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Anne Enright
Anne Enright (born 1962)

essayist, literary critic, television director, television producer, film director

  • Trinity College Dublin, University of East Anglia

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The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
Actress
The forgotten waltz
The Gathering
Taking pictures
The Granta book of the Irish short story
The Green Road
Making babies
Yesterday's weather
Very Irish Christmas
The Wig My Father Wore
Repeal The 8th
Uea Creative Writing Anthology 2008
Becoming
Como Estas?
No Authority
The Portable Virgin
Here's to Love/Honey(Short Story)
Della/the Bad Sex (Short Story)
Until the Girl Died/(Short Story)
Men and Angels/(Short Story)
Caravan/Natalie/ (Short Story)
Little Sister/Pale (Short Story)
Babies
Felix/Mr Snip Snip (Short Story)
Lost in transition
(She Owns)Every (Short Story)
Green/in the Bed (Short Story)
Historical Letters (Short Story)
Wren, the Wren
Ju hui
ha-Mifgash
Davy Byrnes stories 2014
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

film director, professor, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, journalist, women's rights activist, film critic, theatrical director, human rights activist, historian, opinion journalist

  • University of Paris, Harvard University

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In America
The Volcano Lover
Na América
The Volcano Lover
In America
Illness as metaphor
On photography
Death kit
Regarding the pain of others
Where the Stress Falls
Styles of radical will
At the same time
The benefactor
Against Interpretation
As consciousness is harnessed to flesh
Conversations with Susan Sontag
I, etcetera
Women
AIDS and its metaphors
Under the sign of Saturn
Against interpretation, and other essays
Reborn
Alice in Bed
A Susan Sontag reader
The way we live now
Women
Reborn
Duet for cannibals
Penguin Modern Classic STOCK PACK 5 x 50
Death Kit
Trip to Hanoi
Against Interpretation And Other Essays
Cage-Cunningham-Johns
Essays of the 1960s & 70s
Selected Stories
Yo, etcetera
The best American essays
Antonin Artaud
Sobre la fotografía
Captive Spirit
In Amerika
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Richard Misrach
Sur la photographie
Krankheit als Metapher & Aids und seine Metaphern.
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
Declaración
Obra Imprescindible. Susan Sontag / Susan Sontag
Brother Carl
La maladie comme métaphore
Violent Legacies
Maestros and Monsters
Le sida et ses métaphores
Sulla fotografia. Realtà e immagine nella nostra società
Italy
La Enfermedad y Sus Metaforas y el Sida y Sus Metaforas
Literature Is Freedom
Styles of Radical Will
Susan Sontag
En Amérique
En America
Face of Human Rights
The best American essays 1992
Debriefing
Der Liebhaber des Vulkans
Ich. etc.
Estilos radicales
At The Same Time - Essays & Speeches
Debriefing
Notes on Camp
Ante el Dolor de Los Demás / Regarding the Pain of Others
Against Interpretation, and Other Essays Lib/E
La conciencia uncida a la carne
Aids andits metaphors
Das Leiden anderer betrachten
Sobre La Fotografia
Odrodzona Dzienniki Tom 1 1947-1963
Under the Sign of Saturn
Stories
Machete Season
Women
Bajo El Signo de Saturno
Where the Stress Falls Lib/E
On Women
El Benefactor
Syberbergs Hitler-Film
Bilincin Kapisini Aralamak
Untitled Novel
Der Wohltäter. Roman
On Women
L'amant du volcan
Against Interpretation
Estilos Radicales - B -
ecriture meme
Don Mccullin (signed Edition)
Brother Carl
Baskalarinin Acisina Bakmak
BARTHES
In Amerika
Susan Sontag Reader
AIDS and Its Metaphors
Ruyalarinin Esiri
The Benefactor (Avon, V2114)
El amante del volcan
Later essays
Regarding the Pain of Others
Reborn
Volcano Lover
Sontag on Film
Kunst und Antikunst
In America
Das Leiden anderer betrachten
Aids und seine Metaphern
En América
Saturn Yildizi Altinda
Benefactor
I, Etcetera
Death Kit
O fotografii
Where the Stress Falls
Bilinç Tene Kusaninca
On Photography
Granta: Sobre la marcha. Tomo #7 (Granta: As [You] Go Through Life. Volume #7)
Yeniden Dogan
Ich schreibe, um herauszufinden, was ich denke
Stories
Granta En Español
Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Sanatci
Kunst und Antikunst. 24 literarische Analysen
Yoruma Karsi
Untitled Book on Japan
Under the Sign of Saturn Lib/E
Todesstation
Susan Sontag On Photography
Sobre la fotografia
À la rencontre d'Artaud
Yanardag Sevdalisi
Reborn
AMANTE DEL VOLCAN, EL
Styles of Radical Will
Cap a Amèrica
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Bajo el signo de saturno
Syberbergs Hitler-Film
El benefactor
Moi, etcetera
Style radykalnej woli
Bilinc Tene Kusaninca
Amerika'da
DEATH KIT
Ante el dolor de los demás
Under the Sign of Saturn
Susan Sontag Reader
Estuche de muerte
Notes on Camp
Benefactor
Boyle Yasıyoruz Artık
At the Same Time
Cuestión de énfasis
Sobre la fotografia
Globales Amerika?
On Photography
Gesten radikalen Willens
Amante Del Volcán
Portraits in Life and Death
Ante El Dolor de Los Demas
Styles of Radical Will
Styles of Radical Will
Where the Stress Falls
Sobre la fotografia
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
Fashion Images De Mode No. 4
Przeciw interpretacji i inne eseje
Al mismo tiempo/ At the Same Time
Ben Vesaire
ecriture meme
La enfermedad y sus metáforas | El sida y sus metáforas
El Amante del Volcan
Death Kit
Duet for Cannibals
A Susan Sontag Reader
Zur gleichen Zeit
Place in the World Called Paris
Yeniden Dogan; Günlükler ve Deflerler, 1947-1963
Brother Carl
Choroba jako metafora
Davant el dolor dels altres
Renacida
Davant el dolor dels altres
Under the Sign of Saturn
Summer in Baden-Baden
Metafor Olarak Hastalik - Aids ve Metaforlari
Widok cudzego cierpienia
Against Interpretation
Al mismo tiempo
EL AMANTE DEL VOLCÁN
Contra la interpretación y otros ensayos
Olum Tuneli
Über Fotografie
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Wiedergeboren
I, Etcetera
El benefactor / The Benefactor (Spanish Edition)
Contra La Interpretacion
Im Zeichen des Saturn
Death Kit
Benefactor
Under the Sign of Saturn
Illness As Metaphor
En América (In America)
Fotograf Uzerine
Devant la douleur des autres
On Women
Untitled (Essays on Feminism)
A conversation with Susan Sontag
Camp
L'oeuvre parle
הצילום כראי התקופה
Universal Experience
El Sida y Sus Metaforas
Howard Hodgkin Paintings
El amante del volcán
Sobre la fotografía. - 5. edición
ha-Maḥalah ke-meṭaforah
Yo, Etcetera
Fan quan shi
Smotrim na chuzhie stradani︠i︡a
El Silencio en boca de todos
Poklonnik Vezuvii Ła
Tradities van het nieuwe, of Moeten wij modern zijn?
Don McCullin
Un été à Baden-Baden
Rwwm
Resa till Hanoi
L'Ecriture même
Susan Sontag on Paul Goodman and the Dummy/1 Audio Cassette
Todesstation
Darrell Schweitzer
Darrell Schweitzer (born 1952)

literary critic, poet, journalist

  • Villanova University

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Excalibur
The Living Dead
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Cosmic Knights
Isaac Asimov präsentiert Märchenwelt der Fantasy. Die schönsten Geschichten [20 short stories]
Darker masques
Conan's world and Robert E. Howard
The Secret History Of Vampires
Swords Against Darkness V
The Neil Gaiman Reader
Speaking of horror
Windows of the imagination
Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction
Mask of the Sorcerer
On writing science fiction
Full moon city
The shattered goddess
The Thomas Ligotti Reader
Cthulhus Reign
Speaking of the Fantastic II
The dream quest of H. P. Lovecraft
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction I
Another Round at the Spaceport Bar
The White Isle (Weird Tales)
Discovering Stephen King
Science Fiction Voices, No. 1 (Popular Writers of Today, Vol. 23)
Sekenre
Tom O'Bedlam's night out and other strange excursions
Weird Tales 338
Pathways to Elfland
Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I (Discovering (Wildside))
We are all legends
The Robert E. Howard Reader
The Great World & the Small
Weird Tales 336
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II
The white isle
Transients, and other disquieting stories
The meaning of life and other awesome cosmic revelations
Nightscapes
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No 16)
Refugees from an Imaginary Country
More Science Fiction Voices
Exploring Fantasy Worlds
Exploring fantasy worlds
Discovering modern horror fiction
Science Fiction Story Reader 12
Speaking of the Fantastic
Science Fiction Voices, No. 5
Another round at the spaceport bar
Science fiction voices no. 1
Horror of Horrors
The Barsoom Chronicles 4 Thuvia Maid of Mars
Discovering modern horror fiction
Another round at the spaceport bar
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
Discovering classic horror fiction I
Essays, Lovecraftian
Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, #27)
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
Tales fromthe spaceport bar
Discovering classic fantasy fiction
Discovering Stephen King
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
Discovering Stephen King
Three Suns of Amara
Groping Toward the Light
Necromancies and Netherworlds
Romance of the Forest
Necromancies and Netherworlds
Groping Toward the Light
Weird Trails
Great World and the Small
Macintyre's Improbable Bestiary
Brian Stableford
Brian Stableford (1948-2024)

literary critic, researcher

  • University of York

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By Blood We Live
The New Faust at the Tragicomique
Isoline and the Serpent-Flower
Frankenstein in London
Ever Smaller
Ombre de Frankenstein
Sar Dubnotal vs Jack the Ripper
Vampire of the Val-De-Grace
Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System
Pharaoh's Wife
Martian Epic
The Vampire Archives
Grave Predictions
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy
Shadows over Baker Street
The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires
The Cassandra Complex
The Werewolves of London
Scientific romance in Britain 1890-1950
Architects of Emortality
The angel of pain
The carnival of destruction
The Florians
Historical dictionary of fantasy literature
The third millennium
The mysteries of modern science
Inherit the earth
The Last Days of the Edge of the World
The Science in science fiction
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Isaac Asimov's utopias
Future man
Journey to the Center
Sociology of Science Fiction
Masters of Science Fiction
The Mind-Riders
The Fenris Device
Dark Ararat
Architects of Emortality
Optiman
Black Wings III - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
Paradox of the Sets
Realms of Tartarus
Once Upon a Future: The Third Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
Scientific romance in Britain, 1890-1950
The paradox of the sets
The Cassandra Complex (Emortality)
Young Blood
Shadows over Innsmouth
The Gates of Eden
The city of the sun
The Walking Shadow
The Halcyon drift
The Dedalus book of femmes fatales
Halcyon drift
The empire of fear
The Angel of Pain
The Dedalus book of decadence (moral ruins)
The Florians (Daedalus Mission, Bk. 1)
Firefly
The city of the sun
The Dedalus book of British fantasy
Designer genes
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence (The Black Forrest)
Inherit the Earth (Emortality)
The Dedalus book of decadence (moral ruins)
Wildeblood's Empire
The Last Days of the Edge of the World
Rhapsody in Black
The Face of Heaven
Tales of the Wandering Jew
The Steampunk MEGAPACK®: 26 Modern and Classic Steampunk Stories
Heterocosms
The Tarantulas' Parlor
The face of heaven
Firefly
Man in a Cage
The empire of fear
Salamander's Fire
Dislocations: Nine Stories of Speculation and Imagination
Tree Turf And Ornamental Pesticide Guide
The third millennium
Cinema Futura (edited by Mark Morris)
The way to write science fiction
The Snuggly Satyricon
Sexual chemistry
Year zero
Tales of the Shadowmen 5
John Carter Of Mars
Streaking
Inherit the earth
The paradise game
The Angel of Pain
Kiss the Goat
Journey to the Centre
Wildebloods empire
Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy - Asgard's Conquerors
Space, Time, and Infinity: Essays on Fantastic Literature
Snuggly Sirenicon
The Dictionary of science fiction places
The gates of Eden
Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature
The Tree of Life
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)
The A to Z of fantasy literature
The A to Z of Fantasy Literature (The A to Z Guide Series Book 46)
Balance of Power
Man in a cage
Cradle of the sun
The empire of fear
The Monster MEGAPACK®: 22 Modern & Classic Tales of Monsters
The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies
The Red Sorcerer
Dark Ararat (Emortality)
Omega Expedition
Empire of Fear
The Wayward Muse
Chimera's Cradle
Historical dictionary of science fiction literature
Rouletabille at Krupp's
The A to Z of Science Fiction Literature (A to Z Guides)
Man in a Cage
To Challenge Chaos
Promised Land
The Werewolves of London
Chimera's Cradle (The Books of Genesys)
Serpent's Blood
The Fountains of Youth (Emortality)
Prince Bonifacio
Salome and Other Decadent Fantasies
The werewolves of London
Swan Song
Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Mysterious Force
The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions
Algebraic fantasies and realistic romances
SERPENT'S BLOOD (GENESYS)
The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The Mind-Riders
The Man Who Lost Himself
Space, time, and infinity
Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction
Complications and Other Stories
Halcyon drift
The Giant Book of Fantasy and the Supernatural
The Dragon Man
Invaders from the Centre
The Carnival of Destruction
Le troisième millénaire
Swan Songs
The Eleventh Hour
The Centre Cannot Hold
Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction
Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future
The Navigators of Space
Opening minds
The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales
The Stones of Camelot
The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The Angel of Lust
L'énigme de Floria
Omega Expedition
The fountains of youth
The Terror of Madame Atomos
The Elusive Shadows
Exotic Encounters: Selected Reviews
Weird Fiction in France
Halcyon Drift
Day Of Wrath
The Last Days of the Edge of the World
Sherlock Holmes and the Vampires of Eternity
Sang du serpent
Valdemar's Daughter / The Mad Trist
Paradise Game
Das Machtgleichgewicht.
A clash of symbols
An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars
Adventures of Captain Cap
The Bald Giants
Journey to the center
World above the World
Zeitsprünge
The Truths of Darkness
Vampires of Atlantis
The Vampire Lord Ruthwen
Wildeblood's empire
Genesys- Trilogie 2. Das Feuer des Salamanders
The Secret of Zippelius
Paradies des Untergangs
Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature (I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature, No. 38.)
Changelings and Other Metamorphic Tales
The Blue Peril
Merkeze Seyahat -Asgrad Üclemesi-1
Univers 1985
Beyond the Mountains of Madness
Fountains of Youth
Posthumous Correspondence
Critical Threshold
The Sacred Fire
The Kingdom Of The Beasts
Glorious perversity
The Merchants of Health
The Womb of Time
Future man
Embrasser le bouc
The Alchemy of Blood
The paradise game
Year Zero
War Games
A Vision of Hell
An International Mission to the Moon
Science Fact and Science Fiction
The Supreme Progress
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence the Black Feast
Ortog
Genesys- Trilogie 3. Das Rätsel der Chimäre
Das Paradox der fremden Wesen
Babels, Balloons and Innocent Eyes
Halyartes
Dedalus Book of Decadence
TALES OF ENCHANTMENT AND DISENCHANTMENT
Pawns of Chaos
Paris Before the Deluge
Spirits of the Vasty Deep
Mephistophela
Chimera's Cradle
The Emerald Princess
Cradle of the Sun
The City of the Sun
Tangled Web of Time
Promised Land: Hooded Swan, Book Three
Midnight!!
Dark Ararat
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Curse of the Coral Bride
Portals of Paradise
THE THIRD MILLENIUM
Automata
Germans on Venus
Slumming in Voodooland
Prelude to Eternity
Masks in the Tapestry
The Walking Shadow
The Omega expedition
Tales of the Shadowmen 4
Serpent's blood
Young Blood
Outside the human aquarium
Cassandra Complex
The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2001
Conqueror of Death
Designer Genes: Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The Dedalus Book of Decadence (Moral Ruins)
Beginning Operations : A Sector General Omnibus
Carnival of destruction
Stirring Stories
Swan Songs
Critical Threshold
Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
The Blind Worm
New Atlantis
The encyclopedia of science fiction
Melusine
An Oasis of Horror: Decadent Tales and Contes Cruels
Yesterday's bestsellers
Asgard's Conquerors : A Science Fiction Novel
The Couple
The Incredible Adventure and Other Interstellar Excursions
Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction and Other Essays on Imaginative Fiction
Nora, The Ape-Woman
In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The French Fantasy Treasury
Panic in Paris
The Quiet Dead
After the Revelation
The Death of Broceliande
The Exploits of Professor Tornada
To challenge Chaos
The science in science fiction
Architects of Emortality
Empire of Fear
Puteshestvie k T ŁSentru
The Mirror of Present Events
Swan Song
News from the Moon
Slaves of the death spiders
Mysterious Fluid
Creators of Science Fiction
Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker
The Soul-Drinker
Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension
Selbstmord im All
Further Beyond: A Lovecraftian Science Fiction Novel
Les Fleurs Du Mal / The Undead (Wildside Double #4
Space, Time, and Infinity
The Crazy Corner
Wildeblood's Empire
The Insubstantial Pageant
News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews
The Clock of the Centuries
Sheena and Other Gothic Tales
War Games
In the Kingdom of the Beasts (Dies Irae, #2)
The days of glory
Asgard's heart
Castaways of Tanagar
El imperio del miedo
Dictionary of Science Fiction Places
Sexual Chemistry
The last days of the edge of the world
The Third Millennium : A History of the World
Asgard's conquerers
Writing fantasy & science fiction, and getting published
El Hombre Futuro
Serpent's Blood
Asgard's secret
Critical threshold
El imperio del miedo
Tales of the Wandering Jew
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel (1952-2022)

essayist, literary critic, film critic

  • University of Sheffield, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Bring Up the Bodies
Wolf Hall
The Mirror and the Light
A Place of Greater Safety
Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies - The Stage Adaptation
The Giant O'Brien
Fludd
Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies
Wolf Hall (adaptation)
Beyond Black
Vacant possession
A Change of Climate
Giving Up the Ghost
An Experiment in Love
Every day is Mother's Day
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Eight months on Ghazzah Street
One Hundred And One
Mantel Pieces
Wolf Hall Trilogy (Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / The Mirror & the Light)
Learning to talk
Memoir of My Former Self
Bring Up the Bodies [adaptation]
Matchbook Classics Box Set
Xwolf Hall Pb
Granta #4
Het boek Henry
Wolf Hall Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set By Hilary Mantel
Learning to Talk
Een veiliger oord 1
Comma
Wolf Hall Picture Book
Science of Flight
Curved Is the Line of Beauty
Woman Who Died of Robespierre
Révolution, Tome 1
Third Floor Rising
Ink in the Blood
King Billy Is a Gentleman
Vacant Possession
Three-Book Edition
Hilary Mantel Collection
School of English
How Shall I Know You?
Mens vs. natuur / Diane Cook ; De moord op Margaret Thatcher / Hilary Mantel
How Shall I Know You?
Complete Stranger
Holbein's Sir Thomas More
Talar-e gorg
Bruce Alexander Cook
Bruce Alexander Cook (1932-2003)

literary critic

  • Loyola University Chicago

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Tom Shippey
Tom Shippey (born 1943)

linguist, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, King Edward's School

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J.R.R. Tolkien
The Oxford book of fantasy stories
The road to Middle-Earth
Roots and Branches
Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Old English verse
The Shadow-walkers
Poems of Wisdom & Learning in Old English
Beowulf
Medievalism in the Modern World
Fictional space
Leaves from the Tree
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien. Autor des Jahrhunderts
El Camino a la Tierra Media
Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
Derenik Demirchian
Derenik Demirchian (1877-1956)

opinion journalist, literary critic, translator, poet, playwright

  • Gevorkian Theological Seminary, Nersisyan School

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Vardanankʻ
The book of flowers
Girkʻ tsaghkantsʻ
Pardanank
Puypuy mukikě
Patmvatskʻner
Erkeri zhoghovatsu
Antsanotʻ ējer
Vardanank (Khtatsowm)
Vardanank
Erker erku grkʻov
Patmuatskʻner
Banasteghtsutʻiwnner
Patmvatskʻner, piesner
Povesti i rasskazy
Derenik Demirchyan
Erkeri zhoghovatsow
Khrabryĭ Nazar
Rasskazy, miniati︠u︡ry
Povesti i rasskazy
Vo imi︠a︡ zhizni