Mary McCarthy

Robert Silvers

Melanie Flood

“I think I’ve a terrible defect,” said Robert B.  read more »

Robert Silvers

“I think I’ve a terrible defect,” said Robert B.  read more »

City's Literary Set Revives a Giant

In the mid-1980's, someone asked the late Thomas Flanagan if he'd he read Erica Jong's last novel.  read more »

Notes on Camp Sontag

"I can remember going to some very, very high-powered and glamorous parties, with her or because of  read more »

So, Nu? Icky Wicky, Wicky Woo, Imaginary Friends, Catfights Too

Imaginary Friends, which is about those two mortal enemies, Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy, is No  read more »

Adam Kirsch Pipes Up on a Biography of Mary McCarthy

Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy , by Frances Kiernan. W.W.  read more »

Even Educated Fleas Do It: City Brainiacs Flub Marriage

Partisans: Marriage, Politics and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals , by David Laskin.  read more »

Guilty Consumers' Paradise: The New Yorker , Circa 1950

The World Through a Monocle: 'The New Yorker' at Midcentury , by Mary F. Corey.  read more »