Ireland: ‘A Terrible Beauty Is Born’
Roy Foster’s ‘Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923’
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923
by R.F. Foster
April 7, 2016 issue
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Ireland: ‘A Terrible Beauty Is Born’
Roy Foster’s ‘Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923’
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923
by R.F. Foster
April 7, 2016 issue
Coming in from the Cold
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
by Jonathan Franzen
October 19, 2006 issue
The World Seen and Half-Seen
The Hill Bachelors
by William Trevor
Death in Summer (1998)
by William Trevor
After Rain (1996)
by William Trevor
Excursions in the Real World (1994)
by William Trevor
Felicia's Journey (1994)
by William Trevor
The Collected Stories (1993)
by William Trevor
Two Lives (1991)
by William Trevor
Nights at the Alexandra (1987)
by William Trevor
Fools of Fortune (1983)
by William Trevor
February 22, 2001 issue
The Fabulous Yeats Boys
Jack Yeats
by Bruce Arnold
The Life of W.B. Yeats
by Terence Brown
Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats
by Brenda Maddox
May 11, 2000 issue
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
November 18, 1999 issue
Frost: The Icon and the Man
Robert Frost: A Life
by Jay Parini
Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin
by Robert Faggen
October 21, 1999 issue
Lover of Lost Causes
Canaan
by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph of Love
by Geoffrey Hill
May 20, 1999 issue
The Myth of W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats: A Life
Volume I: The Apprentice Mage and R.F. Foster
The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats
Volume II: 1896-1900, edited by Warwick Gould and John Kelly and Deirdre Toomey
February 19, 1998 issue
The Supreme Fiction
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry
by Helen Vendler
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
by Helen Vendler
The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition
by Helen Vendler
November 28, 1996 issue
The Myths of Robert Graves
Robert Graves and the White Goddess, 1940–1985
by Richard Perceval Graves
Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
by Miranda Seymour
Robert Graves: His Life and Work
revised and extended edition. and Martin Seymour-Smith
April 4, 1996 issue
The Philosopher of Selfless Love
Emmanuel Levinas
by Marie-Anne Lescourret
In the Time of the Nations
by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Michael B. Smith
Outside the Subject
by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Michael B. Smith
Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures
by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Gary D. Mole
March 21, 1996 issue
Kicking the Air
How Late it Was, How Late
by James Kelman
The Dead School
by Patrick McCabe
Walking the Dog and Other Stories
by Bernard MacLaverty
June 8, 1995 issue
The Magic of W.B. Yeats
Yeats's 'Vision' Papers, Volume 1: The Automatic Script: 5 November 1917–18 June 1918
General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Steve L. Adams and Barbara J. Frieling and Sandra L. Sprayberry
Yeats's 'Vision' Papers, Volume 2: The Automatic Script: 25 June 1918–29 March 1920
General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Steve L. Adams and Barbara J. Frieling and Sandra L. Sprayberry
Yeats's 'Vision' Papers, Volume 3: Sleep and Dream Notebooks, 'Vision' Notebooks 1 and 2, Card File
General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Robert Anthony Martinich and Margaret Mills Harper
The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893–1938
edited by Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares
Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art
by M.L. Rosenthal
Yeats and Artistic Power
by Phillip L. Marcus
April 21, 1994 issue
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