SOURCE: Lazarus, H. P. “War and the Writer.” Nation 154, no. 4 (24 January 1942): 97-8.

In the following review, Lazarus finds A Leaf in the Storm to be a failure compared to Lin's other works.

In time of war the writer suffers under the same forces of dislocation as the rest of us, but on him their effect is double, for he reacts both in his own person and in the persons and world of his creation. He is not only in the war, and thus disabled, but his guns are spiked, since he is deprived of his heritage as a writer. How a writer writes is, in every age and under whatever compulsion, more than half determined by the reservoir of past writing; and in time of war the stream of the tradition in which he must work is dammed up, its current cut off by the influx of new...