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Star Struck
... about drawing on the history of American criticism, she might have mentioned that Dwight MacDonald, sixty years ago, articulated the points about mass culture she here attempts to make, most...
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Cold Comforts
... Vivantes Shirley found a surrogate family of intellectuals well connected in Italian literary and anti-fascist circles, as well as new friendships with visitors like Dwight Macdonald, who also stayed at...
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Revisiting Harold Rosenberg’s 1952 essay on the American Action Painters
... the resolution of abstract form was sterile to Rosenberg (as he had already revealed a decade earlier to Dwight Macdonald). In Greenberg’s hands, art was reduced to a discussion of taste, whereby...
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The Conscience of a Revolutionary
... “I often feel like I’m being suffocated in my magnificent desert.” So wrote Victor Serge to Dwight Macdonald of his exile in Mexico. For Serge, exile was nothing new; he’d been a persecuted...
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The Best New European Writers
... Napoleon), and his critics (“Dwight Macdonald once wrote that reading me, with all these exclamation points, was like reading Queen Victoria’s diaries. He was so eminent at the time, I felt crushed...
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The Free and the Brave
... 1954 article introducing Dwight Macdonald and his magazine Politics to Polish readers, Miłosz had praised the contributions of small US periodicals and the “specific American type” they fostered...
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Think Pieces
... Dwight Macdonald, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Frank O’Hara, forms a sort of frieze of midcentury New York public-intellectual life. Mendelson sketches these figures with swift...
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On terror, empathy, and "The Seasons of Trouble"
... you feel Mohan must have been present--but we are left only to assume. This is the type of concern that led Dwight Macdonald to disparage New Journalism, an obvious precursor of such writing, as...
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The Age of the Crisis of Man by Mark Greif
... discourse he cites are the middle-to-highbrow intellectuals Reinhold Niebuhr, Dwight Macdonald, Norman Cousins, Lionel Trilling, and Lewis Mumford, who--like Leon Wieseltier or Lewis Lapham in our own...
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For Keeps
... conference featuring, among others, Leslie Fiedler and Dwight Macdonald. (That he treated such lions of midcentury lit crit as prizeworthy figures of fun ends up retrospectively defining his latter-day...
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Bookforum talks with Jules Feiffer
... like Dwight Macdonald. These were all my friends. And this was a world he never got into. Bookforum: It seems like you were the first cartoonist to hang out with the grown-ups, right? Trying to...
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Southern Exposures
... editor-magnate Henry Luce at Fortune magazine in the 1930s. Luce hired a bunch of poets and freelance literary-intellectual types to write ostensible economic journalism for him. Dwight Macdonald...
