Books by Malcolm Cowley and Complete Book Reviews

Malcolm Cowley, Author, Donald W. Faulkner, Editor, Donald W. Faulkner, Introduction by University Press of New England $25 (333p) ISBN 978-0-87451-734-7

Cowley, literary editor of the New Republic until 1944 and lifelong student of American literature, lived in the hamlet of Sherman, Conn., from 1936 until his death in 1989. Best known for Exile's Return (1934), written after his postwar ``exile''...

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The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915–1987

Malcolm Cowley, edited by Hans Bak. Harvard Univ., $39.95 (822p) ISBN 978-0-674-05106-5

A committed, contentious life at the center of American letters comes alive in this scintillating collection. The book follows Cowley (1898–1989) from his 1920s salad days as a poet and critic in New York and Paris, immersed in fierce literary...

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