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Roger Shattuck

Roger Shattuck (1923–2005) was an American writer and scholar of French culture. He taught at Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University, where he was named University Professor. His books includeForbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography.

In the Thick of Things

Malraux: A Life

by Olivier Todd, translated from the French by Joseph West

André Malraux: A Biography

by Curtis Cate

Signed, Malraux

by Jean-François Lyotard,translated from the French by Robert Harvey

Communism and the French Intellectuals, 1914–1960

by David Caute

Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism

by Daniel Aaron

Paris Journal, 1944–1965

by Janet Flanner (Genêt), edited by William Shawn

L'État culturel: Une religion moderne (The Culture State: Essay on a Modern Religion)

by Marc Fumaroli

Mona Lisa's Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture

by Herman Lebovics

The God That Failed

edited by R.H.S. Crossman

Malraux and Corniglion-Molinier in Search of Sheba: An Arabian Adventure

by Walter G. Langlois

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May 26, 2005 issue

Tumult in the Clouds

Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention

by Peter L. Jakab

Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War

by Richard P. Hallion

To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight

by James Tobin

Progress in Flying Machines

by Octave Chanute

Les Avions de la Grande Galerie

Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace

The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age

by Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab

First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane

by T.A. Heppenheimer

The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright

edited by Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young

How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History

by Orville Wright, edited by Fred C. Kelly

Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

by Paul Hoffman

Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane

by Seth Shulman

Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight

by William Langewiesche

No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport

by Joshua Cooper Ramo

North Star over My Shoulder: A Flying Life

by Bob Buck

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November 6, 2003 issue

Farce & Philosophy

Farce & Philosophy

Stories & Remarks

by Raymond Queneau, with a preface by Michel Leiris, translated and with an introduction by Marc Lowenthal

The Bark Tree[Le Chiendent]

by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Barbara Wright

Odile

by Raymond Queneau,translated from the French by Carol Sanders

Raymond Queneau (1985)

by Allen Thiher

Exercises in Style

by Raymond Queneau,translated from the French by Barbara Wright

Zazie[Zazie dans le métro]

by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Barbara Wright

å?uvres complètes, Volume One

by Raymond Queneau, edited by Claude Debon

We Always Treat Women Too Well [On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes]

by Raymond Queneau. translated from the French by Barbara Wright

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February 22, 2001 issue

Decline and Fall?

Decline and Fall?

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present

by Jacques Barzun

June 29, 2000 issue

The Threat to Proust

A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 1

by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié

A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 2

by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié

A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 3

by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié

A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 4

by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié

Marcel Proust

by Edmund White

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March 18, 1999 issue

Confidence Man

Duchamp: A Biography

by Calvin Tomkins

The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture

by Jerrold Seigel

The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp, and Avant-Gardism

by Jeffrey Weiss

The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp

edited by Thierry de Duve

New York Dada 1915-23

by Francis M. Naumann

Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York

edited by Francis M. Naumann, with Beth Venn. Catalog of the Whitney Museum exhibition, which closed on February 23.

Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Esthetics

by Heather Busch and Burton Silver

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March 27, 1997 issue

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