John Wain

From the Review

September 24, 1987: Taking His Measure (letter)

June 25, 1987: A World's Beginning*

Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic by Richard Perceval Graves

July 19, 1973: Just Good Friends*

The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs. Thrale by Mary Hyde

August 12, 1971: In Johnson's Bear Hug*

Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778 Editions, McGraw-Hill edited by Charles McC. Weis, edited by Frederick A. Pottle

The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson, Vol. 2 Editions, McGraw-Hill edited by Marshall Waingrow

Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing by Paul Fussell

The Conversations of Dr. Johnson edited by Raymond Postgate

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (Collected Works, Vol. IX) by Samuel Johnson, edited by Mary Lascelles

Life of Savage by Samuel Johnson, edited by Clarence Tracy

The History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson, edited by Geoffrey Tillotson, edited by Brian Jenkins

The Rambler (Collected Works, Vols. III, IV, V) by Samuel Johnson, edited by W.J. Bate, edited by Albrecht B. Strauss

February 26, 1970: The Very Thing*

Command, and I Will Obey You by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson

Bad Debts by Geoffrey Wolff

Lunar Landscapes by John Hawkes

The Cost of Living Like This by James Kennaway

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado, translated by Harriet de Onis

April 24, 1969: Women's Work*

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford

Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch

A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

January 2, 1969: Eating Fables*

The Carnal Myth A Search into Classical Sensuality by Edward Dahlberg

The Leafless American by Edward Dahlberg, edited with an Introduction by Harold Billings

Edward Dahlberg: American Ishmael of Letters edited with an Introduction by Harold Billings

August 22, 1968: Puppeteers*

The Three Suitors by Richard Jones

Cocksure by Mordecai Richler

Enderby by Anthony Burgess

Love and Work by Reynolds Price

October 26, 1967: Trouble in the Family*

The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Mimic Men by V.S. Naipaul

Ergo by Jakov Lind

June 29, 1967: The Way of Some Flesh*

The Vendor of Sweets by R.K. Narayan

Delinquent Chacha by Ved Mehta

May 4, 1967: Versions of Pastoral*

Shepherds of the Night by Jorge Amado, translated by Harriet de Onis

Mother and Son: A Brazilian Tale translated by Barbara Shelby, translated by Gilberto Freyre

In Orbit by Wright Morris

July 28, 1966: The Insulted and Injured*

The Gates of the Forest by Elie Wiesel, translated by Frances Frenaye

The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy

The Night Visitor and Other Stories by B. Traven

June 9, 1966: A Singular Being*

James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769 by Frederick A. Pottle

April 28, 1966: Making It New*

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa

The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs

February 25, 1965: Dylan Thomas Today*

Dylan Thomas, His Life and Work by John Ackerman

The Days of Dylan Thomas by Bill Read, by Rollie McKenna

Dylan Thomas and Poetic Dissociation by David Holbrook