A |
A CAPE COD JOURNAL
by Erma J. Fisk. Her life as a birder |
A HISTORY OF DOGS IN THE EARLY AMERICAS
by Marion Schwartz |
A PLACE OF STONE
by Jim Hunter |
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
by Norman Maclean, film adaptation by Robert Redford. |
A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA 1954-1962
by Alistair Horne. |
A SORT OF LIFE
by Graham Greene. |
A WORLD AWAY
by Stewart O'Nan |
Aiken, Joan
THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE |
Albatross
400.000 Gooney Birds nest on Midway Atoll. |
Algeria
A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne. |
ALL HEAVEN IN A RAGE
by Maureen Duffy |
Amado, Jorge
HOME IS THE SAILOR |
AMERICAN EDUCATION: THE METROPOLITAN EXPERIENCE
by Lawrence A. Cremin |
AMERICAN VIOLENCE, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
by Richard Hofstadter and Michael Wallace |
America's Cup 1977
The 1977 America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery. |
Amis, Kingsley
ENDING UP |
ANOTHER COUNTRY
by James Baldwin |
Anti-feminism
THE GIRLS by Henri de Montherlant |
APOLLINAIRE
by Francis Steegmuller |
Arnold, Matthew
MATTHEW ARNOLD - LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: Vol. III in a ten-volume series |
Atwood, Margaret
LIFE BEFORE MAN. |
Auden, W.H.
EPISTLE TO A GODSON. |
Auden, W.H.
THANK YOU, FOG |
Auden, W.H.
The Sage of Anxiety, an obituary. |
AUGUST 1914
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
AUTHOR FROM A SAVAGE PEOPLE
by Bette Pesetsky |
B |
Bach, Richard
JONATHAN LIVINSTON SEAGULL |
Baldwin, James
ANOTHER COUNTRY |
Batchelor, John Calvin
FATHER'S DAY |
Bate, Walter Jackson
JOHN KEATS |
Be Kind to your Mugger
"Gimme your money or I'll cut you." |
Beckett, Samuel
HOW IT IS |
Belgrade
Khruschev's historic visit in 1955. |
BELLS OF BICèTRE, The
by Georges Simenon |
Benedictus, David
THE FOURTH OF JUNE |
Bennett, William
Tough talk on teaching with William Bennett, then chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanitites. Educational presumptions doomed to failure. |
BEST OF LIFE, The
compiled by Time-Life Books |
Bicentennial
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new. Time, July 5, 1976. |
BILLIARDS AT HALF PAST NINE
by Heinrich Böll |
Birding
A CAPE COD JOURNAL by Erma J. Fisk. |
BLACK CARGOES
by Daniel P. Mannix with Malcolm Cowley |
BLACK CONCEIT
by John Leonard |
Böll, Heinrich
BILLIARDS AT HALF PAST NINE |
Book Reviews -- Modest Proposals From a Spent Book Reviewer
Like farmers who are recompensed for ungrown wheat, publishers should get an allowance for unpublished corn. New York Magazine, 1974. |
Boyle, Robert
THE HUDSON RIVER |
Buchan, John
GREENMANTLE; JOHN MACNAB; THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS; CASTLE GAY by John Buchan |
BUCKING THE SUN
by Ivan Doig |
Buckley, William F.
RACING THROUGH PARADISE A Pacific Passage. |
Budapest
CRY HUNGARY! Uprising 1956 by Reg Gadney
HUNGARY AND THE SOVIET BLOC by Charles Gati |
Budapest
Hungarian Revolution 1956 viewed 10 years later. If enough of us get killed something may happen. |
Budapest
Hungarian Revolution 1956 viewed 30 years later. |
Burgess, Anthony
THE CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT OR ENDERBY'S END |
BURTON
by Byron Farwell |
C |
CAMBERWELL BEAUTY AND OTHER STORIES, The
by V.S. Pritchett |
CANCER WARD, The
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
Cardinals
A Matter of States' rites and the Cardinal Virtues. When it comes to the choice of state birds, work-a-daddy Cardinals are practically coming in the windows. |
Carlisle, Henry
THE JONAH MAN |
CAT AND MOUSE
by Günter Grass |
CAT'S PAJAMAS & WITCH'S MILK, The
by Peter De Vries |
Chambers, Whittaker
ODYSSEY OF A FRIEND: WHITTAKER CHAMBERS' LETTERS TO WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. 1954-1961 |
CHEKHOV
by Ernest J. Simmons |
Childers, Erskine
The Irish struggle for home rule. No revolution ever produced a nobler or purer spirit. |
Christiansen, Rupert
PARIS BABYLON: The Story of the Paris Commune |
Christmas ideas for the Under Sixes
German Aircraft of the First World War
ABC Book of Early Americana by Eric Sloane
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Roosevelt Grady by Louisa R. Shotwell
Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back by Shel Silverstein Time, December 13, 1963 |
Churchill -- WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. Vol. VI: FINEST HOUR 1939-1941
by Martin Gilbert |
CITIES OF THE FLESH
by Zoe Oldenbourg |
CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
by Simon Schama |
CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT OR ENDERBY'S END, The
by Anthony Burgess |
Cold War: effect on American life
RIDING HIGH by Carl Solberg |
Cole, Hubert
LAVAL |
Collier, John
MILTON'S PARADISE LOST: A Screen Play for the Cinema of the Mind
|
Columbus -- Where Columbus Was Coming From
Europe circa 1492 was a place of savagery. |
Commune -- Paris Commune
PARIS BABYLON: The Story of the Paris Commune by Rupert Christiansen. |
COMPANY, The
by John Ehrlichman |
Connell, Jr., Evan S.
NOTES FROM A BOTTLE FOUND ON THE BEACH AT CARMEL |
CONQUEST OF LONDON and THE MIDDLE YEARS, Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES, The
by Leon Edel |
CONUNDRUM
by Jan Morris Anatomy v. Destiny. |
Craven, Margaret
I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME |
Cremin, Lawrence A.
AMERICAN EDUCATION: THE METROPOLITAN EXPERIENCE |
Criticism
MATTHEW ARNOLD - LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: Vol. III in a ten-volume series |
CRY HUNGARY! Uprising 1956
by Reg Gadney |
cummings, e.e.
Grubby Cherub. DREAMS IN THE MIRROR by Richard S. Kennedy. A biography of e.e.cummings. |
cummings, e.e.
Obituary. |
D |
DARE CALL IT TREASON
by Richard M. Watt |
de Beauvoir, Simone
THE PRIME OF LIFE |
De Gaulle, Charles
A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne. |
De Vries, Peter
INTO YOUR TENT I'LL CREEP |
De Vries, Peter
THE CAT'S PAJAMAS & WITCH'S MILK |
DECLINE OF THE WEST, The
by Oswald Spengler |
Derr, Mark
DOG'S BEST FRIEND Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship |
Detective fiction
GREENMANTLE; JOHN MACNAB; THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS; CASTLE GAY by John Buchan |
Dinesen, Isak
EHRENGARD |
DOG'S BEST FRIEND Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship
by Mark Derr |
Doig, Ivan
BUCKING THE SUN |
DREAMS IN THE MIRROR
by Richard S. Kennedy. A biography of e.e.cummings. |
Duffy, Maureen
ALL HEAVEN IN A RAGE |
Dundy, Elaine
THE OLD MAN AND ME |
Dunn, Susan
SISTER REVOLUTIONS: FRENCH LIGHTNING, AMERICAN LIGHT. |
E |
Edel, Leon
THE CONQUEST OF LONDON and THE MIDDLE YEARS, Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES |
Education
AMERICAN EDUCATION: THE METROPOLITAN EXPERIENCE by Lawrence A. Cremin |
Education
THE HARVARD CENTURY The Making of a University To a Nation by Richard Norton Smith. Is Harvard America's "de facto national university" and "an instrument of national purpose" to boot ?? |
Education
THE SCHOOLS WE DESERVE: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time.
by Diane Ravitch. The great enemy of educaton, after all, is not discipline or work or ignorance, but boredom. |
Education
Tough talk on teaching with William Bennett, then chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanitites. Educational presumptions doomed to failure |
Egan, Timothy
LASSO THE WIND Away to the New West |
EHRENGARD
by Isak Dinesen |
Ehrlichman, John
THE COMPANY |
Eisenstaedt, Alfred
On Assignment with one of the world's great photographers |
Eliot, George
GEORGE ELIOT, A BIOGRAPHY by Gordon S. Haight |
ELIZABETH APPLETON
by John O'Hara |
ENCHANTED PLACES, The
by Christopher Milne. Pooh Bear Essentials. |
Enderby, F.X.
THE CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT OR ENDERBY'S END by Anthony Burgess |
ENDING UP
by Kinsley Amis |
Engerman. Stanley L. and Robert William Fogel
TIME ON THE CROSS. Slavery reinterpreted by computers. |
English Channel -- Tapestried Tales of Two Rough Channel Crossings
Invasions of England in 1066 by the Normans and of France in 1944 by the Allies, revisited as needlework. |
EPISTLE TO A GODSON
W.H. Auden |
Espey, John
STRONG DRINK, STRONG LANGUAGE. Espey offers a mini-autobiography, some intriguing glints of pre-war China and an urbane probe into the tense, funny, mysterious inner life of a loving upperclass family. |
Eton
THE FOURTH OF JUNE by David Benedictus |
Europe circa 1492
A place of savagery when Columbus sailed to the New World. |
F |
Farwell, Byron
BURTON |
FATHER'S DAY
by John Calvin Batchelor |
Faulkner, William
THE REIVERS |
Feiffer, Jules
HARRY, THE RAT WITH WOMEN |
Feminism
Feminist books: a list of some of the best feminist books available in 1972: THE FEMALE EUNUCH by Germaine Greer; WOMAN'S PLACE by Cynthia F. Epstein; THINKING ABOUT WOMEN by Mary Ellmann; BORN FEMALE by Caroline Bird; REBIRTH OF FEMINISM by Judith Hole and Ellen Levine. |
FIFTIES, The
by David Halberstam |
FIRST CIRCLE, The
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
Fishing
Write, fish, and enjoy Shakespeare in Oregon. |
Fisk, Erma J.
A CAPE COD JOURNAL. Fisk's life as a birder. |
Fleming, Ian
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE |
FLY AND THE FLY-BOTTLE
by Ved Mehta |
Fly Fishing
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT by Norman Maclean, film adaptation by Robert Redford. |
Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman
TIME ON THE CROSS. Slavery reinterpreted by cliometricians and computers. |
Ford, Ford Maddox
THE SADDEST STORY by Arthur Mizener |
FOURTH OF JUNE, The
by David Benedictus. Eton choler. |
Fox, Michael
THE SOUL OF THE WOLF |
France
A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne. |
French Photographic Pioneers -- An Exhibition in New York.
Time, February 16, 1981 |
French Revolution
CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ?? |
French Revolution
SISTER REVOLUTIONS: FRENCH LIGHTNING, AMERICAN LIGHT by Susan Dunn |
French Smile
A nationwide contest to promote tourist goodwill in France, 1965. |
French Writers
La Nouvelle Vague - Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraulte, Michel Butor, Claude Mauriac, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, Marc Saporta, etc. 1962. |
Friends Seminary
Timothy Foote,'44, a student at New York Friends during World War II, invokes a line-up of teachers -- Hinman, Hunter, Reede and Wilcox -- who could have made any school great. |
Frog Prince
Look out! Disenchantment when he reverts to his true self. |
FROM THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT
by Mavis Gallant |
G |
Gadney, Reg
CRY HUNGARY! Uprising 1956 |
Gallant, Mavis
FROM THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT |
Gardner, John
THE SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES |
Gardner, John
GRENDEL |
Gardner, John
NICKEL MOUNTAIN |
Gati, Charles
HUNGARY AND THE SOVIET BLOC |
Genet, Jean
OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS |
GEORGE ELIOT, A BIOGRAPHY
by Gordon S. Haight. |
German Writers post WWII
The Guilt of the Lambs: THE TIN DRUM
by Günter Grass; BILLIARDS AT HALF PAST NINE
by Heinrich Böll; SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB and THE THIRD BOOK ABOUT ACHIM
by Uwe Johnson. |
Gibraltar
The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1790. |
Gilbert, Martin
THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A COMPLETE HISTORY |
Gilbert, Martin
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. Vol. VI: FINEST HOUR 1939-1941 |
GIRLS, The
by Henri de Montherlant |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
ITALIAN JOURNEY translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer |
Goldberg, Vicki
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE |
GOLDEN FRUITS, The
by Nathalie Sarraute |
Golden Receiver
Sports afield with a Golden Receiver. Man and dog romp in Washington's Rock Creek Park. |
Golden Retriever
Getting a real grip on the news. Dog says goodbye to the New York Times and scorns the Washington Post. |
Golding, William
THE SPIRE |
Goldman, Eric F.
THE TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON |
Gooney Birds
Albatrosses (400,000) on Midway. |
Gover, Robert
ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR MISUNDERSTANDING |
GOY, The
by Mark Harris |
Grass, Günter
CAT AND MOUSE |
Grass, Günter
THE TIN DRUM |
Gray, Francine du Plessix
LOVERS AND TYRANTS |
Greene, Graham
A SORT OF LIFE. |
Greene, Graham
THE HONORARY CONSUL. |
GRENDEL
by John Gardner |
GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOL I, The
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney. |
H |
Hadrian's Wall.
Stones at the edge of the civilized world which separated the barbarias from the Romans |
Haight, Gordon S.
GEORGE ELIOT, A BIOGRAPHY |
HAIL TO THE CHIEFS: How to Tell Your Polks From Your Tylers
by Barbara Holland |
Halberstam, David
THE FIFTIES |
Hares
To generations of male English field observers nothing seemed more evident than that .. March was the big mating month for Lepus europaeus, the English hare, and that the pugilists were males fighting males over females. |
Harris, Mark
THE GOY |
HARRY, THE RAT WITH WOMEN
by Jules Feiffer |
Harvard -- The Trouble with Harvard
A great ocean liner without a rudder! |
HARVARD CENTURY: The Making of a University To a Nation, The
by Richard Norton Smith |
Harvard
THE HARVARD CENTURY The Making of a University To a Nation by Richard Norton Smith. Is Harvard America's "de facto national university" and "an instrument of national purpose" to boot ?? |
HAT ON THE BED, The
by John O'Hara |
Hemingway, Ernest
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM |
HERETICS, The
by Walter Nigg. Theology's underground. |
Hess, Rudolf
THE UNINVITED ENVOY by James Leaser |
Hillaby, John
JOURNEY HOME: A WALK ABOUT ENGLAND |
Hillerman, Tony
SELDOM DISAPPOINTED: A Memoir |
Hillerman, Tony
TALKING GOD |
Historians: Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and Vernon L. Parrington
THE PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS by Richard Hofstadter |
History -- How do you hang onto the Past?
CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama
THE LAST OF THE FATHERS, JAMES MADISON AND THE REPUBLICAN LEGACY
by Drew McCoy.
WITNESS TO THE YOUNG REPUBLIC: A YANKEE'S JOURNAL by Benjamin Brown French.
GOD GAVE US THIS COUNTRY by Bill Gilbert.
THE LONG GRAY LINE by Rick Atkinson.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A COMPLETE HISTORY by Martin Gilbert.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR by John Keegan.
THE BORROWED YEARS, 1939 TO 1941 by Richard M. Ketchum.
THE GRAVE OF ALICE B. TOKLAS AND OTHER REPORTS FROM THE PAST by Otto Friedrich. |
Hofstadter, Richard
AMERICAN VIOLENCE, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY |
Hofstadter, Richard
THE PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS |
Holland, Barbara
HAIL TO THE CHIEFS: How to Tell Your Polks From Your Tylers |
HOME IS THE SAILOR
by Jorge Amado |
HONORARY CONSUL, The
by Greene, Graham. |
Horne, Alistair
A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA 1954-1962 |
Hough, Henry Beetle
To the Harbor Light |
HOW IT IS
by Samuel Beckett |
HUDSON RIVER, The
by Robert H. Boyle |
Hughes, Emmet John
THE LIVING PRESIDENCY |
Hungarian Revolution 1956
Viewed 10 years later. |
Hungarian Revolution 1956
Viewed 30 years later. |
Hungary
CRY HUNGARY! Uprising 1956 by Reg Gadney
HUNGARY AND THE SOVIET BLOC by Charles Gati |
Hunter, Jim
A PLACE OF STONE |
I |
I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME
by Margaret Craven |
Ids of March, The
To generations of male English field observers nothing seemed more evident than that .. March was the big mating month for Lepus europaeus, the English hare, and that the pugilists were males fighting males over females. |
IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY, The
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
INTO YOUR TENT I'LL CREEP
by Peter De Vries |
Invasions
England in 1066 by the Normans and France in 1944 by the Allies, revisited as tapestries. |
Irish struggle for home rule
Erskine Childers |
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
by Ernest Hemingway |
IT WASN'T PRETTY, FOLKS, BUT DIDN'T WE HAVE FUN? Esquire in the Sixties
by Carol Polsgrove |
ITALIAN JOURNEY
by J. W. Goethe translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer |
J |
James, Henry
THE CONQUEST OF LONDON and THE MIDDLE YEARS, Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES by Leon Edel |
JEFFERSON'S MOOSE -- AND OTHER STORIES
An address given by Timothy Foote on the occasion of his retirement from Smithsonian Magazine on January 22, 1999. |
JEWEL IN THE CROWN, The
by Paul Scott |
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL
by Richard Bach |
JOHN KEATS
by Walter Jackson Bate, Harvard University Press.
by Aileen Ward, Viking. |
Johnson, Lyndon
THE TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON by Eric F. Goldman |
Johnson, Uwe
SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB and THE THIRD BOOK ABOUT ACHIM |
JONAH MAN, The
by Henry Carlisle |
JOURNEY HOME: A WALK ABOUT ENGLAND
Hillaby, John |
K |
Keats
JOHN KEATS by Aileen Ward |
Keats
JOHN KEATS by Walter Jackson Bate |
Kee, Robert
THE LAUREL AND THE IVY: THE STORY OF CHARLES STEWART PARNELL AND IRISH NATIONALISM. |
Kennedy, Richard S.
DREAMS IN THE MIRROR. A biography of e.e.cummings. |
Khruschev, Nikita
Khruschev's visit to Yugoslavia in 1955. |
Kipling, Rudyard
Making a comeback, Oh Best Beloved, fifty years on. |
L |
Languth, A.J.
SAKI: A LIFE OF HECTOR HUGH MUNRO
|
LASSO THE WIND Away to the New West
by Timothy Egan. |
LAUREL AND THE IVY, The
The Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism by Robert Kee. |
LAVAL
by Hubert Cole |
Le Carré, John
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD |
Le Carré, John
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY |
Leaser, James
THE UNINVITED ENVOY |
Leonard, John
BLACK CONCEIT |
Lessing, Doris
THE SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK |
Levron, Jacques
POMPADOUR |
Lewis, W.H.
THE SUNSET OF THE SPLENDID CENTURY |
Leyden -- The Siege of Leyden
How the Netherlands escaped the grip of Catholic Spain and the Holy Roman Empire in 1518. |
LIFE AND TIMES OF HORATIO HORNBLOWER, The
by C. Northcote Parkinson. |
LIFE BEFORE MAN
by Margaret Atwood. |
LIFE Photographers: What They saw, The
-- editor John Loengard
review by Timothy Foote, October 6, 2010 |
LIVING PRESIDENCY, The
by Emmet John Hughes |
Loengard, John, editor
LIFE Photographers: What They saw, The
review by Timothy Foote, October 6, 2010 |
Loeser, Katinka
TOMORROW WILL BE MONDAY |
Louis XIV
THE SUNSET OF THE SPLENDID CENTURY by W. H. Lewis |
LOVERS AND TYRANTS
by Francine du Plessix Gray |
LUCE AND HIS EMPIRE
by W.A.SwanberG. A hostile biography of Henry Luce. |
M |
Maclean, Norman
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT. Film adaptation by Robert Redford |
Madison, James
After more than two centuries, this may be Mr. Madison's year. |
Madison, James
What if, back in 1788, we hadn't ratified Mr. Madison's constitution? |
Malcolm X
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X with the assistance of Alex Haley.THE SPEECHES OF MALCOLM X AT HARVARD edited by Archie Epps.MALCOLM X, THE MAN AND HIS TIMES edited by John Henrik Clarke. |
Malin
The Importance (to the French) of Being Malin. |
Manceron, Claude
THE WIND FROM AMERICA, translated by Nancy Amphoux. |
Mannix, Daniel P.
BLACK CARGOES |
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
by Vicki Goldberg |
MARRY ME
by John Updike |
Mason, John T. (editor)
THE PACIFIC WAR REMEMBERED: An Oral History Collection. |
MATTHEW ARNOLD - LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: Vol. III in a ten-volume series
edited by R.H. Super |
McMahen, Thomas
McKay's Bees |
McMurtry, Larry
ROADS Driving America's Great Highways |
McNamee, Thomas
THE RETURN OF THE WOLF TO YELLOWSTONE |
Mehta, Ved
FLY AND THE FLY-BOTTLE |
MEN AND ANGELS
by Theodora Ward |
Midway Atoll
Where the Gooney Birds are. 400.000 albatros pairs nest on Midway Atoll. |
Millenium
An excuse to make 1,000-year leaps backward into history. |
Miller, Henry
TROPIC OF CAPRICORN |
Milne, Christopher
THE ENCHANTED PLACES. Pooh Bear Essentials. |
MILTON'S PARADISE LOST: A Screen Play for the Cinema of the Mind
by John Collier |
Mizener, Arthur
THE SADDEST STORY |
Mojtabai, A.G.
MUNDOME |
Montherlant, Henri de
THE GIRLS |
Morgan, Marabel
TOTAL WOMAN 1973 and TOTAL JOY 1977. |
Morris, Jan
CONUNDRUM. Anatomy v. Destiny. |
Mugging
Be Kind to Your Mugger: Hand thrust forward in his jacket pocket, the first figure said. "Gimme your money or I'll cut you." Except for an instant when his breath came short, the householder did not feel afraid. Or angry. Time, February 21, 1983. |
MUNDOME
by A.G. Mojtabai |
Munro, Hector Hugh
SAKI: A LIFE OF HECTOR HUGH MUNRO by A.J. Langguth |
N |
Nazi Guilt
Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Billiards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Böll
Speculations About Jakob and The Third Book About Achim by Uwe Johnson |
Neoconservatism
THE NEOCONSERVATIVES by Peter Steinfels |
NEOCONSERVATIVES, The
by Peter Steinfels |
Neo-Realists, The
La Nouvelle Vague - Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraulte, Michel Butor, Claude Mauriac, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, Marc Saporta, etc. 1962. |
New Housewife Blues, The
TOTAL WOMAN 1973 and TOTAL JOY 1977 by Marabel Morgan. |
NICKEL MOUNTAIN
by John Gardner |
Nigg, Walter
THE HERETICS. |
NOTES FROM A BOTTLE FOUND ON THE BEACH AT CARMEL
by Evan S. Connell, Jr. |
NUREMBERG AND VIETNAM: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
by Telford Taylor |
O |
ODYSSEY OF A FRIEND: WHITTAKER CHAMBERS' LETTERS TO WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. 1954-1961 |
O'Hara, John
ELIZABETH APPLETON |
O'Hara, John
THE HAT ON THE BED |
OLD ACQUAINTANCE
by David Stacton |
OLD MAN AND ME, The
by Elaine Dundy |
Oldenbourg, Zoe
CITIES OF THE FLESH |
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
by Ian Fleming |
O'Nan, Stewart
A WORLD AWAY |
ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR MISUNDERSTANDING
by Robert Gover |
Operation Sail
Aboard the Topsail Schooner Juan Sebastian de Elcano |
OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS
by Jean Genet |
P |
PACIFIC WAR REMEMBERED: An Oral History Collection, The
by John T. Mason (editor) |
PARADISE LOST: A Screen Play for the Cinema of the Mind
by John Collier |
PARIS BABYLON: The Story of the Paris Commune
by Rupert Chirstiansen |
Parkinson, C. Northcote
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HORATIO HORNBLOWER |
Peacocks
And how they grew prideful in medieval Europe. Casting some reflections upon the peacock's "I." |
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
by David Stacton |
Pesetsky, Bette
AUTHOR FROM A SAVAGE PEOPLE |
PETTY DEMON, The
by Fyodor Sologub |
Photographers: What They saw, The, LIFE
-- editor John Loengard
review by Timothy Foote, October 6, 2010 |
Photographic Pioneers from France -- An Exhibition in New York.
Time, February 16, 1981. |
Photography
Alfred Eisenstaedt |
Photography
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE by Vicki Goldberg |
Pit bull wars
How trainer Vicki Hearne saved Bandit from the coils of the law. |
Pocketa Pocketa School, The
With other machines also turning to the muse, there is the chance of a whole new school of poetry growing up. |
Poets
In the opening address at the National Poetry Festival in Washington (the first in U.S. history), Randall Jarrell surveyed American poetry and the poets of this century and delivered himself of some tart judgments. Time, November 9, 1962. |
Poets
SELECTED POEMS by John Crowe Ransom |
Polsgrove, Carol
IT WASN'T PRETTY, FOLKS, BUT DIDN'T WE HAVE FUN? Esquire in the Sixties |
POMPADOUR
by Jacques Levron |
Potter, Beatrix
A tale of some tails, and the story of their shy creator. |
PRIME OF LIFE, The
by Simone de Beauvoir |
Pritchett, V.S.
THE CAMBERWELL BEAUTY AND OTHER STORIES |
PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS, The
by Richard Hofstadter |
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RACING THROUGH PARADISE A Pacific Passage.
By William F. Buckley Jr. |
RADICAL CHIC AND MAU-MAUING THE FLAK CATCHERS
by Tom Wolfe |
Rankin, Hugh
REBELS AND REDCOATS |
Ransom, John Crowe
SELECTED POEMS |
Ravitch, Diane
THE SCHOOLS WE DESERVE: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time. |
REBELS AND REDCOATS
by Hugh Rankin and George Scheer |
Redford, Robert
Film adaptation of A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT by Norman Maclean |
REIVERS, The
by William Faulkner |
RETURN OF THE WOLF TO YELLOWSTONE, The
by Thomas McNamee. |
Reviews
Modest Proposals From a Spent Book Reviewer: Like farmers who are recompensed for ungrown wheat, publishers should get an allowance for unpublished corn. New York Magazine, 1974. |
Revolution -- French Revolution
CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama. |
RIDING HIGH
by Carl Solberg |
RIGHT STUFF, The
by Tom Wolfe. The Hardy Boys in outer space. |
ROADS Driving America's Great Highways
by Larry McMurtry |
Roth, Hal
WE FOLLOWED ODYSSEUS |
Russian Writers post WWII
After Silence, Human Voices: Fedor Abramov, Vladimir Dudintsev (Not By Bread Alone) Vasily Aksenov (Ticket to the Stars) Yuri Kazakov (Going to Town) Vladimir Maximov (A Man Survives) plus poets Evgeny Evtushencko and Andrei Voznesensky. |
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SADDEST STORY, The
by Arthur Mizener |
Sailing
Operation Sail Aboard the Topsail Schooner Juan Sebastian de Elcano |
Sailing
The 1977 America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery. |
SAINT GENET
by Jean-Paul Sartre |
SAKI: A LIFE OF HECTOR HUGH MUNRO
by A.J. Langguth |
Sark
An English island just off the coast of France. |
Sarraute, Nathalie
THE GOLDEN FRUITS |
Sartre, Jean-Paul
SAINT GENET |
Schama, Simon
CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. |
Scheer, George
REBELS AND REDCOATS |
Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M.
THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY |
Schools -- THE SCHOOLS WE DESERVE: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time
by Diane Ravitch |
Schools
AMERICAN EDUCATION: THE METROPOLITAN EXPERIENCE by Lawrence A. Cremin |
Schwartz, Marion
A HISTORY OF DOGS IN THE EARLY AMERICAS |
Scott, Paul
THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN |
Second World War -- THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A COMPLETE HISTORY
by Martin Gilbert |
Seige -- The Seige of Gibraltar
The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1790. |
Seige -- The Siege of Leyden
How the Netherlands escaped the grip of Catholic Spain and the Holy Roman Empire in 1518. |
SELDOM DISAPPOINTED: A Memoir
by Tony Hillerman |
SELECTED POEMS
by John Crowe Ransom |
Sex and Tennis
Why couples maybe shouldn't play mixed doubles. |
Sheepdog trials: freewill vs obedience
A good dog knows what to do. |
SILMARILLION, The
by J.R.R. Tolkien. Middle-Earth Genesis. |
Simenon, Georges
THE BELLS OF BICèTRE |
Simmons, Ernest J.
CHEKHOV |
SISTER REVOLUTIONS: FRENCH LIGHTNING, AMERICAN LIGHT
by Susan Dunn. |
Slave trade
BLACK CARGOES by Daniel P. Mannix with Malcolm Cowley |
Slavery reinterpreted by computers
TIME ON THE CROSS by cliometricians Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. |
Sloops
The 1977 America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery. |
Smile -- The French Smile
The French Smile. A nationwide contest to promote tourist goodwill in France, 1965. |
Smith, Richard Norton
THE HARVARD CENTURY The Making of a University To a Nation |
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, The
Gore Vidal. |
Solberg, Carl
RIDING HIGH |
Sologub, Fyodor
THE PETTY DEMON |
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
AUGUST 1914 |
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
THE CANCER WARD |
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
THE FIRST CIRCLE |
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOL I (translated by Thomas P. Whitney) and LETTER TO THE SOVIET LEADERS (translated by Hilary Steinberg). |
SOUL OF THE WOLF, The
by Michael Fox |
Sourire -- Opération Sourire
The French Smile. A nationwide contest to promote tourist goodwill in France, 1965. |
Soviet -- LETTER TO THE SOVIET LEADERS
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Hilary Steinberg. |
Soviet Bloc -- HUNGARY AND THE SOVIET BLOC
by Charles Gati |
SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB
by Uwe Johnson |
Spengler, Oswald
THE DECLINE OF THE WEST
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SPIRE, The
by William Golding |
SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, The
by John Le Carré |
Stacton, David
OLD ACQUAINTANCE |
Stacton, David
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK |
Steegmuller, Francis
APOLLINAIRE |
Steinfels, Peter
THE NEOCONSERVATIVES |
STRONG DRINK, STRONG LANGUAGE
by John Espey. Espey offers a mini-autobiography, some intriguing glints of pre-war China and an urbane probe into the tense, funny, mysterious inner life of a loving upperclass family. |
Submarine
A one-man submarine that can be run by just about anybody, dive safely to 250 ft., and stay submerged for an hour. |
Suicide
Four books about suicide: In a Darkness by James A. Wechsler; The Savage God
by A. Alvarez; Suicide by Jacques Choron; Understanding and Counseling the Suicidal Person by Paul W. Pretzel. |
SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK, The
by Doris Lessing |
SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES, The
by John Garndner |
SUNSET OF THE SPLENDID CENTURY, The
by W. H. Lewis |
Super, R.H. editor
MATTHEW ARNOLD - LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: Vol. III in a ten-volume series |
Swanberg, W.A.
LUCE AND HIS EMPIRE. A hostile biogaphy of Henry Luce. |
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TALKING GOD
-- by Tony Hillerman |
Tapestries -- Tapestried Tales of Two Rough Channel Crossings
Invasions of England in 1066 by the Normans, and of France in 1944 by the Allies. Revisited as needlework. |
Taylor, Telford
NUREMBERG AND VIETNAM: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY |
Teaching
Tough talk with William Bennett, then chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanitites. Educational presumptions doomed to failure. |
Tennis -- Sex and Tennis
Why couples maybe shouldn't play mixed doubles. |
THANK YOU, FOG
W.H. Auden |
THEOPHILUS NORTH
by Thornton Wilder |
THIRD BOOK ABOUT ACHIM, The
by Uwe Johnson |
TIME ON THE CROSS
by cliometricians Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. Massa's in de cold, cold computer. |
Time-Life Books
THE BEST OF LIFE |
TIN DRUM, The
by Günter Grass |
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
by John Le Carré |
TO THE FINLAND STATION
by Edmund Wilson |
TO THE HARBOR LIGHT
by Henry Beele Hough |
Tolkien, J..R.R.
THE SILMARILLION. |
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Obituary. |
TOMORROW WILL BE MONDAY
by Katinka Loeser |
TOTAL WOMAN 1973 AND TOTAL WOMAN 1977
1973, by Marabel Morgan. |
TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON, The
by Eric F. Goldman |
TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
by Henry Miller |
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UNINVITED ENVOY, The
by James Leaser |
Updike, John
MARRY ME |
US Constitution
After more than two centuries, this may be Mr. Madison's year. |
US Constitution
What if, back in 1788, we hadn't ratified Mr. Madison's Constitution? |
US territorial expansion in the middle of the 19th century
The way we were - and the way we went. 1846. |
Uses of Disenchantment, The
When a frog prince reverts to his true self, look out! |
V |
Vidal, Gore
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . |
Violence
AMERICAN VIOLENCE, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY by Richard Hofstadter and Michael Wallace |
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Walking
JOURNEY HOME: A WALK ABOUT ENGLAND by John Hillaby. |
Wallace, Michael
AMERICAN VIOLENCE, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY |
Ward, Aileen
JOHN KEATS |
Ward, Theodora
MEN AND ANGELS |
Washington, George
Washington Slept Here. A Look at the first President's “Best Bed” leads to a recollection of the real man and his exemplary life. |
Watergate
THE COMPANY by John Ehrlichman |
Watt, Richard M.
DARE CALL IT TREASON |
WE FOLLOWED ODYSSEUS
by Hal Roth |
Wellesley Remembered
Reminescences of a Harvard man !! |
Wilder, Thornton
THEOPHILUS NORTH |
Wilson, Edmund
TO THE FINLAND STATION |
WIND FROM AMERICA, The
by Claude Manceron, translated by Nancy Amphoux. |
WINDS OF WAR, The
by Herman Wouk |
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. Vol. VI: FINEST HOUR 1939-1941
by Martin Gilbert |
Wolfe, Tom
THE RIGHT STUFF. |
Wolfe, Tom
RADICAL CHIC AND MAU-MAUING THE FLAK CATCHERS |
WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE, The
by Joan Aiken |
Wolves
THE RETURN OF THE WOLF TO YELLOWSTONE by Thomas McNamee |
Wolves
THE SOUL OF THE WOLF by Michael Fox |
Wouk, Herman
THE WINDS OF WAR
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Y2K -- Forget Y2K
The millenium. An excuse to make 1,000-year leaps backward into history. |
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