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Volume 28, Number 7 · April 30, 1981

Lincoln Kirstein, The Eyes of Ez

Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts edited with an introduction by Harriet Zinnes

Ezra Pound and His World by Peter Ackroyd

Andrew Hacker, Up for Grabs

The United States in the 1980s edited by Peter Duignan, edited by Alvin Rabushka

Setting National Priorities: Agenda for the 1980s edited by Joseph A. Pechman

Human Scale by Kirkpatrick Sale

The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler

The Microelectronics Revolution edited by Tom Forester

The 1980's: Countdown to Armageddon by Hal Lindsey

A National Agenda for the Eighties: Report of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties

Life After '80: Environmental Choices We Can Live With edited by Kathleen Courrier

John Richardson, Strictly from Hunger

The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage by Judy Chicago

Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework by Judy Chicago, by Susan Hill

The Complete Dinner Party: The Dinner Party and Embroidering Our Heritage

Darryl Pinckney, Every Which Way

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Lester K. Little, The Greyhound Saint

Le saint lévrier: Guinefort, guérisseur d'enfants depuis le XIIIe siècle by Jean-Claude Schmitt

Stanley Hoffmann, Foreign Policy: What's to Be Done?

John Russell, The Spirit of 1917

"Parade: An Evening of French Music Theatre": Parade by Erik Satie, choreography by Gray Veredon

Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Francis Poulenc, libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire

L'Enfant et les Sortilèges by Maurice Ravel, libretto by Colette, conducted by Manuel Rosenthal, produced by John Dexter, sets and costumes by David Hockney, lighting by Gil Wechsler

Freeman Dyson, Winner

Norman Stone, The Gambler

The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany: Starting World War II, 1937-1939 by Gerhard L. Weinberg

Germany and the Two World Wars by Andreas Hillgruber, translated by William C. Kirby

Keith Thomas, The Beast in Man

Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress Pennsylvania 18411 by Henry S. Salt, revised edition with a preface by Peter Singer

Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind by James Turner

Michael Wood, Comedy of Ignorance

Rockaby and Other Short Pieces by Samuel Beckett

Frescoes of the Skull: The Later Prose and Drama of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson, by John Pilling

Beckett and the Voice of Species: A Study of the Prose Fiction by Eric P. Levy

Just Play: Beckett's Theater by Ruby Cohn

Company by Samuel Beckett

Jonathan D. Spence, Take Back Your Ming

1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline by Ray Huang

Li Zhi, philosophe maudit (1527-1602) Volume I by Jean-François Billeter

The Peony Pavilion (Mudan Ding) by Tang Xianzu, translated by Cyril Birch

The Chinese Vernacular Story by Patrick Hanan

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Letters

David Grayson Allen, Lawrence Stone, The Worm's Eye View
David Biale, Arnaldo Momigliano, Herodotus and Scholem
Lee Baxandall, Robert Brustein, Brecht in Plastic
Albert Boime, Henri Zerner, Marx in Art
Vera S. Dunham, Victor Erlich, et al. The Arrest of Azadovsky
Tatjana Kirstein, Leonard Schapiro, The Party's Power
Albert Maltz, Brecht in Plastic

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Contributors

Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.

Dyson's books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), and The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (April 2009)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. He also wrote Chaos and Violence.

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)

John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)

Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. (December 2009)

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His latest book is The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England. (December 2009)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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