John Wain | The New York Review of Books

Taking His Measure

September 24, 1987 issue

A World’s Beginning

Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic

by Richard Perceval Graves

June 25, 1987 issue

Letter

Laura (Riding) Jackson

Taking His Measure

September 24, 1987 issue

Just Good Friends

The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs. Thrale

by Mary Hyde

July 19, 1973 issue

Letter

Donald Greene

Please, Yale

October 4, 1973 issue

In Johnson’s Bear Hug

Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778 Editions, McGraw-Hill

edited by Charles McC. Weis, edited by Frederick A. Pottle

The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson, Vol. 2 Editions, McGraw-Hill

edited by Marshall Waingrow

Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing

by Paul Fussell

The Conversations of Dr. Johnson

edited by Raymond Postgate

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (Collected Works, Vol. IX)

by Samuel Johnson, edited by Mary Lascelles

Life of Savage

by Samuel Johnson, edited by Clarence Tracy

The History of Rasselas

by Samuel Johnson, edited by Geoffrey Tillotson, edited by Brian Jenkins

The Rambler (Collected Works, Vols. III, IV, V)

by Samuel Johnson, edited by W.J. Bate, edited by Albrecht B. Strauss

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August 12, 1971 issue

The Very Thing

Command, and I Will Obey You

by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson

Bad Debts

by Geoffrey Wolff

Lunar Landscapes

by John Hawkes

The Cost of Living Like This

by James Kennaway

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

by Jorge Amado, translated by Harriet de Onis

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February 26, 1970 issue

Women’s Work

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

by Jean Stafford

Bruno's Dream

by Iris Murdoch

A Compass Error

by Sybille Bedford

April 24, 1969 issue

Eating Fables

The Carnal Myth A Search into Classical Sensuality

by Edward Dahlberg

The Leafless American

by Edward Dahlberg, edited with an Introduction by Harold Billings

Edward Dahlberg: American Ishmael of Letters

edited with an Introduction by Harold Billings

January 2, 1969 issue

Puppeteers

The Three Suitors

by Richard Jones

Cocksure

by Mordecai Richler

Enderby

by Anthony Burgess

Love and Work

by Reynolds Price

August 22, 1968 issue

Trouble in the Family

The Manor

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Mimic Men

by V.S. Naipaul

Ergo

by Jakov Lind

October 26, 1967 issue

The Way of Some Flesh

The Vendor of Sweets

by R.K. Narayan

Delinquent Chacha

by Ved Mehta

June 29, 1967 issue

Versions of Pastoral

Shepherds of the Night

by Jorge Amado, translated by Harriet de Onis

Mother and Son: A Brazilian Tale

translated by Barbara Shelby, translated by Gilberto Freyre

In Orbit

by Wright Morris

May 4, 1967 issue

The Insulted and Injured

The Gates of the Forest

by Elie Wiesel, translated by Frances Frenaye

The Last Gentleman

by Walker Percy

The Night Visitor and Other Stories

by B. Traven

July 28, 1966 issue

A Singular Being

James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769

by Frederick A. Pottle

June 9, 1966 issue

Letter

Peter Kemeny

To Be Continued

July 7, 1966 issue

Making It New

Beautiful Losers

by Leonard Cohen

Hopscotch

by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa

The Soft Machine

by William S. Burroughs

April 28, 1966 issue

Dylan Thomas Today

Dylan Thomas, His Life and Work

by John Ackerman

The Days of Dylan Thomas

by Bill Read and Rollie McKenna

Dylan Thomas and Poetic Dissociation

by David Holbrook

February 25, 1965 issue