William H. Gass
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From the Review
June 20, 1996: Seeing Musil Whole (letter)
January 11, 1996: The Hovering Life
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins, by Burton Pike
October 26, 1989: Being and Dying
The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš, translated by Michael Henry Heim
February 2, 1989: Johns
Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974 Pennsylvania, (October 23, 1988–January 8, 1989) an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia,
Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974 catalog of the exhibition by Mark Rosenthal
Foirades/Fizzles: Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns University of California, Los Angeles, distributed by the University of Chicago Press by Jasper Johns, by Samuel Beckett, by Edith A. Tonelli, by John Cage, by Richard S. Field, by Andrew Bush, by Richard Shiff, by Fred Orton, by James Cuno
October 13, 1988: Portrait of the Artist
Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim
February 4, 1988: The Polemical Philosopher
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R.J. Hollingdale, introduction by Erich Heller
Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of His Contemporaries edited by Sander L. Gilman
Postponements: Women, Sensuality, and Death in Nietzsche by David Farrell Krell
Nietzsche, "the Last Antipolitical German" by Peter Bergmann
Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas
August 14, 1986: Arrests in Poland (letter)
October 11, 1979: Boycott Taba (letter)
April 14, 1977: Three Photos of Colette
The Complete Claudine: "Claudine at School," "Claudine in Paris," "Claudine Married," "Claudine and Annie" by Colette, translated by Antonia White
The Retreat From Love by Colette, translated by Margaret Crosland
Chéri / The Last of Chéri by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse
The Evening Star by Colette, translated by David Le Vay
The Blue Lantern by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse
My Mother's House / Sido by Colette, translated by Una V. Troubridge, by Enid McLeod
Break of Day by Colette, translated by Enid McLeod
The Pure and the Impure by Colette, translated by Herma Briffault
Mitsou / Music-Hall Sidelights by Colette, translated by Raymond Postgate, by Anne-Marie Callimachi
The Vagabond by Colette, translated by Enid McLeod
October 14, 1976: Theatrical Sartre
Sartre on Theater by Jean-Paul Sartre, compiled and edited by Michel Contat, by Michel Rybalka
May 15, 1975: The Battered, Triumphant Sage
Tribute to Freud by HD
Freud and His Followers by Paul Roazen
Social Amnesia by Russell Jacoby
May 1, 1975: The Scientific Psychology of Sigmund Freud
Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Richard Wollheim
April 17, 1975: The Anatomy of Mind
Freud and His Followers by Paul Roazen
Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Richard Wollheim
Tribute to Freud by HD
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing by Russell Jacoby
June 27, 1974: Mr. Blotner, Mr. Feaster, and Mr. Faulkner
Faulkner: A Biography by Joseph Blotner
December 13, 1973: Malcolm Lowry's Inferno: II
Malcolm Lowry: A Biography by Douglas Day
November 29, 1973: Malcolm Lowry's Inferno
Malcolm Lowry: A Biography by Douglas Day
May 31, 1973: The Sporting News
The Great American Novel by Philip Roth
May 17, 1973: Gertrude Stein, Geographer: II
May 3, 1973: Gertrude Stein, Geographer: I
January 25, 1973: Ford's Better Idea (letter)
May 18, 1972: The Doomed in Their Sinking
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by A. Alvarez
Suicide by Jacques Choron
February 25, 1971: The Stylization of Desire
November 20, 1969: Imaginary Borges
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, in collaboration with the author.
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges by Richard Burgin
The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion by Ronald Christ
July 10, 1969: In the Cage
Henry James: The Treacherous Years 1895-1901 by Leon Edel
August 22, 1968: The Evil Demiurge
The Temptation to Exist by E.M. Cioran
August 1, 1968: From Some Ashes No Bird Rises
Phoenix and Phoenix II by D.H. Lawrence, by Viking
August 1, 1968: A Wrong Note (letter)
June 6, 1968: Mirror, Mirror
King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov: The Man and His Work edited by L.S. Dembo
Keys to Lolita by Carl R. Proffer
April 25, 1968: The Leading Edge of the Trash Phenomenon
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts by Donald Barthelme
April 11, 1968: Cock-a-doodle-doo
Couples by John Updike
From New York Review Books
 | The Anatomy of Melancholy One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. |
Books by William H. Gass
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (1999)
Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas (1998)
Uber Robert Walser: Zwei Essays (1997)
Finding a Form: Essays (1996)
The Tunnel (1995)
Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (1989)
Habitations of the Word: Essays (1985)
The World Within the Word: Essays (1979)
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (1975)
Fiction & the Figures of Life (1971)
Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (1971)
Fiction and the Figures of Lif (1970)
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, and Other Stories (1968)
Omensetter's Luck; A Novel (1966)