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Abel,Lionel,89,114,137,138

Abzug,Bella,168

Acocella,Joan,23-24

Adams,Franklin P.,103

Adler,Renata. See also specific works

 appearance of,263-264

 Arendt and,266-267

 awards and honors,267,276

 background,263,270,271

 characteristics,263

 colleagues’opinions of,268,269,273-274

 Gopnik and,279

 Gottlieb and,279

 Kael and,260-263,272

 McCarthy and,263-264,275

 media reporting of falsehoods and,277-278,279,281

 New Yorker and,262,264-266,269-271,276

 New York Times and,262,271-275,280-281

 ostracization of,280-283

 Podhoretz and,267-268

 suit against Washington Journalism Review,276

 Vanity Fair and,276

Adorno,Theodor,82

Advertisements for Myself(Mailer),141

Against Interpretation(Sontag),158-159,160,190

“Against Interpretation”(Sontag),158

Against Our Will(Brownmiller),220

Ainslee’s,14

Aitken,William Maxwell(Lord Beaver-brook),50

Algonquin Round Table

 beginning of,11

 Kael and talents at,198,199

 members,14,23

 West and,48

 women at,11-12

Allen,Woody,202,208-209,223-224

Alvarez,Al,307

Andrews,Henry,50,52,54,55

Ann Veronica(Wells),32

anti-Semitism. See also Nazism

 Arendt and,66,75,76,86

 in France,80-81

 Heidegger and,70,76

 in US,83

“Any Porch”(Parker),5-6

Arbus,Diane,169

Arendt,Hannah. See also specific works

 Adler and,266-267

 on aims of Varnhagen biography,72

 anti-Semitism and,66,75,76,86

 arrest by Nazis,76-77

 background,66,67

 “banality of evil,” 133-134

 on The Benefactor,146

 on Benjamin’s suicide,81

 biography of Varnhagen,71-74,75,311

Arendt,Hannah(continued

 Blücher and,78-79

 characteristics,66-67,137-139

 on collaboration with Nazis,70

 colleagues’opinion of,89-91

 “conscious pariahs,” 73-74,84,128

 death,253

 difficulty writing in English,85

 on distinction of being Jewish,73-74

 early newspaper articles,82-84

 essays on existentialism,85-86

 feminism and,74-75,310-311

 Heidegger and,65,68-69,71,76

 internment camp in France,80-81

 on Kazin,120

 living conditions in US,82

 marriage,71,78

 McCarthy and,118-121,138,253-254

 Partisan Review and,85,86,90-91,137

 political theory of,127-131

 relationship between good and evil,86

 reputation,131

 school desegregation and,127-128,129-131

 Sontag and,267

Arendt,Martha,66,76,77

Arendt,Paul,66

Arlen,Alice,251

Atlantic Monthly,45-46,54,189-190,275

“At Valladolid”(West),39

Aufbau,82

auteurist theory,184-186,200

“A Woman’s Beauty:Put-Down or Power Source?”(Sontag),170

Axel’s Castle(Wilson),109

Baldwin,James,131

“banality of evil,” 133-134,135-137

Barringer,Felicity,280-281

Barthes,Roland,150

Battleaxe,100

Beatty,Warren,260

Beaverbrook,Lord(William Maxwell Aitken),50

Behrman,S.N.,263

Bell,Vanessa,31

Bellow,Saul,120,138-139

Benchley,Robert,11,13-14,23,123,124

The Benefactor(Sontag),145,146,155

Benhabib,Seyla,73

Benjamin,Walter,79-80,81,82,150

Berlin,Isaiah,105

Bernays,Edward,4

Bernstein,Carl,227-230,250-252

“Big Blonde”(Parker),25

“The Big Rock Candy Figgy Pudding Pitfall”(Didion),212-213

The Birth of a Nation,287

Bishop,Elizabeth,85,100,145

Bitter Fame(Stevenson),306

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon(West),53-55,56

Blücher,Heinrich,78-79,80,82,86-87,253,266-267

Bogdanovich,Peter,200-201

Bonnie and Clyde,193-194

A Book of Common Prayer(Didion),221,222

“Book Reviewing and Everyone Ⅰ Know”(Podhoretz),267-268

Books,103

Botsford,Gardner,294

Briefing for a Descent into Hell(Lessing),220

Broadwater,Bowden,116,119

Brooks,Louise,195

Broughton,James,179

Brownmiller,Susan,220,246

Buchman,Sidney,189

Buckley,William F.,163

Burke,Billie,13

Burke,Kenneth,152

Burroughs,William S.,141

Caesar’s Wife(Maugham),13

camp,156-157,158,197

Campbell,Alan,27,123,126

Canetti,Elias,150

Cannibals and Missionaries(McCarthy),254

Castle,Terry,158,173-174

Cavett,Dick,237,256

Chaplin,Charlie,179

Charade,210

Chase,Edna Woolman,7,205

Chicago Tribune,44,161,301

The Children’s Hour(Hellman),255

Christian Science Monitor,215-216

Cinema Guild,181-182

“Circles and Squares”(Kael),184,185-186,187

Citizen Kane,197-201

City Lights,179

civil rights,59-61,126-127

Clarion,40

Columbia Journalism Review,302

Commentary,127,136-137

Communism

 Blücher and,78

 Cowley as “megaphone for,” 101

 Hellman and,255

 McCarthy and,104-105,106

 Parker and,122-123

 Partisan Review and,84

 Rahv and,106

 similarities to Fascism,57-58

 Sontag accused of favoring,163

 in US,84-85

The Company She Keeps(McCarthy),94-95,97,113,116,140,141-142,219

Condé Nast,278

“conscious pariahs”

African Americans as,129-131

The Origins of Totalitarianism and,86

Phillips and Rahv as,84-85

refugees in US as,84

Varnhagen as among,73-74,128

Con Spirito,100

Constant Reader,23-24

Cosmopolitan,238-239

Cowley,Malcolm,101,103,113

Crazy Salad(Ephron),244

“Crisis in Education”(Arendt),130

Crowninshield,Frank,3-6,9,10

Crowther,Bosley,233

“Dealing with the uh,Problem”(Ephron),246

Dean,John,281

Death Kit(Sontag),160-161

Democracy(Didion),225

The Destruction of the European Jews(Hilberg),136

Diana and Nikon(Malcolm),293

The Dick Cavett Show,256

Didion,Eduene,204

Didion,Frank,204

Didion,Joan. See also specific works

 Allen and,223-224

 awards and honors,204-205

 background,204

 characteristics,203

 children,213

 Ephron and,245

 essays after Saturday Evening Post folded,217-218

 fame,216,217,224-225

 feminism and,311

 filmmaking,221

 Gurley Brown and,239-240

 Kael and,203,208,222-223,224

 Kauffmann and,222-223

 literary persona,216-217

 marriage,209

Didon,Joan(continued

 McCarthy and,219,224-225

 National Review and,206-208

 New York Review of Books and,208-209,222-223,227-228

 personal columns,218

 Saturday Evening Post and,211-215

 second wave of feminism and,218-221,245-246

 sources of writers’material,233-234

discrimination. See racism

Dissent,127-129

Donoghue,Denis,173

Dos Passos,John,255

Dukakis,Michael,227

Dunne,John Gregory

 filmmaking,221

 Kael and,202,203

 marriage,209

 Saturday Evening Post column,214

 in writings of Didion,213

Dunne,Quintana Roo,213

Dupee,Fred,144

Duras,Marguerite,182-183

“The Duty of Harsh Criticism”(West),41-42

Earle,Willie,59-61

Eckford,Elizabeth,126-127

Eichmann,Adolf,132-136

Eichmann in Jerusalem(Arendt),134-138

Eisenhower,Julie Nixon,237,248

Eissler,Kurt,297

Ellison,Ralph,129-130

El Salvador,225-226

Encounter,138

Enough Rope(Parker),18-19

Ephron,Henry,230-231,233,249

Ephron,Nora. See also specific works

 articles for women’s magazines,238-239

 background,230-231,233-234

 characteristics,237

 death,259

 Didion and,245

 Esquire and,249-250

 fame,249

 feminism and,ⅹ,240-241,242-248,311

 Gurley Brown and,238-239,240

 Hellman and,258-259

 Malcolm and,302,308

 marriages,227-230,250-252

 at Newsweek,234

 Parker and,230

 as reporter,235-237

 reputation as social critic,237

 as screenwriter,251

 writing in first person,241

Ephron,Phoebe,230-233,249

Epstein,Barbara,140,169

Epstein,Jason,140

Esquire

 Didion and,218

 Ephron and,239,241-247,249-250

 Kael and,200

 Parker and,124-125,126

 Sontag and,162,164

Evergreen Review,158

Everywoman delusion,219,221

existentialism,Arendt’s essays on,85-86

Fairfield,Charles,34-35

Fairfield,Cicely Isabel. See West,Rebecca

Fairfield,Isabella,34

“Fantasies of the Art-House Audience”(Kael),182

“Farewell to the Enchanted City”

 (“Goodbye to All That,” Didion),205,213-214

Farrar,Straus and Giroux,158-159

“Fascinating Fascism”(Sontag),170-171

Fascism,57-58,90. See also Nazism “A Feast for Open Eyes”(Sontag),190

feminism. See also suffragettes

 Arendt and,74-75,88-89,120-121 310-311

 defiance of gendered expectations,ⅰⅹ-ⅹ

 Didion and,218-221,245-246,311

 Ephron and,ⅹ,240-241,242-248,311

 Kael and,185-186,188-189,311

 Malcolm and,290-291,307-308,311

 McCarthy and,120-121,309-310

 Millett and,168,292

 Parker and,19-20

 Phoebe Ephron and,231

 psychoanalysis and,294

 sexism in journalists’assignments,217

 sexism in reviews of Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem,215-216

 sexism of auteur critics,185-186

 Sontag and,ⅹ,151,167-169,170-171,311

 Vanity Fair and,4-5

 Wells as supporter,32

 West and,ⅹ,54

 women in war and,45-46

Ferber,Edna,12

“A Few Words About Breasts”(Ephron),241-242

Film Culture,184-185

Final Solution,132-133,135-137

The Fire Next Time(Baldwin),131

Firestone,Shulamith,219,221

Fitzgerald,Ellen,44

Fitzgerald,F.Scott,15-18,20-21

FitzGerald,Frances,164-165

Fitzgerald,Zelda,17

“The Flapper”(Parker),15

Fornés,María Irene,155

“Forty-One False Starts”(Malcolm),305

Franny and Zooey(Salinger),207-208

Freewoman,31,32,36

Fresno Bee,214

Freud,Anna,297

Friedan,Betty,244

Gardiner,Muriel,258

Gellhorn,Martha,257,258

Germany,Nazi

 Final Solution,132-133,135-137

 intellectuals and,77

 mass self-deception and delusion,134

 Nuremberg trials,132-133

 takeover,75-76

 West on,56-57

Germany between World Wars,70-71

Gilliatt,Penelope,271

“A Girl of the Zeitgeist”(Malcolm),308

Gone:The Last Days of the “New Yorker”(Adler),279-281

“Goodbye to All That”(“Farewell to the Enchanted City,” Didion),205,213-214

Gopnik,Adam,279

Gordon,Ruth,108

Göring,Hermann,57

Gottlieb,Robert,279,280

Grant,Jane,11-12,23

The Great Gatsby(Fitzgerald),18

Green,Aaron(pseud),295-296

Greenburg,Dan,250,252

The Group(McCarthy),99,139-140,142-145,219

The Group(movie),189

Guccione,Bob,248

Gurley Brown,Helen,211,212,238-240,249

Hale,Ruth,11-12,48-49,50

Hardwick,Elizabeth,96,140-141,142-143,188

Harper’s,140-141,156,196,281

Harriet Hume(West),45

Harrison,Barbara Grizzuti,224

Hayes,Harold,124,164

Heartburn(Ephron),229-230,252

Heidegger,Martin

 anti-Semitism of,70,76

 Arendt and,65,68-69,71,77

 as Nazi,76,77

 philosophy and educational approach,67-68

Heilbrun,Carolyn,161-162

Hellman,Lillian,255-258

Hemingway,Ernest,20-23

Here to Stay:Studies in Human Tenacity(Hersey),264

Hersey,John,264

Hess,Rudolf,56-57

Hilberg,Raul,136

Hillis,Marjorie,5

Hiroshima Mon Amour,182-183

Holiday,206

homosexual community and camp,158

Hook,Sidney,127

Horan,Robert,178

Houseman,John,199

“How Can I Tell Them There’s Nothing Left?”(Didion),211

Howe,Irving,129-130

How I Grew(McCarthy),110

“How It Feels to Be Colored Me”(Hurston),61-62

Hughes,Olwyn,305,306

Hughes,Ted,305,306

The Human Condition(Rich),310

Hurston,Zora Neale,61-62,64

Husserl,Edmund,70

Illness as Metaphor(Sontag),172

I Lost It at the Movies(Kael),188,189-191

Imaginary Friends(Ephron),258-259

In America(Sontag),154

In Our Time(Hemingway),20

intellectual history,twentieth century

 chronicled through male lens,ⅹⅰ

 chronicled through white lens,62

 contempt for women as intellectuals,168-169

 cultural outlaws in,157

 homme de lettres,79-80

 justification of pleasure from art,158,197

 in Nazi Germany,77

 Partisan Review “What’s Happening in America” symposium,163

 power of political ideologies,87

 second-wave feminist movement and,167,218-221

 women in,88-89

“Interior Desecration”(Parker),8

In the Freud Archives(“Trouble in the Archives,” Malcolm),298-300

“Is There a Cure for Film Criticism?”(Kael),184

Jackson,Shirley,126

James,Alice,172

James,Henry,43-44,172

Jarrell,Randall,79,85,145

Jaspers,Karl,69,70

Jews and Judaism

 Arendt’s loyalty to Jews,137-138

 Final Solution,132-133,135-137

 Varnhagen’s identity and,73

Johnsrud,Harold,98,104

The Journalist and the Murderer(Malcolm),300-302,303-304

Joyce,William,56

The Judge(West),45

“Just a Little One”(Parker),30

Kael,Gina James,179,191

Kael,Pauline. See also specific works

 Adler and,260-263,271,272

 background,177-178

 Bogdanovich and,200-201

 characteristics,176-177,180,182,183-184,201-202,208

 colleagues’opinion of,ⅹⅰ

 daughter,179,191

 death,262

 Didion and,203,208,222-223,224

 Dunne and,202,203

 feminism and,185-186,188-189,311

 feud with editors of Movie,186-187

 feud with Sarris,185-186,187

 first movie review,179,180

 Guggenheim fellowship,187-188

 in Hollywood,260

 last long essay,196

 marriage,181-182

 McCall’s and,191-192

 on McCarthy’s Meg Sargent,112

 movies as fun,194

 New Yorker and,193-196,197-201,260

 New York Review of Books and,175-176,188

 Segal and,240

 sexism of auteur critics and,185-186

 Sontag and,177,188,190

“The Kane Mutiny”(Bogdanovich),200-201

Kasabian,Linda,221-222

Kauffmann,Stanley,192-193,222,223

Kaufman,Hal,287-288

Kazin,Alfred,89,116,120,216-217

Kees,Weldon,180

Kellow,Brian,178,187,202

Kennedy,Anthony,302

Kierkegaard,Søren,67

Kirchwey,Freda,102

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang(Kael),195

Koch,John,126

Kracauer,Siegfried,184

Kristol,Irving,268

The Ladies of the Corridor(Parker),123

Landberg,Edward,181-182

Lawrence,D.H.,51

Lehmann-Haupt,Christopher,301

Leonard,John,172,262

Lessing,Doris,219-220

Liddy,G.Gordon,281

Life,16-17,189,216

The Life of the Mind(Arendt with McCarthy),254

Limelight,179

literary history,twentieth century

 access journalism,227

 beat poets,125

 camp in,156-157,197

 chronicled through male lens,ⅹⅰ

 evolution of magazines,4

 exploitation of subjects by journalists,ⅹⅰ-ⅹⅱ

 fiction as pinnacle of achievement,115

 film criticism,183-184

 “I” of journalism,241,303-304

 New Journalism,64

 Parker’s hate songs,8

 sexism of auteur critics and,185-186

 use of metaphors,172-173

 writing as sensual,158

“literary Rotarians,” 24

Little Rock(AK)Central High School,integration of,126-127

Living Age,45

Locke,Richard,276

“Lolita”(Parker),123

Los Angeles Times,88,159

Love and Saint Augustine(Arendt),70

Love Story(Segal),240

Lowell,Robert,135,140,254

Lumet,Sidney,189

Lyons,Leonard,235

MacArthur,Charles,20

Macdonald,Dwight,90,106,156,178,187

MacDonald,Jeffrey,300-301

Maddocks,Melvin,215-216

Mademoiselle,156,204-205,206,267

Maier-Katkin,Daniel,67

Mailer,Norman,112,141-142,168,172,257,272,288

Malcolm,Anne Olivia,289

Malcolm,Donald,286,288-289,291,292

Malcolm,Janet. See also specific works

 Arendt and,89

 background,285-289

 child,289

 colleagues’opinion of,ⅹⅰ-ⅹⅱ

 Diana Trilling and,288

 Ephron and,302,308

 feminism and,307-308,311

 Malcom(misspelling),290

 marriages,288,294

 Masson and,284-285,296-300,302,303

 McGinniss and,300-302,303-304

 New Republic and,286-287,290-291

 New Yorker and,289-290,291-292,293-303,305-307

 on Parker,125

 Sontag and,293,307

Manhattan,208-209,224

“The Man in the Brooks Brothers Suit”(McCarthy),111-112

Mankiewicz,Herman,198-199,200

Mansfield,Katherine,58

Marriage(Wells),31

Marsden,Dora,36

Marshall,Margaret,102,103,109

Masson,Jeffrey Moussaieff,284-285,296-300,302,303

Maugham,Somerset,13

McCall’s,191-192

McCarthy,Mary. See also specific works

 Adler and,263-264,275

 Arendt and,118-121,138

 attitude toward men,111-112

 autobiographical nature of fiction,114-115,139

 background,93-94,95-96,97

 on Bellow,120

 Broadwater and,116

 characteristics,92,95-96,105-106

 colleagues’opinion of,ⅹⅰ,96-97,116

 Communism and,104-105,106

 Diana Trilling and,96-97

 Didion and,219,224-225

 feminism and,120-121,309-310

 first review by,100

 Hellman and,255-258

 Mailer and,141-142

 maintenance of image,93

 marriages,104,110,116,253

 mental health,110

 New York Review of Books and,141,144

 Parker and,108

 as Partisan Review drama critic,107-108

 Rahv and,106-107,112,117-118,119,157

 review of The Company She Keeps,116

 review of Franny and Zooey,207-208

 review of The Origins of Totalitarianism,90-91

 Rosenberg and,97-98

 sexual activity,98,104,106

 Sontag and,147-148,150-151,165-166

 spread of fame,116

 transit into fiction,111-113

 trip to North Vietnam,165

 Vassar experience,98-100

 West and,104

 Wilson and,104,108-111,114-115

McCollum,Ruby,63-64

McGinniss,Joe,300-302,303-304

McKuen,Rod,240

Mehta,Ved,279

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen(Shulman),243-244

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood(McCarthy),96

Menorah Journal,83-84

Millay,Edna St. Vincent,19,110

Millett,Kate,168,292

Milne,A.A.,23

Mitchell,Juliet,219

Mitford,Jessica,302

Mitgang,Herbert,166

Monocle,235

Movie,186-187

“Movies and Television”(Kael),193

Ms.,244

Musmanno,Michael,135

“My Confession”(McCarthy),105

Nabokov,Vladimir,112

The Naked and the Dead(Mailer),141

Naked Lunch(Burroughs),141

Nation,85,101-104,141

National Review,206-207

Navasky,Victor,235

Nazism. See also Germany,Nazi

 collaboration with,70

 concentration camps as ultimate instrument,87

 Heidegger and,69-70

 Sontag’s essay about aesthetics of,170-171

 Soviet totalitarianism and,88

 West on,56-57

Nedelsky,Jennifer,310-311

Negro Digest,62

New Freewoman,36,39

Newhouse,S.I.,278-279

New Leader,154,159,268

New Masses,28,103

New Republic

 Adler and,282-283

 Donald Malcolm and,286

 Kael and,192-193

 Malcolm and,286-288,290-291

 McCarthy and,100-101,113

 racism,62

 Wells and,41

 West and,41-42,45

New Statesman,45

Newsweek,234

New York,247-249,252,263

New Yorker

 Adler and,262,264-266,269-271,276,277-278,282

 Arendt and,133,134

 Baldwin in,131

 Donald Malcolm and,288

 founded,23

 Kael and,193-196,197-201,260

 Malcolm and,289-290,291-292,293-303,305-307

 McCarthy’s fiction in,114-115

 Parker’s contributions,22,23-24,123

 racism,62

 Shawn firing,278-280

 West and,55-58,59

New York Herald Tribune,54-55,113

New York Post,235-237

New York Radical Women,167

New York Review of Books

 Adler’s contributions,260-261,267-268

New York Review of Bookscontinued) Didion’s contributions,208-209,222-223,225-226,227-228

 FitzGerald and,164-165

 founded,140

 McCarthy and,141,144,165

 philosophy of,140-141

 review of Sontag’s essay “Fascinating Fascism,” 170-171

 reviews of The Group,141,142-144,175-176

New York Times

 Adler and,262,271-275,280-281

 Arendt and,135

 Hellman lawsuit against McCarthy,256-258

 Hurston and,62

 Kael and,191,199

 Malcolm and,301

 Marshall and,103

 McCarthy and,103,113,118

 review of Slouching Towards Bethlehem,215

 review of Three Is a Family,233

 reviews of West’s books,54

 Sontag and,146,156,161-162,166,173

 “The Women’s Movement”(Didion)in,218-219

New York Times Book Review,237-238

Nin,Anaïs,51-52

“Notes on‘Camp’”(Sontag),156-158,173-174

Notes on Novelists(James),43

“Notes on the Auteur Theory”(Sarris),184-185

The Oasis(McCarthy),116-118

Observer,44,200

Odets,Clifford,108

O’Hagan,Anne,5

“Once More Mother Hubbard”(Parker),16-17

“The One-Way Mirror”(Malcolm),294-295

“Only Disconnect”(Harrison),224

On Photography(Sontag),169-170

“On Self-Respect”(Didion),211

The Origins of Totalitarianism(Arendt),66,86-89,90-91

Orwell,Sonia,148

“Our Critics,Right or Wrong”(McCarthy and Marshall),102-104

Our Town(Wilder),108

Over Twenty-One(Gordon),108

Pankhurst,Christabel,35

Pankhurst,Emmeline,35

pariah. See “conscious pariahs”

Paris Review,6,19,24,49,257

Parker,Dorothy. See also specific works

 as Ainslee’s drama critic,14

 Algonquin Round Table and,11-12

 appearance of,108

 attitude toward men,25-26

 awards,25,26

 background,1,2-3

 on beat poets,125

 characteristics,19,23,25,28-29,30,92

 colleagues’opinion of,7,10-11,29-30,125

 Communism and,122-123

 death,126

 disillusionment with sophistication,25,29

 Ephron and,230

 Esquire reviews by,124-125,126

 failure to complete assignments,26-27

 fears of,24

 feminism and,19-20,167,311

 fictional versions of,108

 Fitzgerald and,15-17,18

 Hemingway and,20-23

 marriages,9,15,27,123

 New Yorker and,22,23-24,123

 as pianist,1-2

 poetry and,15-16,18-19

 political activism,27-29

 reputation of,45

 as screenwriter,26,198

 suicide attempts,20,25

 use of clichés,5,15,19

 Vanity Fair and,4-6,7-8,9-10,12-14

 at Vogue,6-7,8-9

Parker,Edwin Pond,9,15

Partisan Review

 Arendt and,85,86,90-91,137

 McCarthy and,106-108

 second incarnation,84

 Sontag and,155-156,169-170

 “What’s Happening in America” symposium,163

The Passionate Friends(Wells),39-40

PEN/Hemingway Award,276

Pentimento(Hellman),258

“The Perils of Pauline”(Adler),272,276

The Philadelphia Story,210

Phillips,William,84-85,155

Pictures from an Institution(Jarrell),145

“Pilgrimage”(Sontag),149-150

The Pink Panther,210

Pitch Dark(Adler),275-276

Pittsburgh Courier,63-64

Plath,Sylvia,305-307

Plimpton,George,112

Podhoretz,Norman,127,136-137,267-268

Politics,178

Portnoy’s Complaint(Roth),240

The Portrait of a Lady(James),43-44

“The Prisoner of Sex”(Mailer),168

Pritchett,V.S.,45

“A Problem of Making Connections”(Didion),217-218

Prynne,Xavier(pseud),141,142-143

psychoanalysis,284-285,294-300

Psychoanalysis:The Impossible Profession(Malcolm),296

Quinn,Sally,247-248

racism,59-60,60-61,62,127-128

Rahel Varnhagen(Arendt),71-74,147

Rahv,Philip

 as conscious pariah of Communism,84-85

 Hardwick and,143

 Kael and,180

 McCarthy and,106-107,112,117-118,119,157

Raising Kane(Kael),202

Reagan,Nancy,214

Reckless Disregard(Adler),278

Reed,Rex,238

“Reflections on Little Rock”(Arendt),127-130

“Résumé”(Parker),20

The Return of the Soldier(West),44

Reynolds,Debbie,210

Rich,Adrienne,170,171,310

Richler,Mordecai,199

ridicule

 “literary Rotarians” articles(Parker),24

 Parker on,as weapon,28

 Parker’s New Yorker reviews,23-24

 social criticism by Crowninshield,4

 by West toward women,50,54

Rieff,David,154,155,170,171,302

Rieff,Philip,152,153-155

Rosenberg,Ethel “Ted,” 97-98

Rosenblatt,Jack,148-149

Rosenblatt,Mildred,148-149

Ross,Harold,23,133

Ross,Lillian,279

Roth,Philip,162,240

Rothschild,Dorothy. See Parker,Dorothy

Run River(Didion),209

Ryan,Meg,237

Sacco,Nicola,27

Saint Joan,287

Salinger,J.D.,207-208,212

Salle,David,305

Sarris,Andrew,184-186,187,199-200

Sartre,Jean-Paul,85

Saturday Evening Post,211-215,217

Saturday Review,201

Schiff,Dorothy,235,236-237

Schocken Books,87

Scholem,Gershom,137

Schwartz,Delmore,89

Scoundrel Time(Hellman),257

second-wave feminism,167,218-221,245-248,290-291

“seduction thesis,” 284-285,297

Segal,Erich,240

Seligman,Craig,298

sexuality

 creativity and,39-40

 Ephron and,242-243

 McCarthy and,98,104

 Parker and Fitzgerald,17

 “seduction thesis,” 284-285,297

 Sontag and,151-152

 Wells and,31,32,38

 West and,35

Sexual Politics(Millett),168,292

“The Shadows”(“Die Schatten,” Arendt),65-66

Sharon v.Time,277-278

sharpness,described,ⅰⅹ-ⅹ,ⅹⅰ-ⅹⅱ,309

Shawn,William

 Adler and,260,262,269,278

 Arendt and,133

 Kael and,193-196

 Malcolm and,289,290,293

Sherwood,Robert,11

Shulman,Alix Kates,221,243-244

Sight and Sound,182,184,191

The Silent Woman(Malcolm),305-307

Silkwood,251

Silvers,Robert,142,175,188,222,225,227

Simpson,Eileen,92

Sirica,John,280,281

Sischy,Ingrid,308

Slouching Towards Bethlehem(Didion),215-216

Sohmers,Harriet,151,152,155

“Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream”(Didion),ⅹⅰ,211-212

Sontag,Judith,148,149

Sontag,Nathan,149

Sontag,Susan. See also specific works accused of favoring Communism,163

 Arendt and,267

 background,148-150,151,152

 cancer,171-172

 characteristics,149,151

 colleagues’opinions of,162-163

 feminism and,ⅹ,151,167-169,170-171,311

 as filmmaker,166-167

 Harper’s and,156

 Hiroshima Mon Amour and,182-183

 inspirations for,150

 Kael and,177,188,190

 Mademoiselle award,156

 Malcolm and,293,307

 marriage,152-155

 McCarthy and,147-148,150-151

 as new version of McCarthy,147,159,160

 New York Times reviews,156

 in North Vietnam,164-165

 Partisan Review and,156,169-170

 pleasure in analysis of art,197

 reaction to response to “Notes on‘Camp,’” 173-174

 reputation,159-160,161-162,166

 sexuality of,151-152

 Vogue essays,170

 women’s magazines articles,170

The Sound of Music,192,210-211

South China Morning Post,45

Soviet Russia,57-58,88

Speedboat(Adler),275-276

The Spirit of St. Louis,210

Stafford,Jean,85,205

A Star Is Born,26

Steinbeck,John,108

Steinem,Gloria,244-245

Stern,Gunther,71,76,78

Stevenson,Anne,306

Stewart,Donald Ogden,22

Suber,Howard,199,200

suffragettes

 Parker and,167,311

 West and,35,36,167,311

The Sun Also Rises(Hemingway),21

Sunday Times,45

Sweet Smell of Success,287

Take HerShe’s Mine(Phoebe and Henry Ephron),233

Tanguay,Eva,13

Tell My Horse(Hurston),62

Their Eyes Were Watching God(Hurston),62,64

“Theses on the Philosophy of History”(Benjamin),82

“The Third World of Women”(Sontag),169

This Side of Paradise(Fitzgerald),15,16

Thomas,Lately(pseud),125

Three Is a Family(Phoebe and Henry Ephron),233

Thurber,James,23,124

Thurmond,Strom,59

Tice,Clara,5

Time,157,277-278

“To a Tragic Poetess”(Hemingway),21-22

“Tonstant Weader fwowed up”(Parker’s quip about Milne),23

totalitarianism,86-89,134

“Trash,Art,and the Movies”(Kael),196,197

Trilling,Diana,96-97,105,117,288

Trilling,Lionel,97

“Trouble in the Archives”(In the Freud Archives,Malcolm),298

Truman,Harry,59-61

Tumin,Melvin,129

“Two Roads”(Malcolm),293-294

Tynan,Kenneth,200

An Unfinished Woman(Hellman),257

The Unsinkable Molly Brown,210

Vanity Fair

 Adler and,276,282

 as feminism’s voice,4-5

 Parker and,5-6,7-8,9-10,12-14

Vanzetti,Bartolomeo,27

Variety,195,233,273-274

Varnhagen,Rahel,71-74,75,77,80,128,311

Vidal,Gore,141,144,161

Village Voice,199-200

Vinaver,Stanislav,52-53

Viva,248

Vogue

 Arendt in,88

 Didion and,204,205-206,208,220

 as marketing tool,6-7

 McCarthy and,116

 Parker and,6-7,8-9

 Sontag and,159,170

Wakefield,Dan,215

Walker,Alice,64

Wallflower at the Orgy(Ephron),241

Ward,Mary Augusta(Mrs.Humphry Ward),37

Washington Journalism Review,276

Washington Post,159,161

Wayne,John,211

“The Weeds”(McCarthy),114-115

We Have Always Lived in the Castle(Jackson),126

Weil,Simone,90

Welles,Orson,108,197-201

Wells,H.G.

 affair with West,37-39,40-41,46

 early novels,31-32

 as feminist,32

 New Republic and,41

 West on writings of,31,37,42

Wells,Ida B.,61

“We Refugees”(Arendt),83-84

West,Anthony Panther birth,40-41

 knowledge of,48

 left with grandmother,46

 resentment of mother,49

 Wells’s relationship with,42-43

West,Jim,253

West,Rebecca. See also specific works

 affairs after Wells,50

 American lecture tour,46-48

 on American women,48

 background,31,33-34

 characteristics,31,48-49,50

 choice of name,36

 colleagues’opinions of,44,48-50,104

 on Communism,57-58

 feminism and,ⅹ,54

 on James,43-44

 marriage,50

 McCarthy and,104

 on Nazi Germany,56-57

 Nin and,51-52

 on Parker,30

 on racism,60-61

 reputation as critic,45

 reviews of fiction by,44-45

 subjects of articles,45-46

 suffragettes and,167,311

 targets of writing,37,43-44

 as unwed mother,40-41,49

 Wells and,31,37-39,40-41,46

 on women writers,58

 writing as a mask,36-37

 Yugoslavian lecture tour,52-53

Westmoreland v.CBS,277-278

We Thought We Could Do Anything(Henry Ephron),249

“What White Publishers Won’t Print”(Hurston),62

When the Lights Go Down(Kael),260,261

“Where Bookmen Meet to Eat”(Ephron),238

“The White Album”(Didion),221-222,226,227

The White Album(Didion),221-222

“Why I Haven’t Married”(Parker),8

Wienovera,Jana. See Malcolm,Janet

Wild 90(Mailer),272

Wilder,Matthew,262

Wilder,Thornton,108

Willis,Ellen,167

Wilson,Edmund

 on Enough Rope,18-19

 McCarthy and,104,108-111,114-115

 Parker and,14,23-24

 Parker’s “Lolita” and,123

Wilson,Reuel,109-110,111,263

Winn,Janet. See Malcolm,Janet

Wodehouse,P.G.,9

Wolcott,James,202,224,262

Woman Problem,74-75

women. See also feminism

 acceptable characterizations of,112

 confines of femininity as Parker target,19-20

 contempt for,as intellectuals,168-169

 F.Scott Fitzgerald’s treatment of,17

 factors affecting experiences of,311

 in film,274

 gendered art of,183

 James’s inability to write about,44

 need for autonomy in sex and romance,40

 Newsweek’s refusal to hire,as writers,234

 professional competition,247-248

 sharp,described,ⅰⅹ-ⅹ,ⅹⅰ-ⅹⅱ,309

 as subject of West,45-46

 surge of,as novelists,47

 West on,48,58

“The Women’s Movement”(Didion),218-219

Women’s Wear Daily,233,238-239,249

“The Wonderful Old Gentleman”(Parker),2-3

Woolf,Virginia,31,58,100

Woollcott,Alexander,7,11,48,123

The Year of Magical Thinking(Didion),218

The Years with Ross(Thurber),124-125

Young-Bruehl,Elisabeth,66,86

“The Younger Set”(Parker),15-16

Zanuck,Darryl F.,274

Ziegfeld,Flo,13