Paul West

Respomse amd CallLetters were writtem. Stamps were licked, envelopes addressed, mailboxes fed like starving animals. "children's preview of the exllibition joseph cornellcollages and boxes." It was to be his first museum show dedicated to children, and the last show of his life.Hundreds went that...

PrefaceAs Sir Desmond McCarthy remarked, the novel is usually thought of as satisfying our curiosity rather than our craving for beauty, meaning or significance. And curiosity, as we know, demands information. The great novelists of the past had therefore to supply a convincingly selective kind of...