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News and Interviews
- An Author I'd Walk the Plank For by Richard Snow (January 6, 1991, Sunday, Late Edition - Final) - a letter in response - "Discovering Patrick O'Brian" by James Nolan (February 10, 1991, Sunday, Late Edition)
- Patrick O'Brian's Ship Comes In by Mark Horowitz (May 16, 1993, Sunday, Late Edition - Final)
- Conversations - Patrick O'Brian: In the Glare of the Short-Toed Eagle, Or What You Read Is All You'll Get by Francis X. Clines (November 14, 1993, Sunday, Late Edition - Final)
- Hers: Hooked on Boy Books by Tamar Lewin (July 23, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - Final) - a letter in reply.
- A Letter Re: Muggletonians
Reviews
- Aubrey-Maturin Novels
- The Letter of Marque - "Spies & Thrillers" by Newgate Callendar (October 7, 1990, Sunday, Late Edition - Final)
- The Thirteen Gun Salute - "Elegantly, They Sail Against Bonaparte" by Thomas Flanagan (August 4, 1991, Sunday, Late Edition - Final)
- The Truelove or Clarissa Oakes - "The Captain Was the Last to Know" by Anthony Bailey (May 31, 1992, Sunday, Late Edition - Final)
- The Wine Dark Sea - "Books of The Times: Two Characters in Search of Nautical Enigmas" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (November 1, 1993, Monday, Late Edition - Final)
- The Wine Dark Sea - "Roll On, Thou Deep and Dark Blue Series, Roll!" by Thomas Fleming (November 14, 1993, Sunday, Late Edition - Final)
- The Commodore - "17 Gun Salute" by Joel White (April 30, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - Final)
- The Commodore - "New and Noteworthy Paperbacks" by Laurel Graeber
- The Yellow Admiral - "Don't Give Up the Ship" by Terry Teachout (November 3, 1996, Sunday, Late Edition - Final)
- Other Sea Stories
- The Golden Ocean a brief notice by Laurel Graeber
- The Unknown Shore - "Heroism Before Jack Aubrey" by Tamar Lewin
- Other Works
- MEN-OF-WAR - by Evan Cornog
- Joseph Banks: A Life - "A Curiously Impersonal Man" by Linda Colley (March 28, 1993, Sunday, Late Edition - Final)
- The Rendezvous and Other Stories in "Books of The Times" - by Laurel Graeber
- The Rendezvous and Other Stories - "In Short: Fiction" by Gail Gilliland (October 23, 1994, Sunday, Late Edition - Final )
- Translations
- When Things of the Spirit Come First: Five Early Tales by Simone de Beauvoir - review "A Conversion to the Real World" by Deirdre Bair (November 7, 1982, Sunday, Late City Final Edition)
- A Farewell to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir - review "Managing the Great Man's Memory" by Douglas Johnson (May 6, 1984, Sunday, Late City Final Edition)
- De Gaulle The Rebel, 1890-1944 by Jean Lacouture - review "Le Grand Charles" by Stephen Ambrose (November 11, 1990, Sunday, Late Edition - Final)
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