Sharp

by Michelle Dean

  Gone: The Last Days of the “New Yorker” (Adler)

  “Goodbye to All That” (“Farewell to the

  Enchanted City,” Didion)

  Gopnik, Adam

  Gordon, Ruth

  Göring, Hermann

  Gottlieb, Robert

  Grant, Jane

  The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

  Green, Aaron (pseud)

  Greenburg, Dan

  The Group (McCarthy)

  The Group (movie)

  Guccione, Bob

  Gurley Brown, Helen

  Hale, Ruth

  Hardwick, Elizabeth

  Harper’s

  Harriet Hume (West)

  Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti

  Hayes, Harold

  Heartburn (Ephron)

  Heidegger, Martin

  anti-Semitism of

  Arendt and

  as Nazi

  philosophy and educational approach

  Heilbrun, Carolyn

  Hellman, Lillian

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Here to Stay: Studies in Human Tenacity (Hersey)

  Hersey, John

  Hess, Rudolf

  Hilberg, Raul

  Hillis, Marjorie

  Hiroshima Mon Amour

  Holiday

  homosexual community and camp

  Hook, Sidney

  Horan, Robert

  Houseman, John

  “How Can I Tell Them There’s Nothing Left?” (Didion)

  Howe, Irving

  How I Grew (McCarthy)

  “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (Hurston)

  Hughes, Olwyn

  Hughes, Ted

  The Human Condition (Rich)

  Hurston, Zora Neale

  Husserl, Edmund

  Illness as Metaphor (Sontag)

  I Lost It at the Movies (Kael)

  Imaginary Friends (Ephron)

  In America (Sontag)

  In Our Time (Hemingway)

  intellectual history, twentieth century

  chronicled through male lens

  chronicled through white lens

  contempt for women as intellectuals

  cultural outlaws in

  homme de lettres

  justification of pleasure from art

  in Nazi Germany

  Partisan Review “What’s Happening in America” symposium

  power of political ideologies

  second-wave feminist movement and

  women in

  “Interior Desecration” (Parker)

  In the Freud Archives (“Trouble in the Archives,” Malcolm)

  “Is There a Cure for Film Criticism?” (Kael)

  Jackson, Shirley

  James, Alice

  James, Henry

  Jarrell, Randall

  Jaspers, Karl

  Jews and Judaism

  Arendt’s loyalty to Jews

  Final Solution

  Varnhagen’s identity and

  Johnsrud, Harold

  The Journalist and the Murderer (Malcolm)

  Joyce, William

  The Judge (West)

  “Just a Little One” (Parker)

  Kael, Gina James

  Kael, Pauline. See also specific works

  Adler and

  background

  Bogdanovich and

  characteristics

  colleagues’ opinion of

  daughter

  death

  Didion and

  Dunne and

  feminism and

  feud with editors of Movie

  feud with Sarris

  first movie review

  Guggenheim fellowship

  in Hollywood

  last long essay

  marriage

  McCall’s and

  on McCarthy’s Meg Sargent

  movies as fun

  New Yorker and

  New York Review of Books and

  Segal and

  sexism of auteur critics and

  Sontag and

  “The Kane Mutiny” (Bogdanovich)

  Kasabian, Linda

  Kauffmann, Stanley

  Kaufman, Hal

  Kazin, Alfred

  Kees, Weldon

  Kellow, Brian

  Kennedy, Anthony

  Kierkegaard, Søren

  Kirchwey, Freda

  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Kael)

  Koch, John

  Kracauer, Siegfried

  Kristol, Irving

  The Ladies of the Corridor (Parker)

  Landberg, Edward

  Lawrence, D. H.

  Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher

  Leonard, John

  Lessing, Doris

  Liddy, G. Gordon

  Life

  The Life of the Mind (Arendt with McCarthy)

  Limelight

  literary history, twentieth century

  access journalism

  beat poets

  camp in

  chronicled through male lens

  evolution of magazines

  exploitation of subjects by journalists

  fiction as pinnacle of achievement

  film criticism

  “I” of journalism

  New Journalism

  Parker’s hate songs

  sexism of auteur critics and

  use of metaphors

  writing as sensual

  “literary Rotarians,”

  Little Rock (AK) Central High School, integration of

  Living Age

  Locke, Richard

  “Lolita” (Parker)

  Los Angeles Times

  Love and Saint Augustine (Arendt)

  Love Story (Segal)

  Lowell, Robert

  Lumet, Sidney

  Lyons, Leonard

  MacArthur, Charles

  Macdonald, Dwight

  MacDonald, Jeffrey

  Maddocks, Melvin

  Mademoiselle

  Maier-Katkin, Daniel

  Mailer, Norman

  Malcolm, Anne Olivia

  Malcolm, Donald

  Malcolm, Janet. See also specific works

  Arendt and

  background

  child

  colleagues’ opinion of

  Diana Trilling and

  Ephron and

  feminism and

  Malcom (misspelling)

  marriages

  Masson and

  Malcolm, Janet McGinniss and

  New Republic and

  New Yorker and

  on Parker

  Sontag and

  Manhattan

  “The Man in the Brooks Brothers Suit” (McCarthy)

  Mankiewicz, Herman

  Mansfield, Katherine

  Marriage (Wells)

  Marsden, Dora

  Marshall, Margaret

  Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff

  Maugham, Somerset

  McCall’s

  McCarthy, Mary. See also specific works

  Adler and

  Arendt and

  attitude toward men

  autobiographical nature of fiction

  background

  on Bellow

  Broadwater and

  characteristics

  colleagues’ opinion of

  Communism and

  Diana Trilling and

  Didion and

  feminism and

  first review by

  Hellman and

  Mailer and

  maintenance of image

  marriages

  mental health

  New York Review of Books and

  Parker and

  as Partisan Review drama critic

  Rahv and

  review of The Company She Keeps

  review of Franny and Zooey

  review of The Origins of Totalitarianism

  Rosenberg and

  sexual activity

  Sontag and

  spread of fame

  transit into fiction


  trip to North Vietnam

  Vassar experience

  West and

  Wilson and

  McCollum, Ruby

  McGinniss, Joe

  McKuen, Rod

  Mehta, Ved

  Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen (Shulman)

  Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (McCarthy)

  Menorah Journal

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent

  Millett, Kate

  Milne, A. A.

  Mitchell, Juliet

  Mitford, Jessica

  Mitgang, Herbert

  Monocle

  Movie

  “Movies and Television” (Kael)

  Ms.

  Musmanno, Michael

  “My Confession” (McCarthy)

  Nabokov, Vladimir

  The Naked and the Dead (Mailer)

  Naked Lunch (Burroughs)

  Nation

  National Review

  Navasky, Victor

  Nazism. See also Germany, Nazi

  collaboration with

  concentration camps as ultimate instrument

  Heidegger and

  Sontag’s essay about aesthetics of

  Soviet totalitarianism and

  West on

  Nedelsky, Jennifer

  Negro Digest

  New Freewoman

  Newhouse, S. I.

  New Leader

  New Masses

  New Republic

  Adler and

  Donald Malcolm and

  Kael and

  Malcolm and

  McCarthy and

  racism

  Wells and

  West and

  New Statesman

  Newsweek

  New York

  New Yorker

  Adler and

  Arendt and

  Baldwin in

  Donald Malcolm and

  founded

  Kael and

  Malcolm and

  McCarthy’s fiction in

  Parker’s contributions

  racism

  Shawn firing

  West and

  New York Herald Tribune

  New York Post

  New York Radical Women

  New York Review of Books

  Adler’s contributions

  Didion’s contributions

  FitzGerald and

  founded

  McCarthy and

  philosophy of

  review of Sontag’s essay “Fascinating Fascism,”

  reviews of The Group

  New York Times

  Adler and

  Arendt and

  Hellman lawsuit against McCarthy

  Hurston and

  Kael and

  Malcolm and

  Marshall and

  McCarthy and

  review of Slouching Towards Bethlehem

  review of Three Is a Family

  reviews of West’s books

  Sontag and

  “The Women’s Movement” (Didion) in

  New York Times Book Review

  Nin, Anaïs

  “Notes on ‘Camp’” (Sontag)

  Notes on Novelists (James)

  “Notes on the Auteur Theory” (Sarris)

  The Oasis (McCarthy)

  Observer

  Odets, Clifford

  O’Hagan, Anne

  “Once More Mother Hubbard” (Parker)

  “The One-Way Mirror” (Malcolm)

  “Only Disconnect” (Harrison)

  On Photography (Sontag)

  “On Self-Respect” (Didion)

  The Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt)

  Orwell, Sonia

  “Our Critics, Right or Wrong” (McCarthy and Marshall)

  Our Town (Wilder)

  Over Twenty-One (Gordon)

  Pankhurst, Christabel

  Pankhurst, Emmeline

  pariah. See “conscious pariahs”

  Paris Review

  Parker, Dorothy. See also specific works

  as Ainslee’s drama critic

  Algonquin Round Table and

  appearance of

  attitude toward men

  awards

  background

  on beat poets

  characteristics

  colleagues’ opinion of

  Communism and

  death

  disillusionment with sophistication

  Ephron and

  Esquire reviews by

  failure to complete assignments

  fears of

  feminism and

  fictional versions of

  Fitzgerald and

  Hemingway and

  marriages

  New Yorker and

  as pianist

  poetry and

  political activism

  reputation of

  as screenwriter

  suicide attempts

  use of clichés

  Vanity Fair and

  at Vogue

  Parker, Edwin Pond

  Partisan Review

  Arendt and

  McCarthy and

  second incarnation

  Sontag and

  “What’s Happening in America” symposium

  The Passionate Friends (Wells)

  PEN/Hemingway Award

  Pentimento (Hellman)

  “The Perils of Pauline” (Adler)

  The Philadelphia Story

  Phillips, William

  Pictures from an Institution (Jarrell)

  “Pilgrimage” (Sontag)

  The Pink Panther

  Pitch Dark (Adler)

  Pittsburgh Courier

  Plath, Sylvia

  Plimpton, George

  Podhoretz, Norman

  Politics

  Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth)

  The Portrait of a Lady (James)

  “The Prisoner of Sex” (Mailer)

  Pritchett, V. S.

  “A Problem of Making Connections” (Didion)

  Prynne, Xavier (pseud)

  psychoanalysis

  Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (Malcolm)

  Quinn, Sally

  racism

  Rahel Varnhagen (Arendt)

  Rahv, Philip

  as conscious pariah of Communism

  Hardwick and

  Kael and

  McCarthy and

  Raising Kane (Kael)

  Reagan, Nancy

  Reckless Disregard (Adler)

  Reed, Rex

  “Reflections on Little Rock” (Arendt)

  “Résumé” (Parker)

  The Return of the Soldier (West)

  Reynolds, Debbie

  Rich, Adrienne

  Richler, Mordecai

  ridicule

  “literary Rotarians” articles (Parker)

  Parker on, as weapon

  Parker’s New Yorker reviews

  social criticism by Crowninshield

  by West toward women

  Rieff, David

  Rieff, Philip

  Rosenberg, Ethel “Ted,”

  Rosenblatt, Jack

  Rosenblatt, Mildred

  Ross, Harold

  Ross, Lillian

  Roth, Philip

  Rothschild, Dorothy. See Parker, Dorothy

  Run River (Didion)

  Ryan, Meg

  Sacco, Nicola

  Saint Joan

  Salinger, J. D.

  Salle, David

  Sarris, Andrew

  Sartre, Jean-Paul

  Saturday Evening Post

  Saturday Review

  Schiff, Dorothy

  Schocken Books

  Scholem, Gershom

  Schwartz, Delmore

  Scoundrel Time (Hellman)

  second-wave feminism

  “seduction thesis,”

  Segal, Erich

  Seligman, Craig

  sexuality

  creativity and

  Ephron and

  McCarthy and
/>   Parker and Fitzgerald

  “seduction thesis,”

  Sontag and

  Wells and

  West and

  Sexual Politics (Millett)

  “The Shadows” (“Die Schatten,” Arendt)

  Sharon v. Time

  sharpness, described,

  Shawn, William

  Adler and

  Arendt and

  Kael and

  Malcolm and

  Sherwood, Robert

  Shulman, Alix Kates

  Sight and Sound

  The Silent Woman (Malcolm)

  Silkwood

  Silvers, Robert

  Simpson, Eileen

  Sirica, John

  Sischy, Ingrid

  Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Didion)

  Sohmers, Harriet

  “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream” (Didion)

  Sontag, Judith

  Sontag, Nathan

  Sontag, Susan. See also specific works

  accused of favoring Communism

  Arendt and

  background

  cancer

  characteristics

  colleagues’ opinions of

  feminism and

  as filmmaker

  Harper’s and

  Hiroshima Mon Amour and

  inspirations for

  Kael and

  Mademoiselle award

  Malcolm and

  marriage

  McCarthy and

  as new version of McCarthy

  New York Times reviews

  in North Vietnam

  Partisan Review and

  pleasure in analysis of art

  reaction to response to “Notes on ‘Camp,’”

  reputation

  sexuality of

  Vogue essays

  women’s magazines articles

  The Sound of Music

  South China Morning Post

  Soviet Russia

  Speedboat (Adler)

  The Spirit of St. Louis

  Stafford, Jean

  A Star Is Born

  Steinbeck, John

  Steinem, Gloria

  Stern, Gunther

  Stevenson, Anne

  Stewart, Donald Ogden

  Suber, Howard

  suffragettes

  Parker and

  West and

  The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)

  Sunday Times

  Sweet Smell of Success

  Take Her, She’s Mine (Phoebe and Henry Ephron)

  Tanguay, Eva

  Tell My Horse (Hurston)

  Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)

  “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (Benjamin)

  “The Third World of Women” (Sontag)

  This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)

  Thomas, Lately (pseud)

  Three Is a Family (Phoebe and Henry Ephron)

  Thurber, James

  Thurmond, Strom

  Tice, Clara

  Time

  “To a Tragic Poetess” (Hemingway)

  “Tonstant Weader fwowed up” (Parker’s quip about Milne)

  totalitarianism

  “Trash, Art, and the Movies” (Kael)

  Trilling, Diana

  Trilling, Lionel

  “Trouble in the Archives” (In the Freud Archives, Malcolm)

  Truman, Harry

  Tumin, Melvin

  “Two Roads” (Malcolm)

  Tynan, Kenneth

  An Unfinished Woman (Hellman)

  The Unsinkable Molly Brown

  Vanity Fair

  Adler and

  as feminism’s voice

  Parker and

  Vanzetti, Bartolomeo

  Variety

  Varnhagen, Rahel

  Vidal, Gore