John Bayley
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
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July 15, 2004: What Henry Knew
The Master by Colm Tóibín
March 25, 2004: Sex & the City
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
Queer Street: Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947–1985 by James McCourt
December 18, 2003: Chameleon Genius
Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
November 20, 2003: Silent Music
Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry by Anthony Hecht
Collected Later Poems by Anthony Hecht
Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath by Helen Vendler
Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue
June 12, 2003: Flying for Poland (letter)
March 27, 2003: Not Just for Children
Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter by Alison Lurie
February 27, 2003: Haunted by the Russian Devil
Pushkin's Children: Writings on Russia and Russians by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russianby Jamey Gambrell, with an introduction by Alma Guillermoprieto
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
November 7, 2002: Scratch a Russian
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
October 24, 2002: Sterne's Great Game
Laurence Sterne: A Life by Ian Campbell Ross
July 18, 2002: The King's Trumpeter
The Long Recessional:The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
April 11, 2002: The Hard Hitter
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel edited by Nathalie Babel, translated from the Russian by Peter Constantine, with an introduction by Cynthia Ozick
November 29, 2001: Fresh Oysters
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm
The Complete Early Short Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume One (1880–82): 'He and She' and Other Stories translated from the Russian by Peter Sekirin
May 17, 2001: What Happened to the Hippopotamus's Wife?
The Biographer's Tale A.S. Byatt
On Histories and Stories A.S. Byatt
March 29, 2001: The Last Puritan
Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation Jeffrey Meyers
November 2, 2000: A Passage to Colombo
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
August 10, 2000: The Greatest!
William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius by Anthony Holden
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
June 29, 2000: Phantom Observations
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
May 11, 2000: Pushkin's Shakespearean Lover
March 23, 2000: It Happened at Elsinore
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
February 24, 2000: The Heart of the Matter
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
December 16, 1999: It Happened One Night
The Guest from the Future:Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin by György Dalos, Translated from the German by Antony Wood
The Diaries of Nikolay Punin edited by Sidney Monas, and Jennifer Greene Krupala, Translated from the Russian by Jennifer Greene Krupala
October 21, 1999: Eminent Victorian
George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes
April 8, 1999: The Strange Death of Pushkin
Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale, Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein, by Jon Rothschild
March 18, 1999: Under the Overcoat
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol translated by Richard Pevear, by Larissa Volokhonsky
February 18, 1999: Green and Secretive Islands
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative by W.S. Merwin
The River Sound by W.S. Merwin
November 19, 1998: What Follies and Paradoxes!
Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance by Aileen M. Kelly
October 8, 1998: To the Pith of London's Heart
The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
July 16, 1998: The Way We Write Now
Without by Donald Hall
Going Fast by Frederick Seidel
Ten Commandments by J.D. McClatchy
Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
On Love by Edward Hirsch
June 25, 1998: Under the Overcoat
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin, Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin, Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
December 18, 1997: The Naked Truth
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler
October 9, 1997: Slightly Sacred Poet
Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray
May 29, 1997: The Double Life
The Untouchable by John Banville
May 15, 1997: Class Act
Palimpsest by Gore Vidal
March 27, 1997: Living Ghosts
Lament for the Makers by W.S. Merwin
The Vixen by W.S. Merwin
Flight Among the Tombs by Anthony Hecht
The Bounty by Derek Walcott
November 14, 1996: Poet of Holy Dread
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner
February 15, 1996: Alice, or The Art of Survival
Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen
The Complete Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll, iillustrated by Renée Flower
November 16, 1995: Feet on the Ground
Louis MacNeice by Jon Stallworthy
August 10, 1995: The Backward Look
The Life of Arseniev: Youth by Ivan Bunin, Books 1–4 translated by Gleb Struve, by Hamish Miles, Book 5 translated by Heidi Hillis, by Susan McKean, by Sven A. Wolf, edited, annotated and with an introduction by Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem 1885–1920, A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Fiction edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo
Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore 1920–1933, A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Fiction edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo
March 23, 1995: A Moment's Truth
History: The Home Movie by Craig Raine
December 22, 1994: 'Trapping Fairies in West Virginia'
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse edited by John Gross
Max Beerbohm: Collected Verse edited with an introduction and notes by J. G. Riewald
A Christmas Garland woven by Max Beerbohm. illustrations by the author, Introduction by N. John Hall
November 17, 1994: Doubles
The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews by J. M. Coetzee, edited by David Attwell
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear, by Larissa Volokhonsky
October 6, 1994: Too Polish for the Poles
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz, translated by Carolyn French, translated by Nina Karsov
May 12, 1994: Off the Map
Brazil by John Updike
February 17, 1994: Singing in the Rain
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Gabriel García Márquez: Solitude and Solidarity by Michael Bell
February 3, 1994: Sons and Brothers
The Correspondence of William James Vol. I: William & Henry 1861–1884 Vol. II: William & Henry 1885–1896 edited by Ignas K. Skrupskelis, edited by Elizabeth M. Berkeley
The Correspondence of Henry James & the House of MacMillan, 1877–1914 edited by Rayburn S. Moore
Henry James: Collected Travel Writings: Vol. 1, Great Britain and America (English Hours, The American Scene, Other Travels) Vol. 2, The Continent (A Little Tour in France, Italian Hours, Other Travels)
Henry James, Lettere a Miss Allen (Letters to Miss Allen)
November 4, 1993: 'One Life, One Writing'
A Different Person: A Memoir by James Merrill
Selected Poems: 1946–1985 by James Merrill
October 7, 1993: Not Nulla Salvatio (letter)
August 12, 1993: Comrades
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
June 24, 1993: Night Mail
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness edited and with an introduction by Carolyn Forché
May 13, 1993: 'Anna of All the Russias'
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Updated and Expanded Edition translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, edited by Roberta Reeder
Remembering Anna Akhmatova by Anatoly Nayman, translated by Wendy Rosslyn
In a Shattered Mirror: The Later Poetry of Anna Akhmatova by Susan Amert
January 28, 1993: The Master at War
Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, A Biography by Fred Kaplan
January 14, 1993: Gallant Pastiche
The Complete Poems by C. Day Lewis, with an introduction by Jill Balcon
December 17, 1992: Time of Indifference
The Porcupine by Julian Barnes
November 5, 1992: Answers Without Questions
Mr. Mani by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Hillel Halkin
Katerina by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green
June 25, 1992: Irishness
Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney
The Rough Field by John Montague
Mount Eagle by John Montague
Gorse Fires by Michael Longley
April 23, 1992: Fighting for the Crown
Wise Children by Angela Carter
Love by Angela Carter
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman by Angela Carter
Come Unto These Yellow Sands by Angela Carter
The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book edited by Angela Carter
The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography by Angela Carter
April 9, 1992: Innocents at Home
Paradise News by David Lodge
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
December 5, 1991: Getting to Know You
Talking It Over by Julian Barnes
November 7, 1991: In Which We Serve
Master and Commander
Post Captain
HMS Surprise
The Mauritius Command
Desolation Island
The Fortune of War
The Surgeon's Mate
The Ionian Mission
Treason's Harbour
The Far Side of the World
The Reverse of the Medal
The Letter of Marque
The Thirteen-Gun Salute
The Nutmeg of Consolation
August 15, 1991: Richly Flows Contingency
Flow Chart by John Ashbery
June 13, 1991: A New Dostoevsky?
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear, by Larissa Volokhonsky
April 11, 1991: Did It Flow?
Hourglass by Danilo Kiš, translated by Ralph Manheim
Mendelssohn Is On The Roof by Jirí Weil, translated by Marie Winn
The Miracle Game by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson
March 7, 1991: Pasternak's Great Fairy Tale
November 8, 1990: V.S.P.
A Careless Widow and Other Stories by V.S. Pritchett
At Home and Abroad by V.S. Pritchett
Lasting Impressions by V.S. Pritchett
July 19, 1990: In God's Playground
Lucifer Unemployed by Aleksander Wat, translated by Lillian Vallee, foreword by Czeslaw Milosz
Killing the Second Dog by Marek Hlasko, translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz
Missing Pieces by Stanislaw Benski, translated by Walter Arndt
Bohin Manor by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Richard Lourie
Rondo by Kazimierz Brandys, translated by Jaroslaw Anders
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski, translated by Klara Glowczewska
May 17, 1990: The Real Thing
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
March 15, 1990: The Fire Next Time
The Fur Hat by Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Susan Brownsberger
Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays by Valentin Rasputin, selected, translated, and with an introduction by Gerald Mikkelson, by Margaret Winchell
January 18, 1990: Henry James Mix-Up (letter)
December 21, 1989: God and the Devil
August 1914: The Red Wheel/Knot I by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts
December 7, 1989: The Master at Home
A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and His Literary Circle, 1895–1915 by Miranda Seymour
Thinking in Henry James by Sharon Cameron
The Pop World of Henry James: From Fairy Tales to Science Fiction by Adeline R. Tintner
August 17, 1989: Living with Trollope
The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope by R.H. Super
Trollope: Living With Character by Stephen Wall
He Knew She Was Right: The Independent Woman in the Novels of Anthony Trollope by Jane Nardin
April 27, 1989: Russian Roulette: Bad Bet (letter)
April 13, 1989: The Power of Delight
Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz with Selected Prose edited by Jerzy Ficowski, translated by Walter Arndt, with Victoria Nelson
March 16, 1989: God's Greene
The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
Graham Greene by Neil McEwan
A Reader's Guide to Graham Greene by Paul O'Prey
January 19, 1989: Best and Worst
Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
November 24, 1988: Mr. Know-all
Tolstoy by A. N. Wilson
Tolstoy: The Ultimate Reconciliation by Martine de Courcel, translated by Peter Levi
September 29, 1988: Death and the Dichter
Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil, translated by Peter Wortsman
Five Women by Robert Musil, translated by Eithne Wilkins, by Ernst Kaiser
Robert Musil by Lowell A. Bangerter
April 14, 1988: Something Childish
Diary, Volume 1 by Witold Gombrowicz, edited by Jan Kott, translated by Lillian Vallee
March 3, 1988: Oblomov's Travels
The Frigate Pallada by Ivan Goncharov, translated by Klaus Goetze
December 17, 1987: Fun While It Lasted
The Neo-pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth by Paul Delany
October 22, 1987: Riding the Bronze Horse
Partings by Leonid Borodin, translated by David Floyd
Pushkin House by Andrei Bitov, translated by Susan Brownsberger
October 8, 1987: Poet of the Air
Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, her World and her Poetry by Simon Karlinsky
A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva by Elaine Feinstein
Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva translated by Elaine Feinstein
April 9, 1987: Country Life
The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
March 26, 1987: The Genius of Shandy Hall
Laurence Sterne: The Later Years by Arthur H. Cash
December 4, 1986: An Excellent Man
Chekhov by Henri Troyat, translated by Michael Henry Heim
October 23, 1986: An Art of Self-Discovery
Collected Poems by Edward Thomas
A Language not to be Betrayed: Selected Prose of Edward Thomas selected and with an introduction by Edna Longley
Edward Thomas: A Portrait by R. George Thomas
June 12, 1986: Mastering Speech
Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
January 16, 1986: On Philip Larkin
December 5, 1985: Big Three
Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, by Rainer Maria Rilke, by Marina Tsvetayeva, edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, by Yelena Pasternak, by Konstantin M. Azadovsky, translated by Margaret Wettlin, by Walter Arndt
Letters on Cézanne by Rainer Maria Rilke, edited by Clara Rilke, translated by Joel Agee
October 24, 1985: First Loves
John Ruskin: The Early Years, 1819–1859 by Tim Hilton
August 15, 1985: Only Disconnect
Selected Letters of E.M. Forster Vol. II, 1921–1970 edited by Mary Lago, edited by P.N. Furbank
May 9, 1985: Double Life
The Life of Jane Austen by John Halperin
A Goodly Heritage: A History of Jane Austen's Family by George Holbert Tucker
March 28, 1985: Life in the Head
Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys, with an introduction by Robertson Davies
Weymouth Sands by John Cowper Powys, with an introduction by James Purdy
November 22, 1984: Kitsch and the Novel
Wild Berries by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Antonina W. Bouis
The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov, translated by Anne Frydman
It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir by Edward Limonov, translated by S.L. Campbell
The Island of Crimea by Vassily Aksyonov, translated by Michael Henry Heim
The Burn by Vassily Aksyonov, translated by Michael Glenny
March 1, 1984: Cracking 'The Golden Bowl' (letter)
January 19, 1984: Poems with a Heroine
Poems by Anna Akhmatova, selected and translated by Lyn Coffin, introduction by Joseph Brodsky
Akhmatova's Petersburg by Sharon Leiter
December 22, 1983: The Upper Depths
Writers in Russia: 1917-1978 by Max Hayward, edited with an introduction by Patricia Blake, preface by Leonard Schapiro
June 2, 1983: Byron and the 'Lively Life'
Byron's Letters and Journals edited by Leslie A. Marchand
Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals edited by Leslie A. Marchand
Byron by Frederic Raphael
Byron: A Poet Before His Public by Philip W. Martin
February 3, 1983: Looking in on Pushkin
October 7, 1982: The Two Hardys
Thomas Hardy: A Biography by Michael Millgate
The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy by Kristin Brady
The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy: Volume 3, 1902-1908 edited by Richard Little Purdy, edited by Michael Millgate
May 13, 1982: In Defense of Wordsworth (letter)
February 18, 1982: Family Man
The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth edited by Beth Darlington
My Dearest Love: Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth, 1810 by Blackwell's Rare Books, Fyfield Manor, Abingdon, Oxford, OX13 5LR edited in facsimile by Beth Darlington, foreword by Jonathan Wordsworth
December 3, 1981: The Novelist as Pedagogue
Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Fredson Bowers
June 25, 1981: Return of the Native
The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Louis Iribarne
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition paperback edition by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Catherine S. Leach
Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision by Czeslaw Milosz
Bells in Winter translated by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Lillian Vallee
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Jane Zielonko. (with a new foreword by the author)
December 18, 1980: The All-Star Victorian
Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart by Robert Bernard Martin
The Tennyson Album: A Biography in Original Photographs by Andrew Wheatcroft
October 23, 1980: A Poet's Tragedy
The Demesne of the Swans by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated and edited by Robin Kemball
Tsvetaeva: A Pictorial Biography edited by Ellendea Proffer, translated by J. Marin King
A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated and edited by J. Marin King
June 26, 1980: The Two Solzhenitsyns
The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, translated by Harry Willetts
June 12, 1980: How to Read a Book
The Tale Bearers: Literary Essays by V.S. Pritchett
April 17, 1980: But Will It Play in Belgrade? (letter)
February 21, 1980: Windows on Russia
The Russian Empire: A Portrait in Photographs by Chloe Obolensky, with an introduction by Max Hayward
Windows on the River Neva: A Memoir Books, Wellfleet, Massachusetts 026677) by Paul Grabbe
November 8, 1979: Life Studies
Vasko Popa: Collected Poems 1943-1976 translated by Anne Pennington, with an introduction by Ted Hughes. The Persea Series of Poetry in Translation, general editor Daniel Weissbort
May 3, 1979: The Broken Spine
Andrei Platonov: Collected Works
Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, translated by Anthony Olcott
Isaac Babel: The Forgotten Prose translated by Nicholas Stroud
March 8, 1979: Spender & Auden (letter)
January 25, 1979: A Poet in Politics
The Thirties and After: Poetry, Politics, People 1933-1970 by Stephen Spender
July 20, 1978: Pioneers and Phantoms
The Hill of Evil Counsel by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz, translated by Celina Wieniewska
July 15, 1976: Cinderella in Reverse
Freshwater: A Comedy by Virginia Woolf, edited by Lucio P. Ruotolo
The Letters of Virginia Woolf Volume I: 1888-1912 edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautman
Virginia Woolf and Her World by John Lehmann
April 15, 1976: Paleface
Rudyard Kipling and His World by Kingsley Amis
Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire by Philip Mason
March 6, 1975: One of the Family
Marcel Proust by Roger Shattuck
September 19, 1974: From the Ridiculous to the Ridiculous
Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess
July 18, 1974: Seer of the Ego
Stendhal by Joanna Richardson
October 4, 1973: Balzac Possessed
Balzac by V.S. Pritchett
S/Z by Roland Barthes
October 19, 1972: Them and Us
We: A Novel of the Future by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg
A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg
December 30, 1971: Trouble in the Family
The Last Year of Leo Tolstoy by Valentin Bulgakov, translated by Ann Dunnigan, with an Introduction by George Steiner
Tolstoy, My Father: Reminiscences by Ilya Tolstoy, translated by Ann Dunnigan
October 8, 1970: Irresistible Dickens
The World of Charles Dickens by Angus Wilson
Dickens the Craftsman: Strategies of Presentation edited by Robert B. Partlow Jr.
The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence by Raymond Williams
Dickens 1970 edited by Michael Slater
Charles Dickens' Uncollected Writings from Household Words edited by Harry Stone
The Moral Art of Dickens (to be published later this fall) by Barbara Hardy
The Inimitable Dickens by A.E. Dyson
June 18, 1970: Idealism and Its Critic
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche by Lev Shestov, translated by Bernard Martin, translated by Spencer E. Roberts
Kierkegaard and the Existential Philosophy by Lev Shestov, translated by Elinor Hewitt
Potestas Clavium by Lev Shestov, translated by Bernard Martin
Chekhov, and Other Essays future date) by Lev Shestov
Athens and Jerusalem by Lev Shestov, translated by Bernard Martin
Essays in Russian Literature: The Conservative View by Lev Shestov et al., translated and edited by Spencer Roberts
Books by John Bayley
Elegy for Iris (1999)
Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire (1999)
Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (1998)
Leo Tolstoy (1997)
The Red Hat (1997)
George's Lair (1996)
The Queer Captain (1995)
Alice: A Novel (1994)
Housman's Poems (1992)
The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen (1988)
Tolstoy and the Novel: With a New Preface (1988)
The Order of Battle at Trafalgar, and Other Essays (1987)
In Another Country (1986)
Selected Essays (1984)
Shakespeare and Tragedy (1981)
An Essay on Hardy (1978)
The Uses of Division: Unity and Disharmony in Literature (1976)
Pushkin; A Comparative Commentary (1971)
Keats and Reality (1969)