Aarons, Victoria

What happened to Abraham?: reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction. University of Delaware Press 2005 181p $37.50

ISBN 0-87413-901-5; LC 2004-15173

Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Ethan Canin, Allegra Goodman, and Thane Rosenbaum are the authors analyzed.

Atwood, Margaret

Writing with intent: essays, reviews, personal prose: 1983-2005. Carroll and Graf Publs. 2005 427p $26.00

ISBN 0-7867-1535-9

This volume is comprised of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book and film reviews, eulogies, and introductions.

Bayley, John

Power of delight: a lifetime in literature; essays, 1962-2002; selected by Leo Carey. Norton 677p $29.95

ISBN 0-343-05840-9; LC 2005-2273

Sixty-nine book reviews and literary essays grouped by topics ranging from Russian novels to American poetry.

Chico, Titta

Designing women: the dressing room in eigtheenth-century English literature and culture. Bucknell Univ. Press 2005 302p (The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture) $55.00

ISBN 0-8387-5605-0; LC 2004-17669

Discusses such authors as Dryden, Pope, Swift, Austen, and Edgeworth.

Delbanco, Nicholas

Anywhere out of the world: essays on travel, writing, death. Columbia Univ. Press 2005 193p $27.50

ISBN 0-231-13384-7; LC 2004-50212

Authors discussed include John Gardner, James Baldwin, Ford Maddox Ford, and John Fowles. Destinations include Nambia, Afghanistan and Bellagio, Italy.

The Ethics of history: edited by David Carr, Thomas R. Flynn, and Rudolph A. Makkreel. Northwestern Univ. Press 2004 263p (Northwestern University topics in historical philosophy) pa $29.95; $79.95

ISBN 0-8101-2026-7; 0-8101-2027-5

Contributors critique the correspondence theory of history, discuss the gap between past and present for historians and the revision of the popular appeal of historical objectivity.

Greene, Thomas M.

Poetry, signs, and magic. University of Delaware Press 2005 327p $57.50

ISBN 0-87413-880-9; LC 2004-7406

Petrarch, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Milton, and Blake are among the authors discussed.

Hitchens, Christopher

Love, poverty, and wars: journeys and essays. Nation Books 2004 475p pa $16.95

ISBN 1-56025-580-3

Among the topics covered are political hypocrisy, terrorism, religious extremism, capital punishment, and the War on Terror. Byron, Joyce, Borges, and Huxley are among the writers discussed.

Lethem, Jonathan

The disappointment artist. Doubleday 2005 149p $22.95

ISBN 0-385-51217-1; LC 2004-55133

Essays explore the notion of cultural obsession with examples ranging from Western films and Marvel comics to rock music and the New York City subway.

Lewis, Grover

Splendor in the short grass: the Grover Lewis reader; edited by Jim Reid and W. K. Stratton; foreward by Dave Hickey; remembrance by Robert Draper. University of Texas Press 2005 277p il $24.95

ISBN 0-292-70559-X; LC 2004-20328

Includes essays on Woody Guthrie, the Allman Brothers, the Rolling Stones at Altamont, Sam Peckinpah, John Huston, The last picture show, and One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

Linder, Mark

Nothing less than literal: architecture after minimalism. The MIT Press 2005 282p il $40.00

ISBN 0-262-12266-9; LC 2004-52423

Traces the exchange of concepts and techniques between art and architecture through a reading of Clement Greenberg, Colin Rowe, Michael Fried and Robert Smithson. Works by John Hejduk and Frank Gehry are discussed.

Lukacs, John

Remembered past: John Lukacs on history, historians, and historical knowledge: a reader; edited with an introduction by Mark G. Malvasi and Jeffrey O. Nelson. ISI Books 2005 922p pa $18.00; $30.00

ISBN 1-932236-27-9; 1-932236-28-7; LC 2004-2734

Spengler, Barzun, de Tocqueville, Churchill, Burckhardt, Arendt, and Pius XII are among the historians, authors and topics analyzed.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Uncensored: views and (re)views. Ecco 2005 370p $24.95

ISBN 0-06-077556-4; LC 2004-53266

Muriel Spark, Patricia Highsmith, Mary Karr, Robert Lowell and Don DeLillo are among the authors considered.

Perez-Romero, Antonio

The subversive tradition in Spanish Renaissance writing. Bucknell Univ. Press 2005 339p $65.00

ISBN 0-8387-5589-5; LC 2004-45906

Looks at the works of Juan de Flores, Juan Rodriquez del Padron, Fernando de Rojas, and others.

Rabassa, Gregory

If this be treason: translation and its dyscontents: a memoir. New Directions 2005 189p $21.95

ISBN 0-8112-1619-5; LC 2005-28179

In addition to autobiographical essays and discussion of translation, Rabassa considers various authors and titles he has translated.

Reclaiming female agency: feminist art history after postmodernism: edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrand. University of California Press 2005 478p il pa $39.95; $70.00

ISBN 0-520-24251-3; 0-520-24252-1; LC 2004-16111

Artists discussed include Artemisia Gentileschi, Rubens, Ingres, and Manet.

Risorgimento in modern Italian culture: revisiting the nineteenth-century past in history, narrative, and cinema: edited by Norma Bouchard. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2005 288p $46.50

ISBN 0-8396-4054-0; LC 2004-19810

Essays discuss the works of Lampedusa, Bianciardi, Consolo, and Vittorio and PaoloTaviani.

The Rock, the curse, and the hub: a random history of Boston sports: edited by Randy Roberts. Harvard University Press 2005 422p $24.95

ISBN 0-674-01504-5; LC 2004-57655

Contributors celebrate the players, teams, games and fabled arenas in Boston sports history.

Schmidt, Michael

The first poets: lives of the ancient Greek poets. Alfred A. Knopf 2005 410p $30.00

ISBN 0-375-41120-8; LC 2004-48840

Homer, Hesiod, Archilochus, Sappho, Theognis, Hipponax and Bacchylides are among the poets profiled.

Sebold, W.G.

Campo Santo: translated by Anthea Bell. Random House 2005 221p $24.95

ISBN 1-4000-6229-2; LC 2004-50311

Personal and literary essays on topics ranging from Corsica and the literature of postwar Germany to Kafka’s travel diaries and the photography of Jan Peter Tripp.

Seeing and beyond: essays on eighteenth-to twenty-first-century art in honor of Kermit S. Champa; edited by Deborah J. Johnson and David Ogawa. Lang, P. 2005 490p il $88.95

ISBN 0-8204-7084-8; LC 2004-22829

Gainsborough, Matisse, Pollock, and Manet are among the artists discussed.

Sharpe, Peter

The ground of our beseeching: metaphor and the poetics of meditation. Susquehanna Univ. Press 2004 391p $65.00

ISBN 1-57591-080-2; LC 2004-5448

Explores the works of T.S. Eliot, Emerson, Kenneth Burke, Wallace Stevens, and others.

Tenn, William

Dancing naked: the unexpurgated William Tenn; introduction by David Murrell; edited by Laurie D. T. Mann. NEFSA Press 2004 427p $29

ISBN 1-886778-46-9

Includes autobiographical pieces, introductions, literary criticism, and profiles of Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Anderson, John W. Campbell, Jr., and others.

Von Sneidern, Maja-Lisa

Savage indignation: colonial discourse from Milton to Swift. University of Delaware Press 2005 204p $42.50

ISBN 0-87413-882-5; LC 2004-12681

Discusses colonial discourse in the works of Aphra Behn, John Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope, Thomas Southerne, and John Gay.

Walker, Janet

Trauma cinema: documenting incest and the holocaust. University of California Press 2005 251p pa $24.95; $60.00

ISBN 0-520-24174-6; 0-520-24175-4; LC 2004-14327

Analyzes such films as Mr. Death, Everything’s for you, Tak for alt, Sybil, Kings Row, and Freud.