Discriminations: Essays And Afterthoughts

by Dwight Macdonald

Book by Macdonald, Dwight

Genres: Essays, Politics, History

500 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1974

About the author

Dwight Macdonald (March 24, 1906 – December 19, 1982) was an American writer, editor, film critic, social critic, philosopher, and political radical. Macdonald was a member of the New York Intellectuals and editor of their leftist magazine Partisan Review for six years. He also contributed to other New York publications including Time, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and politics, a journal which he founded in 1944.

Reviews

[Tom van Veenendaal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most of it is almost unreadably boring today. Dwight Macdonald was a great essayist, but political essays date fast and these are far too much of their time to be of much value to the modern reader. Masscult and Midcult was prescient and is timeless in a way this collection distinctly was and is not.

[Luke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good