John Gross
John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)
From the Review
May 15, 2008: 'Something Marvellous to Tell'
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
October 25, 2007: Empson: Argufying Against Mufflement
William Empson, Volume II: Against the Christians by John Haffenden
Selected Letters of William Empson edited by John Haffenden
April 12, 2007: A Scandal at the Villa Paradiso
All for Love by Dan Jacobson
March 23, 2006: The Genius of Ambiguity
William Empson, Volume 1: Among the Mandarins by John Haffenden
December 4, 2003: The Scholar in the Bedroom
Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination by A.D. Nuttall
November 29, 2001: The Reader Strikes Back
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson
December 17, 1998: 'A Nice Pleasant Youth'
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum
September 24, 1998: The Case of the Loony Lexicographer
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
March 5, 1998: A Garland of Ibids
The Footnote: A Curious History by Anthony Grafton
June 26, 1997: Lessons of an Immoderate Master
F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism by Ian MacKillop
F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography by G. Singh
October 3, 1996: Marked Man
The Statement by Brian Moore
Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs edited by Richard J. Golsan
November 2, 1995: Keeping the Hard Gemlike Flame
Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue
June 9, 1994: The Book of Books
The Columbia Encyclopaedia: Fifth Edition edited by Barbara A. Chernow, edited by George A. Vallasi
February 3, 1994: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Schindler's List A film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Steven Spielberg, by Gerald R. Moren, by Branko Lustig
April 8, 1993: Trollope's Comédie Humaine
Anthony Trollope by Victoria Glendinning
December 21, 1989: Shaw and Super-Shaw
Bernard Shaw Volume II: 1898–1918, The Pursuit of Power by Michael Holroyd
November 23, 1989: Petit Maître
Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892–1956 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis
February 18, 1988: Star
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
November 10, 1983: Unwrapping Edmund Wilson
The Forties by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Leon Edel
The Portable Edmund Wilson edited by Lewis M. Dabney
June 16, 1983: The Wise and Gentle Lamb
Young Charles Lamb 1775-1802 by Winifred F. Courtney
A Portrait of Charles Lamb by David Cecil
Companion to Charles Lamb: A Guide to People and Places 1750-1847 by Claude A. Prance
April 14, 1983: Kolbe & Anti-Semitism (letter)
February 17, 1983: Life Saving
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
A Man for Others: Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, in the Words of Those Who Knew Him by Patricia Treece
December 16, 1982: Buddies
Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: A Correspondence edited by Mary Hyde
September 27, 1979: The Wars of D.H. Lawrence
The Letters of D.H. Lawrence Volume 1: September 1901-May 1913 edited by James T. Boulton
D.H. Lawrence's Nightmare: The Writer and His Circle in the Years of the Great War by Paul Delany
Lives and Letters: A.R. Orage, Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, and S.S. Koteliansky, 1906-1957 by John Carswell
May 22, 1969: Poor People (letter)
April 24, 1969: Lieutenants and Luftmenschen
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell
Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell Jr.
Pictures of Fidelman by Bernard Malamud
The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl by Sholom Aleichem, Translated from the Yiddish by Tamara Kahana
February 13, 1969: Life with Father
A Cab at the Door by V.S. Pritchett
January 30, 1969: Poverty Program
Charles Booth's London selected and edited by Albert Fried, by Richard M. Elman
Charles Booth and the City edited with an Introduction by Harold W. Pfautz
May 18, 1967: A Question of Upbringing
The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell
A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
December 29, 1966: In Darkest Manchester
Mrs. Gaskell by Arthur Pollard
November 3, 1966: The Art of Agnon
Two Tales by S.Y. Agnon, translated by Walter Lever
December 23, 1965: Kazin in the Thirties
Starting Out in the Thirties by Alfred Kazin
October 28, 1965: Passionate Pilgrimage
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
May 6, 1965: Un-English Activities
Lord Haw-Haw by J.A. Cole
The New Meaning of Treason by Rebecca West
December 3, 1964: Waugh Revisited
A Little Learning by Evelyn Waugh
September 10, 1964: Recent Fiction
The Plant, The Well, The Angel by Vassilis Vassilikos, translated by Edmund Keeley, by Mary Keeley
The Town Beyond the Wall by Elie Wiesel, translated by Stephen Becker
Death as a Way of Life by Francisco Ayala, translated by Joan MacLean
April 16, 1964: Hard Times
The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
November 28, 1963: Dissenting Opinion
A World More Attractive by Irving Howe
October 31, 1963: Oy, Oy! (letter)
October 17, 1963: Oy!
Idiots First by Bernard Malamud
The War of Camp Omongo by Burt Blechman
Seven Days of Mourning by L.S. Simckes
Books by John Gross
Double Thread: Growing up English and Jewish in London (2002)
Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy (1992)
Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend (1992)
Rudyard Kipling: The Man, His Work and His World (1972)
The Age of Kipling (1972)
James Joyce (1970)
The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: Aspects of English Literary Life Since 180 (1969)