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Title	Author	Description
Dante: Poet of the Secular World Dante	Erich Auerbach Auerbach	An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas. Contributors: Michael Dirda
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 Anatomy of Melancholy Anatomy of Melancholy	Robert Burton Burton	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. Contributors: William H. Gass
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 Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership Crisis of the Negro Intellectual	Harold W. Cruse Cruse	A landmark work of African-American thought written in a period of immense social ferment. Contributors: Stanley Crouch
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
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
The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters Voyage That Never Ends	Malcolm Lowry Lowry	A self-portrait of one of the 20th century's most compelling and tragic writers, The Voyage that Never Ends draws on Lowry's stories, several unfinished novels, poems, and letters to present a picture of the whole range his accomplishment to set alongside his masterpiece, Under the Volcano. Contributors: Michael Hofmann
In the Freud Archives In the Freud Archives	Janet Malcolm Malcolm	"In this brilliant and enjoyable book, a major crisis within one of the most important systems of ideas of our century is presented in the style of a movie vehicle for Jack Nicholson."?Anthony Quinton, The Times Literary Supplement