The New York Review of Books

Getting High on the Himalayas

July 2, 2009

Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes by Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver, with maps and peak sketches by Dee Molenaar

On the Edge

May 29, 2008

A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill

The Trouble with Happiness

November 22, 2007

Tomorrow by Graham Swift

S & M at the Poles

September 27, 2007

Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy by David Crane

The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration by Sarah Moss

The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration by Simon Nasht

It Happened One Night

July 19, 2007

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

The Man Who Rowed Away

August 10, 2006

Rapids by Tim Parks

Talking About It by Tim Parks

The Best and the Brightest

March 23, 2006

One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey “The Kid” Ungar, the World’s Greatest Poker Player by Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson, with a foreword by Mike Sexton

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time by Michael Craig

Life Studies

February 10, 2005

Runaway by Alice Munro

A Double Bind

December 16, 2004

The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000 by Todd M. Endelman

A Double Thread: Growing Up English and Jewish in London by John Gross

Living Dangerously

April 8, 2004

Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead

Ted Hughes & Translation

December 18, 2003

Making It New

May 15, 2003

The Short Sharp Life of T.E. Hulme by Robert Ferguson

Wilfred Owen by Dominic Hibberd

A Light Black World

May 9, 2002

The Darkness and the Light by Anthony Hecht

Ice Capades

August 9, 2001

Barrow’s Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Downright Lunacy by Fergus Fleming

Antarctica: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance edited by Charles Neider

Let Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers by Michael H. Rosove

Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen

The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk by Jennifer Niven

In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic by Valerian Albanov

Great Exploration Hoaxes by David Roberts

The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti

The Prodigal Prodigy

April 12, 2001

Learning Human: Selected Poems Les Murray

Visions of Light

May 11, 2000

Tiepolo’s Hound by Derek Walcott

High Rollers

March 9, 2000

Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss by Frederick Barthelme, by Steven Barthelme

Memento Mori

September 24, 1998

The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford

Grave Matters: A Lively History of Death Around the World by Nigel Barley

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch

High Flier

January 15, 1998

Burning the Days: Recollection by James Salter

A Magnificent Failure

June 26, 1997

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

New Poet in Town

May 23, 1996

Ants on the Melon by Virginia Hamilton Adair

Learning from Las Vegas

January 11, 1996

The Luck Business: The Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America’s Gambling Explosion by Robert Goodman

The Black Book and the Mob: The Untold Story of the Control of Nevada’s Casinos by Ronald A. Farrell, by Carole Case

Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi

Casino a film directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi, by Martin Scorsese

Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn by John L. Smith

Lonely Passion

February 2, 1995

A Passion for Wings by Robert Wohl

Saint-Exupéry: A Biography by Stacy Schiff

Down & Out in Paris & London

October 10, 1991

Jean Rhys: Life and Work by Carole Angier

Sylvia Plath’s Biographers

December 7, 1989

Sylvia Plath: An Exchange

October 26, 1989

A Poet and Her Myths

September 28, 1989

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson

A Poet’s Reply

July 21, 1988

Witness

June 2, 1988

Czeslaw Milosz: The Collected Poems, 1931–1987

Among the Freaks

April 10, 1986

Children of Light by Robert Stone

Noble Poet

July 18, 1985

Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, translated by John Carpenter, by Bogdana Carpenter

Barbarian in the Garden by Zbigniew Herbert, translated by Michael March, by Jaroslaw Anders

Selected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, translated by Czeslaw Milosz, by Peter Dale Scott

Working in the Dark

April 11, 1985

The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth

God Knows by Joseph Heller

Tough Guys Don’t Dance by Norman Mailer

Games People Play

November 10, 1983

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis

The Cannibal Galaxy by Cynthia Ozick

Flushed with Ideas

May 13, 1982

Levitation: Five Fictions by Cynthia Ozick

Waking by Eva Figes

Enemies Within

February 4, 1982

The Age of Wonders by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Dalya Bilu

Past, Present, & Future

November 19, 1981

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

The Flute Player by D.M. Thomas

The Country by David Plante

Kesh & Loaning

May 15, 1980

A Fine Way With the Language

March 6, 1980

Field Work by Seamus Heaney

Fiedler Defense Fund

October 12, 1967

East Is East

November 11, 1965

Petrovka 38 by Julian Semyonov, translated by Michael Scammel

Island of Salvation by Wlodzimierz Odojewski, translated by David Welsh

A Sitter for a Satyr by George Andrzeyevski, translated by Celina Wieniewska

Ward 7 by Valeriy Tarsis, translated by Katya Brown

The Ice Age by Tamas Acezl

Postwar Polish Poetry selected and translated by Czeslaw Milosz

Spellbound

December 31, 1964

Film: The Creative Process by John Howard Lawson

Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear by John Russell Taylor

Behind the Screen by Kenneth Macgowan

Bread and Kvass

September 24, 1964

For the Good of the Cause by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We Never Make Mistakes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Excelsior!

July 30, 1964

Americans on Everest by James Ramsey Ullman

Four Against Everest by Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Mortal Longings

June 11, 1964

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

Report on Bruno by Joseph Breitbach

Keats

October 31, 1963

John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate

John Keats: The Making of a Poet by Aileen Ward