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Atlantic Bookshelf (6 Reviews) William Barrett
University Bookshelf
- Liberty Against Government by Edward S. Corwin
- The Passing of the European Age by Eric Fischer
- The Swiss Without Halos by J. Christopher Herold
- Simon Bolivar by Gerhard Masur
- Rock of Chickamauga by Freeman Cleaves
- The Mystery of "A Public Man" by Frank Maloy Anderson

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Atlantic Bookshelf (9 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes
- The Dark Labyrinth by Lawrence Durrell
- Island by Aldous Huxley
- Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood
- The Hidden Remnant by Gerald Sykes
- Scott Fitzgerald by Andrew Turnbull
- O'Neill by Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb
- Here Comes There Goes You Know Who by William Saroyan
- A Long and Happy Life by Reynolds Price


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Atlantic Bookshelf (6 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Majesty and Mischief: A Mixed Tribute to F.D.R. by William S. White
- The Balance of Terror by Pierre M. Gallois
- May Man Prevail? by Erich Fromm
- On Socialist Realism by Abram Tertz
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Night Song by John Alfred Williams

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Atlantic Bookshelf (8 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch
- Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene
- Ambassador Extraordinary by Paul Hyde Bonner
- Kira Georgievna by Viktor Nekrasov
- Seven Plays of the Modern Theatre by Harold Clurman
- The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
- My Self and I by Constance A. Newland

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Atlantic Bookshelf (6 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Has Man a Future? by Bertrand Russell
- A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement by Anthony Powell
- The Mighty and Their Fall by I. Compton-Burnett
- The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin
- Morning in Antibes by John Knowles
- The Prodigal Rake by William Hickey and Peter Quennell

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Atlantic Bookshelf (9 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson
- Key to the Door by Alan Sillitoe
- The Conscience of Love by Marcel Ayme
- Love and Friendship by Alison Lurie
- A Sad Heart at the Supermarket by Randall Jarrell
- Contemporaries by Alfred Kazin
- The Marquise Went Out at Five by Claude Mauriac
- Wall to Wall by Douglas Woolf
- Tell Dublin I Miss Her by Dominic Behan
The Atlantic Monthly, May 1962, pp. 120-127


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Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The Essential Lippmann by Clinton Rossiter, James Lare, and Walter Lippmann, ...
- City of Night by John Rechy
- The Messenger by Charles Wright
- First Person Singular by Herbert Gold
- Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White
- Miss Bannister's Girls by Louise Tanner
- Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland

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Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour by J.D. Salinger
- The Politics of Hope by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- The Deadlock of Democracy by James MacGregor Burns
- That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan
- Eternal Fire by Calder Willingham
- Sissie by John Alfred Williams
- The Street Where the Heart Lies by Ludwig Bemelmans

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Atlantic Bookshelf (9 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair by Upton Sinclair
- Dissonant Voices in Soviet Literature by Patricia Blake and Max Hayward
- The Living and the Dead by Konstantin M. Simonov
- Selected Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- The Vizier's Elephant by Ivo Andric
- The Devil's Yard by Ivo Andric
- The Age of Overkill by Max Lerner
- The Silent People by Walter Macken
- America, America by Elia Kazan


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Atlantic Bookshelf (8 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung and Aniela Jaffe
- What's Become of Waring? by Anthony Powell
- The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
- Salt by Herbert Gold
- Who Lost an American? by Nelson Algren
- The Water Beetle by Nancy Mitford
- The Disinherited by Jack Conroy

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Atlantic Bookshelf (8 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Fall of the Dynasties by Edmond Taylor
- On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
- Mark Twain: Letters from the Earth by Bernard De Voto and Mark Twain
- The Ring Lardner Reader by Maxwell Geismar and Ring Wilmer Lardner
- Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller by George Wickes, Lawrence Durrell, and Henry Miller, ...
- After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima
- The Light of Day by Eric Ambler

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Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
- Speculations About Jakob, and Other Writings by Uwe Johnson
- The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
- The Birdcage by John Bowen
- A Passage of Hawks by Wirt Williams
- The Art of the West in the Middle Ages by Henri Focillon and Jean Bony
The Atlantic Monthly, May 1963, pp. 132-140

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Atlantic Bookshelf (8 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Challenge to Affluence by Gunnar Myrdal
- Cause for Wonder by Wright Morris
- Sir William by David Stacton
- The Last Night of Summer by Erskine Caldwell
- The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Andrew Turnbull and F. Scott Fitzgerald
- My Brother Bill by John Faulkner
- Fly and the Fly-Bottle by Ved Mehta
- The Age of Magnificence by Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon and Sanche de Gramont, ...

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Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The Americans by Oscar Handlin
- The Domesticated Americans by Russell Lynes
- Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell
- Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr by Jean-Paul Sartre
- John F. Kennedy, President by Hugh Sidey
- JFK: The Man and the Myth by Victor Lasky
- Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof

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Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- A Precocious Autobiography by Yevgeny A. Yevtushenko
- Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass
- Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
- Sweetly Sings the Donkey by Shelagh Delaney
- Gaily, Gaily by Ben Hecht
- Powers of Attorney by Louis Auchincloss

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Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- A Touch of the Dragon by Hamilton Basso
- One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
- I Was Dancing by Edwin O'Connor
- Convention by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II
- Power in Washington by Douglass Cater
- The Naked Society by Vance Packard
- Hissing Tales by Romain Gary

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Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Those Harper Women by Stephen Birmingham
- Double Vision by John Knowles
- The Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark
- Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
- On Ice by Jack Gelber
- The 480 by Eugene Burdick
- Letters from Bohemia by Ben Hecht

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Atlantic Bookshelf (6 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Russia at War, 1941-1945 by Alexander Werth
- Bad Characters by Jean Stafford
- The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo Jose Cela
- The Erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Equal Time by Newton N. Minow


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Atlantic Bookshelf (6 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The McLandress Dimension by Mark Epernay
- Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll
- Careful, He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Elliott
- The Will by Harvey Swados
- The Peregrine Falcon by Robert William Murphy
- Great Private Collections by Douglas Cooper

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Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The Life and Death of Lenin by Robert Payne
- Julian by Gore Vidal
- Armageddon by Leon Uris
- The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
- Both Sides of the Ocean by Viktor Nekrasov
- I Rediscover Russia, 1924-1964 by Isaac Don Levine
- The Scarperer by Brendan Behan

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Atlantic Bookshelf (8 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Flood: A Romance of Our Time by Robert Penn Warren
- The Bells of Bicetre by Georges Simenon
- The Honored Society by Norman Lewis
- Get Home Free by John Clellon Holmes
- Sheba's Landing by Thomas Baird
- Old Acquaintance by David Stacton
- Illustrated History of the First World War by A.J.P. Taylor
- Robert Frost in Russia by Frank D. Reeve

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Atlantic Bookshelf (9 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- A God and His Gifts by I. Compton-Burnett
- Reuben, Reuben by Peter De Vries
- A Winter's Tale by Nathaniel Benchley
- A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker
- Because I Was Flesh by Edward Dahlberg
- Going to Town, and Other Stories by Yuri Kazakov
- Anti-Kommunism in Latin America by Juan Jose Arevalo
- El Senor Presidente by Miguel Angel Asturias
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre

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Atlantic Bookshelf (8 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The Spire by William G. Golding
- Order of Battle by Jacob K. Javits
- The Night in Lisbon by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Mythmakers by Bernard D. Nossiter
- Twelve Tales of Suspense and the Supernatural by Davis Grubb
- Suicide of the West by James Burnham
- Suicide of a Nation? by Arthur Koestler
- New York: True North by Gilbert Millstein and Sam Falk
The Atlantic Monthly, May 1964, pp. 135-141

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Atlantic Bookshelf (9 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- Herzog by Saul Bellow
- Shakespeare Our Contemporary by Jan Kott
- The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Free Enterprisers by Hobart Rowen
- The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell
- The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch
- Markings by Dag Hammarskjold
- Vive Moi! by Sean O'Faolain
- The Italians by Luigi Barzini

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Atlantic Bookshelf (8 Reviews) William Barrett
Reader's Choice
- The Making of the President, 1964 by Theodore H. White
- How They Became President by Rexford G. Tugwell
- The Looking Glass War by John le Carre
- The War, 1941-45 by Ilya Ehrenburg
- The Boarding-House by William Trevor
- A Man Named Hoffman by Berton Roueche
- Forms in Japan by Yukio Futagawa and Yuichiro Kojiro
- The Memoirs of an Amnesiac by Oscar Levant




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Black and Blue (Review) William Barrett
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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Bull in Our China Shop (Review) William Barrett
Picasso and the Bull, by Vincente Marrero-Suarez
- Picasso and the Bull by Vincente Marrero-Suarez

Christian Science (1925)William Barrett and Rosa M. Barrett
An Examination of the Religion of Health
2 Reviews, 1 Readable

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The Critic as Idea Monger (Review) William Barrett
Andre Gide, by Van Meter Ames
- Andre Gide by Van Meter Ames

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A Critic's Chronicle (Review) William Barrett
Classics and Commercials, by Edmund Wilson
- Classics and Commercials by Edmund Wilson

Death of the Soul (1986)William Barrett
From Descartes to the Computer
3 Reviews

DelmoreWilliam Barrett
A 30's Friendship and Beyond

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Dialectic of Love (Review) William Barrett
Works of Love, by Soren Kierkegaard
- Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard


Ego and Instinct (1970)Daniel Yankelovich and William Barrett
The Psychoanalytic View of Human Nature---Revised
1 Review

Reviews
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The End of Modern Literature (Review) William Barrett
What is Literature?, by Jean-Paul Sartre
- What is Literature? by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Evils of Egalitarianism (Review) William Barrett
The Age of Conformity, by Alan Valentine
- The Age of Conformity by Alan Valentine


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Film (Review) William Barrett
Chaplin as Chaplin
- Limelight (1952 Film) by Charles Chaplin

Books
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Fitzgerald and America (Review) William Barrett
The Far Side of Paradise, by Arthur Mizener
- The Far Side of Paradise by Arthur Mizener
The Partisan Review, May 1951, pp. 345-352

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Fragments of Fragments (Review) William Barrett
A Kierkegaard Anthology, by Robert Bretall and Soren Kierkegaard
- A Kierkegaard Anthology by Robert Bretall and Soren Kierkegaard


Reviews
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French With Tears---and Laughter (Review) William Barrett
The Classical Moment, by Martin Turnell
- The Classical Moment by Martin Turnell

Books
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The Great Bow (Review) William Barrett
Zen in the Art of Archery, by Eugene Herrigel and D.T. Suzuki
- Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugene Herrigel and D.T. Suzuki




The Illusion of Technique (1978)William Barrett
A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
9 Reviews, 3 Readable

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Illusions of Pure Consciousness (Review) William Barrett
Monsieur Teste, by Paul Valery
- Monsieur Teste by Paul Valery

Irrational Man (1958)William Barrett
A Study in Existential Philosophy
8 Reviews, 1 Readable

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The Italian Quality (Review) William Barrett
Modern Italian Short Stories, by Marc Slonim
- Modern Italian Short Stories by Marc Slonim

Books in Review
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Lapse of a Novelist (Review) William Barrett
Barbary Shore, by Norman Mailer
- Barbary Shore by Norman Mailer


LettersArnold Beichman, Werner J. Dannhauser, and William Barrett, ...

LettersWilliam E. Colby, Edward Jay Epstein, and Sam Shube, ...

LettersMary Jane Byrnes, Aileen Ryan, and Thomas Garvey, ...

LettersRolf Wiklund, Joseph Forbes, and Edward N. Luttwak, ...

LettersJim Courter, Elias M. Schwarzbart, and B. Bruce-Briggs, ...

The Liberal MindRichard Chase, Lionel Trilling, and William Barrett, ...
Two Communications and a Reply

Books and the Arts
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Life, Thought, Liberty (Review) William Barrett
Concord and Liberty, by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Concord and Liberty by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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The Literature of Nihilism (Review) William Barrett
After the Lost Generation, by John W. Aldridge
- After the Lost Generation by John W. Aldridge

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Man Without Super-Ego (Review) William Barrett
Art and Social Nature, by Paul Goodman
- Art and Social Nature by Paul Goodman

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Neurosis and Lucidity (Review) William Barrett
The Kafka Problem, by Angel Flores
- The Kafka Problem by Angel Flores

American Scholar Forum
The New Criticism IIWilliam Barrett, Kenneth Burke, and Malcolm Cowley, ...

American Scholar Forum
The New CriticismWilliam Barrett, Kenneth Burke, and Malcolm Cowley, ...


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Of Man's Greatness (Review) William Barrett
The Twilight of the Absolute, by Andre Malraux
- The Twilight of the Absolute by Andre Malraux


On the HorizonWilliam Barrett
Cultural Conference at the Waldorf





Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1962)William Barrett and Henry D. Aiken
An Anthology in Four Volumes
1 Review

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Philosophy's Knight-Errant (Review) William Barrett
My Philosophical Development, by Bertrand Russell
- My Philosophical Development by Bertrand Russell



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The Prince of Entertainers (Review) William Barrett
The Maugham Reader, by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Maugham Reader by W. Somerset Maugham


The Question of the Pound AwardWilliam Barrett
Further Comment
The Partisan Review, May 1949, pp. 520-522

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Reading Over a Poet's Shoulder (Review) William Barrett
Predilections, by Marianne Moore
- Predilections by Marianne Moore


Books
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The Resistance (Review) William Barrett
The Little Magazine, by Frederick J. Hoffman, Charles A. Allen, and Carolyn F. Ulrich, ...
- The Little Magazine by Frederick J. Hoffman, Charles A. Allen, and Carolyn F. Ulrich, ...

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The Sacrificial Artist (Review) William Barrett
Van Gogh, by Meyer Schapiro
- Van Gogh by Meyer Schapiro

Samuel Beckett's World in WaitingWilliam Barrett
The Works of Beckett Holds Clues to an Intriguing Riddle

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Soul for Sale (Review) William Barrett
Sincerely, Willis Wayde, by John P. Marquand
- Sincerely, Willis Wayde by John P. Marquand

Books
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Talent and Career of Jean-Paul Sartre (2 Reviews) William Barrett
Being and Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre


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"To Think What We Are Doing" (Review) William Barrett
The Human Condition, by Hannah Arendt
- The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt

Time of Need (1972)William Barrett
Forms of Imagination in the Twentieth Century
2 Reviews

The Truants (1982)William Barrett
Adventures Among the Intellectuals
9 Reviews, 2 Readable

The TruantsWilliam Barrett
"Partisan Review" in the 40s


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Vichy, House of the Dead (Review) William Barrett
Age of Assassins, by Philippe Soupault
- Age of Assassins by Philippe Soupault

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Virtue in the Absurd (Review) William Barrett
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays, by Albert Camus
- The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays by Albert Camus

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Wanted: New Philosophers (Review) William Barrett
The Challenge of Existentialism, by John Daniel Wild
- The Challenge of Existentialism by John Daniel Wild



What Is Existentialism? (1947)William Barrett
2 Reviews


While America BurnsWilliam Barrett and William Phillips



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Words and Masks (Review) William Barrett
Mimesis, by Erich Auerbach
- Mimesis by Erich Auerbach


The writer's roleWilliam Barrett
Alone with the page

Zen Buddhism (1957)Daisetz T. Suzuki and William Barrett
1 Review, 1 Readable


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3,000 Years of Triumph (Review) William Barrett
The Voices of Silence, by Andre Malraux
- The Voices of Silence by Andre Malraux
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