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• The Day in Bohemia, or Life Among the Artists, by John Reed (HTML at swbell.net)

• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Neil Jumonville (HTML at UC Press)
• The New York of the Novelists (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916), by Arthur Bartlett Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), by Bryan Waterman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The New Yorker (partial serial archives)

• The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Howard Rambsy (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), ed. by Dana A. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Elizabeth Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Yoshinobu Hakutani (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frost-Bite and Frost-Bark: Robert Frost at Michigan (Ann Arbor: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, c1999), by Robert M. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Borges: A Writer on the Edge (electronic edition, 2001), by Beatriz Sarlo (HTML at Pitt)

• In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945-1948 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, trans. by Kelly Barry (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Secretaries of The Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1986), by Wallace Stevens and José Rodríguez Feo, ed. by Beverly Coyle and Alan Filreis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Heresy of Words in Cuba: Freedom of Expression and Information (Perspectives on Freedom #4; New York: Freedom House, c1985), by Carlos Ripoll (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Novel in Motion: An Approach to Modern Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1983), by Richard Pearce (PDF at Ohio State)

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)

• Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Paul Allen Miller (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Carolyn J. Dean
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• Romain Rolland and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by David James Fisher (HTML at UC Press)

• Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Deborah Ascher Barnstone
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Dina Gusejnova
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Germany Ten Years After (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928), by George H. Danton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945-1975 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Ian Hall (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)
• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)
• The New Dark Ages Conspiracy: Britain's Plot to Destroy Civilization, by Carol Schitzner White (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)
• Table-Talk of G. B. S.: Conversations on Things in General, Between George Bernard Shaw and His Biographer (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1925), by Bernard Shaw and Archibald Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Nadya Zimmerman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Leela Prasad (PDF with commentary at Duke)

• Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2002), by John McGowan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Gina Masucci MacKenzie (PDF at Ohio State)
• AE (George W. Russell): A Study of a Man and a Nation (from the Irishmen of To-Day series; Dublin and London: Maunsel and Co., 1916), by Darrell Figgis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Changing Ireland: Literary Backgrounds of the Irish Free State, 1889-1922 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924), by Norreys Jephson O'Conor (page images at HathiTrust)

• State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Andrew E. Barshay (HTML at UC Press)
• Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Serk-Bae Suh (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• New World Soundings: Culture and Ideology in the Americas (originally published 1989; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Richard M. Morse (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Adventures in Contentment, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Adventures in Contentment (New York: Hurst and Co., 1907), by David Grayson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Possessions, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (first edition, 1945), by Richard Wright, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• As He Lay Dead, a Bitter Grief (as originally published in Life Magazine, July 20, 1962), by William Styron (page images at Google)

• Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), by Natalie Clifford Barney, ed. by John Spalding Gatton (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), by Gertrude Stein (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009), by Jorge Coronado (page images at Pitt)

• Contributions of Asa Don Dickinson (1876-1960), First American Library Pioneer in British India, by Murari Lal Nagar (PDF at Missouri)

• Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Nadya Zimmerman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Long War: The Intellectual People's Front and Anti-Stalinism, 1930-1940 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Judy Kutulas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Neil Jumonville (HTML at UC Press)
• The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Gina Masucci MacKenzie (PDF at Ohio State)
• Adapting to America: Catholics, Jesuits, and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1991), by William P. Leahy (PDF at Georgetown)

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