A revealing portrait of the dramatic life of writer and intellectual Mary McCarthy. From her Partisan Review days to her controversial success as the author of

A revealing portrait of the dramatic life of writer and intellectual Mary McCarthy. From her Partisan Review days to her controversial success as the author of

Based on interviews with her friends, former lovers, and associates, this biography of a 20th century American literary icon covers her days at the Partisan Rev

How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual scene In the years following World War II, the New York intellectual

A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacy.