Robert M. Adams

Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.

A Self-Made Man

Writing Was Everything

by Alfred Kazin

October 5, 1995 issue

Wonderful Town?

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

by Ann Douglas

April 20, 1995 issue

Bloom’s All-Time Greatest Hits

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

by Harold Bloom

November 17, 1994 issue

Lighting Up Shakespeare

Essays, Mainly Shakespearean

by Anne Barton

September 22, 1994 issue

The Great Perhaps

Life Work

by Donald Hall

The Museum of Clear Ideas

by Donald Hall

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

by Sherwin B. Nuland

March 24, 1994 issue

Boys Will Be Boys

The Book of Guys

by Garrison Keillor

January 13, 1994 issue

Death in Montana

Young Men and Fire

by Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It

by Norman Maclean, engravings by Barry Moser

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

by Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It

a film directed by Robert Redford

January 28, 1993 issue

Cornering the Market

Arcadia

by Jim Crace

Nothing but Blue Skies

by Thomas McGuane

Leviathan

by Paul Auster

The Art of Hunger

by Paul Auster

December 3, 1992 issue

Fatal Triangles

A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare

by René Girard

July 16, 1992 issue

Frontier Fantasies

River of Traps: A Village Life University

by William deBuys and Alex Harris

Birds of Sorrow: Notes from a River Junction in Northern New Mexico

by Tom Ireland

A Garlic Testament

by Stanley Crawford

The Place Where Souls Are Born: A Journey to the Southwest

by Thomas Keneally, Introduction by Jan Morris

A History of the Jews in New Mexico

by Henry J. Tobias

Jews of the American West

edited by Moses Rischin, edited by John Livingston

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May 28, 1992 issue

Reading Nabokov

April 23, 1992 issue

Fall of Valor

Outerbridge Reach

by Robert Stone

March 26, 1992 issue

The Wizard of Lake Cayuga

Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years

by Brian Boyd

January 30, 1992 issue

Letter

Brian Boyd

Reading Nabokov

April 23, 1992 issue

The Floating Operetta

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

by Robert M. Pirsig

December 19, 1991 issue

A Good Minestrone

The Runaway Soul

by Harold Brodkey

November 21, 1991 issue

Herman Roth

June 13, 1991 issue

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life?

May 30, 1991 issue

The Reality Game

Patrimony: A True Story

by Philip Roth

May 16, 1991 issue

Letter

Philip Roth

Herman Roth

June 13, 1991 issue

Metropolitan Opera

The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities

by Richard Sennett

April 25, 1991 issue

Letter

Richard Sennett

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life?

May 30, 1991 issue

What De Gaulle Really Said

December 20, 1990 issue