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  1. [+]
    American Jews in Chicago (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Old Bunch, by Meyer Levin
    1. The Old Bunch by Meyer Levin
    The Nation, April 3, 1937, p. 384
  2. [+]
    Anything Goes (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, by J.A.T. Lloyd
    1. Fyodor Dostoevsky by J.A.T. Lloyd
    The Partisan Review, Summer 1947, pp. 322-323
  3. The Artist as Desperado
    Philip Rahv
    The New Republic, April 21, 1941, pp. 557-558
  4. Attitudes to Henry James
    Philip Rahv
    The New Republic, February 15, 1943, pp. 220-223
  5. Concerning Tolstoy
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, September 1946, pp. 420-432
  6. Books in Review
    [+]
    A Critical View (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Time to Murder and Create, by John W. Aldridge
    1. Time to Murder and Create by John W. Aldridge
    Commentary, August 1966, pp. 60-61
  7. Criticism
    Wallace Phelps and Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, April 1935, pp. 16-24
  8. The Cult of Experience in American Writing
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, November 1940, pp. 412-424
  9. The Dark Lady of Salem
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, September 1941, pp. 362-381
  10. [+]
    Death of a Soldier (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    A Child of Our Time, by Odon von Horvath
    1. A Child of Our Time by Odon von Horvath
    The Nation, November 4, 1939, p. 503
  11. [+]
    Delmore Schwartz (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Paradox of Precocity
    1. Selected Essays of Delmore Schwartz by Donald A. Dike, David H. Zucker, and Delmore Schwartz, ...
    The New York Review of Books, May 20, 1971, pp. 19-21
  12. Discovery of Europe (1947)
    Philip Rahv
    The Story of American Experience in the Old World
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  13. Disillusionment and Partial Answers
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, May 1948, pp. 519-529
  14. Dostoevsky and Politics
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, July 1938, pp. 25-36
  15. [+]
    Dostoevsky in "Crime and Punishment" (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and David McDuff
    1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and David McDuff
    The Partisan Review, Summer 1960, pp. 393-425
  16. [+]
    The Education of Anton Chekhov (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov, by Lillian Hellman and Anton Chekhov
    1. The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov by Lillian Hellman and Anton Chekhov
    The New Republic, July 18, 1955, p. 18
  17. Essays on Literature and Politics, 1932-1972 (1978)
    Philip Rahv, Arabel J. Porter, and Andrew J. Dvosin, ...
    4 Reviews
  18. [+]
    An Esthetic of Migration (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Destructive Element, by Stephen Spender
    1. The Destructive Element by Stephen Spender
    The Partisan Review, April 1936, p. 28
  19. [+]
    Europa in Melodrama (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Europa in Limbo, by Robert Briffault
    1. Europa in Limbo by Robert Briffault
    The Nation, October 2, 1937, p. 354
  20. [+]
    The Example of Tolstoy (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Tolstoy and His Wife, by Tikhon I. Polner
    1. Tolstoy and His Wife by Tikhon I. Polner
    The Nation, July 28, 1945, p. 89
  21. [+]
    Fiction Between Two Worlds (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Novel and the Modern World, by David Daiches
    1. The Novel and the Modern World by David Daiches
    The Nation, January 20, 1940, p. 77
  22. The Library
    [+]
    Four New Novels (4 Reviews)
    Philip Rahv
    So Little Time, by John P. Marquand
    1. So Little Time by John P. Marquand
    2. At Heaven's Gate by Robert Penn Warren
    3. Equinox by Allan Seager
    4. The Trespassers by Laura Z. Hobson
    The American Mercury, November 1943, pp. 629-634
  23. [+]
    Franz Kafka's Poor Richard (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Amerika, by Franz Kafka
    1. Amerika by Franz Kafka
    The Nation, October 26, 1940, p. 396
  24. [+]
    From Surrealism to Socialism (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Bells of Basel, by Louis Aragon
    1. The Bells of Basel by Louis Aragon
    The Nation, September 26, 1936, p. 368
  25. [+]
    Golden Calves (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Little Golden America, by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov
    1. Little Golden America by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov
    The Nation, September 25, 1937, p. 326
  26. The Great Short Novels of Henry James (1944)
    Philip Rahv and Henry James
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  27. [+]
    Hard History (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Life Along the Passaic River, by William Carlos Williams
    1. Life Along the Passaic River by William Carlos Williams
    The Partisan Review, March 1938, pp. 48-49
  28. Books and the Arts
    [+]
    The Healing of a Wound (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Nazarene, by Sholem Asch
    1. The Nazarene by Sholem Asch
    The Nation, October 28, 1939, p. 470
  29. The Heiress of All the Ages
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, May 1943, pp. 227-247
  30. [+]
    Henry James and his Cult (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Henry James, Vol. V, by Leon Edel
    1. Henry James, Vol. V by Leon Edel
    The New York Review of Books, February 10, 1972, pp. 18-21
  31. Homeless But Not Motherless
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, April 1934, pp. 17-19
  32. How the Waste land Became a Flower Garden
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, September 1934, pp. 37-42
  33. Image and Idea (1949)
    Philip Rahv
    Fourteen Essays on Literary Themes
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  34. [+]
    Improvisations of Reality (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Crazy Hunter, by Kay Boyle
    1. The Crazy Hunter by Kay Boyle
    The Nation, March 23, 1940, p. 396
  35. [+]
    In Dubious Battle (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    August 1914, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    1. August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    The New York Review of Books, October 5, 1972, p. 13
  36. The Library
    [+]
    In the American Grain (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Shock of Recognition, by Edmund Wilson
    1. The Shock of Recognition by Edmund Wilson
    The American Mercury, August 1943, pp. 243-247
  37. [+]
    Indiosyncratic Genius (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Kafka's Prayer, by Paul Goodman
    1. Kafka's Prayer by Paul Goodman
    The Saturday Review, August 2, 1947, p. 15
  38. [+]
    Insidious Innocence (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
    1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    The New Masses, March 16, 1937, pp. 22-23
  39. The Jewish Writer and the English Literary Tradition: A Symposium
    Philip Rahv
    Commentary, October 1949, p. 361
  40. [+]
    The Jews of Lodz (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Brothers Ashkenazi, by Israel J. Singer
    1. The Brothers Ashkenazi by Israel J. Singer
    The Nation, September 12, 1936, p. 310
  41. [+]
    Latest Hemingway and Steinbeck (2 Reviews)
    Philip Rahv
    The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
    1. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
    2. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
    Commentary, October 1952, pp. 390-391
  42. The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, May 1954, pp. 249-271
  43. Letters
    John Marchi, Woody Klein, Midge Decter, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., ...
    Commentary, June 1970, pp. 4-27
  44. Letters
    Adeline R. Tintner, Philip Rahv, and Doris T. Heller, ...
    The New York Review of Books, April 6, 1972, pp. 37-40
  45. Liberal Anti-Communism Revisited
    Philip Rahv
    Commentary, September 1967, pp. 63-64
  46. Literature and the Sixth Sense (1969)
    Philip Rahv
    7 Reviews, 1 Readable
  47. [+]
    The Lower Depths (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Somebody in Boots, by Nelson Algren
    1. Somebody in Boots by Nelson Algren
    The Partisan Review, July 1935, pp. 63-64
  48. The Men Who Write Our Plays
    Philip Rahv
    The American Mercury, August 1940, pp. 463-469
  49. Books
    [+]
    Mr. Jekyll and Comrade Hyde (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Too True to Be Good, Village Wooing, On the Rocks, by Bernard Shaw
    1. Too True to Be Good, Village Wooing, On the Rocks by Bernard Shaw
    The New Masses, March 6, 1934, p. 23
  50. The Myth and the Powerhouse (1965)
    Philip Rahv
    Essays on Literature and Ideas
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  51. [+]
    Narcissus (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories, by William Saroyan
    1. The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories by William Saroyan
    The Partisan Review, January 1935, pp. 84-85
  52. [+]
    The Natural in the Human (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Anna Becker, by Max White
    1. Anna Becker by Max White
    The Nation, March 6, 1937, pp. 273-274
  53. The New Partisan Reader, 1948-1953 (1953)
    William Phillips and Philip Rahv
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  54. [+]
    No Parole (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Never Come Morning, by Nelson Algren
    1. Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren
    The Nation, April 18, 1942, p. 466
  55. [+]
    The Novelist as a Partisan (2 Reviews)
    Philip Rahv
    Parched Earth, by Arnold B. Armstrong
    1. Parched Earth by Arnold B. Armstrong
    2. The Shadow Before by William Rollins, Jr.
    The Partisan Review, April 1934, pp. 50-51
  56. [+]
    Novelists Between Wars (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    American Fiction, 1920-1940, by Joseph Warren Beach
    1. American Fiction, 1920-1940 by Joseph Warren Beach
    The Nation, May 31, 1941, pp. 646-647
  57. On the Decline of Naturalism
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, November 1942, pp. 483-493
  58. [+]
    On the Horizon (Review)
    Diana Trilling and Philip Rahv
    America and "The Quiet American"
    1. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
    Commentary, July 1956, pp. 66-70
  59. [+]
    Opera Into Tract (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    A Penny for the Poor, by Bertolt Brecht
    1. A Penny for the Poor by Bertolt Brecht
    The Nation, November 26, 1938, p. 571
  60. [+]
    Orphans of the Western Star (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Wind Blew from the East, by Ferner Nuhn
    1. The Wind Blew from the East by Ferner Nuhn
    The Nation, June 13, 1942, p. 689
  61. The Other Dostoevsky
    Philip Rahv
    The New York Review of Books, April 20, 1972, pp. 30-38
  62. The Partisan Reader, 1934-1944 (1946)
    William Phillips and Philip Rahv
    Ten Years of Partisan Review
    4 Reviews, 2 Readable
  63. Books in Review
    [+]
    The Princess (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Only One Year, by Svetlana Alliluyeva
    1. Only One Year by Svetlana Alliluyeva
    Commentary, March 1970, p. 71
  64. Problems and Perspectives in Revolutionary Literature
    Wallace Phelps and Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, June 1934, pp. 3-10
  65. Variety
    The Progress of Cultural Bolshevism
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, Summer 1944, pp. 361-363
  66. [+]
    Pros and Cons (Review)
    P.R.
    Thomas Wolfe, by Herbert J. Muller
    1. Thomas Wolfe by Herbert J. Muller
    The Partisan Review, March 1948, pp. 385-388
  67. [+]
    Purging the Real (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Herman Melville: The Tragedy of Mind, by William Ellery Sedgwick
    1. Herman Melville: The Tragedy of Mind by William Ellery Sedgwick
    The Nation, December 2, 1944, p. 694
  68. [+]
    Regular Guy (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Love, Here Is My Hat, and Other Short Romances, by William Saroyan
    1. Love, Here Is My Hat, and Other Short Romances by William Saroyan
    The Nation, March 26, 1938, p. 363
  69. [+]
    Religious Humorist (2 Reviews)
    Philip Rahv
    The Castle, by Franz Kafka
    1. The Castle by Franz Kafka
    2. A Franz Kafka Miscellany by Franz Kafka
    The Nation, February 22, 1941, p. 217
  70. [+]
    Liberty: A Definition (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Home Is Where You Hang Your Childhood, and Other Stories, by Leane Zugsmith
    1. Home Is Where You Hang Your Childhood, and Other Stories by Leane Zugsmith
    The Nation, August 7, 1937, p. 156
  71. [+]
    The Anatomy of Liberalism (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Winner Take Nothing, by Ernest Hemingway
    1. Winner Take Nothing by Ernest Hemingway
    The Partisan Review, February 1934, pp. 58-59
  72. Books and the Arts
    [+]
    The Revolutionary Conscience (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Bread and Wine, by Ignazio Silone
    1. Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone
    The Nation, April 10, 1937, p. 412
  73. [+]
    Revolution's "Time Past" (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Peace Is Where the Tempests Blow, by Valentine Kataev
    1. Peace Is Where the Tempests Blow by Valentine Kataev
    The Nation, April 24, 1937, p. 486
  74. [+]
    The Roots of the Rootless (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    From These Roots, by Mary M. Colum
    1. From These Roots by Mary M. Colum
    The Nation, January 1, 1938, p. 750
  75. [+]
    Saint, Science, and Fascism (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Embezzled Heaven, by Franz Werfel
    1. Embezzled Heaven by Franz Werfel
    The Nation, November 30, 1940, pp. 536-537
  76. A Season in Heaven
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, June 1936, pp. 11-13
  77. Seven Great British Short Novels (1963)
    Philip Rahv
  78. The Short Novels of Tolstoy (1946)
    Philip Rahv and Leo Tolstoy
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  79. The Slump in American Writing
    Philip Rahv
    The American Mercury, February 1940, pp. 185-193
  80. [+]
    The Social Muse and the Great Kudu (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    To Have and Have Not, by Ernest Hemingway
    1. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
    The Partisan Review, December 1937, pp. 62-63
  81. [+]
    Sojourn in Sodom (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Mea Culpa, and the Life and Work of Semmelweis, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
    1. Mea Culpa, and the Life and Work of Semmelweis by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
    The Nation, August 14, 1937, p. 174
  82. Some Comments on Senator Goldwater
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, Fall 1964, pp. 602-603
  83. [+]
    Strictly One-sided (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Nikolai Gogol, by Vladimir Nabokov
    1. Nikolai Gogol by Vladimir Nabokov
    The Nation, November 25, 1944, p. 658
  84. [+]
    Summer Fiction (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Making of a Hero, by Nicholas Ostrovski
    1. The Making of a Hero by Nicholas Ostrovski
    The Nation, July 17, 1937, p. 79
  85. [+]
    The Taste of Nothing (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes
    1. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
    The New Masses, May 4, 1937, p. 32
  86. Reviews
    [+]
    Testament of a Homeless Radical (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Yogi and the Commissar, by Arthur Koestler
    1. The Yogi and the Commissar by Arthur Koestler
    The Partisan Review, Summer 1945, pp. 398-401
  87. This Quarter
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, Spring 1939, pp. 3-15
  88. [+]
    Torrents of Spring (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    White Mule, by William Carlos Williams
    1. White Mule by William Carlos Williams
    The Nation, June 26, 1937, p. 733
  89. Trials of the Mind
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, April 1938, pp. 3-11
  90. Two Years of Progress
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, February 1938, pp. 22-30
  91. The Unfuture of Utopia
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, July 1949, pp. 743-749
  92. [+]
    A Variety of Fiction (7 Reviews)
    Philip Rahv
    The Age of the Fish, by Odon von Horvath
    1. The Age of the Fish by Odon von Horvath
    2. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
    3. East of Eden by Israel J. Singer
    4. Rope of Gold by Josephine Herbst
    5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    6. Night Rider by Robert Penn Warren
    7. Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
    The Partisan Review, Winter 1939, pp. 106-113
  93. Books
    [+]
    Versions of Bolshevism (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Stalin, by Leon Trotsky and Charles Malamuth
    1. Stalin by Leon Trotsky and Charles Malamuth
    The Partisan Review, Summer 1946, pp. 365-374
  94. [+]
    The Way of the Vanguard (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    New Directions in Prose and Poetry, 1940, by James Laughlin
    1. New Directions in Prose and Poetry, 1940 by James Laughlin
    The Nation, February 1, 1941, p. 133
  95. What is Living and What is Dead
    P.R.
    The Partisan Review, May 1940, pp. 175-180
  96. [+]
    Wicked American Innocence (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
    1. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
    Commentary, May 1956, pp. 488-489
  97. Review and Comment
    [+]
    William Faulkner and Destruction (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
    1. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
    The New Masses, November 24, 1936, p. 20
  98. The Library
    [+]
    William Saroyan, a Minority Report (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Human Comedy, by William Saroyan
    1. The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
    The American Mercury, September 1943, pp. 371-376
  99. [+]
    With It (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    The Confusion of Realms, by Richard Gilman
    1. The Confusion of Realms by Richard Gilman
    The New York Review of Books, June 4, 1970, pp. 57-58
  100. [+]
    You Read as You Please (Review)
    Philip Rahv
    One Life, One Kopeck, by Walter Duranty
    1. One Life, One Kopeck by Walter Duranty
    The Nation, September 4, 1937, p. 244
  101. 10 Propositions and 8 Errors
    Philip Rahv
    The Partisan Review, November 1941, pp. 499-505
    102. No Items Found