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Dale Peck
Dale Peck (born 1967)

literary critic, journalist

  • Drew University

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Visions and revisions
Sprout
Martin and John
The Lost Cities
The law of enclosures
Hatchet Jobs
What we lost
Now it's time to say goodbye
Vital signs
Drift House
Body surfing
Between Men
Over the Rainbow
Drift House (Drift House Chronicles)
The Soho Press book of 80s short fiction
Shift
Now It's Time to Say Goodbye
Drift House
The Garden of Lost and Found
Es Hora De Decir Adios/Now It's Time to Say Goodbye
Martin and John
Das Gesetz der Nähe
Night soil
Law of Enclosures
The garden of lost & found
Fucking Martin
Schwarz und weiß
Drift House
What Burns
Lost cities
Drift House: The First Voyage (Drift House Chronicles)
Greenville
Easter
La casa alla deriva
Candidates for the Slaughterhouse
Now It Time to Say Goodbye
Sprout
Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

poet, literary critic, journalist, translator

  • Kenyon College, Vanderbilt University

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Randall Jarrell's letters
Raymond F. Dasmann
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
The United States in Literature
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The juniper tree, and other tales from Grimm
Poetry and the age
Poems
The animal family
Fly by Night
Pictures from an institution
Kipling, Auden & Co
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
No other book
The Gingerbread Rabbit
The Anchor book of stories
The complete poems
A bat is born, from The bat-poet
The bat-poet
Bat-Poet
Snow-White and the seven dwarfs
The third book of criticism
Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden
The lost world
The animal family
Kenneth S. Norris, naturalist, cetologist & conservationist, 1924-1998
A sad heart at the supermarket
Bat-Poet
Pictures from an Institution
Jerome: the biography of a poem
Raymond F. Dasmann
Six Russian short novels
Kipling, Auden and Company
Randall Jarrell, selected poems
Kipling, Auden and co
Letters of Randall Jarrell
The seven-league crutches
Goethe's Faust: Part One
The fisherman and his wife
The woman at the Washington Zoo
Losses
The achievement of Randall Jarrell
Poetry and the Age (Faber Library Ser.)
LA Familia Animal/the Animal Family
A Bat Is Born, from the Bat-poet
The Complete poems
Pictures from an Institution
Randall Jarrell's book of stories
The complete poems
Il coniglio di panpepato
Fly by night
Animaux pour toute famille
About popular culture
ANIMAL FAMILY
The Animal Family
Strawberry-growing in the Pajaro Valley
The gingerbread rabbit
THIRD BOOK OF CRITICISM
Lost World
Blood for a stranger
Baixue gong zhu he qi ge xiao ai ren
El murciélago poeta
A sad heart at the supermarket
Randall Jarrell Reads and Discusses His Poems Against War (Swc 1363)
Little friend, little friend
The Fisherman and His Wife
Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden
Pictures from an institution
Volar de noche
Five young American poets
Poets, critics, and readers
Selected poems
The third book of criticism
Poetry and the age
A sad heart at the supermarket
Le lapin de pain d'épice
Poetry and the age
Poetry and the age
Selected poems
About popular culture
The lost world
A sad heart at the supermarket
The animal family
The gingerbread rabbit
Cornel West
Cornel West (born 1953)

theologian, philosopher, actor, critic, executive producer, podcaster, political activist

  • Harvard University, Princeton University

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Black prophetic fire
Race Matters
Breaking bread
Keeping faith
Prophesy deliverance!
The American evasion of philosophy
Restoring Hope
Democracy Matters
Prophetic fragments
The Cornel West reader
The ethical dimensions of Marxist thought
Hope on a tightrope
Brother West
Taking Parenting Public
White on White/Black on Black
Beyond eurocentrism and multiculturalism
Go Down Moses A Celebratuin Of The Africanamerican Spiritual
Struggles in the promised land
African American religious thought
Post-analytic philosophy
The War Against Parents
Making it on broken promises
Miseducated
La pensée américaine contemporaine
The courage to hope
The Affirmative action debate
Theology in the Americas
Black Intellectual's Odyssey
Urban Voices, Racial Justice, and Community Leadership
Race Matters, 25th Anniversary Ed.
James and Royce Reconsidered
Keeping Faith
White on White/Black on Black
Brother West : Living and Loving Out Loud
Heart of American Darkness
Plough Quarterly No. 24 – Faith and Politics
Regarding Malcolm X
Making It on Broken Promises
Prophesy Deliverance! 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition
Miseducated Lib/E
Trauma of Caste
Guardian Poplar
Ethics, historicism and the Marxist tradition
Revolution Will Rhyme
Radical King
Theology in the Americas
Cornel West Reader
Conversations with Cornel West
Prophetischer Pragmatismus
Brainpower
And the Spirit Moved Them
Let the Healing Begin
Taking Parenting Public
Keeping Faith
American Evasion of Philosophy
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead (born 1969)

journalist, literary critic

  • Harvard University, Trinity School

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The noble hustle
The Underground Railroad
Sag Harbor
The intuitionist
John Henry Days
Apex hides the hurt
The Nickel Boys
Zone One
Sag Harbor
Harlem Shuffle
The colossus of New York
The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys
Crook Manifesto
El Coloso De Nueva York/ the Coloso of New York
Sag Harbor
Apex hides the hurt
Nickel Boys
Los Chicos de la Nickel / the Nickel Boys
El ritmo de Harlem / Harlem Shuffle
Harlem Shuffle
Die Fahrstuhlinspektorin
Kolej podziemna
The Colossus of New York
Sag Harbor
The Intuitionist
El ferrocarril subterráneo
The Nickel Boys
A Estrada Subterrânea (Portuguese Edition)
Colson Whitehead Collection 3 Books Set
Yeralti Demiryolu
L'intuizionista
Los chicos de la Nickel
Nickel Cocuklari
THE NICKEL BOYS
Zone One
Intuitionist
NICKEL BOYS (French Edition)
Zona Uno
Harlem Shuffle
The Intuitionist
Apex
El ferrocarril subterráneo
Underground Railroad Exp
Sag Harbor
Underground Railroad - version francaise
Crook Manifesto
Kaarten op tafel
Kolej podziemna
Der Koloß von New York
De ondergrondse spoorweg
Electric Literature No 2
El ritme de Harlem
John Henry Days
THE INTUITIONIST.
FERROCARRIL SUBTERRANEO, EL
Zone 1
Kolej podziemna. Audiobook
El ferrocarril subterrani
Zone one
Zone one
Die Nickel Boys
Zone One
Rytm Harlemu
Chika tetsudō
Ŏndŏgŭraundŭ reilrodŭ
El ferrocarril subterráneo
La ferrovia sotterranea
Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960)

journalist, translator, literary critic, hellenist

  • Princeton University, University of Virginia

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The Lost
An odyssey
The Elusive Embrace
How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken
Gender and the city in Euripides' political plays
Waiting for the barbarians
Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays
The Lost LP
The lost
Bacchae
Les disparus
Les disparus
Robert Barnard
Robert Barnard (1936-2013)

literary critic, lecturer

  • University of Oxford, Colchester Royal Grammar School

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A cry from the dark
Masters of the house
Out of the blackout
The corpse at the Haworth Tandoori
A stranger in the family
No place of safety
The bad samaritan
Touched by the dead
The killings on Jubilee Terrace
The mistress of Alderley
Bodies
The habit of widowhood
Little victims
A city of strangers
Disposal of the living
A little local murder
The case of the missing Brontë
Death of an old goat
Last post
Death on the High C's
A corpse in a gilded cage
Political suicide
The graveyard position
Death of a perfect mother
Death and the chaste apprentice
The skeleton in the grass
A Fall from Grace
The bones in the attic
Unholy dying
Emily Brontë
Sheer torture
Death of a salesperson, and other untimely exits
Posthumous papers
Dying flames
Unruly son
Blood brotherhood
Death and the princess
Death in a cold climate
The cherry blossom corpse
A short history of English literature
A fatal attachment
Bones in the Attic, The
BRONTE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Rogues Gallery
At death's door
A hovering of vultures
A scandal in Belgravia
Death in Purple Prose
A talent to deceive
The missing Brontë
The Cherry Blossom Corpse
A charitable body
A suit of diamonds
Imagery and theme in the novels of Dickens
Death of a Mystery Writer
Corpse in a Gilded Cage
The Missing Bronte
Scandal in Belgravia, A
Sheer Torture Story Sound
The Skeleton in the Grass
Four complete mysteries
Murder in Mayfair, A
The Bad Samaritan
A Mansion And Its Murder
Masters of the House
Political Suicide
Political Suicide
Moors' & Robson's Breweries Ltd
Emilys Erbe
Mother's boys
Thes keleton in the grass
The leisure hour improved
Bad Samaritan (Isis)
Blood Brotherhood
The Case of the Missing Bronte
A history of further education in Hull
At Death's Door
Death of a salesperson
A City of Strangers
The case of the missing Bronte
Mistress of Alderley, The
Emily Bronte (British Library Writers' Lives)
City of Strangers Portway
Death of a Mystery Writer
Scandal in Belgravia, A (Missing Mystery, #10)
A Fall from Grace (Ulverscroft Mystery)
Death & the Chast Apprentice
Death of a Salesperson and Other Untimel
Death of an Old Goat (Dales Mystery)
Hull and East Yorkshire Breweries (East Yorkshire Local History Society)
The Lost Boy (The Isis Crime Lost Casebooks)
Fete fatale
The Lost Boy
Breve Historia De La Literatura Inglesa (El Libro De Bolsillo)
The Skeleton in the Grass (Soundings S.)
David Gilmour
David Gilmour (born 1949)

journalist, film critic

  • University of Toronto, Upper Canada College

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The Film Club
Sparrow nights
The film club
The ruling caste
How boys see girls
The Last Leopard
Lebanon
A perfect night to go to China
Curzon
Lost between houses
The hungry generations
The perfect order of things
The Long Recessional
Back on Tuesday
An Affair With The Moon
The Ruling Caste
Paisley Weavers Of Other Days
A perfect night to go to China
L'école des films
Cineclub
Back on Tuesday
The film club
Unser allerbestes Jahr
The siren and selected writings
L'école des films
Cities of Spain
Een mooie avond om naar China te gaan
Extraordinary
On an Island
The glass bottom boat
The glass bottom boat
Lebanon
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 1939)

essayist, journalist, professor, actor, women's rights activist, critic, broadcaster, feminist, anarchist

  • University of Sydney, University of Melbourne

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Daddy we hardly knew you
Shakespeare's wife
Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
White beech
The female eunuch
Shakespeare
The Change
The madwoman's underclothes
Sex and destiny
The obstacle race
The change: women aging and the menopause
The madwoman's underclothes
Slip-Shod Sibyls
Whitefella jump up
Whole Woman
Germaine Greer
Lines of Life
BOY
Whole Woman, The
Change, The
White Beech The Rainforest Years
Winged Words
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
La femme eunuque
The Change - Women, Ageing and The Menopause
On Rage
Poems for Gardeners
101 Poems by Women
The boy
White beech
The female eunuch
Sex and destiny
Daddywe hardly knew you
Martin Creed
Kissing the rod
Tacita Dean (Contemporary Artists)
SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE
Shakespeare's Wife (P.S.)
The female eunuch
Old black ram
Greer Germaine
Change: Women, Aging, and Menopause
La femme eunuque
Kissing the rod
Sexe & destinée
Die ganze Frau. Körper, Geist, Liebe, Macht
Juliet's wedding
Chico, El - El Efebo En Las Artes
WHITEFELLA JUMP UP
The Female Eunuch Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Shakespeare's Wife
Der weibliche Eunuch. Aufruf zur Befreiung der Frau
Kissing the Rod
The Whole Woman
El Cambio
La Mujer Eunuco
Sexo Y Destino/Sex and Destiny
Kissing the rod
Sexe et destinée
Mujer Completa, La
Kissing the rod
Madwomans Underclothes Essays and Occasion
The female eunuch
Gai bian : nü xing, lao hua yü ting jing
La femme entière
Lysistrata