Richard Poirier
Richard Poirier, founding editor of Raritan, was chairman of the board of the Library of America. He died in August 2009.
In the LRB Archive:
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In the Hyacinth Garden: ‘But oh – Vivienne!’ · 3 April 2003
- Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones
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All My Truth: Henry James Memoirs · 25 April 2002
- A Small Boy and Others: Memoirs by Henry James
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How far shall I take this character?: The Corruption of Literary Biography · 2 November 2000
- Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas
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Big Pod: How Podhoretz Dumped His Friends · 2 September 1999
- Ex-Friends by Norman Podhoretz
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In Praise of Mess on Walt Whitman · 4 June 1998
- With Walt Whitman in Camden: Vol. VIII: 11 February 1891-30 September 1891 by Horace Traubel, edited by Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac
- With Walt Whitman in Camden: Vol. IX: 11 February 1891-30 September 1891 by Horace Traubel, edited by Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac
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The Monster in the Milk Bowl · 3 October 1996
- Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker
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In Praise of Vagueness · 14 December 1995
- Henry James and the Art of Non-Fiction by Tony Tanner
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American Manscapes · 12 October 1989
- Manhood and the American Renaissance by David Leverenz
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America Deserta · 16 February 1989
- America by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner
- America Observed: The Newspaper Years of Alistair Cooke by Ronald Wells
- American Journals by Albert Camus, translated by Hugh Levick
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Seventeen Million Words · 7 November 1985
- The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession edited by Daniel Aaron
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Humans · 24 January 1985
- Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon
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Copying the coyote · 18 October 1984
- The Principles of Psychology by William James, introduction by George Miller
- A Stroll with William James by Jacques Barzun
- Becoming William James by Howard Feinstein
- Essays in Psychology by William James, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Fredson Bowers
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Peter Conrad’s Flight from Precision · 17 July 1980
- Imagining America by Peter Conrad
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Incandescences · 20 December 1979
- The Powers that Be by David Halberstam
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