The New York Review of Books, Volume 3, Number 8, December 3, 1964

Includes "Throwing Up Absurd" by Robert M. Adams, a combined review of Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn, William S. Burroughs' Nova Express, Adolfo Bioy Cesares' The Invention of Morel, and James B. Hall's Us He Devours, pp. 26-28. A reasonably sympathetic review of Nova Express.

At page 9 is a full page advertisement for Grove Press, including Jean Genet's The Thief's Journal, Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn, William S. Burroughs' Nova Express, Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Erasers, and Robert Gover's Here Goes Kitten.

Published in Milford, Connecticut by The New York Review of Books in December 1964.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in M&M
• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 19641203NYRB.3.8

Selected Contents: 

• John Richardson: "Trompe l'Oeil" (review of Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake
• John Gross: "Waugh Revisited" (review of A Little Learning by Evelyn Waugh)
• Frederick C. Crews: "Comedy and Beyond" (combined review of The Key to My Heart: A Comedy in Three Parts by V. S. Pritchett and Stations by Burt Blechman)
• James Merrill: "A Carpet not Bought" (poetry)
• Paul Goodman: "The Liberal Victory" (essay)
• W. D. Snodgrass: "In Praise of Robert Lowell" (review of The Old Glory by Robert Lowell)
• Wylie Sypher: "The Language of the Dead" (review of Tomb Sculpture by Erwin Panofsky)
• Gore Vidal: "E. Nesbit" (essay)
• Janet Adam Smith: "Engines of Mischief: The Best Children's Books of 1964" (combined review)
• Marius Bewley: "Oz Country" (combined review of The Machine in the Gardens: Technology and the Pastoral by Leo Marx and The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was by Martin Gardner and Russell B. Nye)
• Martha Cameron: "The Damned" (review of The Inner Room by Vera Randal)
• Hans Morgenthau: "The Death of Marxism" (review of World Communism by Richard Lowenthal)
• Robert M. Adams: "Throwing up Absurd" (combined review of Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr., Nova Express by William S. Burroughs, The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Us He Devours by James B. Hall)
• G. M. Matthews: "The Last Days of the Poets" (review of The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Final Years of Byron and Shelley by A. B. C. Whipple)
• Francis Haskell: "Whistler and Lautrec" (combined review of Art Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler and Lautrec by Lautrec, edited by P. Huisman and M. G. Dortu)
• Creighton Gilbert: "Tolnay's Michaelangelo" (review of The Art and Thought of Michaelangelo by Charles de Tolnay)
• Hilton Kramer: "A Scribble in the Air" (review of A Concise History of Modern Sculpture by Herbert Read)
• Frank Kermode: "The Man in the Closet" (review of The Life of Drama by Eric Bentley)
• J. H. Elliott: "Merchants and Pirates" (combined review of My Voyage Around the World by Francesco Carletti and Elizabethan Privateering by K. R. Andrews)
• letters

Publishing Information: 

• Editors: Robert B. Silvers, Barbara Epstein
• Publisher: A. Whitney Ellsworth
• Advisory Editor: Elizabeth Hardwick
• Associate Editor: Eve Auchincloss
• Editorial Assistant: Alexandra T. Emmet
• et al