In search of Edward Thomas
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On Edward Thomas’s poetry.
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Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
by Paul Auster
Translated with an introduction by Paul Auster.
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by Hilton Kramer
On the forgotten movement obsessed with the beauty of industry.
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by William H. Jordy
On the nature of plastic arts.
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by Rackstraw Downes
On “Presences of Nature: British Landscape, 1780-1830” at Yale.
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by Samuel Lipman
On the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan in New York & California.
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by Mimi Kramer
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On the mystery of plots, language, and characters in modern literature.