Comprehending the Incomprehensible  

Blood from the Sky by Piotr Rawicz, translated by Peter Hays Harcourt, Brace & World, 315 pp., $4.95 The Journey and the Pity by Pawel Mayewski Charles Scribner’s Sons, 178 pp., $1.65 The furor aroused by the publication of Hannah …



Not All Black  

As if their burdens were not overwhelming enough, the leaders of the civil rights movement have had to face a central pessimism at the heart of the Negro revolution. Like his fellow whites at the bottom of the economic pyramid, …



The Tragedy and the Glory  

THE SPANISH CIVIL. WAR, by Hugh Thomas. Harper and Brothers. 1961. 720 pp. In broad outline, the popular view of the Spanish Civil War has not been disturbed by historical research. On the establishment of the Republic in 1931 successive …



A Nonconformist Radical Thinker  

ASPECTS OF REVOLT, by Max Nomad. Bookman Associates, New York, 1959. This collection of essays by the veteran writer Max Nomad is a reminder that we do have a radical who has devoted himself to uncovering unorthodox socialist thinkers and …