SOURCE: Pritchett, V. S. “Satellites.” New Statesman 92, no. 2371 (27 August 1976): 281-82.

In the following review of The Little Magazines, Pritchett provides an overview of Hamilton's discussion of each of six literary magazines and their editors. He praises Hamilton's writing as funny and ironic but also fair and even-handed.

How to define ‘the little magazine’? In name and in time of birth it has the air of being a fierce, chaste sister of the little theatre movement and the sharp one-act plays that made the orthodox theatre look comatose. There was the protest against the heavy Reviews, and other commercial productions at the beginning of the century; it is one in the eye for the professionals by as yet uncorrupted amateurs. The little magazines addressed the austere minority. There have been, Ian Hamilton says, thousands of them; most vanished like proclamations at once and, as he goes on to say...