Guy Davenport Archives All Years = 15 Books, 196 Articles Decade 1950s = 1 Article Year 1955 = 1 Article Decade 1960s = 3 Books, 107 Articles Year 1961 = 3 Articles Year 1962 = 18 Articles Year 1963 = 17 Articles Year 1964 = 1 Book, 9 Articles Year 1965 = 2 Books, 12 Articles Year 1966 = 12 Articles Year 1967 = 9 Articles Year 1968 = 14 Articles Year 1969 = 13 Articles Decade 1970s = 2 Books, 43 Articles Year 1970 = 14 Articles Year 1971 = 5 Articles Year 1972 = 5 Articles Year 1973 = 2 Articles Year 1974 = 1 Book, 2 Articles Year 1975 = 2 Articles Year 1976 = 2 Articles Year 1977 = 1 Article Year 1978 = 4 Articles Year 1979 = 1 Book, 6 Articles Decade 1980s = 4 Books, 10 Articles Year 1980 = 2 Articles Year 1981 = 1 Book Year 1982 = 1 Book, 2 Articles Year 1983 = 2 Articles Year 1984 = 1 Book, 1 Article Year 1985 = 1 Article Year 1987 = 1 Book, 1 Article Year 1989 = 1 Article Decade 1990s = 6 Books, 13 Articles Year 1990 = 2 Books, 1 Article Year 1991 = 1 Article Year 1992 = 2 Articles Year 1993 = 2 Books, 3 Articles Year 1994 = 1 Article Year 1995 = 1 Book Year 1996 = 4 Articles Year 1997 = 1 Book, 1 Article Decade 2000s = 22 Articles Year 2000 = 1 Article Year 2001 = 8 Articles Year 2002 = 10 Articles Year 2003 = 1 Article Year 2004 = 2 Articles Guy Davenport • 211 Items / 172 Reviews, 15 Books, 23 Articles, 1 Poem
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Books, Arts, Manners
Apocalypse Next Exit Guy Davenport
A Balthus Notebook (1990) Guy Davenport
1 Review
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Beckett and Kenner, Tandem (Review) Guy Davenport
Samuel Beckett, by Hugh Kenner
Samuel Beckett by Hugh Kenner Books for Christmas Guy Davenport
...But Once a Year
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Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
O'Neill, by Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb
O'Neill by Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
Fenollosa and His Circle, by Van Wyck Brooks
Fenollosa and His Circle by Van Wyck Brooks [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
Conan Doyle, by Hesketh Pearson
Conan Doyle by Hesketh Pearson [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
Scott Fitzgerald, by Andrew Turnbull
Scott Fitzgerald by Andrew Turnbull [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
On the Edge of the Rift, by Elspeth Huxley
On the Edge of the Rift by Elspeth Huxley [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
Big Sur, by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
The Displaced Person's Almanac, by John Pairman Brown
The Displaced Person's Almanac by John Pairman Brown [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
The Unicorn, by Iris Murdoch
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
Idiots First, by Bernard Malamud
Idiots First by Bernard Malamud [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
The Tale of Beatrix Potter, by Margaret Lane
The Tale of Beatrix Potter by Margaret Lane [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
The Spyglass: Views and Reviews 1924-1930, by Donald Davidson
The Spyglass: Views and Reviews 1924-1930 by Donald Davidson [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
The Magus, by John Fowles
The Magus by John Fowles [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
Reflections on Men and Ideas, by Giorgio de Santillana
Reflections on Men and Ideas by Giorgio de Santillana [+]
Books into life (Review) Guy Davenport
The Double Life of Stephen Crane, by Christopher Benfey
The Double Life of Stephen Crane by Christopher Benfey The Arts
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Books: Did You Ever Hear a Dream Talking? (Review) Guy Davenport
Restless Nights, by Dino Buzzati
Restless Nights by Dino BuzzatiCarmina Archilochi (1964) Guy Davenport and Archilochus
The Fragments of Archilochus
1 Review
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C'est Magnifique Mais Ce N'est Pas Daguerre (7 Reviews) Guy Davenport
them, by Joyce Carol Oates
them by Joyce Carol OatesThe Bamboo Bed by William EastlakeThe Unsubstantial Castle by Robert RushmoreThe Party at Mrs. Purefoy's by Ward A. DorranceJust Over the Border by F.D. ReeveTrout Fishing in America by Richard BrautiganPricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover Reviews
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The Champollion of Table Manners (Review) Guy Davenport
The Origin of Table Manners, by Claude Levi-Strauss
The Origin of Table Manners by Claude Levi-StraussChrist Preaching at the Henley Regatta Guy Davenport and Roy R. Behrens
The North American Review (New), June 1979 , pp. 18-25
Christmas Books Guy Davenport
Beatius Est Magis Dare
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The comic muse (Review) Guy Davenport
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse, by John Gross
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse by John Gross [+]
The Cretan Glance (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Report to Greco, by Nikos Kazantzakis
Report to Greco by Nikos KazantzakisThe Fratricides by Nikos KazantzakisThe Sun of Death by Pandelis Prevelakis Da Vinci's Bicycle (1979) Guy Davenport
Ten Stories
6 Reviews, 2 Readable
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A Death in Siberia (Review) Guy Davenport
Hope Against Hope, by Nadezhda Mandelstam
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam [+]
Distant Voices (4 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Let's Go!/Vamonos Patria a Caminar, by Otto Rene Castillo
Let's Go!/Vamonos Patria a Caminar by Otto Rene CastilloConfigurations by Octavio PazSelected Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Doris Dana and Gabriela MistralSpeech-Grille, and Selected Poems by Paul Celan Books, Arts, Manners
Do You Have A Poem Book...? Guy Davenport
Eclogues (1982) Guy Davenport
2 Reviews
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Endlessly Talking (Review) Guy Davenport
Intimate with Walt, by Gary Schmidgall
Intimate with Walt by Gary Schmidgall Books
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Euclid for the Space Age (Review) Guy Davenport
Geodesic Math and How to Use It, by Hugh Kenner
Geodesic Math and How to Use It by Hugh KennerEvery Force Evolves a Form (1987) Guy Davenport
Twenty Essays
2 Reviews
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Ezra Pound, the Poet? (Review) Guy Davenport
The Life of Ezra Pound, by Noel Stock
The Life of Ezra Pound by Noel Stock [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Invisible Characters
Morning in Antibes by John KnowlesThe Mothers by Edward LoomisCassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Magic Realism in Prose
Another Country by James BaldwinLetting Go by Philip RothThe Age of Happy Problems by Herbert Gold [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Dust Witch, the Red October Moon
In Any Case by Richard G. SternWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Romances and Rabelais Reviv'd
The Judgement of the Sea by Gertrud von LeFortIsland by Aldous HuxleyReinhart in Love by Thomas Berger [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Novels with Masks
The Tin Drum by Gunter GrassA Multitude of Sins by J.A. CuddonThe Centaur by John Updike [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Percussus Belli
The Praetorians by Jean LarteguySeed of Steel by Riccardo BacchelliThe Coin of Carthage by Winifred Bryher [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Women and the Mirror of the World
Elizabeth Appleton by James O'HaraThe Greater Darkness by David RubinEhrengard by Isak Dinesen [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Eros Aped
A Buried Land by Madison JonesThe Collector by John FowlesCity of Night by John Rechy [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Elective Affinities and the Primrose Path
Radcliffe by David StoreyJubb by Keith WaterhouseThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Distaff and Apron-String
Take Heed of Loving Me by Elizabeth Gray ViningDon't Knock the Corners Off by Caroline GlynThe Little Girls by Elizabeth Bowen [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Caution: Falling Prose
Flood: A Romance of Our Time by Robert Penn WarrenJulian by Gore VidalExtreme Magic by Hortense Calisher [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Danger of Building Houses
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann GrauA Thousand Thousand Mornings by John Bart GeraldThe Spire by William G. Golding [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Turn the Other Face
The Italian Girl by Iris MurdochHerzog by Saul BellowThe Defense by Vladimir Nabokov [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Trivia as Trivia
The Clown by Heinrich BollThe Ski Bum by Romain GaryThe Thousand and One Nights of Jean Macaque by Stuart Cloete [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Two Straw Men and Gogol's Ghost
Square's Progress by Wilfrid SheedAmazing Grace by Robert DrakeThe Makepeace Experiment by Abram Tertz [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
A Plague of Despair
Children of Violence, Vol. II by Doris May LessingThe Higher Animals by H.E.F. DonohueLate Call by Angus Wilson [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Tough Characters, Solid Novels
Bad Characters by Jean StaffordChaos and Night by Henry de MontherlantLittle Big Man by Thomas Berger [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Top is a New Bottom
Once a Greek... by Friedrich DurrenmattEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorDog Years by Gunter Grass [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Puppet Masters
A Man from Nowhere by Elspeth HuxleyThe Young Visitors by John WainDemian by Hermann Hesse [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Strength of the Name
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard FarinaThe Lie by Alberto MoraviaFive Women by Robert Musil [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Messages from the Lost
The Prose of Osip Mandelstam by Osip MandelstamThe Red and the Green by Iris MurdochThe Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski [+]
Fiction (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Dazzlers and Astounders
Despair by Vladimir NabokovEarthly Paradise by Robert Phelps and Colette [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
A Round of the Same
The Egyptologists by Kingsley Amis and Robert ConquestThe Comedians by Graham GreeneHelmet and Wasps by Michael Mott [+]
Fiction (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Deep Waters and Dark
Too Far to Walk by John HerseyGenoa by Paul Metcalf [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Once More, A Little Louder
Jubilee by Margaret WalkerA Dandy in Aspic by Derek MarloweThe Extreme Occident by Petru Dumitriu [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Two Flops and a Winner
Indian Summer by John KnowlesThe Last Jew in America by Leslie A. FiedlerThe Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Fireside Tales for Nasty Weather
This January Tale by BryherA House in Order by Nigel DennisThe Scorpions by Robert Kelly [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
And a Cool Drink by the Hammock
End of the Game, and Other Stories by Julio CortazarMay We Borrow Your Husband? by Graham GreeneIt's an Old Country by J.B. Priestley [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Novels Evaporating and Permanent
The Paste-Pot Man by Edwin LanhamIn Pious Memory by Margery SharpA Ride on the Milky Way by Marguerite Dorian [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Dry Rot and Tovarisch Stalin
The Aylwins by J.I.M. StewartUlterior Motives by David GarnettThe Dragon by Yevgeny Zamyatin [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Masters of Time and Place
A Place on Earth by Wendell BerryKilling Time by Thomas BergerThe Maze Maker by Michael Ayrton [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
How It Is Way Off Yonder
Seven Days at the Silbersteins by Etienne LerouxVery Like a Whale by Ferdinand MountThe Taste of Power by Ladislav Mnacko [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Frightfully Good, I'm Sure
The Nice and the Good by Iris MurdochFrom a View to a Death by Anthony PowellVanderlyn's Kingdom by J.I.M. Stewart [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Three (Yawn) Novels
The Survival of the Fittest by Pamela Hansford JohnsonKings of Infinite Space by Nigel BalchinThe Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker by David Boyer [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
With a Long Spoon
The Instrument by John O'HaraThe Hobby Shop by Morton GrosserThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
If These Wings Should Fail Me, Lord!
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James BaldwinOnwards! by Nat HentoffThe Pursuit of Happiness by Thomas Rogers [+]
Fiction (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Parnassus the Hard Way
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann HesseEnderby by Anthony Burgess [+]
Fiction (4 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Old Tunes and a Big New Beat
Everything to Live for by Paul HorganThe Anarchy of Love by Colin SpencerThe Tyranny of Love by Colin SpencerThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah [+]
Fiction (4 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Parables from Inside
Morning Noon and Night by James Gould CozzensThe First Circle by Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynThe Photographer by Pierre BoulleA Small Town in Germany by John le Carre [+]
Fiction (5 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Tales of Transformation
The Girls: A Tetralogy of Novels by Henry de MontherlantBruno's Dream by Iris MurdochConsider the Lilies by Auberon WaughSavage Sleep by Millen BrandThe Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Elegant Botches
I Want It Now by Kingsley AmisPictures of Fidelman by Bernard MalamudBullet Park by John Cheever [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Ornery Cusses
Castle to Castle by Louis-Ferdinand CelineVictoria by Knut HamsunFerdinand by Louis Zukofsky [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Over-Told, Half-Told, Well-Told
Mirrors by Lucy WarnerNude Croquet by Leslie A. FiedlerThe Seeking by Robert S. Elegant [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Radiant Contempt
A Sentimental Journey by Viktor ShklovskyVital Parts by Thomas BergerThis Thing Don't Lead to Heaven by Harry Crews [+]
Fiction (4 Reviews) Guy Davenport
On the Edge of Being
Play It As It Lays by Joan DidionNotes from Future by N.M. AmosoffThe Green Man by Kingsley AmisBech: A Book by John Updike [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Confusions and Clarities
In Transit by Brigid BrophyWestward to Laughter by Colin MacInnesFire from Heaven by Mary Renault [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Three Novels: Bland, Acerbic, Classical
Baldur's Gate by Eleanor ClarkNinteen Sixty-Eight by Richard G. SternThree by Sylvia Ashton-Warner [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Honest Men
Local Anaesthetic by Gunter GrassJourney for Joedel by Guy OwenThe Fierce and Beautiful World by Andrei Platonov [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Britannia in Negligee
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris MurdochTravels with My Aunt by Graham GreeneSomething in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Hemingway as Walter Pater
Islands in the Stream by Ernest HemingwayMary by Vladimir NabokovThe Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Good People in Trouble
Going All the Way by Dan WakefieldThe Dick by Bruce Jay FriedmanA Walk to the River by William Hoffman [+]
Fiction (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Evan as the Heathen Rage
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorRabbit Redux by John Updike [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Novels in Braille
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathQueenie by Hortense CalisherOn Being Told that Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover by Tess Slesinger [+]
Fiction (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Low Seriousness and High Comedy
Birds of America by Mary McCarthyStories and Prose Poems by Alexander SolzhenitsynThe Onion Eaters by J.P. Donleavy [+]
Fiction: Cui Bono? (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip RothProvidence Island by Calder Willingham [+]
Books in Brief (Review) G. Davenport
Joyce Cary: A Biography, by Malcolm Foster
Joyce Cary: A Biography by Malcolm Foster [+]
A folklorish giant (Review) Guy Davenport
Alfred Russel Wallace, by Peter Raby
Alfred Russel Wallace by Peter Raby [+]
Galumphing back (Review) Guy Davenport
Lewis Carroll: A Biography, by Morton N. Cohen
Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen [+]
Genesis 2:7 and the New Zoology (Review) Guy Davenport
African Genesis, by Robert Ardrey
African Genesis by Robert Ardrey The Geography of the Imagination (1981) Guy Davenport
Forty Essays
4 Reviews, 1 Readable
God's Plenty Guy Davenport
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Happy Birthday, Wm. Shaxper (Review) Guy Davenport
Bottom: On Shakespeare, by Louis Zukofsky and Celia Thaew Zukofsky
Bottom: On Shakespeare by Louis Zukofsky and Celia Thaew Zukofsky [+]
History With its Eyes Wide Open (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Birds Fall Down, by Rebecca West
The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca WestThe Time of the Angels by Iris MurdochThe Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault [+]
Homo Territorialis (Review) Guy Davenport
The Territorial Imperative, by Robert Ardrey
The Territorial Imperative by Robert Ardrey Hugh Kenner Guy Davenport
The Kenner Era
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Idling into romance (Review) Guy Davenport
Salem Is My Dwelling Place, by Edwin Haviland Miller
Salem Is My Dwelling Place by Edwin Haviland Miller [+]
Imaginary Americas (Review) Guy Davenport
Imagining America, by Peter Conrad
Imagining America by Peter Conrad [+]
In That Awful Civil War (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Mary Chesnut's Civil War, by C. Vann Woodward and Mary Chesnut
Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward and Mary ChesnutGrant: A Biography by William S. McFeelyThe Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted by Charles E. Beveridge and Frederick Law Olmsted, ... Reviews
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The Indian and His Image (Review) Guy Davenport
The Writer and the Shaman, by Elemire Zolla
The Writer and the Shaman by Elemire ZollaThe Intelligence of Louis Agassiz (1965) Guy Davenport and Louis Agassiz
A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings; Selected, with an Introduction and No...
1 Review
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An Invented Life (Review) Guy Davenport
Samuel Beckett: A Biography, by Deirdre Bair
Samuel Beckett: A Biography by Deirdre Bair [+]
Irony and Outrage (Review) Guy Davenport
Gibbon's Solitude, by W.B. Carnochan
Gibbon's Solitude by W.B. Carnochan Books, Arts, Manners
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Jungles of the Imagination (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Thin Red Line, by James Jones
The Thin Red Line by James JonesThe Inheritors by William GoldingStrike the Father Dead by John WainBooks, Arts, Manners
The Last of the Masters Guy Davenport
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Lenin Before He Became the Czar (Review) Guy Davenport
Encounters With Lenin, by Nikolai Valentinov
Encounters With Lenin by Nikolai Valentinov Letters Harry Levin, Stephen Booth, Guy Davenport, and Irvin Ehrenpreis, ...
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Life, chance, and Charles Darwin (Review) Guy Davenport
Charles Darwin: A New Life, by John Bowlby
Charles Darwin: A New Life by John Bowlby [+]
Lulu in Bombazeen (Review) Guy Davenport
The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles [+]
The Man Who Was There (Review) Guy Davenport
Triumph and Turmoil, by Edgar Ansel Mowrer
Triumph and Turmoil by Edgar Ansel Mowrer [+]
The Man without Contemporaries (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Hope Abandoned, by Nadezhda Mandelstam
Hope Abandoned by Nadezhda MandelstamMandelstam by Clarence BrownSelected Poems by Osip Mandelstam [+]
Master taxonomist (Review) Guy Davenport
Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist, by Wilfrid Blunt
Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist by Wilfrid Blunt [+]
Men and Ideas (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
More of Wittgenstein
Zettel by Ludwig WittgensteinLectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Cyril Barrett [+]
Midas' Grandchildren (Review) Guy Davenport
Run River, by Joan Didion
Run River by Joan Didion [+]
More genteel than God (Review) Guy Davenport
The Long Journey of Noah Webster, by Richard M. Rollins
The Long Journey of Noah Webster by Richard M. Rollins [+]
The Multiple Man (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Prince Ishmael, by Marianne Hauser
Prince Ishmael by Marianne HauserCat and Mouse by Gunter GrassThe Affable Hangman by Ramon Jose Sender [+]
Nature's design (Review) Guy Davenport
Faith in a Seed, by Henry David Thoreau and Bradley P. Dean
Faith in a Seed by Henry David Thoreau and Bradley P. Dean [+]
New Books (4 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Kierkegaard: A Biography, by Alastair Hannay
Kierkegaard: A Biography by Alastair HannayVermeer: A View of Delft by Anthony BaileyThis Is Not a Novel by David MarksonHalls of Fame by John D'Agata [+]
New Books (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Healing Wound, by Gitta Sereny
The Healing Wound by Gitta SerenyUncle Tungsten by Oliver SacksDown the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick [+]
New Books (4 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Mission Jupiter, by Daniel Fischer
Mission Jupiter by Daniel FischerThe Northern Lights by Lucy JagoFire: A Brief History by Stephen J. PyneThe Warden of English by Jenny McMorris [+]
New Books (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller, by Jackie Wullschlager
Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller by Jackie WullschlagerJ.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey [+]
New Books (6 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Other Nineteenth Century, by Avram Davidson, Grania Davis, and Henry Wessells, ...
The Other Nineteenth Century by Avram Davidson, Grania Davis, and Henry Wessells, ...Darwin's Audubon by Gerald WeissmannSidetracks by Richard HolmesThe Future of the Past by Alexander StilleIt Must Be Beautiful by Graham FarmeloMockingbird by Deron Bauman [+]
New Books (4 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Measuring Eternity, by Martin Gorst
Measuring Eternity by Martin GorstThe Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen HawkingDarwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randal KeynesThe Power of Babel by John McWhorter [+]
New Books (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound, by Anne Conover
Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound by Anne ConoverThe Invention of Clouds by Richard HamblynCattle: An Informal Social History by Laurie Winn Carlson [+]
New Books (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
By the Hand of Mormon, by Terryl L. Givens
By the Hand of Mormon by Terryl L. GivensMysteries of the Snake Goddess by Kenneth D.S. LapatinBrilliant Orange by David Winner [+]
New Books (6 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Herman Melville: A Biography, Vol. II: 1851-1891, by Hershel Parker
Herman Melville: A Biography, Vol. II: 1851-1891 by Hershel ParkerTales, Poems, and Other Writings by Herman MelvilleMelville's Short Novels by Dan McCall and Herman MelvilleHunting Captain Ahab by Clare L. SparkHerman Melville by Newton ArvinMoby Dick by Herman Melville [+]
New Books (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
On Her Own Terms, by Barbara R. Stein
On Her Own Terms by Barbara R. SteinPaper Before Print by Jonathan M. BloomPatience and Fortitude by Nicholas A. Basbanes [+]
New Books (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Drohobycz, Drohobycz and Other Stories, by Henryk Grynberg
Drohobycz, Drohobycz and Other Stories by Henryk GrynbergRegions of the Great Heresy by Jerzy Ficowski and Theodosia RobertsonLove at Goon Park by Deborah Blum [+]
New Books (4 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya, by Ian Graham
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya by Ian GrahamAmerika: The Man Who Disappeared by Franz Kafka and Michael HofmannThe Air Show at Brescia, 1909 by Peter DemetzVanished Splendors by Balthus and Alain Vircondelet [+]
New Books (4 Reviews) Guy Davenport
Mussolini, by R.J.B. Bosworth
Mussolini by R.J.B. BosworthThe Enigma of Anger by Garret KeizerRestraining Rage by William V. HarrisThe Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Jodi Magness [+]
The New Buncombe (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Divine Animal, by Roger W. Wescott
The Divine Animal by Roger W. WescottSo Human Animal by Rene J. Dubos [+]
New Hampshire Elegies (Review) Guy Davenport
Kicking the Leaves, by Donald Hall
Kicking the Leaves by Donald Hall [+]
Notes on the Decline of the West (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Story of a Novel, by Thomas Mann
The Story of a Novel by Thomas MannYestermorrow: Notes on Man's Progress by C.W. Ceram [+]
Of Kleenex, Xerox and Such-Like (Review) Guy Davenport
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, by William Morris
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language by William Morris [+]
One of Man, But Unique (3 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Pleasure Factory, by Valeriy Tarsis
The Pleasure Factory by Valeriy TarsisThe Wedding Group by Elizabeth TaylorThe Impossible Proof by Hans Erich Nossack [+]
Order and Disorder (Review) Guy Davenport
The Sunlight Dialogues, by John Gardner
The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner [+]
People of the Book (Review) Guy Davenport
Wide as the Waters, by Benson Bobrick
Wide as the Waters by Benson BobrickThe Harpers Monthly, May 2001 , pp. 66-70
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People's school (Review) Guy Davenport
Mr. Peale's Museum, by Charles Coleman Sellers
Mr. Peale's Museum by Charles Coleman Sellers [+]
The Persistence of Light (Review) Guy Davenport
Tree and Leaf, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tree and Leaf by J.R.R. Tolkien Books
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The Pound Vortex (Review) Guy Davenport
The Pound Era, by Hugh Kenner
The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner [+]
Prehistoric Eyes (Review) Guy Davenport
The Roots of Civilization, by Alexander Marshack
The Roots of Civilization by Alexander Marshack Books
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Primal Visions (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora WeltyOpen Heart by Frederick Buechner [+]
Professor Mellaart and the Turks (2 Reviews) Guy Davenport
The Dorak Affair, by Kenneth Pearson and Patricia Connor
The Dorak Affair by Kenneth Pearson and Patricia ConnorEarliest Civilizations of the Near East by James Mellaart [+]
Provender from Cathay (15 Reviews) Guy Davenport
A Collection of Chinese Lyrics, by Duncan Mackintosh and Alan Ayling
A Collection of Chinese Lyrics by Duncan Mackintosh and Alan AylingAn Anthology of Chinese Verse by J.D. FrodshamGeorge Seferis: Collected Poems, 1924-1955 by Edmund Keeley, Philip Sherrard, and George Seferis, ...Sister My Life by Boris PasternakModern Russian Poetry by Vladimir MarkovAntiworlds, and the Fifth Ace by Andrei VoznesenskyPoems: Chosen by the Author by Yevgeny YevtushenkoSelected Poems by Miroslav HolubPoems and Antipoems by Nicanor Parra and Miller WilliamsThe Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo NerudaSelected Writings by Jules SuperviellePoems and Fragments by Friedrich HolderlinSelected Prose and Poetry by Giacomo LeopardiMedieval Irish Lyrics by James CarneyThe Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation by George Steiner Readings Guy Davenport
Juno of the Veil
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