Biography, by Quentin Bell
    1. Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
    The Saturday Review, December 9, 1972, p. 67
  105. [+]
    Reading They've Liked (2 Reviews)
    Benjamin De Mott
    Fiction of the Fifties, by Herbert Gold
    1. Fiction of the Fifties by Herbert Gold
    2. Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1960, pp. 143-148
  106. Readings
    Benjamin DeMott
    The L.L. Bean Sublime
    The Harpers Monthly, September 1984, p. 27
  107. [+]
    Recycling Art (2 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood
    1. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
    2. Night by Edna O'Brien
    The Saturday Review, April 7, 1973, pp. 85-86
  108. Rediscovering Complexity
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Atlantic Monthly, September 1988, pp. 67-82
  109. Books Considered
    [+]
    Television (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    In the Name of the People, by Adam B. Ulam
    1. In the Name of the People by Adam B. Ulam
    The New Republic, June 4, 1977, pp. 26-27
  110. [+]
    Decisions for War (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Eleanor: The Years Alone, by Joseph P. Lash
    1. Eleanor: The Years Alone by Joseph P. Lash
    The Saturday Review, August 19, 1972, pp. 56-58
  111. [+]
    Revision: Mobile Souls (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Constance Garnett
    1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Constance Garnett
    The Harpers Monthly, October 1984, pp. 87-92
  112. Books
    [+]
    Saul Bellow and the Dogmas of Possibility (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Mr. Sammler's Planet, by Saul Bellow
    1. Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
    The Saturday Review, February 7, 1970, pp. 25-26
  113. Life & Letters
    [+]
    The Significant Self (3 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Miriam at Thirty-Four, by Alan Lelchuk
    1. Miriam at Thirty-Four by Alan Lelchuk
    2. Something Happened by Joseph Heller
    3. The Private Future by Martin Pawley
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1974, pp. 104-108
  114. Books in Review
    [+]
    A Sleep of Teachers (Review)
    Benjamin De Mott
    The New Professors, by Robert O. Bowen
    1. The New Professors by Robert O. Bowen
    Commentary, September 1960, pp. 258-260
  115. Statement and Struggle
    Benjamin De Mott
    A Note on Teaching against the Environment
    Daedalus, Winter 1963, pp. 21-29
  116. Supergrow (1969)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Essays and Reports on Imagination in America
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  117. Surviving the 70's (1971)
    Benjamin DeMott
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  118. An Unprofessional Eye
    Suspended Youth
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Scholar, Winter 1963, pp. 107-112
  119. Sweet, Sour & Transcendental---Writers That Is
    Benjamin Demott
    The Saturday Review, November 11, 1978, pp. 40-43
  120. Reviews
    [+]
    Time Styles (8 Reviews)
    Benjamin De Mott
    Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough
    1. Lament for a City by Henry Beetle Hough
    2. Dragon's Wine by Borden Deal
    3. The Journey by Jiro Osaragi
    4. The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
    5. Our Visit to Niagara by Paul Goodman
    6. Night by Francis Pollini
    7. Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras
    8. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1960, pp. 602-611
  121. [+]
    Touching Reality (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    How to Survive in Your Native Land, by James Herndon
    1. How to Survive in Your Native Land by James Herndon
    The Saturday Review, September 18, 1971, p. 72
  122. Books
    [+]
    Toward a More Human World (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Briefing for a Descent into Hell, by Doris Lessing
    1. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
    The Saturday Review, March 13, 1971, pp. 25-26
  123. The Trouble with Friendship (1996)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Race
    1 Review
  124. [+]
    A Troublemaker (Review)
    Benjamin De Mott
    The Democratic Vista, by Richard Chase
    1. The Democratic Vista by Richard Chase
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1958, pp. 474-482
  125. An Unprofessional Eye
    TV Trials
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Scholar, Autumn 1961, pp. 576-587
  126. [+]
    Two Liberals, One Aesthete (3 Reviews)
    Benjamin De Mott
    Politics and the Novel, by Irving Howe
    1. Politics and the Novel by Irving Howe
    2. The Mirror in the Roadway by Frank O'Connor
    3. Society and Self in the Novel by Mark Schorer
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1957, pp. 465-471
  127. Books in Review
    [+]
    Two Views of Leslie Fiedler (Review)
    Paul Levine and Benjamin DeMott
    Love and Death in the American Novel, by Leslie Fiedler
    1. Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie Fiedler
    Commentary, May 1960, pp. 439-446
  128. An Unprofessional Eye
    Benjamin DeMott
    Docket No. 15883
    The American Scholar, Spring 1961, pp. 232-237
  129. Books and the Arts
    [+]
    The Uses of Anti-Americanism (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The American Invasion, by Francis Williams
    1. The American Invasion by Francis Williams
    The New Republic, March 9, 1963, p. 22
  130. Book Reviews
    [+]
    Vidal's History Lesson (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Creation, by Gore Vidal
    1. Creation by Gore Vidal
    The Saturday Review, March 1981, pp. 64-65
  131. Books
    [+]
    Vonnegut's Otherworldly Laughter (6 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    1. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    2. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
    3. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
    4. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    5. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    6. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    The Saturday Review, May 1, 1971, p. 29
  132. [+]
    The West Virginian (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    For Common Things, by Jedediah Purdy
    1. For Common Things by Jedediah Purdy
    The New York Review of Books, March 9, 2000, pp. 17-18
  133. What is Patriotism?
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Nation, July 15, 1991, p. 85
  134. When the Money Stops
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Saturday Review, December 9, 1972, pp. 59-61
  135. [+]
    When We Were Young and Poor (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator, by Norman Rockwell and Thomas Rockwell
    1. Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator by Norman Rockwell and Thomas Rockwell
    The Nation, April 2, 1960, p. 299
  136. [+]
    Where There's a Will (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Pursuit of...Charm
    1. The Pursuit of Virtue, and Other Tory Notions by George F. Will
    The Nation, March 27, 1982, p. 353
  137. Life & Letters
    [+]
    White House, Jailhouse, Oyster House (3 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Notes on Some New Mobilities
    1. An American Life by Jeb Stuart Magruder
    2. Working by Studs Terkel
    3. Blue-Collar Journal by John Royston Coleman
    The Atlantic Monthly, August 1974, pp. 74-77
  138. Who's On First?
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Harpers Monthly, July 1981, pp. 68-71
  139. Books
    [+]
    Will the Real Shakespeare Please Stand Up? (6 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Shakespeare's Lives, by Samuel Schoenbaum
    1. Shakespeare's Lives by Samuel Schoenbaum
    2. Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
    3. The Sole Voice by Philip Burton
    4. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 by Andrew Gurr
    5. Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare by Isaac Asimov
    6. Iago by Stanley Edgar Hyman
    The Saturday Review, November 7, 1970, pp. 31-34
  140. Books
    [+]
    The William Buckley Problem: Case of Nonsupport (3 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Governor Listeth, by William F. Buckley Jr.
    1. The Governor Listeth by William F. Buckley Jr.
    2. The Jeweler's Eye by William F. Buckley, Jr.
    3. Quotations from Chairman Bill by William F. Buckley, Jr. and David Franke
    The Saturday Review, August 8, 1970, p. 29
  141. Books
    [+]
    The With-It Boys in England (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Popular Arts, by Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel
    1. The Popular Arts by Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel
    The Reporter, October 21, 1965, pp. 55-56
  142. [+]
    Women Without Men (2 Reviews)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Surpassing the Love of Men, by Lillian Faderman
    1. Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman
    2. The Company of Women by Mary Gordon
    The Atlantic Monthly, March 1981, pp. 86-89
  143. [+]
    The Writing Teacher (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Copey of Harvard, by J. Donald Adams
    1. Copey of Harvard by J. Donald Adams
    The Nation, June 4, 1960, p. 494
  144. [+]
    The Wrong Road (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    The Electric Interurban Railways in America, by George W. Hilton and John F. Due
    1. The Electric Interurban Railways in America by George W. Hilton and John F. Due
    The Nation, May 21, 1960, p. 455
  145. You Don't Say (1966)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Studies of Modern American Inhibitions
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
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