In 1958, writing in the Jesuit weekly America, the historian John Lukacs speculated whether Dwight Macdonald might become “The American Orwell.” Noting that Macdonald’s American “reputation is rising,” Lukacs wrote that he was already known among British intellectuals “as one of the most interesting American critics of these times.” In particular Lukacs lauded Macdonald’s “lonely […]
John Rodden
John Rodden is the author of several books on George Orwell, Lionel Trilling, and Irving Howe, among other works.