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Books about & by Saul Steinberg

Books about Saul Steinberg

  • Deirdre Bair, Saul Steinberg: A Biography. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2012. See corrections.
  • Andrea Mihalache, Boredom and the Architectural Imagination: Rudofsky, Venturi, Scott Brown, and Steinberg.  Charlottesville, Virginia, and London: University of Virginia Press, 2024.
  • Francesca Pellicciari, with texts by James Bradburne, Ilaria Bollati, and Roberto Dulio, Saul Steinberg: Up Close. Milan: Corraini Edizioni, 2022.
  • Marco Belpoliti, ed., Steinberg A-Z. Milan: Electa, 2021.
  • Jessica R. Feldman, Saul Steinberg’s Literary Journeys: Nabokov, Joyce, and Others. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021.
  • Will Norman, Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Chapter 5, “Saul Steinberg’s Vanishing Trick.”
  • “Progetti: Saul Steinberg’s Milan/La Milano di Saul Steinberg.” Territorio, no. 76 (2016), pp. 84-118. Six essays related to the exhibition “Saul Steinberg a Milano,” Politecnico di Milano, 2015.
  • Andrea Tomasetig, Alberto Capatti, and Stefano Salis, Aldo Buzzi e Saul Steinberg: Un’amicizia tra letteratura, arte e cibo. Sondrio: Galleria Credito Valtellinese; Forte de Marmi: Villa Bertelli; Milan: Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, 2016.
  • Drawings for the “Children’s Labyrinth,” 10th Triennale of Milan, 1954. Boxed set of four accordion foldouts. Zurich: Nieves Books, 2014.
  • Joel Smith, introduction. Saul Steinberg: 100th Anniversary Exhibition. New York: The Pace Gallery and Pace/MacGill, 2014.
  • Melissa Renn, Andreas Prinzing, Iain Topliss, et al., Saul Steinberg: The Americans. Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 2013.
  • Mario Tedeschini Lalli, “Descent from Paradise: Saul Steinberg’s Italian Years, 1933-1941.” Published in Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, no. 2, October 2011.
  • Roberta Saraiva et al., Saul Steinberg: As aventuras da linha. São Paulo: Instituto Moreira Salles and the Pinacoteca do Estado, 2011.
  • Saul Steinberg, “Portraits and Landscapes,” The Paris Review, no. 195 (Winter 2010), pp. 27-36.
  • Saul Steinberg: L’Écriture visuelle. Strasbourg: Musée Tomi Ungerer, 2009.
  • Iain Topliss, introduction to Saul Steinberg. Paris: Delpire Éditeur, 2008.
  • Joel Smith, with an introduction by Charles Simic, Saul Steinberg: Illuminations. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006.
  • Joel Smith, with an introduction by Ian Frazier, Steinberg at The New Yorker. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
  • Iain Topliss, The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
  • Marco Belpoliti and Gianluigi Ricuperati, eds., Saul Steinberg. Riga, no. 24 (2006). Issue devoted to new and reprinted essays on Steinberg (in Italian). Revised edition, Riga, no. 43 (2021).

Books by Saul Steinberg

  • China Theater: An Informal Notebook of Useful Information for Military Men in China. Washington, D.C.: Reproduction Branch, OSS, c. 1945.
  • All in Line. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945.
  • The Art of Living. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.
  • The Passport. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Revised ed., with an introduction by John Hollander, New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
  • Steinberg’s Umgang mit Menschen. Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 1954.
  • Dessins. Paris: Gallimard, 1956.
  • The Labyrinth. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. Reprint, with added captions and texts by Nicholson Baker and Harold Rosenberg. New York: New York Review Books, 2018
  • The Catalogue. Cleveland: Meridian Books/World Publishing Co., 1962.
  • Steinberg’s Paperback. Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 1964.
  • The New World. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
  • Le Masque. Texts by Michel Butor and Harold Rosenberg; photographs by Inge Morath. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1966.
  • The Inspector. New York: The Viking Press, 1973.
  • All Except You. With Roland Barthes. Paris: Repères, 1983.
  • Dal Vero. With John Hollander. New York: The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983.
  • Canal Street. With Ian Frazier. New York: The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990.
  • The Discovery of America. Introduction by Arthur C. Danto. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
  • Saul Steinberg: Masquerade. Photographs by Inge Morath. New York: Viking Studio, 2000.
  • Lettere a Aldo Buzzi, 1945-1999. Edited by Aldo Buzzi. Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2002.
  • Reflections and Shadows. With Aldo Buzzi. Translated by John Shepley. New York: Random House: 2002. Originally published in Italian, 2001; French and German editions, 2002; Portuguese, 2011; Spanish, 2012; Polish, 2015.
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