#1
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Novels
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1947
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Williwaw
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1947
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In a Yellow Wood
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1948
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The City and the Pillar
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1949
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The Season of Comfort
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1950
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A Search for the King
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1950
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Dark Green, Bright Red
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1950
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A Star's Progress
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1952
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The Judgment of Paris
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1952
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Death in the Fifth Position
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1953
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Thieves Fall Out
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1953
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Death Before Bedtime
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1954
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Death Likes It Hot
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1954
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Messiah
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1964
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Julian
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1967
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Washington, D.C.
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1968
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Myra Breckinridge
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1973
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Burr
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1974
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Myron
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1976
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1876
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1978
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Kalki
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1981
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Creation
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1983
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Duluth
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1984
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Lincoln: A Novel
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1990
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Hollywood
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1992
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Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
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1998
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The Smithsonian Institution
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2000
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The Golden Age
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#2
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Essays
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1953
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Novelists and Critics of the 1940's
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1963
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Tarzan Revisited
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1963
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Passage to Egypt
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1966
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Pornography
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1967
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French Letters: Theories of the New Novel
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1967
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The Holy Family
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1972
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A Note on the Novel
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1972
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Book Report
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1972
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Writing Plays for Television
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1972
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Visit to a Small Planet
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1972
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Satire in the 1950's
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1972
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Love, Love, Love
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1972
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Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House
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1972
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The Twelve Caesars
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1972
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Norman Mailer's Self-Advertisements
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1972
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President Kennedy
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1972
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John Dos Passos at Midcentury
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1972
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Barry Goldwater: A Chat
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1972
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Police Brutality
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1972
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Nasser's Egypt
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1972
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Edmund Wilson, Tax Dodger
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1972
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John O'Hara
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1972
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E. Nesbit's Magic
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1972
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John Horne Burns
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1972
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Sex and the Law
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1972
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The Sexus of Henry Miller
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1972
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Byzantium's Fall
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1972
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Writers and the World
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1972
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Paranoid Politics
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1972
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Miss Sontag's New Novel
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1972
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Gore Vidal
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1972
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The Twenty-Ninth Republican Convention
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1972
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Manifesto and Dialogue
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1972
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Literary Gangsters
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1972
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An American Press Lord
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1972
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Meredith
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1972
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Doc Reuben
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1972
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Drugs
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1972
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The Death of Mishima
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1972
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Women's Liberation Meets Miller-Mailer-Manson Man
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1972
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The Fourth Diary of Anaïs Nin
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1972
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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1972
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H. Hughes
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1972
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Homage to Daniel Shays
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1973
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The Top Ten Best-Sellers According to the Sunday New York Times as of January 7, 1973
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1974
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American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction
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1974
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Calvino's Novels
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1976
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The Hacks of Academe
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1976
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Some Memories of the Glorious Bird and an Earlier Self
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1980
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The State of the Union Revisited
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1980
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Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes
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1981
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Pink Triangle and Yellow Star
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1981
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Theodore Roosevelt: An American Sissy
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1983
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's Case
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1983
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Christopher Isherwood's Kind
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1983
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On Prettiness
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1983
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The Oz Books
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1983
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Lessing's Science Fiction
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1983
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Sciascia's Italy
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1983
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V. S. Pritchett as "Critic"
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1983
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Thomas Love Peacock: The Novel of Ideas
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1983
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Who Makes the Movies?
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1983
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Sex Is Politics
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1983
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How to Find God and Make Money
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1983
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Rich Kids
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1983
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The Real Two-Party System
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1983
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The Second American Revolution
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1983
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A Note on Abraham Lincoln
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1983
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William Dean Howells
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1987
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At Home in Washington, D.C.
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1987
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On Flying
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1987
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Frederic Prokosch: the European Connection
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1987
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Tennessee Williams: Someone to Laugh at the Squares With
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1987
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Richard Nixon: Not the Best Man's Best Man
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1987
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Hollywood!
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1987
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Ronnie and Nancy: A Life in Pictures
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1987
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Armageddon?
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1987
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The Day the American Empire Ran Out of Gas
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1987
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A Cheerful Response
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1987
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Vidalgate: by Andrew Kopkind
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1987
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Mongolia!
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1987
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At Home in a Roman Street
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1987
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The Bookchat of Henry James
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1987
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The Golden Bowl of Henry James
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1987
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Logan Pearsall Smith Loves the Adverb
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1987
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Paul Bowle's Stories
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1987
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Calvino's Death
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1987
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Why I Am Eight Years Younger than Anthony Burgess
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1987
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Dawn Powell: The American Writer
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1988
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Ollie
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1988
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The National Security State
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1988
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Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again
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1988
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How I Do What I Do If Not Why
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1992
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Montaigne
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1992
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Monotheism and Its Discontents
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1993
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Every Eckermann His Own Man
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1993
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The Top Ten Best Sellers
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1993
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Maugham's Half & Half
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1993
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Pen Pals: Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell
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1993
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The Great World and Louis Auchincloss
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1993
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Professor V. Nabokov
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1996
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Rabbit's Own Burrow
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2001
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Edmund Wilson: Nineteenth-Century Man
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2001
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Dawn Powell: Queen of the Golden Age
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2001
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Lost New York
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2001
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The Romantic of Sinclair Lewis
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2001
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Twain on the Grand Tour
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2001
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Reply to a Critic
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2001
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Twain's Letters
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2001
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A Note on The City and the Pillar and Thomas Mann
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2001
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Anthony Burgess
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2001
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Pride
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2001
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Lindbergh: The Eagle Is Grounded
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2001
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Sinatra
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2001
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C. P. Cavafy
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2001
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George
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2001
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Amistad
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2001
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FDR: Love on the Hudson
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2001
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Wiretapping the Oval Office
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2001
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Clare Boothe Luce
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2001
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Truman
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2001
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Hersh's JFK
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2001
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Nixon R.I.P.
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2001
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Clinton-Gore I
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2001
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Bedfellows Make Strange Politics
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2001
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Clinton-Gore II
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2001
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Honorable Albert A. Gore, Junior
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2001
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Kopkind
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2001
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Bad History
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2001
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Blair
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2001
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How We Missed the Saturday Dance
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2001
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The Last Empire
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2001
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In the Lair of the Octopus
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2001
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With Extreme Prejudice
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2001
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Time for a People's Convention
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2001
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The Union of the State
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2001
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Mickey Mouse, Historian
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2001
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U.S. Out of UN - UN Out of U.S.
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2001
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Race Against Time
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2001
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Chaos
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2001
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Shredding the Bill of Rights
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2001
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The New Theocrats
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2001
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Coup de Starr
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2001
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Starr Conspiracy
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2001
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Birds and Bees and Clinton
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2001
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A Letter to Be Delivered
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2001
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Democratic Vistas
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2001
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Three Lies to Rule By
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2001
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Japanese Intentions in the Second World War
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2002
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Meandering Toward Armageddon
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2002
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Black Tuesday
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2004
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State of the Union
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