Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His books include Literature and the Taste of Knowledge and Yeats and Violence
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The Question of Shakespeare’s Prejudices
December 22, 2011
Shakespeare, Sex, and Love
by Stanley Wells
Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson
The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time
by Robert Brustein
Shakespeare’s Freedom
by Stephen Greenblatt
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The Victorious Servant
July 15, 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America
by Peter Carey
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The Fat Man’s Vengeance
May 13, 2010
Solar
by Ian McEwan
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A Passage to England
March 11, 2010
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
by Zadie Smith
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What Happened at Gordita Beach?
September 24, 2009
Inherent Vice
by Thomas Pynchon
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The Not-So-Good Cop
May 14, 2009
Crime
by Irvine Welsh
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The Passionate Egoist
April 17, 2008
The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters
by Malcolm Lowry, edited by Michael Hofmann
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The Power of the Prickly Pear
June 14, 2007
The Eagle’s Throne
by Carlos Fuentes, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero
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The Far Side of Fiction
November 2, 2006
A Temple of Texts
by William H. Gass
The Tunnel: An Audio Book
by William H. Gass, read by William H. Gass
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Parables of a Violent World
December 15, 2005
Europe Central
by William T. Vollmann
Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader
edited by Larry McCaffery and Michael Hemmingson
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Don’t Cry for Me, Guatemala
February 24, 2005
The Divine Husband
by Francisco Goldman
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Taking Reality by Surprise
November 4, 2004
The Dreamers a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael
by Frances Davis
Godard: Portrait of the Artist at Seventy
by Colin MacCabe
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Experience’s Ghosts
June 12, 2003
The Story of Our Lives, with The Monument and The Late Hour
by Mark Strand
Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti, and Songs from the Quechua
translated by Mark Strand
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Master Among the Ruins
July 18, 2002
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis,translated from the Portugueseby Gregory Rabassa
Quincas Borba
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa
Dom Casmurro
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson
Esau and Jacob
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
by Roberto Schwarz, translated from the Portuguese and with an introduction by John Gledson
Machado de Assis: Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer
edited by Richard Graham
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Girls with Green Hair
March 14, 2002
Portrait in Sepia
by Isabel Allende,translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
Leaving Tabasco
by Carmen Boullosa, translated from the Spanish by Geoff Hargreaves
Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire
by José Manuel Prieto,translated from the Spanish by Carol and Thomas Christensen
Our Lady of the Assassins
by Fernando Vallejo, translated from the Spanish by Paul Hammond
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Dog Days
September 20, 2001
Amores Perros a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, written by Guillermo Arriaga
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Nabokov on the Wing
June 21, 2001
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov–Wilson Letters, 1940–1971 edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Simon Karlinsky
Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates
Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, with new translations from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov
Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) Stacy Schiff
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Eyes Wide Open
March 9, 2000
Why Read the Classics?
by Italo Calvino, Translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin
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Keeping the Reader Alive
December 2, 1999
Remembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic, and Teacher Randall Jarrell
by Mary von Schrader Jarrell
No Other Book: Selected Essays
by Randall Jarrell, edited and with an introduction by Brad Leithauser
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Tight Little Island
June 24, 1999
The Spell
by Alan Hollinghurst
England, England
by Julian Barnes
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The Art of Losing
February 18, 1999
Evening
by Susan Minot
Model Behavior
by Jay McInerney
The Evolution of Jane
by Cathleen Schine
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On the Love Boat
July 16, 1998
Identity
by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman
A Lover’s Almanac
by Maureen Howard
The Red Hat
by John Bayley
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Revisiting Lolita
March 26, 1998
Lolita a film directed by Adrian Lyne
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Looking Good
November 20, 1997
Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood by Todd McCarthy
Who the Devil Made It by Peter Bogdanovich
The Big Sleep
by David Thomson
Howard Hawks American Artist edited by Jim Hillier, by Peter Wollen
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Monsieur Verdoux in Color
September 25, 1997
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Perseverance to the Point of Madness
July 17, 1997
Charlie Chaplin and His Times by Kenneth S. Lynn
Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin
by Joyce Milton
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Hollywood: Money That Dreams Can’t Buy
March 6, 1997
Monster: Living Off the Big Screen by John Gregory Dunne
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The Lying Game
November 28, 1996
The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré
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Other People’s Wives
October 17, 1996
John’s Wife by Robert Coover
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
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Up to the Minutiae
June 20, 1996
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker
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Terror in the Mountains
May 9, 1996
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
March 21, 1996
The Postman (II Postino) a film directed by Michael Radford
The Postman by Antonio Skármeta, translated by Katherine Silver
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God’s Country
February 29, 1996
In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike
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Sleepless Nights
December 21, 1995
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Horror of Horrors
October 19, 1995
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne a film directed by Taylor Hackford
Rose Madder by Stephen King
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Stumbles and Mumbles
May 11, 1995
Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando, by Robert Lindsey
Brando: The Biography by Peter Manso
Don Juan DeMarco a film written and directed by Jeremy Leven
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Free of the Bad Old World
December 1, 1994
None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer
Rereading Nadine Gordimer
by Kathrin Wagner
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Agile Among the Tombs
July 14, 1994
The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino, translated by Tim Parks
Prima che tu dica ‘Pronto’ by Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
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Lost Paradises
March 3, 1994
Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said
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Outside the Shady Octopus Saloon
May 27, 1993
Hotel Lautréamont
by John Ashbery
The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
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Life Studies
November 19, 1992
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
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Austere Fireworks
July 16, 1992
Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Federico García Lorca, edited by Christopher Maurer
Four Puppet Plays, ‘Play Without a Title,’ The Divan Poems and Other Poems, Prose Poems and Dramatic Pieces
by Federico García Lorca, translated by Edwin Honig
Line of Light and Shadow: The Drawings of Federico García Lorca by Mario Hernández, translated by Christopher Maurer
The House of Bernarda Alba a film directed by Nuria Espert, by Stuart Burge, produced by Holmes for Channel 4
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Easy Living
March 26, 1992
High Cotton
by Darryl Pinckney
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
October 24, 1991
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Alfred Mac Adam
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero
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No Sorrow Left Unturned
March 7, 1991
The Palace of the White Skunks
by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Andrew Hurley
Old Rosa
by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Ann Tashi Slater, by Andrew Hurley
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Bleistein and Mr. Eliot
February 15, 1990
T.S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks
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The Genius of San Jerónimo
October 13, 1988
A Sor Juana Anthology translated by Alan S. Trueblood, foreword by Octavio Paz
Sor Juana: or, The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
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Heartsick
April 28, 1988
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
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Tight Little Island
October 22, 1987
Coasting by Jonathan Raban
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No Success Like Failure
May 7, 1987
Selected Essays of R.P. Blackmur edited and with an introduction by Denis Donoghue
Wayward Skeptic: The Theories of R.P. Blackmur by James T. Jones
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Broken Blossoms
March 27, 1986
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Alfred MacAdam
Farewell to the Sea
by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Andrew Hurley
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Ah, the Fredonna Tree
July 18, 1985
A Certain Lucas by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden by Heberto Padilla, translated by Andrew Hurley
A House in the Country by José Donoso, translated by David Pritchard, by Suzanne Jill Levine
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The Backlands Rebellion
February 28, 1985
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane
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A Traveling Man
December 6, 1984
D.W. Griffith: An American Life by Richard Schickel
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Haunted Places
August 16, 1984
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
Waterland by Graham Swift
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Odor and Ardor
June 28, 1984
Infante’s Inferno by G. Cabrera Infante, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine with the author
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The Love Songs of Alfred J. Hitchcock
April 26, 1984
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto
Hitchcock by Bruno Villien
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Farewell Buñuel
November 10, 1983
My Last Sigh by Luis Buñuel, translated by Abigail Israel
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Beautiful and Damned
December 2, 1982
Baudelaire the Damned: A Biography by F.W.J. Hemmings
Baudelaire’s Literary Criticism by Rosemary Lloyd
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Richard Howard
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Living Nightmares
June 10, 1982
Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Films by John Simon
Fritz Lang in America fall) by Peter Bogdanovich
Hawks on Hawks
by Joseph McBride
Polanski: The Filmmaker as Voyeur, a Biography by Barbara Leaming
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Fun in the Waste Land
May 27, 1982
Looking for Laforgue: An Informal Biography by David Arkell
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Challenge
March 4, 1982
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One Mo’ Time
January 21, 1982
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage by Stanley Cavell
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In the Latino Americano Mirror
October 22, 1981
Macho Camacho’s Beat by Luis Rafael Sánchez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Emperor of the Amazon by Márcio Souza, translated by Thomas Colchie
Burnt Water
by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sábato, translated by Helen R. Lane
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It’s the Argument
August 13, 1981
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Comedy of Ignorance
April 30, 1981
Rockaby and Other Short Pieces by Samuel Beckett
Company by Samuel Beckett
Just Play: Beckett’s Theater by Ruby Cohn
Frescoes of the Skull: The Later Prose and Drama of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson, by John Pilling
Beckett and the Voice of Species: A Study of the Prose Fiction by Eric P. Levy
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In the Museum of Strangeness
March 19, 1981
The Autobiography of Surrealism edited by Marcel Jean
From Enchantment to Rage: The Story of Surrealist Cinema by Steven Kovács
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Children of Paradise
December 4, 1980
Theater and Revolution: The Culture of the French Stage by Frederick Brown
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Taking Brecht’s Measure
May 15, 1980
Brecht: A Biography by Klaus Völker, translated by John Howell
Poems 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett, edited by Ralph Manheim, with the cooperation of Erich Fried
Diaries 1920-1922 by Bertolt Brecht, edited by Herta Ramthun, translated by John Willett
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The Great Game
April 17, 1980
A Night of Serious Drinking by René Daumal, translated by David Coward, by E.A. Lovatt
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The Claims of Mischief
January 24, 1980
The Buenos Aires Affair by Manuel Puig, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, translated by Thomas Colchie
In Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ
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Harking and Barking
November 8, 1979
On Not Being Good Enough: Writings of a Working Critic by Roger Sale
Celebrations and Attacks: Thirty Years of Literary and Cultural Commentary by Irving Howe
The Good Word and Other Words by Wilfrid Sheed
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Bangs and Whimpers
October 11, 1979
Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Coppola
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Forbidden Fruit
May 31, 1979
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille, translated by Harry Mathews
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Memorial for F.W. Dupee
May 3, 1979
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Vulgar Marxism
March 8, 1979
Groucho by Hector Arce
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‘This is not the end of the world’
January 25, 1979
The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard
The Best American Short Stories 1978 edited by Ted Solotaroff, edited by Shannon Ravenel
I, etcetera by Susan Sontag
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The Insulted and the Injured
December 21, 1978
César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence by Jean Franco
Poesía completa by César Vallejo
Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz, translated by W. S. Merwin
“Harsh World” and Other Poems by Angel González, translated by Donald D. Walsh
Muestra by Angel González
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The Not So Light Fantastic
October 12, 1978
Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
A Manual for Manuel by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa
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Allen’s Alley
June 29, 1978
On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy by Eric Lax
Woody Allen: A Biography by Lee Guthrie
Woody Allen’s Play It Again Sam edited by Richard J. Anobile
Non-Being and Somethingness: Selections from the Comic Strip Inside Woody Allen drawn by Stuart Hample
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Calculated Risks
June 1, 1978
Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems by John Hollander
A Call in the Midst of the Crowd by Alfred Corn
The Selected Poems: 1951-1977
by A. R. Ammons
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What Joyce Meant
April 20, 1978
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Nothing Sacred
April 20, 1978
Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
The World According to Garp by John Irving
An American Romance by John Casey
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Separating the Chypre from the Ghosts
April 6, 1978
Eastward Ha!
by S.J. Perelman
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Joyce’s Influenza
March 9, 1978
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Buñuel’s Private Lessons
February 23, 1978
That Obscure Object of Desire a film directed by Luis Buñuel
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Molière in New York
December 8, 1977
Tartuffe by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur, directed by Stephen Porter
The Misanthrope by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur, directed by Bill Gile
The Learned Ladies by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur
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The Lorca Murder Case
November 24, 1977
García Lorca: Playwright and Poet
by Mildred Adams
García Lorca, Asesinado: Toda la verdad by José Luis Vila-San-Juan
Federico García Lorca: Murder in Granada directed by Humberto Lopez y Guerra
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Joyce’s Influenza
October 13, 1977
James Joyce in Padua edited by Louis Berrone
Afterjoyce: Studies in Fiction After Ulysses by Robert Martin Adams
“In the wake of the Wake” edited by Elliott Anderson, edited by David Hayman
The Consciousness of Joyce by Richard Ellmann
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A Heavy Legacy
September 15, 1977
Edith’s Diary
by Patricia Highsmith
The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood
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Writing from a Deceptive Continent
August 4, 1977
The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature selected and edited by Emir Rodríguez Monegal, with the assistance of Thomas Colchie
The Boom in Spanish American Literature Inter-American Relations by José Donoso, translated by Gregory Kolovakos
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Play It Again, Franz
June 23, 1977
Nonsense and Happiness by Peter Handke, translated by Michael Roloff
A Moment of True Feeling by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim
Three by Peter Handke by Peter Handke
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RSVP
June 9, 1977
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
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Fortune Hunting
May 12, 1977
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel
The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright
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A Fine Romance
April 14, 1977
The Secular Scripture by Northrop Frye
Spiritus Mundi by Northrop Frye
The Uses of Division by John Bayley
The Sovereign Ghost by Denis Donoghue
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Deconstructing Derrida
March 3, 1977
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Glas by Jacques Derrida
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The Not-So-Light Fantastic
January 20, 1977
Falstaff by Robert Nye
October Light by John Gardner
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
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Unhappy Dictators
December 9, 1976
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Reasons of State
by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Frances Partridge
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Endangered Species
November 11, 1976
The Takeover by Muriel Spark
Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys
Lovers and Tyrants by Francine du Plessix Gray
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The Ladies Vanish
September 30, 1976
The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore
Triptych by Claude Simon, translated by Helen R. Lane
Beard’s Roman Women by Anthony Burgess, with photographs by David Robinson
Moses: A Narrative by Anthony Burgess
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The Wild Blue Yonder
August 5, 1976
On Being Blue by William Gass
The Franchiser by Stanley Elkin
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Hi ho, Silver!
July 15, 1976
Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western by Will Wright
The Missouri Breaks directed by Arthur Penn
Buffalo Bill and the Indians directed by Robert Altman
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Hitchcock Laughs
June 24, 1976
The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock by Raymond Durgnat
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Robert A. Harris, by Michael S. Lasky
Family Plot directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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Eliot’s English Usage
June 10, 1976
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Crying for Attention
June 10, 1976
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
The 400 Eels of Sigmund Freud by A.G. Mojtabai
The Comatose Kids by Seymour Simckes
The Geek by Craig Nova
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The Struggles of T.S. Eliot
May 13, 1976
The Overwhelming Question: A Study of the Poetry of T. S. Eliot by Balachandra Rajan
Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot edited with an introduction by Frank Kermode
The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change
by Frank Kermode
T. S. Eliot by Stephen Spender
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Passions in Politics
April 29, 1976
1876 by Gore Vidal
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Heroine Addiction
April 1, 1976
Literary Women by Ellen Moers
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All Mixed Up
March 18, 1976
Seven Beauties directed by Lina Wertmüller
Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August directed by Lina Wertmüller
All Screwed Up directed by Lina Wertmüller
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Rules of the Game
March 4, 1976
Sade, Fourier, Loyola by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller
The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller
L’Empire des signes by Roland Barthes
S/Z by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
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“No, but I read the book.”
February 5, 1976
Barry Lyndon directed by Stanley Kubrick
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest directed by Milo Forman
The Story of Adèle H directed by François Truffaut
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Greatness and Melancholy
November 27, 1975
George Eliot: the Emergent Self by Ruby V. Redinger
Young Thomas Hardy by Robert Gittings
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Busy Work
November 13, 1975
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Coffee Break for Sisyphus
October 2, 1975
Structural Fabulation by Robert Scholes
Alternate Worlds by James Gunn
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
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Shaken Men
September 18, 1975
The Impossible Proof by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Michael Lebeck
The D’Arthez Case by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Michael Lebeck
To the Unknown Hero by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Ralph Manheim
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Goriot in Tokyo
June 12, 1975
Voices From the Japanese Cinema by Joan Mellen
Ozu: His Life and Films by Donald Richie
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Pictures From an Institution
May 15, 1975
Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill
Thurber: A Biography by Burton Bernstein
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In the Literary Jungle
April 17, 1975
A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers by Hugh Kenner
In Radical Pursuit: Critical Essays and Lectures by W.D. Snodgrass
A Map of Misreading by Harold Bloom
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Masquerades
March 20, 1975
Conversation in The Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Cobra by Severo Sarduy, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
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Play It Again, Sam
March 6, 1975
Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell
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Incomparable Empson
January 23, 1975
William Empson: The Man and His Work edited by Roma Gill
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Fiction in Extremis
November 28, 1974
The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark
The Connoisseur by Evan S. Connell Jr.
The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner by Berry Morgan
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Include Me Out
October 31, 1974
Hollywood by Garson Kanin
Wide-Eyed in Babylon by Ray Milland
Each Man in His Time by Raoul Walsh
Whatever Happened to Hollywood? by Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
Final Cut by Paul Sylbert
Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema
by Richard Corliss
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The Poetry of Neruda
October 3, 1974
Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, translated by Donald D. Walsh
Extravagaria by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid
Five Decades: A Selection (Poems: 1925-1970) by Pablo Neruda, edited and translated by Ben Belitt
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O Tempora! O Moors!
August 8, 1974
Count Julian
by Juan Goytisolo, translated by Helen R. Lane
Death, Sleep and the Traveler by John Hawkes
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Paradise Regained
June 13, 1974
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Hooked
June 13, 1974
My Life as a Man by Philip Roth
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Dazzling and Dizzying
May 16, 1974
Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde by Octavio Paz
Conjunctions and Disjunctions by Octavio Paz, translated by Helen R. Lane
The Bow and the Lyre by Octavio Paz, translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
Early Poems 1935-1955 by Octavio Paz, translated by Muriel Rukeyser. others
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Purgatorio
April 18, 1974
Paradiso by José Lezama Lima, translated by Gregory Rabassa
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Flirting With Disintegration
March 21, 1974
Loose Ends by Barbara Raskin
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Searches and Seizures
by Stanley Elkin
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
Nickel Mountain
by John Gardner
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Victims of Survival
February 7, 1974
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Oath by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel
Elsewhere, Perhaps by Amos Oz, translated in collaboration with the author by Nicholas de Lange
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Where the Wolf Howls
December 13, 1973
Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
Other Men’s Daughters by Richard Stern
Ninety-Two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane
The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso, translated by Hardie St. Martin, translated by Leonard Mades
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Movie Crazy
November 29, 1973
GWTW: The Making of “Gone With The Wind” by Gavin Lambert
The Citizen Kane Book: Raising Kane by Pauline Kael
The Citizen Kane Book: The Shooting Script by Herman J. Mankiewicz, by Orson Welles
“Casablanca,” Script and Legend by Howard Koch
More About “All About Eve” by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Magic Factory: How MGM Made “An American in Paris” by Donald Knox
The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book by Arlene Croce
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It’s Later than You Think
November 1, 1973
As If By Magic by Angus Wilson
Temporary Kings by Anthony Powell
The Plot That Thickened by P.G. Wodehouse
The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
All About Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
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Kissing Hitler
September 20, 1973
Norman Mailer by Richard Poirier
Marilyn by Norman Mailer. Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers
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Pound Notes
June 14, 1973
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Dancing in the Dark
May 31, 1973
The Vonnegut Statement: Essays on the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. edited by Jerome Klinkowitz, edited by John Somer
Between Time and Timbuktu or Prometheus 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye, Blue Monday by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Latins in Manhattan
April 19, 1973
The Eyes of the Interred by Miguel Angel Asturias, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Triple Cross: Novellas by Carlos Fuentes, by José Donoso, by Severo Sarduy, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, translated by Hallie D. Taylor
Diary of the War of the Pig by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Gregory Woodruff, translated by Donald A. Yates
62: A Model Kit by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Counselor Ayres’ Memorial by Machado de Assis, translated by Helen Caldwell
The Vampire of Curitiba and Other Stories by Dalton Trevisan, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Seven Voices: Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert by Rita Guibert, translated by Frances Partridge
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Rocketing to the Apocalypse
March 22, 1973
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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Seeing Bergman
March 8, 1973
Cries and Whispers directed by Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman Directs by John Simon
Encountering Directors by Charles Thomas Samuels
Deeper Into Movies by Pauline Kael
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Ezra Pound
February 8, 1973
The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner
A ZBC of Ezra Pound by Christine Brooke-Rose
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Great American Fragments
December 14, 1972
Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass
The Last Fair Deal Going Down by David Rhodes
Museums and Women and Other Stories
by John Updike
Sadness
by Donald Barthelme
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Tender Trousers
November 16, 1972
Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
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New Fall Fiction
October 19, 1972
House of All Nations by Christina Stead
Chimera by John Barth
The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner. originally scheduled for October; now to be published December 6
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Mod and Great
September 21, 1972
Fernando Pessoa: Selected Poems edited and translated by Peter Rickard
Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa translated by Edwin Honig
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Squish
August 10, 1972
To Smithereens by Rosalyn Drexler
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March by Frederic Tuten
The Taxi by Violette Leduc, translated by Helen Weaver
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Cunning Time
June 29, 1972
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
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Borges’s Surprise!
June 1, 1972
Doctor Brodie’s Report by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Selected Poems 1923-1967 by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. a bilingual edition
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Pique
May 4, 1972
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Betrayals
April 6, 1972
An Orange Full of Dreams by Antoni Gronowicz
How She Died by Helen Yglesias
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
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End of the Line
March 11, 1971
Last Things by C.P. Snow
Flats by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Dunfords Travels Everywheres by William Melvin Kelley
Blue Movie
by Terry Southern