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John Gross

John Gross (1935–2011) was an English editor and critic. From 1974 to 1981, he was editor of The Times Literary Supplement; he also served as senior book editor and critic at The New York Times. His memoir, A Double Thread, was published in 2001.

The Ultimate Reader

The Library at Night

by Alberto Manguel

A Reader on Reading

by Alberto Manguel

April 8, 2010 issue

A Constant Reader

A Constant Reader

Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life

by Timothy W. Ryback

May 14, 2009 issue

Marked Man

The Statement

by Brian Moore

Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs

edited by Richard J. Golsan

October 3, 1996 issue

The Book of Books

The Columbia Encyclopaedia: Fifth Edition

edited by Barbara A. Chernow, edited by George A. Vallasi

June 9, 1994 issue

Shaw and Super-Shaw

Bernard Shaw Volume II: 1898–1918, The Pursuit of Power

by Michael Holroyd

December 21, 1989 issue

Petit Maître

Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892–1956

edited by Rupert Hart-Davis

November 23, 1989 issue

Star

Oscar Wilde

by Richard Ellmann

February 18, 1988 issue

Unwrapping Edmund Wilson

The Forties

by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Leon Edel

The Portable Edmund Wilson

edited by Lewis M. Dabney

November 10, 1983 issue

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