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The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat Tiger in the House	Carl Van Vechten Vechten	The erudite and charming Carl Van Vechten sings the praises of the most enigmatic of human companions in this witty, learned, and unabashedly opinionated book. Contributors: Stephen Budiansky
There You Are: Writings on Irish and American Literature and History There You Are	Thomas Flanagan Flanagan	In these essays and reviews, Flanagan reflects on past and present Irish history, on writers such as Yeats, O'Neill, Brian Moore, and O'Hara, as well as on Fitzgerald, Joyce, Mary McCarthy, Eugene O'Neill, Darcy O'Brien, Hemingway, and the films of John Ford. Contributors: Christopher Cahill
Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature Seduction and Betrayal	Elizabeth Hardwick Hardwick	Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life. Contributors: Joan Didion
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West Sacagawea's Nickname	Larry McMurtry McMurtry	Once again Larry McMurtry casts a keen and elegaic eye not only on the often harsh truths of the West, but also on the power of western illusions.
Reading and Writing: A Personal Account Reading and Writing	V.S. Naipaul Naipaul	In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer.
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties Part of Our Time	Murray Kempton Kempton	Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Contributors: David Remnick
Paris and Elsewhere Paris and Elsewhere	Richard Cobb Cobb	Collecting memoirs, portraits of favorite haunts, appreciations of Simenon and Queneau, René Clair and Brassaï, and including the famous polemic "The Assassination of Paris," Paris and Elsewhere shows us a France unglimpsed by tourists.
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren Lore and Language of Schoolchildren	Iona and Peter Opie Opie	The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Contributors: Marina Warner
Looking Back Looking Back	Baker	In these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, Russell Baker looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past.
The Liberal Imagination Liberal Imagination	Lionel Trilling Trilling	The great critic's masterwork makes a case for the necessity of the imaginative works in a society ever more worshipful of the liberal ideals of rationality and progress. "Trilling...shows how criticism, written with grace, style, and a self-questioning cast of mind, can itself become a form of literature, as well as a valuable contribution to how we think about society.—Morris Dickstein Contributors: Louis Menand