Richard Davenporthines

Critics can be creative – look at Malcolm Cowley

The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley reveals a great reviewer who preferred to rehabilitate and encourage, rather than rebuke or revile

Arshile Gorky (Photo: Gjon Mili//Time Life/Getty) 
issue 11 January 2014
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  • The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915–1987

    Hans Bak

    Harvard University Press, pp. 775

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