John Thompson is an English sociologist. He has published several studies of the media and communication in modern societies, including The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Mediaand Political Scandal: Power and Visibility in the Media Age.
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Absent Friends
May 29, 1986
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Ending on Paumanok
February 2, 1984
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Clubland
July 16, 1981
The Men’s Club
by Leonard Michaels
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Perilous Relations
October 23, 1980
A Soldier’s Embrace by Nadine Gordimer
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Hate in a Cold Climate
May 1, 1980
A Married Man by Piers Paul Read
The Pornographer by John McGahern
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Bankruptcy and Revolt
May 31, 1979
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
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Updike le Noir
December 21, 1978
The Coup by John Updike
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Robert Lowell 1917–1977
October 27, 1977
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Mended
November 25, 1976
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Old Campaigners
October 14, 1976
Sea Grapes by Derek Walcott
Leaping Clear and Other Poems by Irving Feldman
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Detained in Ghana
March 4, 1976
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Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
December 11, 1975
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At Least One Way
January 23, 1975
No Way
by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Sheila Cudahy
Touch the Water, Touch the Wind by Amos Oz. translated by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the author
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Caught Again
October 17, 1974
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
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Smile
October 4, 1973
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Last Testament
August 9, 1973
Recovery by John Berryman
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In Africa
September 23, 1971
Jungle Lovers by Paul Theroux
Farquharson’s Physique: And What It Did to His Mind by David Knight
The Wanderers by Ezekiel Mphahlele
This Earth, My Brother An Allegorical Tale of Africa by Kofi Awoonor
Bound to Violence
by Yambo Ouologuem, translated by Ralph Manheim
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Police Brutality
January 29, 1970
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An Alphabet of Poets
August 1, 1968
A Look Round the Estate by Kingsley Amis
Short Poems by John Berryman
Words by Robert Creeley
The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht
Woodwo by Ted Hughes
Body Rags by Galway Kinnell
The Harvester’s Vase by Ned O'Gorman
The Marches by James Scully
Iliad of Broken Sentences by Rosemary Tonks
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Too Important to Be New
April 11, 1968
Dark Star by Ronnie Dugger
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Only One-Seventh
November 9, 1967
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Early Wilson
September 28, 1967
A Prelude by Edmund Wilson
Galahad and I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson
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Good Man
August 3, 1967
Like a Conquered Province by Paul Goodman
Five Years by Paul Goodman
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The Professionals
June 15, 1967
Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal
When She Was Good by Philip Roth
Go to the Widow-Maker by James Jones
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Catching Up on Mailer
April 20, 1967
Cannibals and Christians by Norman Mailer
The Deer Park A Play by Norman Mailer
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Permafrost
January 26, 1967
Robert Frost, The Early Years, 1874-1915 by Lawrance Thompson
Selected Prose of Robert Frost edited by Hyde Cox, edited by Edward Connery Lathem
Interviews with Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem
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Poor Papa
April 28, 1966
Papa Hemingway
by A.E. Hotchner
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From Out of Nowhere
February 3, 1966
Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
by Stanley Elkin
The Nowhere City by Alison Lurie
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Matthiessen and Updike
December 23, 1965
At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen
Of the Farm by John Updike
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Corrective Critic
December 9, 1965
The Myth and the Powerhouse by Philip Rahv
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India: The Saints Go to War
October 14, 1965
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Poet’s Novel, Novel Poem
May 6, 1965
The (Diblos) Notebook by James Merrill
Two Brothers by Philip Toynbee
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The Stories of Peter Taylor
June 11, 1964
Miss Leonora When Last Seem by Peter Taylor
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Auden
April 2, 1964
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Auden Above the Snow Line
January 23, 1964
The Disenchanted Island: The Poetry of W. H. Auden: by Monroe K. Spears
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New Novels
February 1, 1963
Eternal Fire by Calder Willingham
Occasion for Loving by Nadine Gordimer
Sissie
by John A. Williams