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Exile’s Return

Out of Place: A Memoir

by Edward W. Said


The Twisted Path to the Top

The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

by Nicholas Lemann


Mission Impossible

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

by Mark Bowden


The Tragicomic Dubliner

No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien

by Anthony Cronin

At Swim-Two-Birds

by Flann O'Brien


Ménage à Trois

Briefe 1925 bis 1975 und andere Zeugnisse

by Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, edited by Ursula Ludz


Just Say No

A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government

by Garry Wills


The Eye of the Beholder

On Beauty and Being Just

by Elaine Scarry


Not an Ideal Husband

On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece

by Stephen Minta

Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame

by Benita Eisler


Dutch Treat

Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626): Imperial Sculptor 1999-January 9, 2000. Museum, Los Angeles/ Zwolle: Waanders Publishers

an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, October 12,, Catalog of the exhibition by Frits Scholten


Lives of a Poet

Crux: The Letters of James Dickey

edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman

James Dickey: The Selected Poems

edited with an introduction by Robert Kirschten

The James Dickey Reader

edited by Henry Hart


The Way to Numerical Heaven

The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure

by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner, translated by Michael Henry Heim


Virgil the Great

Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid

by Michael C.J. Putnam

Virgil: His Life and Times

by Peter Levi

Virgil's Experience: Nature and History; Times, Names, and Places

by Richard Jenkyns

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