The list of contributors is formidable: Isaiah Berlin, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, Edmund Wilson, etc, etc.

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In 1944, Edmund Wilson published an article in this magazine that contained some disparaging remarks about the mystery genre.

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However, the American critic Edmund Wilson famously dismissed the work as "juvenile balderdash", and Philip Toynbee wrote in 1961 that Tolkien's works had "passed into a merciful oblivion".

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Despite the slightly tedious nostalgia for the world of the New York intellectuals and the patient outlets of nineteen-fifties high journalism, I doubt that Edmund Wilson or Alfred Kazin would rightfully find much to complain about.

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