Observer: Aug 12 1962 P17: ‘New American Novels’ by Julian Moynahan.

'There is plenty of craft in the new novels of Philip Roth, Clancy Sigal and JB, yet technique is entirely subordinate to the pursuit of “truth”, “reality”, “integrity”, and above all “sincerity”. Their books are machines for right living, didactic in tone and puritanical in outlook, with heroes who are rather grimly absorbed in getting straight with themselves and with the world.'