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  1. [+]
    Ababccddeffegg (Review)
    John Bayley
    Eugene Onegin, and Other Poems, by Alexander Pushkin and Charles Johnston
    1. Eugene Onegin, and Other Poems by Alexander Pushkin and Charles Johnston
    The New Statesman, December 23, 1977, p. 904
  2. [+]
    Alice, or The Art of Survival (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Lewis Carroll: A Biography, by Morton N. Cohen
    1. Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen
    2. The Complete Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll
    The New York Review of Books, February 15, 1996, pp. 10-13
  3. [+]
    The All-Star Victorian (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart, by Robert Bernard Martin
    1. Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart by Robert Bernard Martin
    2. The Tennyson Album by Andrew Wheatcroft
    The New York Review of Books, December 18, 1980, pp. 42-49
  4. [+]
    'Anna of All the Russias' (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, by Roberta Reeder and Anna Akhmatova
    1. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Roberta Reeder and Anna Akhmatova
    2. Remembering Anna Akhmatova by Anatoly Nayman
    3. In a Shattered Mirror by Susan Amert
    The New York Review of Books, May 13, 1993, pp. 25-27
  5. [+]
    Answers Without Questions (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Mr. Mani, by A.B. Yehoshua
    1. Mr. Mani by A.B. Yehoshua
    2. Katerina by Aharon Appelfeld
    The New York Review of Books, November 5, 1992, pp. 18-21
  6. [+]
    An Art of Self-Discovery (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Collected Poems, by Edward Thomas
    1. Collected Poems by Edward Thomas
    2. A Language Not to be Betrayed by Edward Thomas and Edna Longley
    3. Edward Thomas by Richard George Thomas
    The New York Review of Books, October 23, 1986, pp. 8-9
  7. [+]
    The Backward Look (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Life of Arseniev: Youth, by Ivan Bunin
    1. The Life of Arseniev: Youth by Ivan Bunin
    2. Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem, 1885-1920 by Thomas Gaiton Marullo and Ivan Bunin
    3. Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore, 1920-1933 by Thomas Gaiton Marullo and Ivan Bunin
    The New York Review of Books, August 10, 1995, pp. 31-33
  8. [+]
    Balzac Possessed (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Balzac, by V.S. Pritchett
    1. Balzac by V.S. Pritchett
    2. S/Z by Roland Barthes
    The New York Review of Books, October 4, 1973, p. 25
  9. Books & Arts
    [+]
    The Beautiful Lie (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Tolstoy's Letters: Volume I, 1828-1879, by R.F. Christian and Leo Tolstoy
    1. Tolstoy's Letters: Volume I, 1828-1879 by R.F. Christian and Leo Tolstoy
    2. Tolstoy's Letters: Volume II, 1880-1910 by R.F. Christian and Leo Tolstoy
    The New Statesman, April 21, 1978, p. 529
  10. [+]
    Best and Worst (Review)
    John Bayley
    Dickens: A Biography, by Fred Kaplan
    1. Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
    The New York Review of Books, January 19, 1989, pp. 11-12
  11. [+]
    Big Three (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Letters: Summer 1926, by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovs...
    1. Letters: Summer 1926 by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovsky, ...
    2. Letters on Cezanne by Rainer Maria Rilke and Clara Rilke
    The New York Review of Books, December 5, 1985, pp. 3-4
  12. [+]
    Books/Making It Strange (Review)
    John Bayley
    Pretender to the Throne, by Vladimir Voinovich
    1. Pretender to the Throne by Vladimir Voinovich
    The Atlantic Monthly, July 1981, pp. 85-87
  13. [+]
    The Broken Spine (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Collected Works, by Andrei P. Platonov
    1. Collected Works by Andrei P. Platonov
    2. Chevengur by Andrei P. Platonov
    3. The Forgotten Prose by Isaac Babel
    The New York Review of Books, May 3, 1979, pp. 37-38
  14. [+]
    Byron and the 'Lively Life' (4 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Byron's Letters and Journals, by Leslie A. Marchand and George Gordon Byron
    1. Byron's Letters and Journals by Leslie A. Marchand and George Gordon Byron
    2. Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals by Leslie A. Marchand and George Gordon Byron
    3. Byron by Frederic Raphael
    4. Byron by Philip W. Martin
    The New York Review of Books, June 2, 1983, pp. 25-32
  15. The Characters of Love (1961)
    John Bayley
    A Study in the Literature of Personality
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  16. [+]
    Cinderella in Reverse (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Freshwater, by Virginia Woolf and Lucio P. Ruotolo
    1. Freshwater by Virginia Woolf and Lucio P. Ruotolo
    2. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol I: 1888-1912 by Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann, and Virginia Woolf, ...
    3. Virginia Woolf and Her World by John Lehmann
    The New York Review of Books, July 15, 1976, pp. 3-5
  17. [+]
    Class Act (Review)
    John Bayley
    Palimpsest, by Gore Vidal
    1. Palimpsest by Gore Vidal
    The New York Review of Books, May 15, 1997, pp. 45-47
  18. [+]
    Comrades (Review)
    John Bayley
    Lenin's Tomb, by David Remnick
    1. Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick
    The New York Review of Books, August 12, 1993, pp. 3-5
  19. Confessions of a Converted Infidel (1856)
    John Bayley
  20. [+]
    Country Life (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Enigma of Arrival, by V.S. Naipaul
    1. The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
    The New York Review of Books, April 9, 1987, p. 3
  21. [+]
    Death and the Dichter (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, by Robert Musil
    1. Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil
    2. Five Women by Robert Musil
    3. Robert Musil by Lowell A. Bangerter
    The New York Review of Books, September 29, 1988, pp. 34-36
  22. [+]
    Did It Flow? (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Hourglass, by Danilo Kis
    1. Hourglass by Danilo Kis
    2. Mendelssohn Is On the Roof by Jiri Weil
    3. The Miracle Game by Josef Skvorecky
    The New York Review of Books, April 11, 1991, pp. 45-46
  23. [+]
    Don Man (Review)
    John Bayley
    Problems in the Literary Biography of Mikhail Sholokhov, by Roy A. Medvedev
    1. Problems in the Literary Biography of Mikhail Sholokhov by Roy A. Medvedev
    The New Statesman, May 6, 1977, p. 606
  24. [+]
    Double Life (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Life of Jane Austen, by John Halperin
    1. The Life of Jane Austen by John Halperin
    2. A Goodly Heritage by George Holbert Tucker
    The New York Review of Books, May 9, 1985, pp. 3-5
  25. [+]
    The Double Life (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Untouchable, by John Banville
    1. The Untouchable by John Banville
    The New York Review of Books, May 29, 1997, pp. 17-18
  26. [+]
    Doubles (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Master of Petersburg, by J.M. Coetzee
    1. The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
    2. Doubling the Point by J.M. Coetzee and David Attwell
    3. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    The New York Review of Books, November 17, 1994, pp. 35-36
  27. Christmas Books 1
    [+]
    The Duellists (Review)
    John Bayley
    Lermontov: Tragedy in the Caucasus, by Laurence Kelly
    1. Lermontov: Tragedy in the Caucasus by Laurence Kelly
    The New Statesman, November 25, 1977, p. 731
  28. Elegy for Iris (1999)
    John Bayley
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  29. [+]
    Eminent Victorian (Review)
    John Bayley
    George Eliot: The Last Victorian, by Kathryn Hughes
    1. George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes
    The New York Review of Books, October 21, 1999, pp. 59-60
  30. [+]
    The Englishness of the Gentleman (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Gentleman in Trollope, by Shirley Robin Letwin
    1. The Gentleman in Trollope by Shirley Robin Letwin
    Encounter, April 1983, pp. 63-68
  31. An Essay on Hardy (1978)
    John Bayley
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  32. [+]
    An Excellent Man (Review)
    John Bayley
    Chekhov, by Henri Troyat
    1. Chekhov by Henri Troyat
    The New York Review of Books, December 4, 1986, pp. 21-22
  33. F.R. Leavis
    John Bayley
    The New Statesman, April 21, 1978, p. 537
  34. [+]
    Family Man (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth, by Beth Darlington, William Wordsworth...
    1. The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth by Beth Darlington, William Wordsworth, and Mary Wordsworth, ...
    The New York Review of Books, February 18, 1982, pp. 13-15
  35. Books & Arts
    [+]
    The Fatal Emptiness (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Life of Aleksandr Blok, Vol. I, by Avril Pyman
    1. The Life of Aleksandr Blok, Vol. I by Avril Pyman
    The New Statesman, February 16, 1979, p. 219
  36. [+]
    Feet on the Ground (Review)
    John Bayley
    Louis MacNeice: A Biography, by Jon Stallworthy
    1. Louis MacNeice: A Biography by Jon Stallworthy
    The New York Review of Books, November 16, 1995, pp. 52-53
  37. [+]
    Fighting for the Crown (8 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Wise Children, by Angela Carter
    1. Wise Children by Angela Carter
    2. Love by Angela Carter
    3. The Bloody Chamber, and Other Stories by Angela Carter
    4. Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
    5. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
    6. Come Unto These Yellow Sands by Angela Carter
    7. Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book by Angela Carter
    8. The Sadeian Woman, and the Ideology of Pornography by Angela Carter
    The New York Review of Books, April 23, 1992, pp. 9-11
  38. [+]
    The Fire Next Time (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Fur Hat, by Vladimir Voinovich
    1. The Fur Hat by Vladimir Voinovich
    2. Siberia on Fire by Valentin Rasputin, Gerald Mikkelson, and Margaret Winchell, ...
    The New York Review of Books, March 15, 1990, pp. 26-27
  39. [+]
    First Loves (Review)
    John Bayley
    John Ruskin: The Early Years, 1819-1859, by Timothy Hilton
    1. John Ruskin: The Early Years, 1819-1859 by Timothy Hilton
    The New York Review of Books, October 24, 1985, pp. 10-11
  40. [+]
    From the Ridiculous to the Ridiculous (Review)
    John Bayley
    Napoleon Symphony, by Anthony Burgess
    1. Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess
    The New York Review of Books, September 19, 1974, pp. 32-33
  41. [+]
    Fun While It Lasted (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Neo-Pagans, by Paul Delany
    1. The Neo-Pagans by Paul Delany
    The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1987, pp. 32-35
  42. [+]
    Gallant Pastiche (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis, by C. Day Lewis
    1. The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis by C. Day Lewis
    The New York Review of Books, January 14, 1993, pp. 27-29
  43. [+]
    The Genius of Shandy Hall (Review)
    John Bayley
    Laurence Sterne: The Later Years, by Arthur H. Cash
    1. Laurence Sterne: The Later Years by Arthur H. Cash
    The New York Review of Books, March 26, 1987, pp. 29-31
  44. [+]
    Getting to Know You (Review)
    John Bayley
    Talking It Over, by Julian Barnes
    1. Talking It Over by Julian Barnes
    The New York Review of Books, December 5, 1991, pp. 25-26
  45. [+]
    God and the Devil (Review)
    John Bayley
    August 1914, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    1. August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    The New York Review of Books, December 21, 1989, pp. 11-13
  46. [+]
    The Greatest! (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    William Shakespeare, by Anthony Holden
    1. William Shakespeare by Anthony Holden
    2. Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
    The New York Review of Books, August 10, 2000, pp. 35-37
  47. [+]
    Green and Secretive Islands (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Folding Cliffs, by W.S. Merwin
    1. The Folding Cliffs by W.S. Merwin
    2. The River Sound by W.S. Merwin
    The New York Review of Books, February 18, 1999, pp. 37-40
  48. [+]
    The Heart of the Matter (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Romantics, by Pankaj Mishra
    1. The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
    The New York Review of Books, February 24, 2000, pp. 8-10
  49. The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London (1821)
    John Bayley
  50. [+]
    How to Read a Book (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Tale Bearers, by V.S. Pritchett
    1. The Tale Bearers by V.S. Pritchett
    The New York Review of Books, June 12, 1980, pp. 32-33
  51. [+]
    Idealism and Its Critic (6 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche, by Lev Shestov
    1. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche by Lev Shestov
    2. Kierkegaard and the Existential Philosophy by Lev Shestov
    3. Potestas Clavium by Lev Shestov
    4. Chekhov, and Other Essays by Lev Shestov
    5. Athens and Jerusalem by Lev Shestov
    6. Essays in Russian Literature: The Conservative View by Spencer E. Roberts
    The New York Review of Books, June 18, 1970, pp. 4-6
  52. Books & Arts
    [+]
    If Life Could Write (Review)
    John Bayley
    Day by Day, by Robert Lowell
    1. Day by Day by Robert Lowell
    The New Statesman, March 10, 1978, p. 322
  53. [+]
    If They Only Knew What? (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Older Hardy, by Robert Gittings
    1. The Older Hardy by Robert Gittings
    The New Statesman, March 3, 1978, pp. 290-291
  54. II. On the New Cultural Conservatism
    John Bayley
    The Partisan Review, Summer 1972, pp. 398-402
  55. In Another Country (1955)
    John Bayley
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  56. [+]
    In God's Playground (6 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Lucifer Unemployed, by Aleksander Wat
    1. Lucifer Unemployed by Aleksander Wat
    2. Killing the Second Dog by Marek Hlasko
    3. Missing Pieces by Stanislaw Benski
    4. Bohin Manor by Tadeusz Konwicki
    5. Rondo by Kazimierz Brandys
    6. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
    The New York Review of Books, July 19, 1990, pp. 23-24
  57. [+]
    In Which We Serve (14 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian
    1. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
    2. Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
    3. HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
    4. The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
    5. Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian
    6. The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian
    7. The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian
    8. The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian
    9. Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian
    10. The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian
    11. The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brian
    12. The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian
    13. The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
    14. The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
    The New York Review of Books, November 7, 1991, pp. 7-9
  58. [+]
    Innocents at Home (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Paradise News, by David Lodge
    1. Paradise News by David Lodge
    2. The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
    The New York Review of Books, April 9, 1992, pp. 13-14
  59. Iris and Her Friends (1999)
    John Bayley
    A Memoir of Memory and Desire
    1 Review
  60. [+]
    Irishness (4 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Seeing Things, by Seamus Heaney
    1. Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney
    2. The Rough Field by John Montague
    3. Mount Eagle by John Montague
    4. Gorse Fires by Michael Longley
    The New York Review of Books, June 25, 1992, pp. 14-17
  61. [+]
    Irresistible Dickens (7 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The World of Charles Dickens, by Angus Wilson
    1. The World of Charles Dickens by Angus Wilson
    2. Dickens the Craftsman by Robert B. Partlow, Jr. and Charles Dickens
    3. The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence by Raymond Williams
    4. Dickens 1970 by Michael Slater
    5. Uncollected Writings from Household Words, 1850-1859 by Charles Dickens and Harry Stone
    6. The Moral Art of Dickens by Barbara N. Hardy
    7. The Inimitable Dickens by Anthony E. Dyson
    The New York Review of Books, October 8, 1970, pp. 8-13
  62. [+]
    It Happened at Elsinore (Review)
    John Bayley
    Gertrude and Claudius, by John Updike
    1. Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
    The New York Review of Books, March 23, 2000, pp. 13-15
  63. [+]
    It Happened One Night (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Guest from the Future, by Gyorgy Dalos
    1. The Guest from the Future by Gyorgy Dalos
    2. The Diaries of Nikolay Punin by Sidney Monas, Jennifer Greene Krupala, and Nikolaya Punin, ...
    The New York Review of Books, December 16, 1999, pp. 89-90
  64. Men & Ideas
    The Kipling Conundrum
    John Bayley
    Encounter, December 1965, pp. 24-31
  65. [+]
    Kitsch and the Novel (5 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Wild Berries, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    1. Wild Berries by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    2. The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov
    3. It's Me, Eddie by Edward Limonov
    4. The Island of Crimea by Vassily Aksyonov
    5. The Burn by Vassily Aksyonov
    The New York Review of Books, November 22, 1984, pp. 28-32
  66. Letters
    Jessica Mitford, Julian Symons, and Bernard F. Dick, ...
    The New York Review of Books, March 8, 1979, pp. 46-48
  67. Letters
    Leonid Plyushch, Norman Fruman, John Bayley, and Steve J. Heims, ...
    The New York Review of Books, May 13, 1982, pp. 51-56
  68. Letters
    John Bayley, Gore Vidal, and Ted Leigh
    The New York Review of Books, March 1, 1984, pp. 49-52
  69. Letters
    Samuel J. Eldersveld, Neal Zaslaw, and Alfred Brendel, ...
    The New York Review of Books, April 27, 1989, pp. 58-64
  70. Letters
    Isaac Levi, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Irving Howe, ...
    The New York Review of Books, January 18, 1990, pp. 52-56
  71. Letters
    Joanne Landy, Thomas Harrison, and Jennifer Scarlott, ...
    The New York Review of Books, October 7, 1993, pp. 53-56
  72. [+]
    The Letters of Tolstoy (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Tolstoy's Letters: Volume I, 1828-1879, by R.F. Christian and Leo Tolstoy
    1. Tolstoy's Letters: Volume I, 1828-1879 by R.F. Christian and Leo Tolstoy
    2. Tolstoy's Letters: Volume II, 1880-1910 by R.F. Christian and Leo Tolstoy
    The Saturday Review, June 10, 1978, pp. 35-36
  73. [+]
    Life in the Head (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Wolf Solent, by John Cowper Powys
    1. Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys
    2. Weymouth Sands by John Cowper Powys
    The New York Review of Books, March 28, 1985, pp. 26-28
  74. [+]
    Life Studies (Review)
    John Bayley
    Collected Poems, 1943-1976, by Vasko Popa
    1. Collected Poems, 1943-1976 by Vasko Popa
    The New York Review of Books, November 8, 1979, pp. 29-30
  75. [+]
    Living Ghosts (4 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Lament for the Makers, by W.S. Merwin
    1. Lament for the Makers by W.S. Merwin
    2. The Vixen by W.S. Merwin
    3. Flight Among the Tombs by Anthony Hecht
    4. The Bounty by Derek Walcott
    The New York Review of Books, March 27, 1997, pp. 18-21
  76. [+]
    Living with Trollope (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Chronicler of Barsetshire, by R.H. Super
    1. The Chronicler of Barsetshire by R.H. Super
    2. Trollope by Stephen Wall
    3. He Knew She Was Right by Jane Nardin
    The New York Review of Books, August 17, 1989, pp. 6-7
  77. Books & Arts
    [+]
    Lolita and the Two Bears (Review)
    John Bayley
    Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya, by Simon Karlinsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and Edmund Wilson, ...
    1. Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya by Simon Karlinsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and Edmund Wilson, ...
    The New Statesman, October 19, 1979, pp. 594-595
  78. Looking in on Pushkin
    John Bayley
    The New York Review of Books, February 3, 1983, pp. 35-37
  79. Marriage as It Is and as It Should Be (1857)
    John Bayley
  80. [+]
    The Master at Home (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    A Ring of Conspirators, by Miranda Seymour
    1. A Ring of Conspirators by Miranda Seymour
    2. Thinking in Henry James by Sharon Cameron
    3. The Pop World of Henry James by Adeline R. Tintner
    The New York Review of Books, December 7, 1989, pp. 21-23
  81. [+]
    The Master at War (Review)
    John Bayley
    Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, by Fred Kaplan
    1. Henry James: The Imagination of Genius by Fred Kaplan
    The New York Review of Books, January 28, 1993, pp. 9-11
  82. [+]
    Mastering Speech (Review)
    John Bayley
    Less Than One, by Joseph Brodsky
    1. Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky
    The New York Review of Books, June 12, 1986, pp. 3-4
  83. [+]
    A Moment's Truth (Review)
    John Bayley
    History: The Home Movie, by Craig Raine
    1. History: The Home Movie by Craig Raine
    The New York Review of Books, March 23, 1995, pp. 54-55
  84. [+]
    Mr. Know-all (Review)
    John Bayley
    Tolstoy, by A.N. Wilson
    1. Tolstoy by A.N. Wilson
    The New York Review of Books, November 24, 1988, pp. 30-32
  85. [+]
    The Naked Truth (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, by Helen Vendler
    1. The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler
    The New York Review of Books, December 18, 1997, pp. 60-64
  86. [+]
    A New Dostoevsky? (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky, ...
    1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky, ...
    The New York Review of Books, June 13, 1991, pp. 35-36
  87. [+]
    Night Mail (Review)
    John Bayley
    Against Forgetting, by Carolyn Forche
    1. Against Forgetting by Carolyn Forche
    The New York Review of Books, June 24, 1993, pp. 20-22
  88. [+]
    The Novelist as Pedagogue (Review)
    John Bayley
    Lectures on Russian Literature, by Vladimir Nabokov and Fredson Bowers
    1. Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov and Fredson Bowers
    The New York Review of Books, December 3, 1981, pp. 18-21
  89. [+]
    Oblomov's Travels (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Voyage of the Frigate Pallada, by Ivan A. Goncharov
    1. The Voyage of the Frigate Pallada by Ivan A. Goncharov
    The New York Review of Books, March 3, 1988, pp. 34-35
  90. [+]
    Off the Map (Review)
    John Bayley
    Brazil, by John Updike
    1. Brazil by John Updike
    The New York Review of Books, May 12, 1994, pp. 23-24
  91. On Philip Larkin
    John Bayley
    The New York Review of Books, January 16, 1986, p. 21
  92. [+]
    'One Life, One Writing' (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    A Different Person, by James Merrill
    1. A Different Person by James Merrill
    2. Selected Poems: 1946-1985 by James Merrill
    The New York Review of Books, November 4, 1993, pp. 31-32
  93. [+]
    One of the Family (Review)
    John Bayley
    Marcel Proust, by Roger Shattuck
    1. Marcel Proust by Roger Shattuck
    The New York Review of Books, March 6, 1975, pp. 24-25
  94. [+]
    Only Disconnect (Review)
    John Bayley
    Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, Vol. II: 1921-1970, by Mary Lago, P.N. Furbank, and E...
    1. Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, Vol. II: 1921-1970 by Mary Lago, P.N. Furbank, and E.M. Forster
    The New York Review of Books, August 15, 1985, p. 19
  95. The Order of Battle at Trafalgar and Other Essays (1987)
    John Bayley
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  96. Books
    [+]
    Our Northern Manichee (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays, by W.H. Auden
    1. The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays by W.H. Auden
    Encounter, August 1963, pp. 74-80
  97. [+]
    Paleface (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Rudyard Kipling and His World, by Kingsley Amis
    1. Rudyard Kipling and His World by Kingsley Amis
    2. Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow, and the Fire by Philip Mason
    The New York Review of Books, April 15, 1976, pp. 30-32
  98. [+]
    A Passage to Colombo (Review)
    John Bayley
    Anil's Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje
    1. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
    The New York Review of Books, November 2, 2000, pp. 44-45
  99. Pasternak's Fairy Tale
    John Bayley
    The New York Review of Books, March 7, 1991, pp. 12-15
  100. Personal History
    John Bayley
    Elegy for Iris
    The New Yorker, July 27, 1998, pp. 44-57
  101. Personal History
    John Bayley
    Last Jokes
    The New Yorker, August 2, 1999, pp. 38-43
  102. [+]
    Phantom Observations (Review)
    John Bayley
    Music and Silence, by Rose Tremain
    1. Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
    The New York Review of Books, June 29, 2000, pp. 53-54
  103. [+]
    Pioneer and Phantoms (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Hill of Evil Counsel, by Amos Oz
    1. The Hill of Evil Counsel by Amos Oz
    2. The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
    The New York Review of Books, July 20, 1978, pp. 35-36
  104. [+]
    To the Pith of London's Heart (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Giant, O'Brien, by Hilary Mantel
    1. The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
    The New York Review of Books, October 8, 1998, pp. 12-13
  105. Books & Arts
    [+]
    Play Up! Play Up! and Play the Game! (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Faber Popular Reciter, by Kingsley Amis
    1. The Faber Popular Reciter by Kingsley Amis
    The New Statesman, November 24, 1978, p. 699
  106. [+]
    Poems with a Heroine (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Selected Poems, by Anna Akhmatova
    1. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
    2. Akhmatova's Petersburg by Sharon Leiter
    The New York Review of Books, January 19, 1984, pp. 21-23
  107. [+]
    A Poet in Politics (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Thirties and After, by Stephen Spender
    1. The Thirties and After by Stephen Spender
    The New York Review of Books, January 25, 1979, pp. 33-35
  108. [+]
    Poet of Holy Dread (Review)
    John Bayley
    Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew, by John Felstiner
    1. Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner
    The New York Review of Books, November 14, 1996, pp. 38-40
  109. [+]
    Poet of the Air (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Marina Tsvetaeva, by Simon Karlinsky
    1. Marina Tsvetaeva by Simon Karlinsky
    2. A Captive Lion by Elaine Feinstein
    3. Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva by Marina I.E. Tsvetaeva
    The New York Review of Books, October 8, 1987, pp. 20-23
  110. [+]
    A Poet's Tragedy (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Demesne of the Swans, by Marina I.E. Tsvetaeva
    1. The Demesne of the Swans by Marina I.E. Tsvetaeva
    2. Libetaeba Tsvetaeva: A Pictorial Biography by Ellendea Proffer
    3. A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose by Marina Tsvetaeva and J. Marin King
    The New York Review of Books, October 23, 1980, pp. 3-7
  111. Books
    [+]
    A Postmodern Bardolator (Review)
    John Bayley
    Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom
    1. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
    The Partisan Review, Fall 1999, pp. 657-660
  112. [+]
    The Power of Delight (Review)
    John Bayley
    Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz, by Jerzy Ficowski and Bruno Schulz
    1. Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz by Jerzy Ficowski and Bruno Schulz
    The New York Review of Books, April 13, 1989, pp. 3-4
  113. Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary (1971)
    John Bayley
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  114. Pushkin's Shakespearean Lover
    John Bayley
    The New York Review of Books, May 11, 2000, pp. 44-47
  115. Pushkin's Tales
    John Bayley
    The Partisan Review, Spring 1992, pp. 197-215
  116. Books & Arts
    [+]
    Quiet Go the Dons (Review)
    John Bayley
    Notes of a Non-Conspirator, by Efim G. Etkind
    1. Notes of a Non-Conspirator by Efim G. Etkind
    The New Statesman, February 17, 1978, p. 221
  117. [+]
    The Real Thing (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Book of Evidence, by John Banville
    1. The Book of Evidence by John Banville
    The New York Review of Books, May 17, 1990, pp. 6-7
  118. The Red Hat (1998)
    John Bayley
    1 Review
  119. [+]
    Return of the Native (5 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Issa Valley, by Czeslaw Milosz
    1. The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz
    2. Native Realm by Czeslaw Milosz
    3. Emperor of the Earth by Czeslaw Milosz
    4. Bells in Winter by Czeslaw Milosz
    5. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
    The New York Review of Books, June 25, 1981, pp. 29-33
  120. [+]
    Clearing the Stage (Review)
    John Bayley
    Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy, by Anne Edwards
    1. Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy by Anne Edwards
    The New Republic, April 18, 1981, pp. 36-37
  121. [+]
    Richly Flows Contingency (Review)
    John Bayley
    Flow Chart, by John Ashbery
    1. Flow Chart by John Ashbery
    The New York Review of Books, August 15, 1991, pp. 3-5
  122. [+]
    Riding the Bronze Horse (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Partings, by Leonid Borodin
    1. Partings by Leonid Borodin
    2. Pushkin House by Andrei Bitov
    The New York Review of Books, October 22, 1987, p. 9
  123. The Romantic Survival (1956)
    John Bayley
    A Study in Poetic Evolution
    1 Review
  124. [+]
    The Russian Sound (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Life of Aleksandr Blok, Vol. II, by Avril Pyman
    1. The Life of Aleksandr Blok, Vol. II by Avril Pyman
    The New Statesman, March 21, 1980, pp. 438-439
  125. [+]
    Seer of the Ego (Review)
    John Bayley
    Stendhal, by Joanna Richardson
    1. Stendhal by Joanna Richardson
    The New York Review of Books, July 18, 1974, pp. 3-5
  126. Selected Essays (1984)
    John Bayley
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  127. Shakespeare and Tragedy (1981)
    John Bayley
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  128. [+]
    The Shock of the Old (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Children of the Arbat, by Anatoli Rybakov
    1. The Children of the Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov
    The New Republic, May 23, 1988, pp. 40-42
  129. [+]
    Singing in the Rain (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Strange Pilgrims, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    1. Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Michael Bell
    The New York Review of Books, February 17, 1994, pp. 19-21
  130. [+]
    Slightly Sacred Poet (Review)
    John Bayley
    Subhuman Redneck Poems, by Les A. Murray
    1. Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les A. Murray
    The New York Review of Books, October 9, 1997, pp. 45-46
  131. [+]
    Something Childish (Review)
    John Bayley
    Diary, Vol. I, by Witold Gombrowicz and Jan Kott
    1. Diary, Vol. I by Witold Gombrowicz and Jan Kott
    The New York Review of Books, April 14, 1988, pp. 25-27
  132. [+]
    Sons and Brothers (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Correspondence of William James, by Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley,...
    1. The Correspondence of William James by Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley, ...
    2. The Correspondence of Henry James and the House of Macmillan, 1877-1914 by Rayburn S. Moore and Henry James
    The New York Review of Books, February 3, 1994, pp. 22-25
  133. [+]
    The Strange Death of Pushkin (Review)
    John Bayley
    Pushkin's Button, by Serena Vitale
    1. Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale
    The New York Review of Books, April 8, 1999, pp. 10-13
  134. [+]
    Them and Us (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    We, by Yevgeny I. Zamyatin
    1. We by Yevgeny I. Zamyatin
    2. A Soviet Heretic by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Mirra Ginsburg
    The New York Review of Books, October 19, 1972, pp. 18-20
  135. [+]
    Time of Indifference (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Porcupine, by Julian Barnes
    1. The Porcupine by Julian Barnes
    The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1992, pp. 30-33
  136. Tolstoy and the Novel (1967)
    John Bayley
    2 Reviews
  137. [+]
    Too Polish for the Poles (Review)
    John Bayley
    Trans-Atlantyk, by Witold Gombrowicz
    1. Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz
    The New York Review of Books, October 6, 1994, pp. 13-15
  138. Special Book Section: Literature & Criticism
    [+]
    The Touch of a Vanished Hand (Review)
    John Bayley
    Tennyson, by Christopher Ricks
    1. Tennyson by Christopher Ricks
    Encounter, July 1973, pp. 51-54
  139. [+]
    'Trapping Fairies in West Virginia' (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Oxford Book of Comic Verse, by John Gross
    1. The Oxford Book of Comic Verse by John Gross
    2. Max Beerbohm: Collected Verse by J.G. Riewald and Max Beerbohm
    3. A Christmas Garland by Max Beerbohm
    The New York Review of Books, December 22, 1994, pp. 10-13
  140. A Treatise on the Elements of Algebra (1830)
    John Bayley
    Designed for the Use of Eton School
  141. [+]
    Trouble in the Family (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Last Year of Leo Tolstoy, by Valentin F. Bulgakov
    1. The Last Year of Leo Tolstoy by Valentin F. Bulgakov
    2. Tolstoy, My Father by Ilya Tolstoy
    The New York Review of Books, December 30, 1971, pp. 24-25
  142. [+]
    The Two Hardys (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Thomas Hardy: A Biography, by Michael Millgate
    1. Thomas Hardy: A Biography by Michael Millgate
    2. The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy by Kristin Brady
    3. The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Vol. III: 1902-1908 by Richard Little Purdy, Michael Millgate, and Richard Purdy, ...
    The New York Review of Books, October 7, 1982, pp. 9-12
  143. [+]
    The Two Solzhenitsyns (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Oak and the Calf, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    1. The Oak and the Calf by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    The New York Review of Books, June 26, 1980, pp. 3-8
  144. [+]
    Under the Overcoat (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Life of Insects, by Victor Pelevin
    1. The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
    2. Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
    The New York Review of Books, June 25, 1998, pp. 42-44
  145. [+]
    Under the Overcoat (Review)
    John Bayley
    The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, and Nikol...
    1. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, and Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, ...
    The New York Review of Books, March 18, 1999, pp. 24-25
  146. [+]
    The Unsteady Alliance (Review)
    John Bayley
    Romanticism, by Hugh Honour
    1. Romanticism by Hugh Honour
    The New Statesman, April 13, 1979, p. 522
  147. [+]
    The Upper Depths (Review)
    John Bayley
    Writers in Russia, 1917-1978, by Max Hayward and Patricia Blake
    1. Writers in Russia, 1917-1978 by Max Hayward and Patricia Blake
    The New York Review of Books, December 22, 1983, pp. 22-25
  148. The Uses of Division (1976)
    John Bayley
    Unity and Disharmony in Literature
    2 Reviews
  149. [+]
    V.S.P. (3 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    A Careless Widow, and Other Stories, by V.S. Pritchett
    1. A Careless Widow, and Other Stories by V.S. Pritchett
    2. At Home and Abroad by V.S. Pritchett
    3. Lasting Impressions by V.S. Pritchett
    The New York Review of Books, November 8, 1990, pp. 3-4
  150. [+]
    Vanity Fare (Review)
    John Bayley
    Thackeray: Prodigal Genius, by John Carey
    1. Thackeray: Prodigal Genius by John Carey
    The New Statesman, September 23, 1977, pp. 404-405
  151. [+]
    Virile Saviours (Review)
    John Bayley
    Arctic Summer, and Other Fiction, by E.M. Forster
    1. Arctic Summer, and Other Fiction by E.M. Forster
    The New Statesman, November 14, 1980, p. 21
  152. [+]
    Waiting for Real Water (Review)
    John Bayley
    Nostalgia for the Present, by Andrei Voznesensky, Vera Dunham, and Max Hayward, ...
    1. Nostalgia for the Present by Andrei Voznesensky, Vera Dunham, and Max Hayward, ...
    The New Statesman, June 20, 1980, p. 934
  153. [+]
    The Way We Write Now (5 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    Without, by Donald Hall
    1. Without by Donald Hall
    2. Going Fast by Frederick Seidel
    3. Ten Commandments by J.D. McClatchy
    4. Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
    5. On Love by Edward Hirsch
    The New York Review of Books, July 16, 1998, pp. 41-43
  154. [+]
    What Follies and Paradoxes! (Review)
    John Bayley
    Toward Another Shore, by Aileen M. Kelly
    1. Toward Another Shore by Aileen M. Kelly
    The New York Review of Books, November 19, 1998, pp. 37-39
  155. [+]
    Windows of Russia (2 Reviews)
    John Bayley
    The Russian Empire, by Chloe Obolensky
    1. The Russian Empire by Chloe Obolensky
    2. Windows on the River Neva by Paul Grabbe
    The New York Review of Books, February 21, 1980, pp. 14-15
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