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Food of the Gods

The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art 17–August 24, 1986), and the Cleveland Museum of Art (October 8–December 14, 1986)

An exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (May

The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Worth)

by Linda Schele and Mary Ellen Miller


Mencken and the Great American Boob

The Dreiser–Mencken Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser & H.L. Mencken, 1907–1945

Vol. I and II, edited by Thomas P. Riggio

Mencken and Sara, A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt

edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers


Southern Gentleman

Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter annotated with the assistance of Susan W. Walker)

(with "The Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin, 1822–1890," edited and and Theodore Rosengarten


Writers at Play

The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties

by Alasdair Gray

Saints and Strangers

by Angela Carter


When the Atom Broke Down

Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World

by Abraham Pais


The Judgment of Paris

Le Musée d'Orsay

1, rue de Bellechasse, Paris

Le Triomphe des mairies 8, 1987)

An exhibition at the Petit Palais, Paris, (November 8, 1986–January, Catalog by Thérèse Burollet and Daniel Imbert and Frank Folliot

Les Concours d'esquisses peintes, 1816–1863 1986–December 14, 1986), and the National Academy of Design, New York (January 13, 1987–March 15, 1987).

An exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (October 8,, Catalog by Philippe Grunchec


The Luck of the Irish

The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse

edited by Thomas Kinsella

The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry

edited by Paul Muldoon


The Press on Trial

Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time

by Renata Adler


A Sad Heart at the Supermarket

Rating America's Corporate Conscience

by Steven D. Lydenberg and Alice Tepper Martin and Sean O'Brien Strub. the Council on Economic Priorities


The Century of Revolution

Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640–1660

by Gerald E. Aylmer

Authority and Conflict: England, 1603–1658

by Derek Hirst

Faction and Parliament: Essays on Early Stuart History

edited by Kevin Sharpe

Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603–1660

by David Underdown

Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London

by Paul S. Seaver

Order and Disorder in Early Modern England

edited by A. Fletcher, edited by J. Stevenson

Parliamentary Selection: Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England

by Mark Kishlansky

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