Get Carter
Likening the editor’s role to that of a choirmaster seeking harmony from ‘all these disparate voices’, Graydon Carter courted a younger, brighter and more distinctive breed of writer. It worked. The new style sold.
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The Devouring Mind
Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner, by Robert Boyers, Mandel Vilar Press/Dryad Press, 256 pp, $24.95, ISBN: 978-1942134886 Many critics – and critics are my subject here – spend their lives adding tile after tile to the mosaic of a False Self. A university degree, a glittering essay, an…
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Flashes of Gold
Memories of bohemian Dublin, the Grand Canal and ‘Baggotonia’
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Cancelling Mailer
Norman Mailer meets the ‘fierce ladies’ and irretrievably loses the plot
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German Lessons
Enda O’Doherty writes: Up to his death at the age of ninety-three in 2013, Marcel Reich-Ranicki had long been the most influential literary critic in Germany and the German-speaking lands (Sprachraum). Through his contributions to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and later Der Spiegel, Reich-Ranicki provided his readers with authoritative judgments on what, in German…
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Getting Known
A memoir of Patrick Kavanagh, the reflections of Thomas McCarthy
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Boss Cupid
The warm, human despatches of a gay poet from Reagan’s America
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A Vanished Bohemia
A compelling memoir of Aidan Higgins and a mode of literary life now gone
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Haunted Houses
Elizabeth Bowen’s love letters recall her first extramarital affair
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Once Upon A Time
Marina Warner’s reimagining of a near magical transformation
