SOURCE: "Kay Boyle's New Novel," in New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1936, pp. 6-7.

In the following review of Death of a Man, Kazin suggests that while Boyle's sense of style is successful, she fails in her narrative.

It is some time now since a reviewer was moved to write, concerning a reference to the late Mr. Dillinger in one of Miss Boyle's earlier works, that a reference to Senator Borah in the New Testament could not be more astonishing. Miss Boyle is still far removed from her own, her native land, but she has come to reveal a growing preoccupation with the little tragedies attending the present era of European politics, and no one, I am sure, could ask for a clearer view of the impulses that have driven so many plain folk to Hitlerism than Miss Boyle has conveyed through one of the characters in this...