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Odd Man Out

Breaking with Moscow

by Arkady N. Shevchenko


Dear Delmore,

Letters of Delmore Schwartz

selected and edited by Robert Phillips, foreword by Karl Shapiro


B-flat Movie

To give Amadeus every benefit of the doubt, we might assume that the presentation of Mozart as a fool is an intended irony, and congratulate the director for having chosen the best way to fail with an insoluble problem.

Amadeus

a film written by Peter Shaffer, directed by Milos Forman


Progress of a Revolutionary

Rise and Fall

by Milovan Djilas, Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by John Fiske Loud


Working in the Dark

The Anatomy Lesson

by Philip Roth

God Knows

by Joseph Heller

Tough Guys Don't Dance

by Norman Mailer


Lovely to Look At

The CIVIL warS

a tree is best measured when it is down by Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller


Only Women

The Weaker Vessel

by Antonia Fraser

Women in English Society, 1500–1800

edited by Mary Prior


All that Jazz

Fernand Léger

by Peter de Francia

Jazz

by Henri Matisse, translated by Sophie Hawkes


Hero of the Word

Using Biography

by William Empson

Collected Poems

by William Empson

Sir William Empson: An Annotated Bibliography

by Frank Day


Uprooted

Love Medicine

by Louise Erdrich

Continental Drift

by Russell Banks


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