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The Fix

by Michael Massing

Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out

by Mike Gray


Silent Screams

Les Vampires (1915-1916)

a film directed by Louis Feuillade

Irma Vep (1996)

a film directed by Olivier Assayas

The Mystery of Irma Vep

a revival of the 1984 production by Charles Ludlum, directed by and starring Everett Quinton. at the Westside Theatre, New York


‘A Nice Pleasant Youth’

Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil

by Ron Rosenbaum


A Man Half Full

A Man in Full

by Tom Wolfe


Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!

Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995

edited by Jonathan W. Bernard

The Music of Elliott Carter, second edition

by David Schiff, foreword by Elliott Carter


Wise Man

Isaiah Berlin: A Life

by Michael Ignatieff

The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays

by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer


A Matter of Life and Death

Gain

by Richard Powers


Last Summer on the Vineyard

The Gun Runner's Daughter

by Neil Gordon

No Safe Place

by Richard North Patterson

Mackerel By Moonlight

by William F. Weld


Giant

Victor Hugo: A Biography

by Graham Robb

Shadows of a Hand: The Drawings of Victor Hugo

by Ann Philbin and Florian Rodari


New World Disorder

A World Transformed

by George Bush and Brent Scowcroft


Africa: The Hidden History

Africa: A Biography of the Continent

by John Reader


God in the Computer

The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention

by David F. Noble


William James & the Case of the Epileptic Patient

Genuine Reality: A Life of William James

by Linda Simon

William James Remembered

edited by Linda Simon

The Thought and Character of William James

by Ralph Barton Perry, with an introduction by Charlene Haddock Seigfried

Manhood at Harvard: William James and Others

by Kim Townsend

The Correspondence of William James

edited by Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley

Volume 4, 1856-1877

Volume 5, 1878-1884

Volume 6, 1885-1889

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Through the Looking-Glass

On Reflection 16-December 13, 1998.

by Jonathan Miller. catalog of an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, September

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