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Nathanael West • 9 Items / 7 Books, 1 Article, 1 Review
The Day of the Locust (1939)
by Nathanael West
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Published Reviews
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    Waiting for Apocalypse (Review)
    Daniel Aaron
    The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West
    1. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1951, pp. 634-636
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    California Grotesque (Review)
    Louis B. Salomon
    The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West
    1. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
    The Nation, July 15, 1939, p. 78
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    The Hollywood Nobody Knows (Review)
    George Milburn
    The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West
    1. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
    The Saturday Review, May 20, 1939, p. 14
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    Hollywood Dance of Death (Review)
    Edmund Wilson
    The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West
    1. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
    The New Republic, July 26, 1939, p. 339
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    Pick of the Paperbacks (5 Reviews)
    Introducing Shakespeare, by G.B. Harrison
    1. Introducing Shakespeare by G.B. Harrison
    2. Don't Go Near the Water by William Brinkley
    3. Panzer Leader by General Heinz Guderian
    4. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
    5. Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier
    The Saturday Review, December 28, 1957, p. 26
  6. Books
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    Faulkner and Contemporaries (5 Reviews)
    Isaac Rosenfeld
    Collected Stories, by William Faulkner
    1. Collected Stories by William Faulkner
    2. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
    3. The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg
    4. The Twenty-Fifth Hour by C. Virgil Gheorghiu
    5. Make Light of It by William Carlos Williams
    The Partisan Review, January 1951, pp. 106-113
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    Briefly Noted (6 Reviews)
    Fiction
    1. Long the Imperial Way by Hanama Tasaki
    2. The House of Breath by William Goyen
    3. Reprisal by Arthur Gordon
    4. The Man Who Lived Backward by Malcolm Ross
    5. The Thousand Deaths of Mr. Small by Gerald Kersh
    6. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
    The New Yorker, September 2, 1950, p. 65
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    Reprints and New Translations (6 Reviews)
    Ernest Jones
    Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford
    1. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
    2. An Edith Wharton Treasury by Arthur Hobson Quinn and Edith Wharton
    3. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
    4. The Borzoi Turgenev by Harry Stevens and Turgenev
    5. A Sportsman's Notebook by Ivan Turgenev
    6. Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    The Nation, October 21, 1950, p. 369
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    In Paper Covers (12 Reviews)
    Raymond Walters, Jr.
    Act of Passion, by Georges Simenon
    1. Act of Passion by Georges Simenon
    2. The Age of Longing by Arthur Koestler
    3. Coronado's Children by J. Frank Dobie
    4. Delilah by Marcus Goodrich
    5. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
    6. Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles and E.F. Watling
    7. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
    8. Jefferson Selleck by Carl Jonas
    9. The Looking-Glass by William March
    10. The Lord God of the Flesh by Jules Romains
    11. So Little Time by John P. Marquand
    12. When Boyhood Dreams Come True by James T. Farrell
    The Saturday Review, April 11, 1953, pp. 71-74
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    Check List (13 Reviews)
    Fiction
    1. The Open Sky by L.A.G. Strong
    2. The Gladiators by Arthur Koestler
    3. Pride and Passion: Robert Burns, 1759-1796 by J. De Lancey Ferguson
    4. Sardinian Brigade by Emilio Lussu
    5. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
    6. Let Me Breathe Thunder by William Attaway
    7. The Horse that Could Whistle Dixie, and Other Stories by Jerome Weidman
    8. In Polish Woods by Joseph Opatoshu
    9. A Book of Miracles by Ben Hecht
    10. Fifty Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 by Edward J. O'Brien
    11. The Best Short Stories, 1939 by Edward J. O'Brien
    12. Thirteen O'Clock by Stephen Vincent Benet
    13. Forever Wilt Thou Love by Ludwig Lewisohn
    The American Mercury, August 1939