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  • Karmic Traces: Essays

    Eliot Weinberger

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    For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into...

  • Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts

    Roger Shattuck

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    With Candor and Perversion, Roger Shattuck has written the most complete assessment of the poxes that threaten our Western literary heritage.

  • The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel

    Robert Alter

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    "A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999

  • Hemingway: The Final Years

    Michael Reynolds

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    Hemingway's triumphs as a writer during the 1940s and 1950s accompanied a life of risk and danger.

  • Spring Storm

    Tennessee Williams, Dan Isaac

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    "A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work."—World Literature Today