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  1. Annals of Academia
    James Atlas
    The Loose Canon
    The New Yorker, March 29, 1999, pp. 60-65
  2. Annals of Education
    James Atlas
    The Million-Dollar Diploma
    The New Yorker, July 19, 1999, pp. 42-46
  3. Annals of Parenthood: Making the Grade
    James Atlas
    New York's private schools: keeping busy parents a whole lot busier
    The New Yorker, April 14, 1997, pp. 34-39
  4. Battle of the Books (1992)
    James Atlas
  5. Bellow: A Biography (2000)
    James Atlas
    6 Reviews
  6. Beyond Demographics
    James Atlas
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1984, pp. 49-59
  7. The Book Wars (1990)
    James Atlas
    What It Takes to Be Educated in America
    1 Review
  8. [+]
    Books/A Modern Existential Hero (Review)
    James Atlas
    Four Films, by Woody Allen
    1. Four Films by Woody Allen
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1982, pp. 102-104
  9. [+]
    Books/A Sure Narrative Voice (Review)
    James Atlas
    Liars in Love, by Richard Yates
    1. Liars in Love by Richard Yates
    The Atlantic Monthly, November 1981, pp. 84-85
  10. [+]
    Books/Arg and Ardor (Review)
    James Atlas
    Turgenev's Letters, by A.V. Knowles and Ivan Turgenev
    1. Turgenev's Letters by A.V. Knowles and Ivan Turgenev
    The Atlantic Monthly, July 1983, pp. 104-106
  11. Books/In Praise of Dispraise
    James Atlas
    The art of invective
    The Atlantic Monthly, August 1981, pp. 79-82
  12. [+]
    Books/Interpreting the World (Review)
    James Atlas
    The Dean's December, by Saul Bellow
    1. The Dean's December by Saul Bellow
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1982, pp. 78-81
  13. [+]
    Books/Languid, But Never Dull (Review)
    James Atlas
    Bech is Back, by John Updike
    1. Bech is Back by John Updike
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1982, pp. 103-104
  14. [+]
    Books/Less Is Less (Review)
    James Atlas
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver
    1. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
    The Atlantic Monthly, June 1981, pp. 96-97
  15. [+]
    Books/Marginal Memoirs (3 Reviews)
    James Atlas
    Minor Characters, by Joyce Johnson
    1. Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson
    2. Auden: An American Friendship by Charles H. Miller
    3. Voices: A Memoir by Frederic Prokosch
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1983, pp. 100-101
  16. [+]
    Books/Marriage and Morals (Review)
    James Atlas
    Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes, by C.D.B. Bryan
    1. Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes by C.D.B. Bryan
    The Atlantic Monthly, August 1983, pp. 96-97
  17. Books/Papa Lives
    James Atlas
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1983, pp. 114-119
  18. [+]
    Books/The Pursuit of Celebrity (Review)
    James Atlas
    Edie: American Girl, by Jean Stein and George Plimpton
    1. Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein and George Plimpton
    The Atlantic Monthly, July 1982, pp. 92-93
  19. [+]
    Books/Writers on Hot It's Done (2 Reviews)
    James Atlas
    First Person Singular, by Joyce Carol Oates
    1. First Person Singular by Joyce Carol Oates
    2. The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
    The Atlantic Monthly, January 1984, pp. 96-99
  20. The Critics
    [+]
    Books: A Vituperative Art (Review)
    James Atlas
    Will This Do?, by Auberon Waugh
    1. Will This Do? by Auberon Waugh
    The New Yorker, June 15, 1998, pp. 74-75
  21. The Changing Curriculum: Then and Now
    James Atlas
    The Partisan Review, Spring 1991, pp. 262-264
  22. Chicago Highbrow
    James Atlas
    Growing up in a home that resembled a Bennington dorm
    The Atlantic Monthly, April 1982, pp. 21-27
  23. [+]
    Coming of Age in Chicago (Review)
    James Atlas
    The Neighborhood of Baseball, by Barry Gifford
    1. The Neighborhood of Baseball by Barry Gifford
    The New Republic, July 18, 1981, pp. 32-33
  24. What's wrong with the English?
    "The Common Pursuit" in New York
    James Atlas
    The New Criterion, February 1987, pp. 14-19
  25. Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet (1977)
    James Atlas
    10 Reviews, 1 Readable
  26. Dept. of Taking Stock
    James Atlas
    The Art of Failing
    The New Yorker, May 25, 1998, pp. 67-73
  27. Books
    [+]
    A Don Juan Among the Intelligentsia (2 Reviews)
    James Atlas
    Experiment in Autobiography, by H.G. Wells
    1. Experiment in Autobiography by H.G. Wells
    2. H.G. Wells in Love by George Philip Wells and H.G. Wells
    The Atlantic Monthly, November 1984, pp. 138-140
  28. [+]
    Fashionable Despair (Review)
    James Atlas
    Players, by Don DeLillo
    1. Players by Don DeLillo
    The Partisan Review, Summer 1979, pp. 482-492
  29. [+]
    First Person (Review)
    James Atlas
    Collected Poems, by Paul Goodman and Taylor Stoehr
    1. Collected Poems by Paul Goodman and Taylor Stoehr
    The New Republic, March 2, 1974, pp. 30-31
  30. [+]
    Golden Boy (2 Reviews)
    James Atlas
    Passage From Home, by Isaac Rosenfeld
    1. Passage From Home by Isaac Rosenfeld
    2. Preserving the Hunger by Mark Shechner and Isaac Rosenfeld
    The New York Review of Books, June 29, 1989, pp. 42-46
  31. Books
    [+]
    A Great American Novel (Review)
    James Atlas
    Continental Drift, by Russell Banks
    1. Continental Drift by Russell Banks
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1985, pp. 94-96
  32. The Great Pretender (1986)
    James Atlas
    1 Review
  33. Books
    [+]
    The Hunter and the Hunted (Review)
    James Atlas
    E.M. Forster: A Life, by P.N. Furbank
    1. E.M. Forster: A Life by P.N. Furbank
    The Harpers Monthly, February 1979, pp. 74-81
  34. Books & the Arts
    [+]
    The Impersonality of Art (Review)
    James Atlas
    St. Lawrence Blues, by Marie-Claire Blais
    1. St. Lawrence Blues by Marie-Claire Blais
    The Nation, March 29, 1975, p. 374
  35. Joining the Working Class
    James Atlas
    The literary proletariat arises
    The Atlantic Monthly, January 1982, pp. 80-83
  36. Journals: The Shadow in the Garden
    James Atlas
    The New Yorker, June 26, 1995, pp. 74-85
  37. [+]
    Just to Pass the Time Away... (Review)
    James Atlas
    Antoine Bloye, by Paul Nizan
    1. Antoine Bloye by Paul Nizan
    The Nation, October 22, 1973, p. 407
  38. The Kids Are Fine
    James Atlas
    The joy of reading other people's class notes
    The New Republic, September 4, 1989, pp. 13-14
  39. Letters
    Louis Simpson, Donald Windham, Gore Vidal, and James Atlas, ...
    The New York Review of Books, March 4, 1976, pp. 38-40
  40. Life and Letters
    James Atlas
    The Uses of Misery
    The New Yorker, August 24, 1998, pp. 96-98
  41. Life and Letters: Holmes on the Case
    James Atlas
    Britain's Richard Holmes is a literary heir to Samuel Johnson, and a major player in th...
    The New Yorker, September 19, 1994, p. 57
  42. Life and Letters: The Fall of Fun
    James Atlas
    When did we all become so serious?
    The New Yorker, November 18, 1996, pp. 62-64
  43. "Lighting the Lamps"
    James Atlas
    The New Yorker, February 7, 1970, pp. 30-31
  44. Books
    Literary Biography
    James Atlas
    The American Scholar, Summer 1976, pp. 448-459
  45. The Literary Life of Crime
    James Atlas
    The New Republic, September 9, 1981, pp. 21-23
  46. The London Literature Market
    James Atlas
    Naming the thirteen best commodities
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1984, pp. 95-97
  47. Lord Weary
    James Atlas
    Robert Lowell in Cambridge
    The Atlantic Monthly, July 1982, pp. 56-64
  48. [+]
    Lowell's Castle (Review)
    James Atlas
    Pity the Monsters, by Alan Williamson
    1. Pity the Monsters by Alan Williamson
    The Partisan Review, Winter 1977, pp. 149-151
  49. Maharishi U.
    James Atlas
    The New Republic, April 22, 1985, pp. 13-14
  50. Making the List
    James Atlas
    How books get on the best-sellar lists
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1983, pp. 108-112
  51. Books
    [+]
    The men of 1914 (Review)
    James Atlas
    Makers of the New, by Julian Symons
    1. Makers of the New by Julian Symons
    The New Criterion, March 1988, pp. 66-68
  52. [+]
    A Modern Whitman (Review)
    James Atlas
    Collected Poems, 1947-1980, by Allen Ginsberg
    1. Collected Poems, 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1984, pp. 132-135
  53. [+]
    Modernism and Beyond (Review)
    James Atlas
    A Revolution in Taste, by Louis Aston Marantz Simpson
    1. A Revolution in Taste by Louis Aston Marantz Simpson
    Commentary, March 1979, pp. 90-91
  54. My Life in the Middle Ages (2005)
    James Atlas
    A Survivor's Tale
    1 Review
  55. [+]
    A Neglected Modern (Review)
    James Atlas
    Paul Nizan, by W.D. Redfern
    1. Paul Nizan by W.D. Redfern
    Commentary, June 1973, pp. 93-96
  56. New York Diarist: Corporate Populist
    James Atlas
    Getting deconstructed proves more baffling than painful
    The New Republic, April 2, 1990, pp. 42-44
  57. [+]
    Poetry as disease and therapy (Review)
    James Atlas
    The Middle Generation, by Bruce Bawer
    1. The Middle Generation by Bruce Bawer
    The New Criterion, October 1986, pp. 80-82
  58. Poetry Cornered
    James Atlas
    The New Republic, November 25, 1978, pp. 9-11
  59. [+]
    The Poetry of Mere Prose (2 Reviews)
    James Atlas
    The Book of the Body, by Frank Bidart
    1. The Book of the Body by Frank Bidart
    2. With Ignorance by C.K. Williams
    The Nation, June 18, 1977, p. 763
  60. Postcard New York
    James Atlas
    MIA at the MLA
    The New Republic, January 26, 1987, pp. 12-13
  61. A Postwar Classic
    James Atlas
    The New Republic, June 2, 1982, pp. 28-31
  62. [+]
    Reconsideration (3 Reviews)
    James Atlas
    Delmore Schwartz
    1. Summer Knowledge, 1938-1958 by Delmore Schwartz
    2. The World is a Wedding by Delmore Schwartz
    3. Selected Essays of Delmore Schwartz by Donald A. Dike, David H. Zucker, and Delmore Schwartz, ...
    The New Republic, November 1, 1975, pp. 36-38
  63. [+]
    Reconsideration: A Novel of the Beat Generation (Review)
    James Atlas
    On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    The New Republic, November 8, 1980, pp. 24-26
  64. Reflections
    James Atlas
    The Whistle of Money
    The New Yorker, February 2, 1998, pp. 34-37
  65. Reports & Comment
    James Atlas
    Travel: On Not Being a Tourist
    The Atlantic Monthly, November 1982, pp. 30-31
  66. [+]
    On Modernism (Review)
    James Atlas
    Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot, by Frank Kermode and T.S. Eliot
    1. Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot by Frank Kermode and T.S. Eliot
    The New Republic, January 17, 1976, p. 33
  67. [+]
    The Malraux Mystery (Review)
    James Atlas
    Writers at Work, Fourth Series, by George Plimpton
    1. Writers at Work, Fourth Series by George Plimpton
    The New Republic, January 29, 1977, p. 32
  68. [+]
    National Public Radio (Review)
    James Atlas
    Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters, by Marjorie Perloff
    1. Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters by Marjorie Perloff
    The New Republic, September 10, 1977, pp. 35-36
  69. [+]
    Jazz: New Records (Review)
    James Atlas
    Reviewing the Forties, by Diana Trilling
    1. Reviewing the Forties by Diana Trilling
    The New Republic, October 28, 1978, p. 35
  70. [+]
    Sketchbook (Review)
    James Atlas
    The Twenties, by Edmund Wilson and Leon Edel
    1. The Twenties by Edmund Wilson and Leon Edel
    Commentary, June 1975, pp. 78-80
  71. [+]
    Sonnets in the Out Box (Review)
    James Atlas
    Souvenirs and Prophecies, by Holly B. Stevens
    1. Souvenirs and Prophecies by Holly B. Stevens
    The American Scholar, Summer 1977, pp. 408-410
  72. Unsentimental Education
    James Atlas
    The Atlantic Monthly, June 1983, pp. 78-89
  73. W.G. Sebald: A Profile
    James Atlas
    The Paris Review, Summer 1999, pp. 278-295
  74. [+]
    Warming up for poetry (Review)
    James Atlas
    Robert Lowell: Collected Prose, by Robert Giroux and Robert Lowell
    1. Robert Lowell: Collected Prose by Robert Giroux and Robert Lowell
    The New Criterion, June 1987, pp. 72-76
  75. Books & the Arts
    [+]
    'What Marx Really Meant Is Finnegans Wake' (Review)
    James Atlas
    Closing Time, by Norman O. Brown
    1. Closing Time by Norman O. Brown
    The Nation, November 26, 1973, p. 565
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