The Critic Archives | Benjamin De Casseres

Gorky: Hamlet Awakened

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES Events in Russia have brought Maxim Gorky to the front with a bound. For him literature […]

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES All the great novelists are fatalists. Admission or denial on their part is beside the question.

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES HAWTHORNE drank from the beaker of inexhaustible shadows; his soul sought instinctively the obscure and the

“The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson,” by John Kelman, Jr., might with appropriateness have been called “An Inland Voyage.” We have

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES Taine’s theory of art was that an artist stood in exact and definite relations to his

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES “You are spinning like bubbles in a river, you know not whither or whence, and you

The comic is Dissonance viewed from the Imperturbable. Life is a contretemps. Life is a rencounter between I Would and