Robert M. Adams
From the Review
October 5, 1995: A Self-Made Man
Writing Was Everything by Alfred Kazin
April 20, 1995: Wonderful Town?
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas
November 17, 1994: Bloom's All-Time Greatest Hits
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom
September 22, 1994: Lighting Up Shakespeare
Essays, Mainly Shakespearean by Anne Barton
March 24, 1994: The Great Perhaps
Life Work by Donald Hall
The Museum of Clear Ideas by Donald Hall
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
January 13, 1994: Boys Will Be Boys
The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor
January 28, 1993: Death in Montana
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, engravings by Barry Moser
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It a film directed by Robert Redford
December 3, 1992: Cornering the Market
Arcadia by Jim Crace
Nothing but Blue Skies by Thomas McGuane
Leviathan by Paul Auster
The Art of Hunger by Paul Auster
July 16, 1992: Fatal Triangles
A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare by René Girard
May 28, 1992: Frontier Fantasies
River of Traps: A Village Life University by William deBuys, by Alex Harris
Birds of Sorrow: Notes from a River Junction in Northern New Mexico by Tom Ireland
A Garlic Testament by Stanley Crawford
The Place Where Souls Are Born: A Journey to the Southwest by Thomas Keneally, Introduction by Jan Morris
A History of the Jews in New Mexico by Henry J. Tobias
Jews of the American West edited by Moses Rischin, edited by John Livingston
April 23, 1992: Reading Nabokov (letter)
March 26, 1992: Fall of Valor
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone
January 30, 1992: The Wizard of Lake Cayuga
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years by Brian Boyd
December 19, 1991: The Floating Operetta
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
November 21, 1991: A Good Minestrone
The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey
June 13, 1991: Herman Roth (letter)
May 30, 1991: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life? (letter)
May 16, 1991: The Reality Game
Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth
April 25, 1991: Metropolitan Opera
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett
December 20, 1990: What De Gaulle Really Said (letter)
December 6, 1990: Was Cratylus Kidding?
The Names of Comedy by Anne Barton
October 11, 1990: Liberators
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Collected Novellas (Leaf Storm, Nobody Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold) by Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
June 28, 1990: Tripping (letter)
May 17, 1990: Protocols of Reading (letter)
April 26, 1990: Tripping Over the Future
The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798–1984 by Don Gifford
Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by O.B. Hardison Jr.
March 1, 1990: Lucy and Lucifer
Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory by M.H. Abrams, edited and with a foreword by Michael Fischer
An Appetite for Poetry by Frank Kermode
Protocols of Reading by Robert Scholes
Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions by Jonathan Culler
Critical Writings, 1953–1978 by Paul de Man, edited and with an introduction by Lindsay Waters
February 1, 1990: From Abailard to Les Zutistes
A New History of French Literature edited by Denis Hollier
The Oxford Companion to French Literature by Sir Paul Harvey, by J.E. Heseltine
November 9, 1989: Juggler
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
October 26, 1989: Balancing Act
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
May 18, 1989: I Porni
I modi: The Sixteen Pleasures: An Erotic Album of the Italian Renaissance by Giulio Romano, by Marcantonio Raimondi, by Pietro Aretino, by Count Jean-Frédéric-Maximilien de Waldeck, edited, translated, and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner
April 13, 1989: Bunyan's Progress (letter)
March 30, 1989: Software Wars
Hence by Brad Leithauser
March 16, 1989: Alibi Alley
Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France by Natalie Zemon Davis
March 2, 1989: Tolstoy in Embryo
A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628–1688 by Christopher Hill
February 16, 1989: Tin Cans in the Rockies
The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States by Leo Marx
Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916–1984 edited by Mary Street Alinder, edited by Andrea Gray Stillman
December 22, 1988: The Defoe File
The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe by P.N. Furbank, by W.R. Owens
November 10, 1988: The Beast in the Jungle
Eliot's New Life by Lyndall Gordon
The Letters of T.S. Eliot Vol. I, 1898–1922 edited by Valerie Eliot
August 18, 1988: The Ideal Woman
Jane Austen: Her Life by Park Honan
August 18, 1988: 'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange
July 21, 1988: Great Tew, Continued (letter)
June 30, 1988: Yes
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox
June 16, 1988: Great Tew: An Exchange
April 14, 1988: Charmed Circles
Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans: Seventeenth Century Essays by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Archbishop William Laud by Charles Carlton
Clarendon and His Friends by Richard Ollard
Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism c. 1590–1640 by Nicholas Tyacke
March 17, 1988: The Case for Dryden
John Dryden and His World by James Anderson Winn
February 4, 1988: Chaucer on Our Doorstep
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard
November 19, 1987: Much Ado About Everything
The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition by Jan Kott, translated by Daniela Miedzyrzecka, by Lillian Valee
October 22, 1987: Was It Archer City? (letter)
August 13, 1987: The Bard of Wichita Falls
Texasville by Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
March 26, 1987: Natives and Others
The Tewa World by Alfonso Ortiz
Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature edited by John Bierhorst
Diné Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story translated by Paul G. Zolbrod
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by Laurie Lisle
Edge of Taos Desert: Volume Four of Intimate Memories by Mabel Dodge Luhan
Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest essays by J.J. Brody, by Catherine J. Scott, by Steven A. LeBlanc, introduction by Tony Berlant
Santa Fe Style by Christine Mather, by Sharon Woods
New Mexico Style by Nancy Hunter Warren
March 26, 1987: Yonder Shakespeare (letter)
March 12, 1987: On the Trail of Santa Fe
New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State Project Administration. for the American Guide Series by the Writers' Program of the Works
New Mexico: A New Guide to the Colorful State by Lance Chilton, by Katherine Chilton, by Polly E. Arango, by James Dudley, by Nancy Neary, by Patricia Stelzner
Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range by William deBuys
Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region by Victor Westphall
Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800–1933 by G. Emlen Hall
New Mexico: A Bicentennial History by Marc Simmons
Along the Santa Fe Trail essay by Marc Simmons, photographs by Joan Myers
Haunted Highways: The Ghost Towns of New Mexico by Ralph Looney
Four Fighters of Lincoln County by Robert M. Utley
November 20, 1986: The Nose Knows
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, translated by John E. Woods
November 6, 1986: New Bards for Old
On Shakespeare by Northrop Frye
Shakespeare and the Question of Theory edited by Patricia Parker, edited by Geoffrey Hartman
Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets by Joel Fineman
New Readings vs. Old Plays: Recent Trends in the Reinterpretation of English Renaissance Drama by Richard Levin
The Devil's Party: Critical Counter-interpretations of Shakespearian Drama by Harriett Hawkins
Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays by Paul N. Siegel
William Shakespeare by Terry Eagleton
That Shakespeherian Rag by Terence Hawkes
Such is My Love: A Study of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Joseph Pequigney
May 8, 1986: Right Man, Wrong Job
Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini's Visit to France by Paul Fréart de Chantelou, edited with an introduction by Anthony Blunt, annotated by George C. Bauer, translated by Margery Corbett
Bernini in France: An Episode in Seventeenth-Century History by Cecil Gould
April 10, 1986: False Scents
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
March 13, 1986: Putting Pope in His Place
Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack
Pope and Horace: Studies in Imitation by Frank Stack
February 13, 1986: Jane Austen in Japan
July 18, 1985: The Story Isn't Over
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda Bogin
The Magic Kingdom by Stanley Elkin
April 11, 1985: Hero of the Word
Using Biography by William Empson
Collected Poems by William Empson
Sir William Empson: An Annotated Bibliography by Frank Day
December 20, 1984: The Godfather's Grandfather
The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga, translated by Raymond Rosenthal, with a new introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti
Mastro-Don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga, translated with an introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti
The She-Wolf and Other Stories by Giovanni Verga, translated with an introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti
October 25, 1984: Animated Paradox
Swift: The Man, his Works, and the Age Vol. I, Mr. Swift and his Contemporaries by Irvin Ehrenpreis
Swift: The Man, his Works, and the Age Vol. II, Dr. Swift by Irvin Ehrenpreis
Swift: The Man, his Works, and the Age Vol. III, Dean Swift by Irvin Ehrenpreis
July 19, 1984: Winter's Tales
Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories by Saul Bellow
May 31, 1984: Scrabbling in the 'Wake'
Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of Finnegans Wake by Vincent John Cheng
May 10, 1984: Royalty and Genius (letter)
April 12, 1984: The Joy and Malice of It All
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by John Payne, revised and annotated by Charles S. Singleton
September 29, 1983: Shaggy Dog Fable
Bluebeard: A Tale by Max Frisch, translated by Geoffrey Skelton
August 18, 1983: Joyce and Company
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch
June 16, 1983: Double Exposure
Ararat by D. M. Thomas
Tzili: The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Dalya Bilu
May 12, 1983: Mulligan Stew
A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner
April 14, 1983: Big Little Book
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
August 12, 1982: Public Faces
The Portage to San Cristòbal of A.H. by George Steiner
The Frog Who Dared to Croak by Richard Sennett
June 10, 1982: Shyster Saints
Take Five by D. Keith Mano
Dutch Shea, Jr. by John Gregory Dunne
April 29, 1982: Chance-taker
Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever
April 15, 1982: Desegregation (letter)
March 4, 1982: Jogging to the Abyss
All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman
March 4, 1982: Baroque Reading (letter)
October 22, 1981: Just Plain Will
What Shakespeare Read-and Thought by A.L. Rowse
Shakespeare and Tragedy by John Bayley
September 24, 1981: Ecstasy
Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts by Irving Lavin
March 5, 1981: Devil's Brew
The Egghead Republic: A Short Novel from the Horse Latitudes by Arno Schmidt, translated by Michael Horovitz, edited by Ernst Krawehl, edited by Marion Boyars
Evening Edged in Gold by Arno Schmidt, translated by John E. Woods
February 5, 1981: The Cold Comedian
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim
December 18, 1980: Nabokov's Show
Lectures on Literature: British, French, and German Writers by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Fredson Bowers, with an introduction by John Updike
August 14, 1980: Moravia's Victims
Time of Desecration by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson
June 26, 1980: One Man's Milton
Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry by Louis L. Martz
October 25, 1979: Unhappy Landings
Cannibals and Missionaries by Mary McCarthy
September 28, 1978: Blue Sheep Zen
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya by George B. Schaller
November 24, 1977: The Hobbit Habit
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
September 29, 1977: The Scholarly Life (letter)
June 23, 1977: Wandering in Wayes Unknowne
The Analogy of The Faerie Queene by James Nohrnberg
Spenser's Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination by Isabel G. MacCaffrey
May 27, 1976: The True Peru (letter)
March 18, 1976: Ancient Incas and Modern Revolution
January 22, 1976: A Cosmic and Practical Man
Findings and Keepings: Analects for an Autobiography by Lewis Mumford
October 16, 1975: Haunted Landscape
Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance by Vincent Scully
June 13, 1974: Good Trip
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
April 5, 1973: Can Venice Be Saved?
January 27, 1972: Attis Adonis Osiris Fitzgerald & Co.
Exiles from Paradise: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald by Sara Mayfield
Dear Scott/Dear Max: the Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence edited by John Kuehl, edited by Jackson Bryer
Living Well Is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins
The Golden Moment: The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Milton R. Stern
Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood by Aaron Latham
F. Scott Fitzgerald in His Own Time, a Miscellany edited by Matthew Bruccoli, edited by Jackson Bryer
May 20, 1971: The High Wire of Faith
The Art of Ecstasy: Teresa, Bernini, and Crashaw by Robert T. Petersson
April 22, 1971: Brautigan Was Here
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan
A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan
Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar (Three works in one volume), by Richard Brautigan
July 23, 1970: You Gotta Read Gadda
Acquainted with Grief by Carlo Emilio Gadda, translated by William Weaver
January 29, 1970: Breakdowns
A Family Romance by Richard Wollheim
Camden's Eyes by Austin Wright
Sick Friends by Ivan Gold
T Zero by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
September 25, 1969: "Ssh"
Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett
September 11, 1969: Shrinking Literature (letter)
April 10, 1969: Interfering with Literature
The Dynamics of Literary Response by Norman N. Holland
The Return of the Vanishing American by Leslie A. Fiedler
The Ordinary Universe by Denis Donoghue
June 6, 1968: Reviving Spenser
Spenser's World of Glass by Kathleen Williams
Spenser's Images of Life by C.S. Lewis, edited by Alastair Fowler
The Poetry of "The Faerie Queene" by Paul J. Alpers
Allegorical Imagery by Rosemond Tuve
Spenser's Image of Nature: Wild Man and Shepherd in "The Faerie Queene" by Donald Cheney
February 15, 1968: Isn't It Romantic?
Romantics at School by Morris Marples
The Mind of the European Romantics by H.G. Schenk
December 7, 1967: Only an Editor (letter)
October 26, 1967: Hospitality (letter)
October 12, 1967: Ajax's Sheep (letter)
August 24, 1967: Crier in the Wilderness
The Edward Dahlberg Reader edited with an Introduction by Paul Carroll
Epitaphs of Our Times: The Letters of Edward Dahlberg anonymously edited by Edwin Seaver
October 20, 1966: Restorations
The Unpossessed by Tess Slesinger, with an Afterword by Lionel Trilling
Towards a Better Life by Kenneth Burke
January 14, 1965: Nabokov's Game
The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, Translated from the Russian in collaboration with the author by Michael Scammel
December 3, 1964: Throwing up Absurd
Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Nova Express by William S. Burroughs
The Invention of Morel (and other stories from La Trama Celeste) by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Us He Devours by James B. Hall
October 22, 1964: Critical Cases
Joyce's Benefictions by Helmut Bonheim
Rilke, Valery and Yeats, the Domain of the Self by Priscilla Washburn Shaw
Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts by Maurice Beebe
July 9, 1964: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
What Time Collects by James T. Farrell
The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss
The President by R.V. Cassill
Fight Night on a Sweet Saturday by Mary Lee Settle
May 28, 1964: Love in the Western World (letter)
April 30, 1964: New Short Stories
Prize Stories 1964: The O. Henry Awards edited by Richard Poirier
Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme
Three: 1964 by R.H. Robinson, by E.R. Widmer, by E. Pohoryles
Emblems of Conduct by Donald Windham
Behold Goliath by Alfred Chester
April 16, 1964: Two Philosophical Critics
Three Philosophilcal Novelists by Joseph Brennan
Wait Without Idols by Gabriel Vahanian
April 2, 1964: Hit and Miss
Second Skin by John Hawkes
A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker
March 5, 1964: Couldn't Put It Down
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
Von Ryan's Express by David Westheimer
Three Beds in Manhattan by George Simenon
January 23, 1964: Petit Guignol
The Wanting Seed and Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess
November 14, 1963: Three Novels
The Will by Harvey Swados
Cause for Wonder by Wright Morris
Confusions by Jack Ludwig
October 17, 1963: Nacht und Tag
The Benefactor by Susan Sontag
Books by Robert M. Adams
Shakespeare, the Four Romances (1989)
Decadent Societies (1983)
The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account (1983)
James Joyce: Common Sense and Beyond (1980)
The Lost Museum: Glimpses of Vanished Originals (1980)
After Joyce: Studies in Fiction After Ulysses (1977)
Bad Mouth: Fugitive Papers on the Dark Side (1977)
The Roman Stamp: Frame and Facade in Some Forms of Neo-Classicism (1974)
Proteus, His Lies, His Truth; Discussions of Literary Translation (1972)