• multiple authors: Babel (B) - Adventures in Translation
  
  
• ACHEBE, Chinua:
  • The Education of a British-Protected Child (B) -- essays
  • Home and Exile (B) -- African literature
  • Morning Yet on Creation Day (B) -- essays
  • See also: Conversations with Chinua Achebe (B)
• ACOCELLA, Joan: Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (B+)
• ADAIR, Gilbert: The Real Tadzio (B+) -- Thomas Mann's Death in Venice
• ALBERTI, Leon Battista: Biographical and Autobiographical Writings (B+)
• ALTER, Robert: The Art of Bible Translation (B)
• AMÉRY, Jean: Charles Bovary, Country Doctor (A-) -- Portrait of a Simple Man
• AMIS, Martin:
  • The Second Plane (C) -- September 11, 2001-2007
  • The War against Cliché (A-) -- book reviews
• AMLINGER, Carolin: Schreiben (B+) -- Eine Soziologie literarischer Arbeit
• ARMSTRONG, Karen: A Short History of Myth (B-)
• ASONG, Linus: Detective Fiction and the African Scene (-) -- From the 'Whodunit ?' to the 'Whydunit ?'
• ATHILL, Diana: Stet (B+) -- an editor's life
• AZAM ZANGANEH, Lila: The Enchanter (B+) -- Nabokov and Happiness
• BÄCKER, Heimrad: Documentary Poetry (B+)
• BAIL, Murray: Notebooks: 1970-2003 (B+)
• BALINT, Benjamin: Kafka's Last Trial (B) -- The Case of a Literary Legacy
• BARNES, Julian:
  • Nothing to be Frightened of (B) -- death
  • Something to Declare (B+) -- France and Flaubert
• BARON, Naomi S.: Words Onscreen (B) -- The Fate of Reading in a Digital World
• BAYARD, Pierre:
  • How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (A)
  • How to Talk About Places You've Never Been (B)
  • Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (B) -- Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles
• BÉNABOU, Marcel:
  • Dump This Book While You Still Can ! (B)
  • To Write on Tamara ? (B+)
  • Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books (A-)
• BENEDICT, Nora C.: Borges and the Literary Marketplace (-) -- How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading
• BENNETT, Ronan: Double Jeopardy (B) -- The Retrial of the Guildford Four
• BERNHARD, Thomas: My Prizes (A-) -- Bernhard on the prizes he has won
• BERNSTEIN, Stephen: Alasdair Gray (B)
• [BIOY CASARES, Adolfo: Borges]
• BLATT, Ben: Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve (B) -- What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing
• BLOCH, William Goldbloom: The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel (B)
• BLOM, Philipp: To Have and to Hold (B) -- on collecting
• BOLAÑO, Roberto: Between Parentheses (A-) -- Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
• BONNET, Jacques: Phantoms on the Bookshelves (B) -- book-mania
• BORGES, Jorge Luis:
  • On Writing (A-)
  • Selected Non-Fictions (UK title: The Total Library) (A) -- various
  • This Craft of Verse (A-) -- Norton Lectures
• BOWERS, Neal: Words for the Taking (A-) -- poetic plagiarism
• BOYLE, James: Shamans, Software, and Spleens (A-) -- copyright
• BRACEWELL, Michael: The Nineties (C) -- pop culture
• BRECHT, Bertolt: Stories of Mr. Keuner (A) -- aphorisms
• BRIGGS, Kate: This Little Art (B) -- on translation
• BROCH, Heramnn: Geist and Zeitgeist (B+) -- The Spirit in an Unspiritual Age
• BROOK, Chris (ed.): K Foundation burn a Million Quid (A)
• BROOKS, Peter:
  • Honoré de Balzac (B+)
  • Seduced by Story (B+) -- The Use and Abuse of Narrative
• BROTTMAN, Mikita: The Solitary Vice (C) -- Against Reading
• BURGER, Hermann: Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis (A-) -- On Killing Oneself
• BURTON, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy (A+)
• CALASSO, Roberto: The Art of the Publisher (B)
• CARRÈRE, Emmanuel: 97,196 Words (B) -- essays
• CARTER, Angela: Shaking a Leg (B) -- collected writings
• CASANOVA, Pascale: The World Republic of Letters (A-)
• CHONG, Phillipa K.: Inside the Critics' Circle (B) -- Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times
• CLASSEN, Albrecht: The Medieval Chastity Belt (B) -- A Myth-Making Process
• CODRESCU, Andrei: The Posthuman Dada Guide (B) -- tzara and lenin play chess
• COETZEE, J.M.: Stranger Shores (B) -- literary essays
• CORDASCO, Rachel S.: Out of This World (-) -- Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium
• CORLISS, Richard: Lolita (A-) -- Nabokov and Kubrick film
• CREWS, Frederick: Postmodern Pooh (B) - critical parody
• DABASHI, Hamid: The Shahnameh (B) -- The Persian Epic as World Literature
• DALOS, György: The Guest from the Future (B) -- Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin
• DANTO, Arthur C.: The Madonna of the Future (B) -- art criticism
• DANTZIG, Charles: Why Read ? (B+)
• DART, Gregory: Unrequited Love (B+) -- stalking
• DAVIS, Lydia: Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red (B)
• DE BOTTON, Alain::
  • The Art of Travel (B+)
  • How Proust can change your Life (A-) -- self-help
  • Status Anxiety (B)
• DEKKERS, Midas: The Way of all Flesh (B+) -- ruins and decay
• DENING, Greg:
  • Mr. Bligh's Bad Language (A+) -- the mutiny on the Bounty
  • Performances (B+) -- history as theatre
• DESPENTES, Virginie: King Kong Theory (A-)
• DISCH, Thomas: The Stuff our Dreams are made of (B-) -- science fiction
• DONIGER, Wendy: Redeeming the Kamasutra (B+)
• DONOGHUE, Denis: Words Alone (B+) -- the poet T.S.Eliot
• DUNCAN, Dennis: Index, A History of the (B+) -- A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
• DUROZOI, Gérard: History of the Surrealist Movement (A-)
• DYER, Geoff:
  • Anglo-English Attitudes (B) -- various
  • Out of Sheer Rage (A-) -- D.H.Lawrence
  • Ways of Telling (B) -- John Berger
  • Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It (B+) -- travel
  • Zona (B+) -- A Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room
• ECO, Umberto:
  • Confessions of a Young Novelist (B) -- the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, 2008
  • Experiences in Translation (B+)
• ELKIN, Lauren: The End of Oulipo ? (B), with Scott Esposito -- An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement
• ELKINS, James: What Happened to Art Criticism ? (B)
• ELLIOTT, Anthony: The Mourning of John Lennon (B)
• EMMERICH, Michael: The Tale of Genji (B+) -- Translation, Canonization, and World Literature
• ENQUIST, Per Olov: Kartritarna (A-)
• EPSTEIN, Jason: Book Business (B+)
• ERPENBECK, Jenny: Not a Novel (B+) -- A Memoir in Pieces / Collected Writings and Reflections
• ESTERHÁZY Péter: Utazás a tizenhatos mélyére (B+) - soccer and more
• ESTERMANN, Alfred: Schopenhauers Kampf um sein Werk (B+) - Schopenhauer and his publishers
• ETHERINGTON, Ben (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to World Literature (-), with Jarad ZIMBLER
• FEENEY, Denis: Beyond Greek (B) - The Beginnings of Latin Literature
• FERRANTE, Elena: In the Margins (B) -- On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
• FIGUEIRA, D.M.: Translating the Orient (B+) - The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe
• FISCHER, Susanne: »Julia, laß das!« (-) - Arno Schmidts Zettelkasten zu Julia, oder die Gemälde
• FLEMING, John: Stoppard's Theatre (B)
• FORD, Mark: Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (A-)
• FOSSE Jon: An Angel Walks Through the Stage (B+) -- and Other Essays
• FOSTER, Don: Author Unknown (B+) -- On the Trail of Anonymous
• FOUCAULT, Michel: Death and the Labyrinth (B+) -- on Raymond Roussel
• FOURNEL, Paul: Need for the Bike (B+) -- bicyling
• FRANCIS, Gavin: Sir Thomas Browne (B) -- The Opium of Time
• FRANZEN, Jonathan:
  • The Discomfort Zone (A-) -- A Personal History
  • How to Be Alone (B+) -- various
• FRASER, Robert: The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah (B)
• FRAYN, Michael: Celia's Secret (B+) -- behind-the-scenes joke
• FUENTES, Carlos: This I Believe (B) -- An A to Z of a Life
• GADDIS, William: The Rush for Second Place (B) -- various
• GAO Xingjian: The Case for Literature (B+)
• GASS, William H.:
  • Reading Rilke (B+)
  • A Temple of Texts (A-) -- various
  • Tests of Time (B+) -- various
  • See also Conversations With William H. Gass (B), ed. T.G. Ammon
• GHANOONPARVAR, M.R.: Translating the Garden (B)
• GIDE, André: Imaginary Interviews (B)
• GINGERICH, owen: The Book Nobody Read (B+) -- Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
• GOSPODINOV, Georgi: The Story Smuggler (A-)
• GOYTISOLO, Juan:
  • Landscapes of War (B) -- from Sarajevo to Chechnya
  • Space in Motion (B) -- various
• GRACIÁN, Baltasar: The Oracle (B+) -- classical self-help
• GRAY, Alasdair:
  • The Book of Prefaces (A) -- anthology of prefaces
  • See also: Alasdair Gray (A-) -- Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography
• GREEN, Jack: Fire the Bastards ! (B) -- sins of the book reviewers
• GRENIER, Roger: Palace of Books (A-) -- various
• GROSSMAN, David: Lion's Honey (B+) - The Myth Of Samson
• GROSSMAN, Edith: Why Translation Matters (B)
• GROSSMAN, David: Writing in the Dark (B+) -- Essays on Literature and Politics
• GRÜNBEIN, Durs:
  • Galilei vermißt Dantes Hölle (B+) -- various
  • Warum schriftlos leben (B) - various
• HAN, Byung-Chul: Die Krise der Narration (B)
• HENDERSON, Jeffrey (ed.): The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny (B+) (with Richard Thomas)
• HENDRIX, Grady: Paperbacks from Hell (B) - The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
• HEPPENSTALL, Rayner: Léon Bloy (B)
• HERBERT, Zbigniew :
  • The King of the Ants (B-) -- mythological essays
  • Still Life with a Bridle (B+) -- Holland, art, etc.
• HEYWARD, Michael: The Ern Malley Affair (B+)
• HILL, Geoffrey: Style and Faith (B+) -- literary criticism
• HINGSTON, Michael: Try Not to be Strange (B+) -- The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
• HITCHINGS, Henry: Dr.Johnson's Dictionary (US title: Defining the World) (B+)
• HOCKX, Michel: Internet Literature in China (B)
• HOFSTADTER, Douglas: Translator, Trader (B+) -- An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation
• HOLUB, Miroslav:
  • The Jingle Bell Principle (B-) -- short pieces
  • Shedding Life (A) -- various
  • Supposed to Fly (B) -- various
• HONEGGER, Gitta: Thomas Bernhard (B+) -- biographical study
• HORTA, Paulo Lemos: Marvellous Thieves (B+) -- Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights
• HOUELLEBECQ, Michel: Public Enemies (B-) -- Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World; with Bernard-Henri Lévy
• HUGILL, Andrew: 'Pataphysics (B) -- A Useless Guide
• ICKS, Martijn: The Crimes of Elagabalus (B) -- The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor
• ISAKSSON, Hans: Lars Gyllensten (B) -- monograph
• IZZO, Jean-Claude: Garlic, Mint, and Sweet Basil (-) -- Essays on Marseilles, Mediterranean Cuisine, and Noir Fiction
• JACKSON, Kevin: Invisible Forms (B+) -- literary curiosities
• JAMES, Clive: Cultural Amnesia (B+) -- Necessary Memories From History and the Arts
• JIN, Ha: The Writer as Migrant (B)
• JOHNSON-DAVIES, Denys: Memories in Translation (B) - A Life Between the Lines Of Arabic Literature
• JOSIPOVICI, Gabriel: What Ever Happened to Modernism ? (B)
• JULLIEN, François: The Book of Beginnings (B+) - opening sentences of foundational texts
• KALDER, Daniel: The Infernal Library (UK title: Dictator Literature) (B) -- On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
• KALLIFATIDES, Theodor: Another Life (B+) -- On Memory, Language, Love, and the Passage of Time
• KARASHIMA David: Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami (B)
• KEATS, Jonathon: Virtual Words (B) - Language on the Edge of Science and Technology
• KEENE, Donald: Five Modern Japanese Novelists (B)
• KEHLMANN, Daniel: Wo ist Carlos Montúfar ? (B) - various
• KELLMAN, Steven G. (ed.): Switching Languages (B) - translingual anthology
• KELLY, Katherine (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (-)
• KELLY, Stuart: The Book of Lost Books (B-) -- An Incomplete History of all the Great Books You'll Never Read
• KERN, Adam L.: Manga from the Floating World (A-) - Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan
• KERTÉSZ, Imre: The Holocaust as Culture (B+)
• KESHAVARZ, Fatemeh: Jasmine and Stars (B-) -- Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
• KILITO, Abdelfattah:
  • Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language (B+) -- translation in the Arab world
  • The Tongue of Adam (B+)
• KIRSCH, Adam: The Global Novel (B) -- Writing the World in the 21st Century
• KLÍMA, Ivan: Between Security and Insecurity (B-)
• KONSTANTINOU, Lee: The Last Samurai Reread (B) -- the Helen DeWitt novel
• KORDA, Michael:
  • Another Life (B+) -- the publishing industry
  • Making the List (C) -- the bestseller lists
• KRÁL, Petr: Working Knowledge (B)
• KRZHIZHANOVSKY, Sigizmund: Countries That Don't Exist (B) -- Selected Nonfiction
• KUNDERA, Milan: The Curtain (B+) -- the novel
• LAHIRI, Jhumpa:
  • In Other Words (B+) -- on learning and writing in a new language (Italian)
  • The Clothing of Books (B) -- book covers/jackets
  • Translating Myself and Others (B+)
• LANDERS, Clifford E.: Literary Translation (B) -- A Practical Guide
• LAPOUJADE, David: Worlds Built to Fall Apart (B) -- Versions of Philip K. Dick
• LARKIN, Emma: Secret Histories (US title: Finding George Orwell in Burma) (B)
• LARSON, Charles R. The Ordeal of the African Writer (B)
• LEHMANN, Chris: Revolt of the Masscult (B-)
• LEM, Stanislaw: A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Ed.: Peter Swirski) (B-)
• LEOPARDI, Giacomo: Zibaldone
• LESSER, Wendy: Scandinavian Noir (B) -- In Pursuit of a Mystery
• LEVIN BECKER, Daniel: Many Subtle Channels (B) -- In Praise of Potential Literature
• LEVY Dore J.: Ideal and Actual in The Story of the Stone (B)
• LEWIS, C.S.: An Experiment in Criticism (B) -- about literary criticism
• LEWY, Guenter: Harmful and Undesirable (B+) -- Book Censorship in Nazi Germany
• LICHTENSTEIN, Rachel: Rodinsky's Room (with Iain Sinclair) (B+) -- Jewish history in London
• LOVELL, Julia: The Politics of Cultural Capital (B) -- China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature
• LÜTHI, Louis: A Die With Twenty-Six Faces (B+) -- alphabet books
• MAAR, Michael:
  • Speak, Nabokov (A-) -- more on Nabokov
  • The Two Lolitas (B+) -- Nabokov's and ... von Lichberg's ?
• MABANCKOU, Alain: The Tears of the Black Man (B)
• MACFARLANE, Robert: Mountains of the Mind (B+) -- A History of a Fascination
• MAC ORLAN, Pierre: A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer (B)
• MAGRIS, Claudio: Snapshots (B)
• MAHFOUZ, Naguib: Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber (B) -- Reflections of a Nobel Laureate 1994-2001
• MALIK, Kenan: From Fatwa to Jihad (B) -- The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
• MANETTI, Giannozzo: A Translator's Defense (B+)
• MANGUEL, Alberto:
  • A Reading Diary (B)
  • Fabulous Monsters (B+) -- Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
  • Into the Looking-Glass Wood (B) -- various
  • The Library at Night (B)
  • Packing My Library (B) -- An Elegy and Ten Digressions
  • With Borges (B+)
• MARAINI, Dacia: Searching for Emma (B) - Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary
• MARÍAS, Javier:
  • To Begin at the Beginning (B+)
  • Written Lives (B)
• MARKS, Dennis: Wandering Jew (A-) - The Search for Joseph Roth
• MATHEWS, Harry:
  • The Way Home (A-) -- various
  • (ed.) Oulipo Compendium (A)
• MAZZONI, Guido: Theory of the Novel (B+)
• McGURL, Mark: Everything and Less (B+) -- The Novel in the Age of Amazon
• MENDELSUND, Peter: What We See When We Read (-) -- A Phenomenology
• MICHAUX, Henri:
  • A Barbarian in Asia (A-)
  • Miserable Miracle (B)
• MICHON, Pierre: Rimbaud the Son (F)
• MILLER, Toby: The Avengers (B) -- study of the TV series
• MINTON QUIGLEY, Jenny (ed.): Lolita in the Afterlife (B) -- On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
• MITCHELL, W.J.T.: The Last Dinosaur Book (C+) -- dinos as cultural icon
• MITTELMEIER, Martin: Naples 1925 (C) -- Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory
• MIZUMURA Minae: The Fall of Language in the Age of English (B)
• MONTGOMERY, Scott L.:
  • Science in Translation (B+)
  • The Scientific Voice (B+)
• MOORE, Steven: Dalkey Days (B) -- a Dalkey Archive Press memoir
• MORETTI, Franco:
  • Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (C+)
  • [Graphs, Maps, Trees]
  • [ed. The Novel]
• MORGAN, Ann: Reading the World (US title: The World Between Two Covers) (B) - Confessions of a Literary Explorer
• MORRILL, Donald: The Untouched Minutes (B) -- home invasion
• MOTTE, Warren:
  • Mirror Gazing (B+) -- mirrors in literature
  • Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (B+)
• MULDOON, Paul: To Ireland, I (B) -- Clarendon Lectures in English Literature
• MULISCH, Harry:
  • Het seksuele bolwerk (A) -- Wilhelm Reich and sex
  • De toekomst van gisteren (A) -- about an unwritten book
• MURAKAMI Haruki: Novelist as a Vocation (B+)
• MURRAY, Janet H.: Hamlet on the Holodeck (B-) -- the future of fiction
• MURRAY, Les: The Quality of Sprawl (B+) -- thoughts about Australia
• MYERS, B.R.:
  • Han Sorya and North Korean Literature (B+) -- The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK
  • A Reader's Manifesto (B)
• NABOKOV, Vladimir:
  • Nabokov's Butterflies (B+)
  • Think, Write, Speak (B+) -- Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor
• NADDAFF, Ramona A.: Exiling the Poets (B+) -- censorship in Plato's Republic
• NAFISI, Azar: Reading Lolita in Tehran (B+)
• NAIPAUL, V.S.:
  • Literary Occasions (A-) -- essays
  • Reading & Writing (A-) -- A Personal Account
  • The Writer and the World (B) -- essays
• NERUDA, Pablo: Passions and Impressions (B)
• NGUGI wa Thiong'o:
  • Decolonising the Mind (B) -- African literature
  • Globalectics (B) -- Theory and the Politics of Knowing
• NICHOLSON, Geoff: The Lost Art of Walking (B) - The History, Science, Philosophy, and Literature of Pedestrianism
• NOIVILLE, Florence: Literary Miniatures (B) -- author profiles
• NOOTEBOOM, Cees: 533 Days (B+)
• NOWICKI, Wojciech: Salki (B) -- traveling in contemporary central and eastern Europe
• O'GRADY, John P.: Grave Goods (B+) -- Essays of a Peculiar Nature
• O'NEILL, Patrick:
  • Finnegans Wakes (-) - Tales of Translation
  • Polyglot Joyce (B) - Fictions of Translation
• OZ, Amos:
  • How to Cure a Fanatic (A-)
  • The Story Begins (B) -- Essays on Literature
• OZICK, Cynthia:
  • Art & Ardor (A-) -- various
  • The Din in the Head (A-) -- various
  • Fame & Folly (A-) -- various
  • Metaphor & Memory (B+) -- various
  • Quarrel & Quandary (B+) -- various
• PAJAK, Frédéric: Uncertain Manifesto (B)
• PAMUK, Orhan: The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist (B) -- Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 2009
• PAZ, Octavio: An Erotic Beyond: Sade (A-)
• PEREC, Georges:
  • Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (A-) -- various
  • Thoughts of Sorts (A-)
• PHILLIPS, Adam:
  • The Beast in the Nursery (B) -- On Curiosity and Other Appetites
  • Darwin's Worms (B) -- Darwin and Freud
  • Promises, Promises (B) -- Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis
• POOL, Gail: Faint Praise (A-) -- The Plight of Book Reviewing in America
• PULLEYN, Simon (ed.): Homer: Odyssey, Book I (A-) -- translation and commentary
• QIAN Zhongshu: Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts (B+) -- Stories and Essays
• QUEENAN, Joe: One for the Books (B) -- his reading life
• QUIGNARD, Pascal: The Roving Shadows (B+)
• RABASSA, Gregory: If This Be Treason (B) -- Translation and its Dyscontents
• RAFFA, Guy P.: Dante's Bones (B) -- How a Poet Invented Italy
• RAHBARAN, Shiva: Iranian Writers Uncensored (B) -- Freedom, Democracy, and the Word in Contemporary Iran
• REES, Emma L.E.: The Vagina (B-) -- A Literary and Cultural History
• RENOUARD, Maël: Fragments of an Infinite Memory (B) -- My Life with the Internet
• RICARD, François: Agnès's Final Afternoon (B) -- An Essay on the Work of Milan Kundera
• RÍOS, Julián: The House of Ulysses (B+) -- a fictional reading of Joyce's classic
• ROUSSEL, Raymond: How I Wrote Certain of my Books (A-)
• RUBIN, Jay: Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words (B)
• RUBY, Ryan: Context Collapse (B+) -- A Poem Containing a History of Poetry
• RUGGIERO, Guido: Love and Sex in the Time of Plague (B+) -- A Decameron Renaissance
• RUSSELL, R.B.: Fifty Forgotten Books (B)
• RYANG, Sonia: Reading North Korea (B) -- An Ethnological Inquiry
• SAFOUAN, Moustapha: Why are the Arabs not Free ? (B) -- The Politics of Writing
• SALMON, Catherine: Warrior Lovers (A-) (with Donald Symons) -- Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality
• SANTANA-ACUÑA, Álvaro: Ascent to Glory (B+) -- How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic
• SARTRE, Jean-Paul: The Family Idiot (Abridged Edition) (B+) -- Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857
• SCHALANSKY, Judith: Atlas of Remote Islands (B+) -- Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
• SCHIFFRIN, André:
  • The Business of Books (B+)
  • Words and Money (B-)
• SCHMIDT, Arno:
  • Radio Dialogs I (A-) -- author portraits
  • Radio Dialogs II (A-) -- author portraits
• SCHMIDT, Michael: Gilgamesh (B) -- The Life of a Poem
• SCHMIDT, Werner: Peter Weiss (B) -- Leben eines kritischen Intellektuellen
• SCHWEIZER, Bernard: Hating God (B) -- The Untold Story of Misotheism
• SEBALD, W.G.:
  • Campo Santo (B) -- various
  • On the Natural History of Destruction (B-) -- German war literature
  • See also: The Emergence of Memory (B+), Lynne Sharon Schwartz, ed. -- Conversations with W.G.Sebald
• SECORD, James A.: Victorian Sensation (A-) -- study of a literary sensation
• SELF, Will:
  • Feeding Frenzy (B)
  • Junk Mail (B)
• SERNER, Walter: Last Loosening (B+) -- A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Aspiring to Become One
• SETZ, Clemens J.: Die Bienen und das Unsichtbare (B) -- invented languages
• SHEA, Ammon: Reading the OED (B+) -- One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
• SHKLOVSKY, Viktor:
  • The Hamburg Score (B)
  • Knight's Move (B)
• SILVERSTEIN, Michael: Talking Politics (B) -- The Substance of Style from Abe to 'W'
• SINCLAIR, Iain:
  • Crash (B+) -- essay on the Ballard book and the Cronenberg film
  • Lights out for the Territory (B) -- London
  • London Orbital (B) -- around the M25
  • Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein) (B+) -- Jewish history in London
  • Sorry Meniscus (A) -- the Millennium Dome
• SINYKIN, Dan: Big Fiction (B) -- How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
• SKURNICK, Lizzie: Shelf Discovery (B) -- The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
• SMITH, A.C.H.:Orghast at Persepolis (B) -- Peter Brook/Ted Hughes production
• SMITH, Emma: Shakespeare's First Folio (B+) -- Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
• SMITH, Ken: Junk English (B)
• SOKAL, Alan: Fashionable Nonsense (B-) -- unscientific postmodernism
• SONTAG, Susan: Where the Stress Falls (B)
• SOYINKA, Wole:
  • The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (B)
  • Climate of Fear (B) -- The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
• SPACKS, Patricia Meyer: On Rereading (B)
• SPUFFORD, Francis: The Child That Books Built (B)
• STANDAERT, Michael: Skipping Towards Armageddon (B) -- The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire
• STAVANS, Ilan: What is American Literature ? (B)
• [STEAD, C.K.: Book Self -- The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic]
• STEIN, Gertrude: Writings 1903-1932 (B+) -- includes essays and portraits
• STEINER, George:
  • Grammars of Creation (A-) -- the end of beginnings
  • Lessons of the Masters (B)
  • My Unwritten Books (A-)
  • No Passion Spent (A) -- various
• STEPHENSON, Neal: Some Remarks (B) -- Essays and Other Writing
• ŠUKYS, Julija: Silence is Death (B+) -- The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout
• SZENTKUTHY Miklós:
  • Marginalia on Casanova (A-)
  • Towards the One and Only Metaphor (B+)
• TABAN Lo Liyong: Another Last Word (B) -- East African literature and politics
• TANIZAKI Jun'ichirō: In Praise of Shadows (B+)
• TAVARES, Gonçalo M.: Reading is Walking (B) -- The Encyclopedia Series
• [THIRLWELL, Adam: Miss Herbert (also: The Delighted States) -- A Collage of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes]
• THOMAS, Chantal: The Wicked Queen (B+) -- the pamphlets denouncing Marie-Antoinette
• TOLEDO, Camille de: Coming of Age at the End of History (B)
• TOURNIER, Michel: The Mirror of Ideas (B-) -- duality
• TOUSSAINT, Jean-Philippe:
  • Football (B+)
  • Urgency and Patience (B+) -- writing and reading
• TREAT, John Whittier: The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature (A-)
• TRESILIAN, David: A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature (B)
• TURLE, Bernard: Diplomat, Actor, Translator, Spy (B+) -- on the translating life
• UGRESIC, Dubravka:
  • The Age of Skin (B+) - various
  • American Fictionary (B+) - various
  • Europe in Sepia (B+) - various
  • Karaoke Culture (B+) - various
  • Nobody's Home (B+) - various
  • Thank You for Not Reading (B+) -- Essays in Literary Trivia
• VARGAS LLOSA, Mario:
  • The Language of Passion (B+) -- various
  • Letters to a Young Novelist (B)
  • The Perpetual Orgy (A-) -- Flaubert and Madame Bovary
  • The Temptation of the Impossible (B+) -- Victor Hugo and Les Misérables
  • Wellsprings (B+)
  • A Writer's Reality (B+)
• VENUTI, Lawrence: The Scandals of Translation (B+)
• VICKERS, Graham: Chasing Lolita (B) -- How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again
• VITALE, Serena: Pushkin's Button (B-)
• WACHTEL, Andrew Baruch: Remaining Relevant after Communism (B+) -- The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe
• WALDROP, Rosmarie: Lavish Absence (B+) - Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès
• WALSH, Megan: The Subplot (B) -- What China Is Reading and Why It Matters
• WATERS, Lindsay: Enemies of Promise (B+) -- Publishing, Perishing and the Eclipse of Scholarship
• WECHSLER, Robert: Performing without a Stage (B-) -- translation
• WEINBERGER, Eliot:
  • Karmic Traces (A-) -- various
  • 9/12 (B+) -- New York After
  • 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (A)
  • Outside Stories (B+) -- various
  • What Happened Here (B+) -- Bush Chronicles
  • Works on Paper (B+) -- various
  • Written Reaction (B+) -- various
• WENINGER, Robert: Framing a Novelist (--) -- Arno Schmidt
• WHITE, Curtis: The Middle Mind (B+)
• WHITE, Patrick : Patrick White Speaks (C+)
• WILES, Ellen: Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts (B) -- Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition
• WILSON Robert Anton: Coincidance (B-) -- various
• WILMSEN, Edwin N.: Journeys with Flies (B) -- anthropological
• WINCHESTER, Simon:
  • The Alice behind Wonderland (A-)
  • The Professor and the Madman (UK title: The Surgeon of Crowthorne) (B+) -- creation of OED
• WINTERSON, Jeanette: Art Objects (A-) -- various
• WISE, Christopher (ed.): Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant (B-)
• WITKIEWICZ, Stanisław Ignacy: Narcotics (B)
• WITTSTOCK, Uwe: February 1933 (B+) -- The Winter of Literature
• WOLFE, Tom: Hooking Up (B-) -- various
• WOOD, Gareth J.: Javier Marías's Debt to Translation (A-) -- Sterne, Browne, Nabokov
• YEH, Catherine Vance: The Chinese Political Novel (B) -- Migration of a World Genre
• YI T'aejun: Eastern Sentiments (B) -- anecdotal essays
• ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam: Slight Exaggeration (B+)
• ZAID, Gabriel:
  • The Secret of Fame (B+)
  • So Many Books (A-) -- Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
• ZBARSKY, Ilya: Lenin's Embalmers (B-)
• ZUCKERBERG, Donna: Not All Dead White Men (B) -- Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

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