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Ecstatic Truth

A Dark Stranger

by Julien Gracq, translated from the French by Christopher Moncrieff

Château d’Argol

by Julien Gracq, translated from the French by Louise Varèse

The Opposing Shore

by Julien Gracq, translated from the French by Richard Howard

Balcony in the Forest

by Julien Gracq, translated from the French and with a foreword by Richard Howard

June 28, 2018 issue

Moreau, C’est Nous

Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year

by Peter Brooks

December 7, 2017 issue

Under a Spell

Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897

an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, June 30–October 4, 2017; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, October 28, 2017–January 7, 2018

September 28, 2017 issue

The High Wire of Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau: A Life

by Claude Arnaud, translated from the French by Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell

November 24, 2016 issue

How He Helped Marriage Equality

November 20, 2014 issue

Forster in Love: The Story

Arctic Summer

by Damon Galgut

November 6, 2014 issue

I Do, I Do

‘Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality’ by David Boies and Theodore B. Olson

Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality

by Jo Becker

Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality

by David Boies and Theodore B. Olson

Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy

by Walter Frank

August 14, 2014 issue

Letter

David Blankenhorn

How He Helped Marriage Equality

November 20, 2014 issue

The Great Jean Giono

Hill of Destiny

by Jean Giono

Harvest

by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Henri Fluchère and Geoffrey Myers

To the Slaughterhouse

by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Norman Glass

The Malediction

by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Peter de Mendelssohn

The Horseman on the Roof

by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin

Journal—Poèmes—Essais

by Jean Giono

Oeuvres romanesque complètes, Vol. 1: Naissance de l’Odyssée, Colline, Un de Baumugnes, Regain, Solitude de la pitié, Le Grand Troupeau

by Jean Giono

Oeuvres romanesque complètes, Vol. 2: Jean le Bleu, Le Chant du monde, Que ma joie demeure, Batailles dans la montagne

by Jean Giono

Oeuvres romanesque complètes, Vol. 3: Pour saluer Melville, L’Eau vive, Un Roi sans divertissement, Noé, Fragments d’un paradis

by Jean Giono

Oeuvres romanesque complètes, Vol. 4: Angelo, Mort d’un personage, Le Hussard sur le toit, Le Bonheur fou

by Jean Giono

Oeuvres romanesque complètes, Vol. 5: Les Récits de la demi-brigade, Faust au village, Les Âmes fortes, Les Grands Chemins, Le Moulin de Pologne, L’Homme qui plantait des arbres, Une Aventure ou la foudre et le sommet, Hortense, Le Petit Garçon

by Jean Giono

Oeuvres romanesque complètes, Vol. 6: Deux Cavaliers de l’orage, Le Déserteur—Ennemonde et autres caractères, L’Iris de Suse, Récits inachevés: Cœurs, passions, caractères, Caractères, Dragoon, Olympe

by Jean Giono

Récits et essais

by Jean Giono

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June 5, 2014 issue

The Lost Novelist

Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns

by David Margolick

August 15, 2013 issue

Proust the Passionate Reader

Monsieur Proust’s Library

by Anka Muhlstein

April 4, 2013 issue

‘Why Didn’t You Kill Him?’

May We Be Forgiven

by A.M. Homes

November 22, 2012 issue

Is There a Good Way to Be Gay?

David M. Halperin’s ‘How To Be Gay’

How To Be Gay

by David M. Halperin

October 25, 2012 issue

Bold When It Counted

The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the ’50s, New York in the ’60s: A Memoir of Publishing’s Golden Age

by Richard Seaver, edited by Jeannette Seaver

April 5, 2012 issue

A Hungry Little Boy

“Pears had a special appeal for Balzac; he often kept bushels of them at home and could eat as many as forty or fifty in a day (one February he had 1,500 pears in his cellar).”

Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac

by Anka Muhlstein, translated from the French by Adriana Hunter

January 12, 2012 issue

The Rogue Genius

Malaparte: Vies et Légendes

by Maurizio Serra

Kaputt

by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno, with an afterword by Dan Hofstadter

The Skin

by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian by David Moore

October 27, 2011 issue

Paul Bowles: The Desert and Solitude

July 14, 2011 issue

‘The Finest Novel About World War I’

May 12, 2011 issue

The Panorama of Ford Madox Ford

Parade's End, Volume 1: Some Do Not...

by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Max Saunders

Parade's End, Volume 2: No More Parades

by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Joseph Wiesenfarth

March 24, 2011 issue

Letter

Max Saunders

‘The Finest Novel About World War I’

May 12, 2011 issue

The Beats: Pictures of a Legend

Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 2–September 6, 2010

August 19, 2010 issue

The Beats

Both Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs discovered late in life that making works of art is the way to get money. Literature just doesn’t do it. Speaking engagements pay, but eventually they become tiring—or one exhausts the market. Neither of the two had ever been money-mad, but old age requires a bit of a cushion. Burroughs turned to painting.

July 22, 2010