Critical Essay by Diana Trilling
["Liana"] is for me reminiscent of … "Tropic Moon" by the French writer Simenon, not only because both novels are triangular love s...
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Critical Essay by Mark Schorer
[In "Liana"] Miss Gellhorn, who is a sober and skillful rather than a powerful novelist, challenged herself to bring to life the most worn materials of ch...
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Critical Essay by David Dempsey
One accepts [the characters in "His Own Man"] as artificial, polished and pleasantly unreal; their problems are not real problems, but those of a novelis...
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Critical Essay by Charles Rolo
[Martha Gellhorn's His Own Man,] an elegant entertainment which is also a morality tale, is felicitously conceived and executed with wit, gaiety, toughness of mi...
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Critical Essay by Mary Hope
Martha Gellhorn is curiously dated and sentimental [in The Weather in Africa]. The three stories are set in Kenya before and just after Independence…. In all three ...
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Critical Essay by Emily Hahn
Martha Gellhorn is a gentleperson. For 42 pages in ["Travels with Myself and Another"] she writes about an Unwilling Companion on her trip into China'...
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Critical Essay by Aaron I. Michelson
[Martha Gellhorn's Travels with Myself and Another] is written with a piquant wit and a fervent compassion for human folly and suffering.
Yet, whether b...
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Five journalists who covered the most tumultuous of 20th century times are being honored by the Postal Service."These distinguished journalists risked their lives to report the events that shaped t...
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A face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, it's those Bette Davis eyes.On the 100th anniversary of her birth the great actress will be...
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A face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, it's those Bette Davis eyes.On the 100th anniversary of her birth the great actress will be...
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Critical Essay by Diana Trilling
Stamps honor distinguished journalists
