Criticism

Abbott, Philip. “Are Three Generations of Radicals Enough? Self-Critique in the Novels of Tess Slesinger, Mary McCarthy and Marge Piercy.” The Review of Politics, vol. 53, no. 4, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 602–26.

Abrams, Sabrina Fuchs. "The Bitch Is Back: A Reappraisal of Mary McCarthy for the 21st Century." Women’s Studies Vol.49, No. 4, Routledge, July 2020: 347-359. Read Article

---. "Embattled Embodiment: The Sexual/Intellectual Politics of Humor in Mary McCarthy’s Writing." Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2017. 81-96. Read Article

---. Mary McCarthy: Gender, Politics, and the Postwar Intellectual. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2004. Read

—-. New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century. Penn State University Press, 2024.

—. “Women on War: Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, And Diana Trilling Debate The Vietnam War.” Women’s Studies 37.8 (2008): 987-1007. Read Article

Ackerman, Alan. Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversations in American Literature. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2011. Read Article

Aldridge, John. “Mary McCarthy: Princess Among the Trolls.” Time to Murder and Create: The Contemporary Novel in Crisis. New York: David McKay Co., 1966. 95-132. Read Article

Anson Rabinbach. “Eichmann in New York: The New York Intellectuals and the Hannah Arendt Controversy.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 63, no. 1-2, 2002, pp. 261–281. JSTOR Read Article

Apuzzo, Jessica. "Mary McCarthy: The Responsibility of One Intellectual." Between Identity and Practice. Brill, 2011. 1-10. Read Article

Bennett, Joy and Gabriella Hochmann. Mary McCarthy: An Annotated Bibliography. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992. Read

Brightman, Carol, ed. Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy: 1949-1975. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. Read

—. “Mary, Still Contrary.” The Nation 19 May 1984: 611-618. Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 234-349.

—. Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1992. Read

Brower, Brock. “Mary McCarthyism.” Esquire July 1962: 62-67. Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 30-45.Potter/ Publishers, 1992.

Campbell, Debra. Graceful Exits: Catholic Women and the Art of Departure. Indiana University Press, 2003. Read

Chamberlain, John Renssealer. “The Conservative Miss McCarthy.” National Review    22 Oct.1963: 353-355.

Clapp, Jeffrey. "Undisguised alter ego: Mary McCarthy’s autofictional career." Life Writing 17.1 (2020): 27-43.

Connolly, Cyril. “Introduction to The Oasis.” Horizon 19.110 (Feb. 1949): 74.

Curtin, Maureen F. "Drag and the Aesthetics of Free Speech in the Mosaic of Mary McCarthy’s Postmodern Affinities." Women's Studies Vol.49, No.4, Routledge, July 2020:374-390. Read Article

Daw, Sarah. “Bifurcated Nature in Mary McCarthy’s Birds of America.” Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature.  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2018, pp. 169–204. JSTOR, Read Article

Decter, Midge. “Missing Mary McCarthy.” Commentary 109.3 (2000): 53-55.

Dupont, Joan. “Mary McCarthy, Portrait of a Lady.” The Paris Metro Feb. 1978: 15, 16, 78. Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 157-169.

Ebest, Sally Barr, et al. Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers. University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Read

Epstein, Joseph. “Mary McCarthy In Retrospect.” Commentary 95.(1993): 41-47.

Fox, Bess. “Mary McCarthy’s Disembodied Authorship: Class, Authority, and The Twentieth-Century Intellectual.” Women’s Studies, vol. 44, no. 6, Routledge, Aug. 2015, pp. 772–97. Read Article

Freeman, Kimberly A. Love American Style: Divorce and the American Novel, 1881-1976. Routledge, 2003. Read

Gelderman, Carol, ed. Conversations with Mary McCarthy.  Jackson: University of Mississippi, 1991. Read

Giroud, Vincent. "Holding the Road: Away from Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, by Reuel K. Wilson: CreateSpace, 2018." Women’s Studies Vol.49, No.4, Routledge, July 2020: 447-449. Read Article

Godayol, Pilar. "Depicting Censorship Under Franco’s Dictatorship: Mary McCarthy, a Controversial Figure." New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019. 91-111. Read Article

Gross, Miriam. “A World Out of Joint.” The Observer 14 Oct. 1979: 35. Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 170-178.

Grumbach, Doris. The Company She Kept. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967. Read Here

Hardy, Willene Schaefer.  Mary McCarthy.  New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981. Read Here

Henn, Robert. “Realism by Other Means? Viewing Nabokov's Postmodernism in Mary McCarthy's Literary Criticism.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 41, no. 1, 2008, pp. 23–33. JSTOR. Read Here 

Inhoff, Marcel. "“Ladies and Gents, Ladies and Gents”–Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop and Female Autobiographies in American Postwar Literature." Women’s Studies Vol.49, No.4, Routledge, July 2020: 405-425. Read

Kakutani, Michiko. “Our Woman of Letters.” New York Times Magazine. March 29, 1987: 60-61, 70.

Keyser, Catherine. “‘Scratch a Socialist and You Find a Snob’: Mary McCarthy, Irony, and Politics.” Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture. Rutgers University Press, 2010, pp. 141–172. JSTOR, Read Here

Kramer, Hilton. “Mary McCarthy and Company.” Jan. 1993. Rpt. in Against the Grain. Ed. Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995: 287-294. Read Here

Kufrin, Joan. “The Novelist Mary McCarthy.” Uncommon Women. New York: New Century Publishers, 1981: 73-91. Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 188-208.

Leach, Laurie F. “Lying, Writing, And Confrontation: Mary McCarthy And Lillian Hellman.” Literature Interpretation Theory 15.1 (2004): 5-28.

Lees, Richard. "McCarthy Iconoclast." Women's Studies Vol.49, No.4, Routledge, July 2020: 437-443. Read Here

Marsh, Kelly A. “‘All My Habits of Mind’: Performance and Identity in the Novels of Mary McCarthy.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 34, no. 3, University of North Texas, Oct. 2002, pp. 303–19. JSTOR, Read Here

Martin, Wendy. “The Satire and Moral Vision of Mary McCarthy.” Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Sarah Blacher Cohen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. 187-206. Read Here

Martin, Wendy, and Sharon Becker. "McCarthy, Mary." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. 2017. Read Here

McKenzie, Barbara. Mary McCarthy. Twayne’s United States Authors Series, 1967. Read More

McWilliams, Ellen. "Looking for Irish America in the Memoirs of Mary McCarthy." Women's Studies Vol.49, No.4, Routledge, July 2020: 391-404. Read Here

Meyers, Jeffrey. “Racine in Mary McCarthy’s A Charmed Life.” Style (University Park, PA), vol. 43, no. 4, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009, p. 461–.

---. “Women Friends, 1947–1970.” Robert Lowell in Love, University of Massachusetts Press, 2016, p. 165–. Read Here

Miller, Elise. “The Shirt Of Nessus: Writers And Readers In Mary McCarthy’s Literary Criticism.” Literature Interpretation Theory 15.1 (2004): 61-79.

Miller, Nancy K. “Women's Secrets and the Novel: Remembering Mary McCarthy's ‘The Group.’” Social Research, vol. 68, no. 1, 2001, pp. 173–199. JSTOR, Read Here 

Mitchell, Justin David. “Norman Mailer and ‘The Mary McCarthy Case’ Revisited.” Post45, Issue 4, 2020. Read Here.

Mossman, James. “Mary McCarthy Talks to James Mossman about the Vietnam War.”The Listener Jan. 1968: 78-80. Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 88-94.

Murphy, Brenda “Preface: Special Issue on Mary McCarthy.” Literature Interpretation Theory Vol. 15, Issue 1, 2004.

—. “The Thirties, Public And Private: A Reassessment Of Mary McCarthy’s “The Group”.” Literature Interpretation Theory 15.1 (2004): 81-101. Read Here

Myers, Mitzi. “You Can’t Catch Me: Mary McCarthy’s Evasive Comedy.” Regionalism and the Female Imagination 3 (Fall-Winter 1977-78): 58-69.

Nelson, Deborah. “The Virtues of Heartlessness: Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, and the Anesthetics of Empathy.” American Literary History, vol. 18, no. 1, 2006, pp. 86–101. JSTOR, Read Here 

---. Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil. University of Chicago Press, 2017. Read Here

Newman, Edwin. “A Conversation with Mary McCarthy.” WNBC-TV, Paris. 4 Dec.1966. Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 68-87.

Niebuhr, Elisabeth. “The Art of Fiction: Mary McCarthy.” Paris Review  27 (Winter-Spring 1962): 58-94. Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 3-29.

Niehaus, Sophia Wilson. “The Literary Correspondence of Nathalie Sarraute and Mary McCarthy,” The​ ​French Review,​ V​ol. 94.1, ​October 2020.

Niehaus, Sophia Wilson. "The Discreet Friendship of Mary McCarthy and Monique Wittig." Women's Studies Vol.49, No.4, Routledge, July 2020: 360-373. Read Article

Nixon, Jon.  Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Read Here

Pinckney, Darryl. “The Ethics of Admiration: Arendt, McCarthy, Hardwick, Sontag.” The Threepenny Review, no. 135, 2013, pp. 12–16. JSTOR Read Here 

Podhoretz, Norman. “John O’Hara and Mary McCarthy.” Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in American Writing. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1964. 76-93. Read Here

Rahv, Philip. “The Editor Interviews Mary McCarthy.” Modern Occasions (Fall 1970): 14-25.Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 100-113.

Reese, Sam. "Renaissance Women: Brigid Brophy, Mary McCarthy, and the Public Intellectual." Contemporary Women's Writing 12.2 (2018): 207-221.

Revel, Jean-Francois. “Miss McCarthy Explains.” The New York Times Book Review  16 May 1971:2,24,26,28,30 Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 114-122.

Rhode, Eric. “A Discourse on Nature.” The Listener 11 June 1970: 785-786. Rpt. in Gelderman, Conversations 95-99.

Rishoi, Christy. From Girl to Woman: American Women’s Coming-of-Age Narratives. State University of New York Press, 2003. Read Here

Rose, Barbara. “I'll Tell You No Lies: Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and the Fictions of Authority.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 9, no. 1, (Spring 1990): 107–126. JSTOR, Read Here

Rosenblum, Constance. “Elastic Elegance: Alison West in Kips Bay (July 11, 2010).” Habitats: Private Lives in the Big City. NYU Press, 2013, pp. 165–169. JSTOR Read Here

Rudikoff, Sonya. “An American Woman of Letters.” Hudson Review 42.1 (Spring 1989): 45-55.

Ryan, Katy. “Falling in Public: Larsen’s ‘Passing’, McCarthy’s ‘The Group’, and Baldwin’s ‘Another Country.’” Studies in the Novel, vol. 36, no. 1, University of North Texas, Apr. 2004, pp. 95–119.

Sagorje, Marina. Self and society in Mary McCarthy's writing. Diss. University of Oxford, 2015. Read Here

Savoldi, Alessandra. "There Are So Few True Friends.'Il Carteggio Tra Mary McCarthy e Nicola Chiaromonte." Diss., 2020.

Schryer, Stephen. “Mary Mccarthy’s Field Guide To Us Intellectuals: Tradition And Modernization Theory In “Birds Of America”. Modern Fiction Studies 53.4 (2007): 821-844. Read Here

Schmidt, Michael. “Essaying: Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, Mary McCarthy, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, John O’Hara, Nathanael West, William Gaddis, David Foster Wallace.” The Novel. Harvard University Press, 2014, pp. 770–809. JSTOR Read Here

Showalter, Elaine. “Killing The Angel In The House: The Autonomy Of Women Writers.” Antioch Review 50.(1992): 207-220.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. “Mary McCarthy: Society’s Demands.” The Female Imagination. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975: 254-260. Read Article

Stwertka, Eve, and Margo Viscusi, eds. Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy: The Writer and Her Work. Contributions to the Study of World Lit.70. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. Read Here

Stwertka, Eve. "Weekends at Mary’s." Women’s Studies Vol.49, No.4, Routledge, July 2020: 426-436. Read Here

Stock, Irvin. “The Novels of Mary McCarthy.” Fiction as Wisdom from Goethe to Bellow. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1980: 156-189. Read Here

Trask, Michael. “In the Bathroom with Mary McCarthy: Theatricality, Deviance, and the Postwar Commitment to Realism.” Criticism, vol. 49, no. 1, 2007, pp. 7–33. JSTOR, Read Here  

Vechinski, Matthew James. Twentieth Century American Fiction in Circulation. Routledge, 2020. Read Here

Whitehorn, Katherine. “Meeting with Mary McCarthy.” The Observer 29 Aug. 1965. Rpt. Gelderman, Conversations 65.

Whittier, Gayle. “Nature as Birthright and Birthloss: Mary McCarthy and Colette.” Perspectives on Contemporary Literature 5 (1979): 42-54.

Widner, Eleanor. “Finally a Lady: Mary McCarthy.” Fiction of the Fifties. Ed. Warren French. Deland, Florida: Everett/Edwards, 1970: 93-102.

Wilford, Hugh. “An Oasis: The New York Intellectuals In The Late 1940S.” Journal Of American Studies 28.(1994): 209-223.

Wilson, Reuel K. “Growing Up with Edmund Wilson And Mary McCarthy.” Paris Review 41.153 (1999): 235-251.

---.  Holding the Road: Away from Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy. CreateSpace, 2018. Read Here

 ---. “Mary McCarthy and Cecylia Wojewoda: The Story of a Friendship.” The Polish Review, vol. 63, no. 2, 2018, pp. 5–25. JSTOR Read Here

—. To the Life of the Silver Harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2008. Read Here

Wolfe, Alan. “The Calling of the Public Intellectual.” An Intellectual in Public, University of Michigan Press, 2010, p. 376-. Read Here

Zimmerman, Eugenia N. “Simone de Beauvoir, Mary McCarthy, and ‘The Woman.’”Simone De Beauvoir Studies, vol. 11, 1994, pp. 111–114. JSTOR Read Here

Reviews

Adams, Robert Martin. “Unhappy Landings.” Rev. of Cannibals and Missionaries. New York Review of Books 25 Oct. 1979: 38-40.

Aldridge, John. “Egalitarian Snobs.” Rev. of Birds of America. Saturday Review 8 May 1971: 21-24.

Baker, Carlos. “Members of the Family.” Rev. of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy. New York Times Book Review 19 May 1957: 3.

Barr, Donald. “Failure in Utopia.” Rev. of The Oasis, by Mary McCarthy. New York Times Book Review 14 Aug. 1949: 5, 15.

Barrett, William. “Reader’s Choice.” Rev. of The Group. Atlantic Monthly 212.3 (Sept. 1963):  120-121.

Boatwright, James. “Carnival Ducks and Acute Social Criticism.” Rev. of Birds of America. New Republic 19 June 1971: 25-26.

Bogan, Louise. “Ecstasy and Order.” Rev. of Cast a Cold Eye, by Mary McCarthy. New Republic 27 Nov. 1959: 18-19.

Broyard, Anatole. “An Unfriendly Ornithologist.” Rev. of Birds of America. New York Times 19 May 1971: 45.

Buckley, Tom. “On the Subject of Hanoi, A Muted Voice.” Book World (Chicago Tribune)1 Dec. 1968: 24.

Burgess, Anthony. Rev. of Writing on the Wall. New York Times Book Review 8 Mar. 1970: 4, 29.

Cass, Cashenden. “Puppets in the High Bohemia.” Rev. of A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy. New Republic 5 Dec. 1955: 18-19.

Chiaromonte, Nicola.  “In Praise of Florence.” Rev. of Stones of Florence. Partisan Review 27.3 (Summer 1960): 558-560.

Connolly, Cyril. “Not Quite Enough.” Rev. of Memories. Times (London). 17 Nov. 1957: 7.

Cook, Alistair. “Mary McCarthy in Vietnam.” Chicago Sun Times. Book Week 24 Sept. 1967:1.

Cowley, Malcolm. “Bad Company.” Rev. of The Company She Keeps, by Mary McCarthy. New Republic 25 May 1942: 737.

Coxe, Louis. “Louis Coxe: Moral Vitamins.” Rev. of Writing on the Wall. New Republic 28 Feb. 1970: 20, 22.

Donoghue, Denis. “Should Novels Argue?” Rev. of Ideas and the Novel. New York Times Book Review 18 Jan. 1981: 9, 27.

Doughty, Howard, Jr. “The Peacock Vein.” Rev. of The Groves of Academe, by Mary McCarthy. Nation 22 Mar. 1952: 280-281.

Duffy, Martha. “A Tale of Two Cultures.” Time 31 May 1971.

—. “To Set the Statesmen Right.” Rev. of Vietnam. Times (London). 28 Oct. 1967:21.

Edwards, Thomas R. “Books and Arts: Cannibals and Missionaries.” New Republic 17 Nov. 1979: 30-32.

Emerson, Gloria. “The Famous Little Sting.” Rev. of Medina. New York Times Book Review 13 Aug. 1972: 21-22.

—. “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.” Book World (Washington Post). 2 June 1974: 5.

Epstein, Joseph. “Too Much Even of Kreplach.” Rev. of Cannibals. Hudson Review 33.1(Spring 1980): 97-100.

Fiedler, Leslie. “The Higher Unfairness.” Rev. of The Groves of Academe, by Mary McCarthy. Commentary 13.5 (May 1952): 503-504.

Fitzgerald, Frances. “A Nice Place To Visit.” Rev. of Hanoi, by Mary McCarthy. The New York Review of Books 13 Mar. 1969: 28-31.

Fremont-Smith, Eliot. “Report on America in Vietnam.” New York Times 1 Sept. 1967: L29.

Gill, Brendan. “The O’Hara Report and the Wit of Miss McCarthy.” Rev. of The Oasis, by Mary McCarthy.  New Yorker 20 Aug. 1949: 64-66.

—. “Too High, Too Low.” Rev. of The Groves of Academe, by Mary McCarthy. New Yorker 23 Feb. 1952: 106-108.

Goodwin, Richard. “Watergate Observed.” New York Times Book Review 30 June 1974: 5-6.

Gordon, Mary. “A Novel of Terrorism.” Rev. of Cannibals and Missionaries. New York Times Book Review 30 Sept. 1979: 1, 33-35.

—. “When Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.” Rev. of Occasional Prose. Esquire 104.5 (Nov. 1985): 249, 251.

Hamilton, Ian. “Two Cheers for Honest Paradoxology.” Rev. of Writing on the Wall.

Book World (Chicago Tribune) 15 Feb. 1970: 4.

Hansford-Johnson, Pamela. “Between Glances in the Mirror, Bright Pouncing Mind.”Rev. of On the Contrary, by Mary McCarthy. New York Times Book Review24 Sept. 1961: 6, 46.

Hardwick, Elizabeth. “Reading Around the World.” Rev. of Vietnam. Times (London).31 Dec. 1967: 22.

Herbst, Josephine. “Who is Martha?” Rev. of A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy. Nation 26 Nov. 1955: 463-464.

Hicks, Granville. “Everyone Analyzes Everyone in Mary McCarthy’s A Charmed Life.”New Leader 7 Nov. 1955: 22.

—. “What To Be After Poughkeepsie.” Rev. of The Group. Saturday Review 31 Aug. 1963: 19, 30.

Hoskins, Katherine. “Give a Life to Live.” Rev. of Memories. Nation 6 July 1957: 16-17.

Howard, Maureen. “Liberals and Libidos.” Rev. of Cannibals. Esquire 92.5 (Nov. 1979): 16, 18.

Hulbert, Ann. “The Province of Art.” Rev. of Cannibals. Commentary 71.5 (May 1981): 92-94.

Isherwood, Christopher. “Her Name Is Legion.” Rev. of The Company She Keeps, by Mary McCarthy. Nation 20 June 1942: 714.

Just, Ward. “Fabulous North Vietnam.” Washington Post 21 Nov. 1968.

Kapp, Isa. “The’Liberal’ in the Novel.” Rev. of The Oasis, by Mary McCarthy. Commentary 9 (Jan. 1950): 100-102.

—. “Writers and Writing: Plumbing the Heights.” Rev. of Birds of America. New Leader 12 July 1971: 17-18.

Kaufman, Stanley. “Miss McCarthy’s Era.” Rev. of  The Group, by Mary McCarthy. New Republic 31 Aug. 1963: 25-28.

Kermode, Frank. “Critical List.” Rev. of Writing on the Wall. New York Review of Books 13 Aug. 1970: 31-33.

—.  “Anti-Cant.” Rev. of On the Contrary. Partisan Review 29.1 (Winter 1962): 122-127.

Kiely, Robert. “The New Wayfarers.” Rev. of The Group. Nation 21 Sept. 1963: 163-165.

Klein, Alexander. “Satirist’s Utopia.” Rev. of The Oasis, by Mary McCarthy. The New Republic 5 Dec. 1949: 19-20.

Koch, Stephen. “Crime of the Left: Capt. Medina.” Nation 18 Sept. 1972: 220-222.

—. “Mary McCarthy’s Valentine to Fanny Farmer.” Rev. of Birds of America, by Mary McCarthy. Book World, Washington Post 23 May 1971: 1,5.

Krim, Seymour. “Short Stories by Six.” Rev. of Cast a Cold Eye, by Mary McCarthy. Hudson Review 3.4 (Winter 1951): 626-633.

Lange, Victor. “The Women and the Orphan Child.” Rev. of Memories. New Republic 24 June 1957: 18-19.

Lingeman, Richard. “She Gets No Kick in a Plane.” Rev. of Cannibals. Nation 10 Nov. 1979: 470-472.

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. “Mary McCarthy Still Loves a Good Fight.” Rev. of  Writing on the Wall. New York Times  9 Feb. 1970: 37.

Lockwood, Lee. “Book Marks: Trips to Hanoi.” Nation 24 Mar. 1969: 374-377.

Lurie, Alison. “True Confessions.” Rev. of How I Grew. The New York Review of Books 11 June 1987: 19-20.

—. “Fictioneers.” Rev. of The Company She Keeps, by Mary McCarthy. Encounter 9.3 (Sept. 1957): 76-79.

Mailer, Norman. “The Mary McCarthy Case.” Rev. of The Group. New York Review of Books 17 Oct. 1963: 1-3.

Mallon, Thomas. “‘Our Saint, Our Umpire’.” Review-essay of A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays, edited by A.O. Scott. The Atlantic Monthly, CCXC, 4 (Nov. 2002): 128-135.

Marshall, Margaret. “Notes by the Way.” Rev. of The Oasis, by Mary McCarthy.  Nation 17 Sept. 1949: 281-282.

Mirsky, Jonathan. “The War in Vietnam.” New York Times Book Review 26 Nov. 1967: 10, 12, 14.

Mizener, Arthur. “Fiction Chronicle.” Rev. of A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy. Partisan Review 23.1 (Winter 1956): 155-57.

—. “Out of Vassar and the Town.” Rev. of The Group. New York Times Book Review25 Aug. 1963:1,44.

Morris, Alice S. “The Coveted Escape.” Rev. of A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy.New York Times Book Review 6 Nov. 1955: 5.

Munson, Gorham. “Parlor Pinks Playing Utopia.” Rev. of The Oasis, by Mary McCarthy. Saturday Review 20. Aug. 1949:12-13.

Paquet, Basil T. “Is Anyone Guilty? If So, Who?” Rev. of Medina. New York Review of Books 21 Sept. 1972: 35-38.

Podhoretz, Norman. “Mary McCarthy and the Leopard’s Spots.” Rev. of The Group. Show 3 (Oct. 1963): 52, 54-55.

—. “A Minor Cultural Event.” Rev. of Writing on the Wall. Commentary 53.4 (1972): 7-8, 10.

Pritchard, William H. “Criticism as Literature.” Rev. of  Ideas and the Novel. Hudson Review 34.1 (Spring 1981): 117-124.

Pritchett, V.S. “Ironical Aviary.” Rev. of Birds of America. New York Review of Books 3 June 1971: 13-15.

Rago, Henry. Rev. of The Company She Keeps, by Mary McCarthy. Commonweal 50.22 (9 Sept. 1949): 536-537.

Romano, John. “In Praise of Loose Baggy Monsters.” Rev. of Ideas and the Novel. NewRepublic. 13 Dec. 1980: 32.

Rosenberg, Harold. “Up Against the News.” Rev. of Mask of State: Watergate Portraits.New York Review of Books 31 Oct. 1974: 16-18.

Rosenfeld, Isaac. “Among Friends.” Rev. of  The Groves of Academe, by Mary McCarthy. New Republic 31 Mar. 1952: 20.

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. “Mary McCarthy: The Dove Who Flies Like a Hawk.” Rev. of   Vietnam, by Mary McCarthy. Book World. Chicago Tribune 24 Sept. 1967: 1, 20.

—. “Mary McCarthy’s Vision of Reality.” Rev. of On the Contrary. New Republic 9   Oct.1961: 23-24.

Schwartz, Delmore. “The Duchess’ Red Shoes.” Partisan Review 20 (Jan. 1953): 54-73.

Shaw, Peter. “Sentimental Journeys.” Rev. of Hanoi, by Mary McCarthy and Trip to Hanoi, by Susan Sontag. Commentary 48 (July 1969): 84, 87-88.

Sheed, Wilfrid. “Her Youth Observed.” Rev. of How I Grew. New York Times Book Review 19 April 1987: 5-6.

Smith, Peter Duval. “Mary McCarthy Said: ‘Men Have More Feeling, Women Have   More Intelligence.” Vogue Oct. 1963: 98,  99, 142, 143, 144, 149. Rpt. in  Gelderman, Conversations 52-61.

Smith, William S. “Miss McCarthy and the Medici.” Rev. of Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. New Republic 28 Dec. 1959: 17-18.

Spender, Stephen. “American Redemption.” Rev. of Birds of America Rpt. in Love-Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities. New York:    Random House, 1974. 126-130.

—. “Two Witty Women.” Rev.of Venice Observed, by Mary McCarthy. Encounter 8.2 (Feb. 1957): 77-79.

Tucci, Niccolo. “An Observer Observed.” Rev. of On the Contrary. Saturday Review 7 Oct.1961:44.

Tyler, Anne. “The Sentimental Education of Mary McCarthy.” Rev. of How I Grew, by Mary McCarthy.  Book World, Washington Post 5 April 1987: 7.

Vendler, Helen. “Mary McCarthy Again Her Own Heroine–Frozen Foods a New Villain.” Rev. of Birds of America, by Mary McCarthy. New York Times Book Review 16 May 1971: 1, 16, 18.

Vidal, Gore. “Love, Love, Love.” Rev. of Sights and Spectacles, by Mary McCarthy. Partisan Review 26.4 (Fall 1959): 613-623.

—. “The Thinking Man’s Novel.” Rev. of Ideas and the Novel. New York Review of Books. 4 Dec. 1980: 10, 12.

Warren, Robert Penn. “Button, Button.” Rev. of The Company She Keeps, by Mary McCarthy. Partisan Review 9.6 (Nov.-Dec. 1942) 537-540.

Wilson, Angus. “The Intellectual on the Aisle.” Rev. of Sights and Spectacles, by Mary McCarthy. Encounter 12 June 1959: 68-70.

Wolcott, James. “Nose Jobs.” Rev. of How I Grew. New Republic 11 May 1987: 34-37.