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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
Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

architect, historian of technology, historian, sociologist, literary critic, philosopher, journalist, urban planner, architectural theoretician, art historian

  • City College of New York, New School

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"In old friendship"
The human prospect
The culture of cities
Technics and civilization
The condition of man
In the name of sanity
Herman Melville
The city in history
The myth of the machine
The pentagon of power
The highway and the city
The brown decades
The urban prospect
The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects
Interpretations and forecasts, 1922-1972
The story of Utopias
The golden day
Roots of contemporary American architecture
Art and technics
Sticks and stones
Mumford on modern art in the 1930s
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes
Men must act
The Lewis Mumford reader
Sketches from life
The conduct of life
Sticks and Stones
Sidewalk critic
Art and Techniques (Bampton Lecture Ser. in American : No.4)
Findings and keepings
The South in architecture
Architecture as a home for man
The myth of the machine
The Lewis Mumford/David Liebovitz letters, 1923-1968
Tecnica y Civilizacion
Faith for living
The culture of cities
City development
Arts in Renewal
The Arts in renewal
Technics and Civilization
City development; studies in disintegration and renewal
Herman Melville. A study of his life and vision
Transformations of Man
Art and Technics (Bampton Lectures in America)
Art and technics
la cultura de las ciudades
My works and days
Looking Backward from 2000 to 1888 (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s
America & Alfred Stieglitz
The transformations of man
Social Theories of a City
Faith for living
Sticks and Stones
Technics and Human Development
From the Ground Up
The city in history
The Myth Of The Machine - The Pentagon Of Power
Essential Issues in Management Accounting
La cité à travers l'histoire
Herman Melville
The future of technics & civilization
The city in history
A Century of Early Ecocriticism
The Condition of man
Green memories
Transformations of Man
The urban prospect
The myth of the machine
The Human Prospect ... Edited by Harry T. Moore and Karl W. Deutsch. [A selection from the writings of L. Mumford.].
The Arts in renewal
The Conduct of Life (Harvest Book, Nb 34)
From the ground up
Values for Survival
The human way out
La cité à travers l'histoire
The plan of London county
Herman Melville
Man as interpreter
The myth of the machine
Art and Technics
The Urban Prospect [Harvest Book HB 156]
The transformation of man
Roots of Contemporary American Architecture
Highway and City
In the name of sanity
The Highway Anf The City
Art and technics (Bampton lectures in America)
MEN MUST ACT.
The role of the creative arts in contemporary society
The Condition of Man
South in Architecture
From the Ground Up. Observations on Contemporary Architecture, Housing, Highway Building, and Civic Design
Lewis Mumford
The Conduct of Life
Sticks and Stones
The story of Utopias (Compass books)
From the Ground Up
The human prospect (Beacon paperbacks)
The City in History
The conduct of life
Les transformations de l'homme
The morals of extermination
Mythos der Maschine
Technique et Civilisation
Regional planning and the small town
The conduct of life / Lewis Mumford
The Brown Decades, A Study of the Arts of America 1865-1895
Portmeirion
City in History
Memoirs of Waldo Frank
Faith for living
Herman Melville
The Story of Utopias (C112: Compass Books Edition)
Technics and Civilization
Condition of Man
Man as interpreter
Herman Melville 1929
The Highway and the City (A Harvest book)
Povijest utopija
La Cultura Delle Città
Architecture
Le Déclin des villes
Programme for survival
The Ecological Basis of Planning
Sticks and stones;
American taste
Geijutsu to gijutsu
Tarih Boyunca Kent - Kokenleri, Gecirdigi Donusumler ve Gelecegi
The golden day;
Regional planning in the Pacific Northwest
The story of Utopias (Compass books)
The brown decades
The Conduct of Life The Making of Man
The brown decades;
Insanin Durumu
The Brown Decades; a Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895
The Story of Utopias
The city in history
Atomic war--the way out
Transformations of Man
The Conditions of Man
La Ciudad En La Historia
Aesthetics, a dialogue
Sticks and Stones, a Study of Amercian Architecture and Civilization
Pentagon of Power
The Culture of Cities
The South in architecture
Stocks and stones
Le declin des villes
City Development
Story of Utopias
Technics and Civilization
Alternatives to the H-bomb
Green memories
The Highway and the City
The culture of cities
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
Brown Decades a Study of the Arts of 2ND Edition
Vom Blockhaus zum Wolkenkratzer. Eine Studie über amerikanische Architektur und Zivilisation
The brown decades
The social foundations of post-war building
The Brown Decades, A Study of the Arts of America 1865-1895
Two Chicago fairs
The highway and the city
Whither Honolulu?
Technics and civilization
The seventh New Yorker album
Thomas Beer
New world theme
The morals of extermination
The story of Utopias
Architecture
The golden day
Technics and civilizations
Aesthetics, a dialogue
Faith for today
The transformations of man
The Story of Utopias
The story of Utopias, ideal commonwealths and social myths
Progamme for survival.
Art and technics
De sociale grondslagen van het na-oorlogsche bouwen
The story of Utopias
Sticks and stones
The golden day
Architecture and civilization
The sky line
The conduct of life
Values for survival
Art and technics
The Arts in renewal
The story of Utopias
The social foundations of post-war building
Men must act
Herman Melville
Vom Blockhaus zum Wolkenkratzer
Art and technics
Faith for living
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
The myth of the ma
The letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn
Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth
Sticks and stones
Regional planning in the Pacific Northwest
Toward a free world
The culture of cities
How war began
The transformations of man
Faith for living
The myth of the machine
The highway and the city
The theory and practice of regionalism ...
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
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.)
Marcel Brion
Marcel Brion (1895-1984)

literary critic, art historian

  • Lycée Thiers, Collège Champittet

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Budda, ego zhizn', uchenie
Les labyrinthes du temps
The Medici: a great Florentine family
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
Théodoric, roi des Ostrogoths, 454-526
Venice, the masque of Italy
Les Vaines montagnes
Les peintures de Dieu
Pompeii and Herculaneum
Art romantique
Michelangelo
Mémoires d'une vie incertaine
Algues
Villa des hasards
Les ailleurs du temps
Michel-Ange
German painting
La vie quotidienne à Vienne au temps de Mozart et de Schubert
Les escales de la haute nuit, et autres nouvelles fantastiques
The world of archaeology
L' Allemagne romantique
Giotto
Peinture romantique
Orplid, ou, une certaine idée de l'Allemagne
Les Vaines montagnes
Le château de la princesse Ilse
Meisterwerke der modernen Malerei
Modern painting
Bartolomé de las Casas, "Father of the Indians"
La alemania romántica
Bartholmé de las Casas
Se perdre dans Venise
La fête de la Tour des Ames
Mozart
Le siècle de Laurent le Magnifique
Kandinsky
Guardi
Le journal du visiteur
Charles le Téméraire
Lumière de la renaissance
Cézanne
Art since 1945
Art abstrait
L' ermite au masque de miroir
Lumière de la Renaissance
Romantic art
Art of the romantic era
Geschichte der abstrakten Kunst
La résurrection des villes mortes
Albrecht Dürer
Breughel
Le pré du grand songe
La Vie des Huns
Francis Bott
Le caprice espagnol
The Medici
Génie et destinée Goethe
Chagall
Les Miroirs et les gouffres, roman
La révolte des gladiateurs
La Provence
Daily life in the Vienna of Mozart and Schubert
L' ombre d'un arbre mort
Savonarole, le héraut de Dieu
De l'autre côté de la forêt
La rose de cire
L' enchanteur
Ces palais où Dieu habite
Catherine Cornaro
Lorenzo il Magnifico [di] Brion Marcello
Discours de réception de Marcel Brion a l'Académie française et reponse de René Huyghe
Château d'ombres; roman
La vie quotidienne à Vienne
Les Miroirs et les gouffres
Animals in art
L' art en Sicile
The Bible in art
Le pape et le prince
Bayard
Machiavel
Mozarts Meisteropern
Provence
Léonor Fini et son oeuvre
Schumann et l'âme romantique
Paris in color
Siècle des Medicis
La Musique et l'amour
Meloni
De César à Charlemagne
Léonard de Vinci
The Medici
Pierre Puget
Frédéric II de Hohenstaufen
Bartolomé de las Casas, padre de los indios
La ville de sable, roman
Vermeer
Suite fantastique
Botticelli
La Musique et lhamour
Les Borgia
Bartholomé de las Casas, "Father of the Indians"
Frédégonde et Brunehaut
Vermeer
La folie Céladon
Bartholomé de Las Casas
Alaric, the Goth
Le portrait de Bélinda
Charles le Téméraire, grand-duc d'Occident
Gœthe
Theoderich
Titien
Le portrait de Belinda
De Pompéi à l'île de Pâques
L' Ombrie
Venice
Discours--
Les escales de la haute nuit
Contes fantastiques
Fabrizio Clerici
L' œil, l'esprit et la main du peintre
Schumann & the romantic age
Art of the Romantic era: Romanticism, Classicism, Realism
Kunst der Romantik
L' art fantastique
Histoire de l'Égypte
La vie d'Attila
Nous avons traversé la montagne
La chanson de l'oiseau étranger et autres contes
Albrecht Dürer: his life and work
La vie quotidienne à Vienna à l'époque de Mozart et de Schubert
Les Amantes
La Grande aventure de la peinture religieuse, le sacré et sa représentation
Gobineau, avec un portrait par la Comtesse de la Tour
Art fantastique
Le théâtre des esprits
Laurent le Magnifique
The story of the Huns
Discours ... par M. Marcel Brion ..
L' art romantique
Tamerlan
Rembrandt
Le Siècle des Médicis
Ivre d'un rêve héroïque et brutal
Paris
Attila, the scourge of God
Michelangelo
La ville de sable
La Folie Céladon
Attila, the scourge of God
Art since 1945
Brion · Buzzati
La Provence
La Folie Céladon
Gobineau
La Grande aventure de la peinture religieuse
L'art en Sicile
Bartholmé de las Casas
La reine Jeanne
Romantic art
Algues
Les eaux mortes
Rembrandt
Animals in art
La vie quotidienne a Vienna a l'époque de Mozart et de Schubert
Fabrizio Clerici
Giotto, par Marcel Brion
HISTOIRE DE L'EGYPTE
Dürer
Charles le Téméraire
Art since 1945
Alaric, the Goth
Le caprice espagnol
Geschichte der abstrakten Kunst
Les peintres en leur temps
Blanche de Castille, femme de Louis VIII, mère de Saint-Louis, 1188-1252
Provence
Maiṉ hūṉ Taimūr
Pompeii and Herculaneum
Bartolomé de las Casas, "Father of the Indians"
Daily life in the Vienna of Mozart and Schubert
La résurrection des villes mortes
Franc̜ois Ximénès
La vie dA̓laric
Clive James
Clive James (1939-2019)

broadcaster, literary critic, poet, television presenter

  • University of Sydney, University of Cambridge

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May Week was in June
Unreliable Memoirs
Always Unreliable
Falling towards England
Diana
Cultural Amnesia
The Silver Castle
Unreliable memoirs
As of this writing
Brilliant Creatures
Snakecharmers In Texas
The Remake
Flying Visits
The book of my enemy
Fame in the 20th century
The dreaming swimmer
From the Land of Shadows
Opal sunset
Point of View
At the Pillars of Hercules
Clive James' Reliable Essays
Meaning of Recognition
The man from Japan
Glued to the Box
Iwerddon
Visions before midnight
Brrm! brrm! or, The man from Japan, or, Perfume at Anchorage
The crystal bucket
Collected Poems
Latest readings
Sentenced to Life
Poem of the year
Even as we speak
Flying visits
Britannia Bright's bewilderment in the wilderness of Westminster
The metropolitan critic
Charles Charming's challenges on the pathway to the Throne
Angels over Elsinore
Play all
Glued to the box
Cultural Cohesion
The River in the Sky
Other passports
North Face of Soho (Unreliable Memoirs)
First reactions
Nefertiti In The Flak Tower
The revolt of the pendulum
A manual of assessment keys for plant diseases
unreliable memoirs
Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops, 2009
Clive James on television
The Divine Comedy
Fan-mail
THE CRYSTAL BUCKET
Fame In the Century
Injury time
Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops, 2006
Fire of Joy
The improved version of Peregrine Prykke's pilgrimage through the London literary world
Brrm Brrm
Somewhere Becoming Rain
Poetry notebook
A Point of View
The blaze of obscurity
May Week Was in June
Gate of Lilacs
Preview: Global review of commercialized transgenic crops
Iwerddon
unreliable memoirs
Fire of Joy
River in the Sky
Isaaa Annual Report, 1996
Global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops, 2008
Crystal Bucket
Play All
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs : Volume Two
What future for Scottish Gaelic speaking communities?
Sentenced to life
Cultural Amnesia
Collected Poems
Global review of commercialized transgenic crops: 2001 feature
Iwerddon
Fin de fiesta
Nefertiti in the flak tower
Preview
Divine Comedy
Unreliable Memoirs
Preview: Global status of commercialized transgenic crops
The Dreaming Swimmer
Global Review of Commercialized Transgenic Crops
Progressing Public-Private Sector Partnerships in International Agricultural Research and Development
Global status of commercialized transgenic crops
Fin de fiesta
Collected Poems (James)
Global Status of Transgenic Crops in 1997
The fate of Felicity Fark in the land of the media
Isaaa Annual Report, 1995: Shared Solutions to Shared Problems
Somewhere Becoming Rain
Even As We Speak
Brrm] Brrm], Or, The Man from Japan, Or, Perfume at Anchorage
Loose Canon : the Extraordinary Songs of Clive James and Pete
Global Review of the Field Testing and Commercialization of Transgenic Plants, 1986-1995
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