Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)
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Malraux’s Culture
October 6, 2005
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‘The Shame of the Schools’
September 22, 2005
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In the Thick of Things
May 26, 2005
Malraux: A Life
by Olivier Todd, translated from the French by Joseph West
André Malraux: A Biography
by Curtis Cate
Signed, Malraux
by Jean-François Lyotard,translated from the French by Robert Harvey
Communism and the French Intellectuals, 1914–1960 by David Caute
Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism
by Daniel Aaron
Paris Journal, 1944–1965
by Janet Flanner (Genêt), edited by William Shawn
L’État culturel: Une religion moderne (The Culture State: Essay on a Modern Religion) by Marc Fumaroli
Mona Lisa’s Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture
by Herman Lebovics
The God That Failed
edited by R.H.S. Crossman
Malraux and Corniglion-Molinier in Search of Sheba: An Arabian Adventure by Walter G. Langlois
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The Shame of the Schools
April 7, 2005
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Keats & Helen Keller
April 29, 2004
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A World of Words
February 26, 2004
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Tumult in the Clouds
November 6, 2003
Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention
by Peter L. Jakab
Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War
by Richard P. Hallion
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
by James Tobin
Progress in Flying Machines
by Octave Chanute
Les Avions de la Grande Galerie Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace
The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age
by Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab
First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane
by T.A. Heppenheimer
The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright
edited by Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young
How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History
by Orville Wright, edited by Fred C. Kelly
Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight
by Paul Hoffman
Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane
by Seth Shulman
Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight
by William Langewiesche
No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World’s Most Dangerous Sport
by Joshua Cooper Ramo
North Star over My Shoulder: A Flying Life
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The Mormon Murder Case
March 13, 2003
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‘Think Like a Demigod’
June 13, 2002
Flaubert: A Life
by Geoffrey Wall
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‘Saving Us from Darwin’: An Exchange
November 29, 2001
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Farce & Philosophy
February 22, 2001
Stories & Remarks by Raymond Queneau, with a preface by Michel Leiris, translated and with an introduction by Marc Lowenthal
The Bark Tree[Le Chiendent] by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Barbara Wright
Odile by Raymond Queneau,translated from the French by Carol Sanders
Raymond Queneau (1985) by Allen Thiher
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau,translated from the French by Barbara Wright
Zazie[Zazie dans le métro] by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Barbara Wright
å?uvres complètes, Volume One by Raymond Queneau, edited by Claude Debon
We Always Treat Women Too Well [On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes] by Raymond Queneau. translated from the French by Barbara Wright
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Decline and Fall?
June 29, 2000
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
by Jacques Barzun
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‘The Threat to Proust’: An Exchange
May 6, 1999
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The Threat to Proust
March 18, 1999
A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié
A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 2 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié
A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 3 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié
A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 4 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié
Marcel Proust
by Edmund White
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Louisiana Story
March 5, 1998
Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable by Christopher Benfey
Masters and Servants by Pierre Michon, translated by Wyatt Alexander Mason
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Confidence Man
March 27, 1997
Duchamp: A Biography
by Calvin Tomkins
The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture by Jerrold Seigel
The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp, and Avant-Gardism by Jeffrey Weiss
The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp edited by Thierry de Duve
New York Dada 1915-23 by Francis M. Naumann
Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York edited by Francis M. Naumann, with Beth Venn. Catalog of the Whitney Museum exhibition, which closed on February 23.
Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Esthetics by Heather Busch, by Burton Silver
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Dickinson’s Charm
October 3, 1996
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Emily Dickinson’s Banquet of Abstemiousness
June 20, 1996
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The Pleasures of Abstinence
June 6, 1996
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‘Zola: A Life’
May 23, 1996
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Tea with Alice
April 4, 1996
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Brinksmanship
January 11, 1996
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography by Norman Mailer
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In the Magic Circle
August 13, 1992
The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwest France by W.S. Merwin
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Born Again African
December 20, 1990
Black, French, and African: A Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor
by Janet G. Vaillant
Œuvre poétique by Léopold Sédar Senghor
Ce que je crois by Léopold Sédar Senghor
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Mascot of Modern Music
March 15, 1990
Erik Satie
by Alan M. Gillmor
Satie Seen Through His Letters by Ornella Volta, translated by Michael Bullock
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The Reddening of America
March 30, 1989
A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
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Obsessed by Flaubert
December 3, 1987
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Mad About the Guy
July 16, 1987
The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and ‘Madame Bovary’ by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
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Catching Up with the Avant-garde
December 18, 1986
Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 18301930 by Jerrold Seigel
Pleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in Turn-of-the-Century France by Charles Rearick
France: Fin de Siècle by Eugen Weber
Theory of the Avant-Garde by Peter Bürger, translated by Michael Shaw, foreword by Jochen Schulte-Sasse
Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries: The Literary Avante-Garde from Rimbaud through Postmodernism by Charles Russell
The Culture of Time and Space: 18801918 by Stephen Kern
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought
by Sanford Schwartz
Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development
by Ricardo J. Quinones
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Not Swann’s Way
August 16, 1984
Swann in Love directed by Volker Schlöndorff, screenplay by Peter Brook, by Jean-Claude Carrière, by Marie-Hélène Estienne, based on "Un Amour de Swann" by Marcel Proust
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Quanta
March 15, 1984
Pitch Dark
by Renata Adler
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Why Not the Best?
April 28, 1983
Friday by Michel Tournier, translated by Norman Denny
The Ogre by Michel Tournier, translated by Barbara Bray
Gemini
by Michel Tournier, translated by Anne Carter
The Four Wise Men by Michel Tournier, translated by Ralph Manheim
Le Vent du Paraclet by Michel Tournier
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Kilmartin’s Way
June 25, 1981
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, by Terence Kilmartin, by Andreas Mayor
Marcel Proust’s Grasset Proofs: Commentary and Variants (distributed by the University of North Carolina Press) by Douglas W. Alden
Proust and the Art of Love: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in the Life, Times, and Art of Marcel Proust by J.E. Rivers
Proust’s Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation by Randolph Splitter
Proust dans la recherche littéraire by Sigbrit Swahn
Proust’s Additions: The Making of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu,’ by Alison Winton
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Rescuing Literature: An Exchange
June 26, 1980
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How to Rescue Literature
April 17, 1980
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Boycott Taba
October 11, 1979
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Master Classes
April 19, 1979
Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries, Selected Papers, Volume II by Meyer Schapiro
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Poet in the Wings
March 23, 1978
Houseboat Days
by John Ashbery
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Artaud Possessed
November 11, 1976
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings edited, and with an introduction, by Susan Sontag, translated by Helen Weaver
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A Higher Selfishness?
September 18, 1975
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
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Proust and the Will
September 19, 1974
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The Breton Expedition
October 5, 1972
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The Arsenal Explodes
July 20, 1972
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The Dada-Surrealist Expedition: Part II
June 1, 1972
André Breton: Magus of Surrealism
by Anna Balakian
The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp by Arturo Schwarz
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The D-S Expedition: Part I
May 18, 1972
Dada and Surrealist Art by William S. Rubin
Arp on Arp
by Jean Arp, translated by Joachim Neugroschel, edited with an Introduction by Marcel Jean
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Empathy & Dance
May 7, 1970
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After the Avant-Garde
March 12, 1970
The Theory of the Avant-Garde by Renato Poggioli, translated by Gerald Fitzgerald
The Art of Time: Essays on the Avant-Garde by Michael Kirby
The Eclipse of the Intellectual by Elémire Zolla, translated by Raymond Rosenthal
Continuities by Frank Kermode
Histoire de l’avant-garde en peinture by Germain Bazin
The Avant-Garde in Painting by Germain Bazin, translated by Simon Watson Taylor
Historia de las literaturas de vanguardia by Guillermo de Torre
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Translation
August 24, 1967
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The Brother of Us All
June 1, 1967
Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters Introduction, Prose Translations, and Notes by Wallace Fowlie
Rimbaud: A Critical Study by Wallace Fowlie
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Fiction à la Mode
June 23, 1966
The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell Jr.
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass
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Baudelaire as Critic
February 11, 1965
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Fruits de Mer
July 30, 1964
The Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark. drawings by Leonid
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On Translating Apollinaire
May 14, 1964
Alcools: Poems 1898-1913
by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by William Meredith, Introduction and notes by Francis Steegmuller