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Title	Author	Description
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.
Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg Moura	Nina Berberova Berberova	In this legendary biography, an unusual labor of love, Berberova paints a portrait of the ultimate survivor, a woman who made her life a triumph of fiction. Contributors: Marian Schwartz, Richard D. Sylvester
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist	Alexander Berkman Berkman	No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society, its homosexuality or extortion. No other political prisoner even remotely approaches Berkman's sympathy for what most of the revolutionaries refer to contemptuously as common criminals. Contributors: John William Ward
War and the Iliad War and the Iliad	Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff Bespaloff	These essays do more than prove the permanent relevance of Homer's great poem. They analyze the logic of war itself, and explore how intoxicating violence defines the human condition. Contributors: Christopher Benfey , Hermann Broch , Mary McCarthy
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Autobiography of an Unknown Indian	Nirad C. Chaudhuri Chaudhuri	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an astonishing work of self-discovery and the revelation of a peerless and provocative sensibility. Contributors: Ian Jack
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 Age of Conversation Age of Conversation	Benedetta Craveri Craveri	An award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them. Contributors: Teresa Waugh
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
Letters from Russia Letters from Russia	Astolphe de Custine Custine	The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries. Contributors: Anka Muhlstein
The World of Odysseus World of Odysseus	M.I. Finley Finley	The World of Odysseus provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Contributors: Bernard Knox