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ActivismNovember 21, 2007
The Nijinsky of Ambivalence
During a Vietnam War protest, Norman Mailer blustered and banged a generation’s experience through his prodigious ego.
Morris Dickstein
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Books and IdeasNovember 24, 2004
The Shock of the Old
These remarks introduced a centennial tribute to Isaac Bashevis Singer in October at the 92nd Street Y in New York.
Morris Dickstein
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisAugust 15, 2002
Mary McCarthy at 90
Mary McCarthy would have turned 90 on June 21, a fact that is itself astonishing to those who remember her flagrant youth, when her sharp style made her the most feared and forthright writer in New York.
Morris Dickstein
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FictionJanuary 3, 2002
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Books and IdeasOctober 4, 2001
The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer
The conflict between Roth and Howe was partly temperamental, but some of it was generational.
Morris Dickstein
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