John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Parodies, which will be published in September. (April 2010)
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The Ultimate Reader
April 8, 2010
The Library at Night
by Alberto Manguel
A Reader on Reading
by Alberto Manguel
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A Constant Reader
May 14, 2009
Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
by Timothy W. Ryback
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‘Something Marvellous to Tell’
May 15, 2008
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
by John Updike
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Empson: Argufying Against Mufflement
October 25, 2007
William Empson, Volume II: Against the Christians
by John Haffenden
Selected Letters of William Empson
edited by John Haffenden
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A Scandal at the Villa Paradiso
April 12, 2007
All for Love
by Dan Jacobson
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The Genius of Ambiguity
March 23, 2006
William Empson, Volume 1: Among the Mandarins
by John Haffenden
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The Reader Strikes Back
November 29, 2001
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
by H.J. Jackson
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‘A Nice Pleasant Youth’
December 17, 1998
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron Rosenbaum
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The Case of the Loony Lexicographer
September 24, 1998
The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester
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A Garland of Ibids
March 5, 1998
The Footnote: A Curious History by Anthony Grafton
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Lessons of an Immoderate Master
June 26, 1997
F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism
by Ian MacKillop
F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography by G. Singh
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Marked Man
October 3, 1996
The Statement by Brian Moore
Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs
edited by Richard J. Golsan
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Keeping the Hard Gemlike Flame
November 2, 1995
Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue
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The Book of Books
June 9, 1994
The Columbia Encyclopaedia: Fifth Edition edited by Barbara A. Chernow, edited by George A. Vallasi
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Hollywood and the Holocaust
February 3, 1994
Schindler’s List A film directed by Steven Spielberg
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Trollope’s Comédie Humaine
April 8, 1993
Anthony Trollope
by Victoria Glendinning
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Shaw and Super-Shaw
December 21, 1989
Bernard Shaw Volume II: 18981918, The Pursuit of Power by Michael Holroyd
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Petit Maître
November 23, 1989
Letters of Max Beerbohm, 18921956 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis
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Star
February 18, 1988
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
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Unwrapping Edmund Wilson
November 10, 1983
The Forties
by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Leon Edel
The Portable Edmund Wilson edited by Lewis M. Dabney
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The Wise and Gentle Lamb
June 16, 1983
Young Charles Lamb 1775-1802 by Winifred F. Courtney
A Portrait of Charles Lamb by David Cecil
Companion to Charles Lamb: A Guide to People and Places 1750-1847 by Claude A. Prance
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Kolbe & Anti-Semitism
April 14, 1983
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Life Saving
February 17, 1983
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
A Man for Others: Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, in the Words of Those Who Knew Him by Patricia Treece
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Buddies
December 16, 1982
Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: A Correspondence edited by Mary Hyde
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The Wars of D.H. Lawrence
September 27, 1979
The Letters of D.H. Lawrence Volume 1: September 1901-May 1913 edited by James T. Boulton
D.H. Lawrence’s Nightmare: The Writer and His Circle in the Years of the Great War by Paul Delany
Lives and Letters: A.R. Orage, Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, and S.S. Koteliansky, 1906-1957 by John Carswell
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Poor People
May 22, 1969
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Lieutenants and Luftmenschen
April 24, 1969
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell
Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell Jr.
Pictures of Fidelman by Bernard Malamud
The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl
by Sholom Aleichem, Translated from the Yiddish by Tamara Kahana
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Life with Father
February 13, 1969
A Cab at the Door
by V.S. Pritchett
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Poverty Program
January 30, 1969
Charles Booth’s London selected and edited by Albert Fried, by Richard M. Elman
Charles Booth and the City edited with an Introduction by Harold W. Pfautz
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A Question of Upbringing
May 18, 1967
The Soldier’s Art by Anthony Powell
A Meeting by the River
by Christopher Isherwood
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In Darkest Manchester
December 29, 1966
Mrs. Gaskell by Arthur Pollard
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The Art of Agnon
November 3, 1966
Two Tales by S.Y. Agnon, translated by Walter Lever
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Kazin in the Thirties
December 23, 1965
Starting Out in the Thirties by Alfred Kazin
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Passionate Pilgrimage
October 28, 1965
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
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Un-English Activities
May 6, 1965
Lord Haw-Haw by J.A. Cole
The New Meaning of Treason by Rebecca West
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Waugh Revisited
December 3, 1964
A Little Learning by Evelyn Waugh
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Recent Fiction
September 10, 1964
The Plant, The Well, The Angel by Vassilis Vassilikos, translated by Edmund Keeley, by Mary Keeley
The Town Beyond the Wall by Elie Wiesel, translated by Stephen Becker
Death as a Way of Life by Francisco Ayala, translated by Joan MacLean
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Hard Times
April 16, 1964
The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
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Dissenting Opinion
November 28, 1963
A World More Attractive by Irving Howe
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Oy, Oy!
October 31, 1963
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Oy!
October 17, 1963
Idiots First by Bernard Malamud
The War of Camp Omongo by Burt Blechman
Seven Days of Mourning by L.S. Simckes