Michael Wood
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
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April 17, 2008: The Passionate Egoist
The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters by Malcolm Lowry, edited by Michael Hofmann
June 14, 2007: The Power of the Prickly Pear
The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero
November 2, 2006: The Far Side of Fiction
A Temple of Texts by William H. Gass
The Tunnel: An Audio Book by William H. Gass, read by William H. Gass
December 15, 2005: Parables of a Violent World
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader edited by Larry McCaffery and Michael Hemmingson
February 24, 2005: Don't Cry for Me, Guatemala
The Divine Husband by Francisco Goldman
November 4, 2004: Taking Reality by Surprise
The Dreamers a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
Godard: Portrait of the Artist at Seventy by Colin MacCabe
Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael by Frances Davis
June 12, 2003: Experience's Ghosts
The Story of Our Lives, with The Monument and The Late Hour by Mark Strand
Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti, and Songs from the Quechua translated by Mark Strand
July 18, 2002: Master Among the Ruins
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis,translated from the Portugueseby Gregory Rabassa
Quincas Borba by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa
Esau and Jacob by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe
Dom Casmurro by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson
Machado de Assis: Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer edited by Richard Graham
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis by Roberto Schwarz, translated from the Portuguese and with an introduction by John Gledson
March 14, 2002: Girls with Green Hair
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende,translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
Leaving Tabasco by Carmen Boullosa, translated from the Spanish by Geoff Hargreaves
Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire by José Manuel Prieto,translated from the Spanish by Carol and Thomas Christensen
Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo, translated from the Spanish by Paul Hammond
September 20, 2001: Dog Days
Amores Perros a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, written by Guillermo Arriaga
June 21, 2001: Nabokov on the Wing
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov–Wilson Letters, 1940–1971 edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Simon Karlinsky
Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates
Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, with new translations from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov
Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) Stacy Schiff
March 9, 2000: Eyes Wide Open
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino, Translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin
December 2, 1999: Keeping the Reader Alive
Remembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic, and Teacher Randall Jarrell by Mary von Schrader Jarrell
No Other Book: Selected Essays by Randall Jarrell, edited and with an introduction by Brad Leithauser
June 24, 1999: Tight Little Island
The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst
England, England by Julian Barnes
February 18, 1999: The Art of Losing
Evening by Susan Minot
Model Behavior by Jay McInerney
The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine
July 16, 1998: On the Love Boat
Identity by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman
A Lover's Almanac by Maureen Howard
The Red Hat by John Bayley
March 26, 1998: Revisiting Lolita
Lolita a film directed by Adrian Lyne
November 20, 1997: Looking Good
Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood by Todd McCarthy
Who the Devil Made It by Peter Bogdanovich
The Big Sleep by David Thomson
Howard Hawks American Artist edited by Jim Hillier, by Peter Wollen
September 25, 1997: Monsieur Verdoux in Color (letter)
July 17, 1997: Perseverance to the Point of Madness
Charlie Chaplin and His Times by Kenneth S. Lynn
Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin by Joyce Milton
March 6, 1997: Hollywood: Money That Dreams Can't Buy
Monster: Living Off the Big Screen by John Gregory Dunne
November 28, 1996: The Lying Game
The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré
October 17, 1996: Other People's Wives
John's Wife by Robert Coover
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
June 20, 1996: Up to the Minutiae
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker
May 9, 1996: Terror in the Mountains
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman
March 21, 1996: The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Postman (II Postino) a film directed by Michael Radford
The Postman by Antonio Skármeta, translated by Katherine Silver
February 29, 1996: God's Country
In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike
December 21, 1995: Sleepless Nights
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
October 19, 1995: Horror of Horrors
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne a film directed by Taylor Hackford
Rose Madder by Stephen King
May 11, 1995: Stumbles and Mumbles
Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando, by Robert Lindsey
Brando: The Biography by Peter Manso
Don Juan DeMarco a film written and directed by Jeremy Leven
December 1, 1994: Free of the Bad Old World
None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer
Rereading Nadine Gordimer by Kathrin Wagner
July 14, 1994: Agile Among the Tombs
The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino, translated by Tim Parks
Prima che tu dica 'Pronto' by Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
March 3, 1994: Lost Paradises
Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said
May 27, 1993: Outside the Shady Octopus Saloon
Hotel Lautréamont by John Ashbery
The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
November 19, 1992: Life Studies
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
July 16, 1992: Austere Fireworks
Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Federico García Lorca, edited by Christopher Maurer
Four Puppet Plays, 'Play Without a Title,' The Divan Poems and Other Poems, Prose Poems and Dramatic Pieces by Federico García Lorca, translated by Edwin Honig
Line of Light and Shadow: The Drawings of Federico García Lorca by Mario Hernández, translated by Christopher Maurer
The House of Bernarda Alba a film directed by Nuria Espert, by Stuart Burge, produced by Holmes for Channel 4
March 26, 1992: Easy Living
High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney
October 24, 1991: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Alfred Mac Adam
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero
March 7, 1991: No Sorrow Left Unturned
The Palace of the White Skunks by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Andrew Hurley
Old Rosa by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Ann Tashi Slater, by Andrew Hurley
February 15, 1990: Bleistein and Mr. Eliot
T.S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks
October 13, 1988: The Genius of San Jerónimo
A Sor Juana Anthology translated by Alan S. Trueblood, foreword by Octavio Paz
Sor Juana: or, The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
April 28, 1988: Heartsick
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
October 22, 1987: Tight Little Island
Coasting by Jonathan Raban
May 7, 1987: No Success Like Failure
Selected Essays of R.P. Blackmur edited and with an introduction by Denis Donoghue
Wayward Skeptic: The Theories of R.P. Blackmur by James T. Jones
March 27, 1986: Broken Blossoms
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Alfred MacAdam
Farewell to the Sea by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Andrew Hurley
July 18, 1985: Ah, the Fredonna Tree
A Certain Lucas by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden by Heberto Padilla, translated by Andrew Hurley
A House in the Country by José Donoso, translated by David Pritchard, by Suzanne Jill Levine
February 28, 1985: The Backlands Rebellion
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane
December 6, 1984: A Traveling Man
D.W. Griffith: An American Life by Richard Schickel
August 16, 1984: Haunted Places
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
Waterland by Graham Swift
June 28, 1984: Odor and Ardor
Infante's Inferno by G. Cabrera Infante, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine with the author
April 26, 1984: The Love Songs of Alfred J. Hitchcock
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto
Hitchcock by Bruno Villien
November 10, 1983: Farewell Buñuel
My Last Sigh by Luis Buñuel, translated by Abigail Israel
December 2, 1982: Beautiful and Damned
Baudelaire the Damned: A Biography by F.W.J. Hemmings
Baudelaire's Literary Criticism by Rosemary Lloyd
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Richard Howard
June 10, 1982: Living Nightmares
Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Films by John Simon
Fritz Lang in America fall) by Peter Bogdanovich
Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride
Polanski: The Filmmaker as Voyeur, a Biography by Barbara Leaming
May 27, 1982: Fun in the Waste Land
Looking for Laforgue: An Informal Biography by David Arkell
March 4, 1982: Challenge (letter)
January 21, 1982: One Mo' Time
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage by Stanley Cavell
October 22, 1981: In the Latino Americano Mirror
Macho Camacho's Beat by Luis Rafael Sánchez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Emperor of the Amazon by Márcio Souza, translated by Thomas Colchie
Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sábato, translated by Helen R. Lane
August 13, 1981: It's the Argument (letter)
April 30, 1981: Comedy of Ignorance
Rockaby and Other Short Pieces by Samuel Beckett
Company by Samuel Beckett
Just Play: Beckett's Theater by Ruby Cohn
Frescoes of the Skull: The Later Prose and Drama of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson, by John Pilling
Beckett and the Voice of Species: A Study of the Prose Fiction by Eric P. Levy
March 19, 1981: In the Museum of Strangeness
The Autobiography of Surrealism edited by Marcel Jean
From Enchantment to Rage: The Story of Surrealist Cinema by Steven Kovács
December 4, 1980: Children of Paradise
Theater and Revolution: The Culture of the French Stage by Frederick Brown
May 15, 1980: Taking Brecht's Measure
Brecht: A Biography by Klaus Völker, translated by John Howell
Poems 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett, edited by Ralph Manheim, with the cooperation of Erich Fried
Diaries 1920-1922 by Bertolt Brecht, edited by Herta Ramthun, translated by John Willett
April 17, 1980: The Great Game
A Night of Serious Drinking by René Daumal, translated by David Coward, by E.A. Lovatt
January 24, 1980: The Claims of Mischief
The Buenos Aires Affair by Manuel Puig, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, translated by Thomas Colchie
In Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Kolovakos, by Ronald Christ
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Kolovakos, by Ronald Christ
November 8, 1979: Harking and Barking
On Not Being Good Enough: Writings of a Working Critic by Roger Sale
Celebrations and Attacks: Thirty Years of Literary and Cultural Commentary by Irving Howe
The Good Word and Other Words by Wilfrid Sheed
October 11, 1979: Bangs and Whimpers
Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Coppola
May 31, 1979: Forbidden Fruit
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille, translated by Harry Mathews
May 3, 1979: Memorial for F.W. Dupee (letter)
March 8, 1979: Vulgar Marxism
Groucho by Hector Arce
January 25, 1979: 'This is not the end of the world'
The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard
The Best American Short Stories 1978 edited by Ted Solotaroff, edited by Shannon Ravenel
I, etcetera by Susan Sontag
December 21, 1978: The Insulted and the Injured
César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence by Jean Franco
Poesía completa by César Vallejo
Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz, translated by W. S. Merwin
"Harsh World" and Other Poems by Angel González, translated by Donald D. Walsh
Muestra by Angel González
October 12, 1978: The Not So Light Fantastic
Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
A Manual for Manuel by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa
June 29, 1978: Allen's Alley
On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy by Eric Lax
Woody Allen: A Biography by Lee Guthrie
Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam edited by Richard J. Anobile
Non-Being and Somethingness: Selections from the Comic Strip Inside Woody Allen drawn by Stuart Hample
June 1, 1978: Calculated Risks
Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems by John Hollander
A Call in the Midst of the Crowd by Alfred Corn
The Selected Poems: 1951-1977 by A. R. Ammons
April 20, 1978: What Joyce Meant (letter)
April 20, 1978: Nothing Sacred
Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
The World According to Garp by John Irving
An American Romance by John Casey
April 6, 1978: Separating the Chypre from the Ghosts
Eastward Ha! by S.J. Perelman
March 9, 1978: Joyce's Influenza (letter)
February 23, 1978: Buñuel's Private Lessons
That Obscure Object of Desire a film directed by Luis Buñuel
December 8, 1977: Molière in New York
Tartuffe by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur, directed by Stephen Porter
The Misanthrope by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur, directed by Bill Gile
The Learned Ladies by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur
November 24, 1977: The Lorca Murder Case
García Lorca: Playwright and Poet by Mildred Adams
García Lorca, Asesinado: Toda la verdad by José Luis Vila-San-Juan
Federico García Lorca: Murder in Granada directed by Humberto Lopez y Guerra
October 13, 1977: Joyce's Influenza
James Joyce in Padua edited by Louis Berrone
Afterjoyce: Studies in Fiction After Ulysses by Robert Martin Adams
"In the wake of the Wake" edited by Elliott Anderson, edited by David Hayman
The Consciousness of Joyce by Richard Ellmann
September 15, 1977: A Heavy Legacy
Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith
The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood
August 4, 1977: Writing from a Deceptive Continent
The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature selected and edited by Emir Rodríguez Monegal, with the assistance of Thomas Colchie
The Boom in Spanish American Literature Inter-American Relations by José Donoso, translated by Gregory Kolovakos
June 23, 1977: Play It Again, Franz
Nonsense and Happiness by Peter Handke, translated by Michael Roloff
A Moment of True Feeling by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim
Three by Peter Handke by Peter Handke
June 9, 1977: RSVP
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
May 12, 1977: Fortune Hunting
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel
The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright
April 14, 1977: A Fine Romance
The Secular Scripture by Northrop Frye
Spiritus Mundi by Northrop Frye
The Uses of Division by John Bayley
The Sovereign Ghost by Denis Donoghue
March 3, 1977: Deconstructing Derrida
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Glas by Jacques Derrida
January 20, 1977: The Not-So-Light Fantastic
Falstaff by Robert Nye
October Light by John Gardner
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
December 9, 1976: Unhappy Dictators
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Reasons of State by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Frances Partridge
November 11, 1976: Endangered Species
The Takeover by Muriel Spark
Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys
Lovers and Tyrants by Francine du Plessix Gray
September 30, 1976: The Ladies Vanish
The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore
Triptych by Claude Simon, translated by Helen R. Lane
Beard's Roman Women by Anthony Burgess, with photographs by David Robinson
Moses: A Narrative by Anthony Burgess
August 5, 1976: The Wild Blue Yonder
On Being Blue by William Gass
The Franchiser by Stanley Elkin
July 15, 1976: Hi ho, Silver!
Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western by Will Wright
The Missouri Breaks directed by Arthur Penn
Buffalo Bill and the Indians directed by Robert Altman
June 24, 1976: Hitchcock Laughs
The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock by Raymond Durgnat
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Robert A. Harris, by Michael S. Lasky
Family Plot directed by Alfred Hitchcock
June 10, 1976: Eliot's English Usage (letter)
June 10, 1976: Crying for Attention
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
The 400 Eels of Sigmund Freud by A.G. Mojtabai
The Comatose Kids by Seymour Simckes
The Geek by Craig Nova
May 13, 1976: The Struggles of T.S. Eliot
The Overwhelming Question: A Study of the Poetry of T. S. Eliot by Balachandra Rajan
Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot edited with an introduction by Frank Kermode
The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change by Frank Kermode
T. S. Eliot by Stephen Spender
April 29, 1976: Passions in Politics
1876 by Gore Vidal
April 1, 1976: Heroine Addiction
Literary Women by Ellen Moers
March 18, 1976: All Mixed Up
Seven Beauties directed by Lina Wertmüller
Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August directed by Lina Wertmüller
All Screwed Up directed by Lina Wertmüller
March 4, 1976: Rules of the Game
Sade, Fourier, Loyola by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller
The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller
L'Empire des signes by Roland Barthes
S/Z by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
February 5, 1976: "No, but I read the book."
Barry Lyndon directed by Stanley Kubrick
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest directed by Miloš Forman
The Story of Adèle H directed by François Truffaut
November 27, 1975: Greatness and Melancholy
George Eliot: the Emergent Self by Ruby V. Redinger
Young Thomas Hardy by Robert Gittings
November 13, 1975: Busy Work (letter)
October 2, 1975: Coffee Break for Sisyphus
Structural Fabulation by Robert Scholes
Alternate Worlds by James Gunn
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
September 18, 1975: Shaken Men
The Impossible Proof by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Michael Lebeck
The D'Arthez Case by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Michael Lebeck
To the Unknown Hero by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Ralph Manheim
June 12, 1975: Goriot in Tokyo
Voices From the Japanese Cinema by Joan Mellen
Ozu: His Life and Films by Donald Richie
May 15, 1975: Pictures From an Institution
Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill
Thurber: A Biography by Burton Bernstein
April 17, 1975: In the Literary Jungle
A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers by Hugh Kenner
In Radical Pursuit: Critical Essays and Lectures by W.D. Snodgrass
A Map of Misreading by Harold Bloom
March 20, 1975: Masquerades
Conversation in The Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Cobra by Severo Sarduy, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
March 6, 1975: Play It Again, Sam
Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell
January 23, 1975: Incomparable Empson
William Empson: The Man and His Work edited by Roma Gill
November 28, 1974: Fiction in Extremis
The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark
The Connoisseur by Evan S. Connell Jr.
The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner by Berry Morgan
October 31, 1974: Include Me Out
Hollywood by Garson Kanin
Wide-Eyed in Babylon by Ray Milland
Each Man in His Time by Raoul Walsh
Whatever Happened to Hollywood? by Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
Final Cut by Paul Sylbert
Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema by Richard Corliss
October 3, 1974: The Poetry of Neruda
Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, translated by Donald D. Walsh
Extravagaria by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid
Five Decades: A Selection (Poems: 1925-1970) by Pablo Neruda, edited and translated by Ben Belitt
August 8, 1974: O Tempora! O Moors!
Count Julian by Juan Goytisolo, translated by Helen R. Lane
Death, Sleep and the Traveler by John Hawkes
June 13, 1974: Paradise Regained (letter)
June 13, 1974: Hooked
My Life as a Man by Philip Roth
May 16, 1974: Dazzling and Dizzying
Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde by Octavio Paz
Conjunctions and Disjunctions by Octavio Paz, translated by Helen R. Lane
The Bow and the Lyre by Octavio Paz, translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
Early Poems 1935-1955 by Octavio Paz, translated by Muriel Rukeyser. others
April 18, 1974: Purgatorio
Paradiso by José Lezama Lima, translated by Gregory Rabassa
March 21, 1974: Flirting With Disintegration
Loose Ends by Barbara Raskin
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Searches and Seizures by Stanley Elkin
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
Nickel Mountain by John Gardner
February 7, 1974: Victims of Survival
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Oath by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel
Elsewhere, Perhaps by Amos Oz, translated in collaboration with the author by Nicholas de Lange
December 13, 1973: Where the Wolf Howls
Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern
Ninety-Two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane
The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso, translated by Hardie St. Martin, translated by Leonard Mades
November 29, 1973: Movie Crazy
GWTW: The Making of "Gone With The Wind" by Gavin Lambert
The Citizen Kane Book: Raising Kane by Pauline Kael
The Citizen Kane Book: The Shooting Script by Herman J. Mankiewicz, by Orson Welles
"Casablanca," Script and Legend by Howard Koch
More About "All About Eve" by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Magic Factory: How MGM Made "An American in Paris" by Donald Knox
The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book by Arlene Croce
November 1, 1973: It's Later than You Think
As If By Magic by Angus Wilson
Temporary Kings by Anthony Powell
The Plot That Thickened by P.G. Wodehouse
The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
All About Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
September 20, 1973: Kissing Hitler
Norman Mailer by Richard Poirier
Marilyn by Norman Mailer. Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers
June 14, 1973: Pound Notes (letter)
May 31, 1973: Dancing in the Dark
The Vonnegut Statement: Essays on the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. edited by Jerome Klinkowitz, edited by John Somer
Between Time and Timbuktu or Prometheus 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye, Blue Monday by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
April 19, 1973: Latins in Manhattan
The Eyes of the Interred by Miguel Angel Asturias, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Triple Cross: Novellas by Carlos Fuentes, by José Donoso, by Severo Sarduy, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, translated by Hallie D. Taylor
Diary of the War of the Pig by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Gregory Woodruff, translated by Donald A. Yates
62: A Model Kit by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Counselor Ayres' Memorial by Machado de Assis, translated by Helen Caldwell
The Vampire of Curitiba and Other Stories by Dalton Trevisan, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Seven Voices: Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert by Rita Guibert, translated by Frances Partridge
March 22, 1973: Rocketing to the Apocalypse
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
March 8, 1973: Seeing Bergman
Cries and Whispers directed by Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman Directs by John Simon
Encountering Directors by Charles Thomas Samuels
Deeper Into Movies by Pauline Kael
February 8, 1973: Ezra Pound
The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner
A ZBC of Ezra Pound by Christine Brooke-Rose
December 14, 1972: Great American Fragments
Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass
The Last Fair Deal Going Down by David Rhodes
Museums and Women and Other Stories by John Updike
Sadness by Donald Barthelme
November 16, 1972: Tender Trousers
Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
October 19, 1972: New Fall Fiction
House of All Nations by Christina Stead
Chimera by John Barth
The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner. originally scheduled for October; now to be published December 6
September 21, 1972: Mod and Great
Fernando Pessoa: Selected Poems edited and translated by Peter Rickard
Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa translated by Edwin Honig
August 10, 1972: Squish
To Smithereens by Rosalyn Drexler
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March by Frederic Tuten
The Taxi by Violette Leduc, translated by Helen Weaver
June 29, 1972: Cunning Time
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
June 1, 1972: Borges's Surprise!
Doctor Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Selected Poems 1923-1967 by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. a bilingual edition
May 4, 1972: Pique (letter)
April 6, 1972: Betrayals
An Orange Full of Dreams by Antoni Gronowicz
How She Died by Helen Yglesias
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
March 11, 1971: End of the Line
Last Things by C.P. Snow
Flats by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Dunfords Travels Everywheres by William Melvin Kelley
Blue Movie by Terry Southern
Books by Michael Wood
Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction (1998)
The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction (1994)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1990)
America in the Movies: Or, "Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind" (1975)
Stendhal (1971)