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The Buried Past

Memoirs 1989)

by Andrei Gromyko


Inventor of Modern Opera

Oeuvres

by Caron de Beaumarchais


The Pearl Fisher

The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography

by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate


Mighty Manchester

Infinite in All Directions

by Freeman J. Dyson


The Exile

In Search of J.D. Salinger

by Ian Hamilton


Rich Kids

Old Money: The Mythology of America's Upper Class

by Nelson Aldrich


The New England

Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era

by Peter Jenkins


Whose American Renaissance?

American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman

by F.O. Matthiessen

The American Renaissance Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1982-83

edited by Walter Benn Michaels, edited by Donald E. Pease

The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature

by Russell J. Reising

Ideology and Classic American Literature

edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, edited by Myra Jehlen

Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context

by Donald E. Pease

Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860

by Jane Tompkins

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

by David S. Reynolds

Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel

by Philip Fisher

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Every Eckermann His Own Man

“The NYR made it possible for those writers who don’t necessarily have to knock out instant Opinion pieces for money to develop themes that interested them or—the task of criticism—allowed them the space in which to illuminate the work of a forgotten or misunderstood writer.”

Selections from the first two issues of The New York Review of Books

with an introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick


A Star Is Born

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction

by Jean Starobinski, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, with an introduction by Robert J. Morrissey


The Sad Degas

Degas (September 27, 1988–January 8, 1989)

An exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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