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D.J. Enright (1920–2002) was a British poet, novelist and critic. He held teaching positions in Egypt, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. In 1981 Enright was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
Life Is Beautiful
Lovers for a Day: New and Collected Stories
by Ivan Klíma, Translated from the Czech by Gerald Turner
January 20, 2000 issue
Czech Mates
I Served the King of England
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Paul Wilson
My First Loves
by Ivan Klíma, translated by Ewald Osers
Catapult: A Timetable of Rail, Sea, and Air Ways to Paradise
by Vladimír Páral, translated and with an introduction by William Harkins
Sins for Father Knox
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Kaca Polackova Henley
May 18, 1989 issue
Visions and Revisions
The Messiah of Stockholm
by Cynthia Ozick
Foe
by J.M. Coetzee
May 28, 1987 issue
Writers at Play
The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties
by Alasdair Gray
Saints and Strangers
by Angela Carter
February 26, 1987 issue
Bridges & Boundaries
The Monkey's Wrench
by Primo Levi, translated by William Weaver
To the Land of the Cattails
by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green
January 15, 1987 issue
Master of Horror
Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist
Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna
by Edward Timms
In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader
edited by Harry Zohn, with translations by Joseph Fabry and Max Knight and Karl F. Ross and Harry Zohn
Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
by Karl Kraus, edited and translated by Harry Zohn
November 6, 1986 issue
Special Subjects
Letter to Lord Liszt
by Martin Walser, translated by Leila Vennewitz
The Parable of the Blind
by Gert Hofmann, translated by Christopher Middleton
Across
by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim
August 14, 1986 issue
Chastisements
The Play of the Eyes
by Elias Canetti, Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
July 17, 1986 issue
Worlds of Wonder
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
What's Bred in the Bone
by Robertson Davies
February 27, 1986 issue
Depositions
A Maggot
by John Fowles
Foreign Land
by Jonathan Raban
Family and Friends
by Anita Brookner
December 5, 1985 issue
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