Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was a writer and teacher. Among his books are On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from Howells to Faulkner, and the memoirs A Walker in the Cityand New York Jew. In 1996, he received the first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism from the Truman Capote Literary Trust.
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Laughter in the Dark
April 23, 1998
Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Sherman
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life by Janet Hadda
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God’s Own Terrorist
April 9, 1998
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
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The Long Voyage Home
November 20, 1997
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
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A Single Jew
October 9, 1997
Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work edited by Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco
The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux
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Struggles of a Prophet
June 26, 1997
The Actual by Saul Bellow
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A Genius of the Spiritual Life
April 18, 1996
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Hope for Labor
February 1, 1996
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The Polish Invasion?
August 10, 1995
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A Jew on Horseback
June 22, 1995
1920 Diary by Isaac Babel, edited and with an introduction and notes by Carol J. Avins, translated by H. T. Willetts
Collected Stories by Isaac Babel, translated by David McDuff
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Escape Artist
December 22, 1994
The Book of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman, translated by Betsy Rosenberg
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Her Holiness
December 1, 1994
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The Way We Live Now
April 22, 1993
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes
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Love at Harvard
January 28, 1993
Love’s Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray by Forrest G. Robinson
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The Middle Way
December 17, 1992
Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike
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The Opera of ‘The Scarlet Letter’
October 8, 1992
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Reading Henry Roth
December 5, 1991
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The Art of ‘Call It Sleep’
October 10, 1991
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American Gothic
November 23, 1989
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Fallen Creatures
November 5, 1987
Rock Springs: Stories by Richard Ford
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Trachtenberg the Brain King
July 16, 1987
More Die Of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow
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Mencken and the Great American Boob
February 26, 1987
The DreiserMencken Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser & H.L. Mencken, 19071945 Vol. I and II, edited by Thomas P. Riggio
Mencken and Sara, A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
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Covering Washington
November 20, 1986
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An Exchange on Ezra Pound
October 9, 1986
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In Washington
May 29, 1986
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The Fascination and Terror of Ezra Pound
March 13, 1986
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New York: The Writer in the Powerhouse
October 10, 1985
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‘Not One of Us’
June 14, 1984
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A Nymph of the New
March 29, 1984
Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World by Barbara Guest
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The Exceptional William James
November 10, 1983
A Stroll with William James by Jacques Barzun
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Lincoln’s ‘Asiatic Style’
June 30, 1983
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Saving the Free World: An Exchange
May 12, 1983
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Saving My Soul at the Plaza
March 31, 1983
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Feminism & Hannah Arendt
October 21, 1982
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Woman in Dark Times
June 24, 1982
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
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The Father of Us All
January 21, 1982
Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen
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Easy Come, Easy Go
November 19, 1981
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
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One of Us?
November 5, 1981
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The Battler
April 16, 1981
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961 edited by Carlos Baker
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Restoring ‘Sister Carrie’
February 19, 1981
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The Plot Thickens
March 20, 1980
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Ford’s Modern Romance
November 22, 1979
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
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Boycott Taba
October 11, 1979
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Missing Connections
December 21, 1978
The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Philip Simpson
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Appeal for Kofi Awoonor
September 30, 1976
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Detained in Ghana
March 4, 1976
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“Your Lone and Loving Exile”
January 23, 1975
Henry James: Letters Volume I, 1843-1875 edited by Leon Edel
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Tolstoy and His Quaker
November 28, 1974
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No Thank You, Mr. President
December 13, 1973
The Imperial Presidency
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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Fiction and America
May 17, 1973
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O’Hara, Cheever & Updike
April 19, 1973
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Melville the New Yorker
April 5, 1973
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Ford’s Better Idea
January 25, 1973
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New York Jew
December 14, 1972
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Man of State
November 2, 1972
Memoirs 1950-1963 by George F. Kennan
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Crisis in the NY Public Library
June 29, 1972
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Displaced Person
December 30, 1971
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
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Women Writers Are People
June 3, 1971
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The Confidence of FDR
May 20, 1971
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
by James MacGregor Burns
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The World as a Novel: From Capote to Mailer
April 8, 1971
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Heroines
February 11, 1971
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School of the Arts
January 7, 1971
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Though He Slay Me…
December 3, 1970
Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow
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The Great American Poet
October 22, 1970
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Our Flag
July 2, 1970
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History and Henry Adams: II
November 6, 1969
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History and Henry Adams
October 23, 1969
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Josephine Herbst (1897–1969)
March 27, 1969
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Protest
March 27, 1969
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Up Against the Wall, Mama!
February 27, 1969
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
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Stephen Crane, Inc.
December 5, 1968
Stephen Crane: A Biography by R.W. Stallman
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The Ghost Sense
October 24, 1968
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Violence in Oakland
May 9, 1968
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Bellow’s Purgatory
March 28, 1968
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History as LBJ
December 1, 1966
Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power by Rowl Evans, by Robert Novak
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On Perry Miller
November 25, 1965
The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War by Perry Miller
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The Bridge
July 15, 1965
Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol
by Alan Trachtenberg
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Radicals and Intellectuals
May 20, 1965
The New Radicalism in America, 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type by Christopher Lasch
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Impressionist of Power
January 14, 1965
Henry Adams: The Major Phase by Ernest Samuels
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The Vicar of Christ
March 19, 1964
The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth, Translated from the German by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
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The Sweet Music of Dwight D. Eisenhower
November 14, 1963
Mandate for Change, 1953-1956. The White House Years, Volume I by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Literary Realism
June 1, 1963
Documents of Modern Literary Realism edited by George J. Becker
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Russian Sketches
February 1, 1963
Voices in the Snow by Olga Carlisle