Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. What I found startling about Mr. Kramer’s discussion was his failure adequately to present the views of Chambers ...

Thank you for your invitation to reply to Hilton Kramer’s article on Whittaker Chambers. I shall try to be brief in my comments. If I ask myself why Mr. Kramer reads us this differently, an answer ...

Like the Hiss case itself, Witness, by Whittaker Chambers (TIME, May 26), had a troubling effect on Americans. Few books in a dozen years have provoked such a burst of prompt, wide and heart-searching ...

In April 1939, ex-communist underground courier Whittaker Chambers was hired by Time magazine to review books for Henry Luce’s flagship publication. Chambers began his journey into communism in the ...