Table of Contents

Volume 29, Number 3 · March 4, 1982

Amartya Sen, Just Deserts

Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion by P.T. Bauer

Diane Johnson, Point of Departure

The Dean's December by Saul Bellow

Elizabeth Hardwick, A Bunch of Reds

Reds produced and directed by Warren Beatty, written by Warren Beatty, by Trevor Griffiths

Jaroslaw Anders, The Polish Wake

The Polish Complex by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Richard Lourie

Joseph Kerman, Verdi's Hit Parade

The Operas of Verdi, Vol. 3: From Don Carlos to Falstaff by Julian Budden

Anne Hollander, A Tight Squeeze

Fashion and Fetishism: A Social History of the Corset, Tight-Lacing, and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture in the West by David Kunzle

Helen Vendler, Poet of Two Worlds

The Fortunate Traveller by Derek Walcott

Robert M. Adams, Jogging to the Abyss

All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman

Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner, Enemies of Realism

"The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900" the St. Louis Art Museum, the Glasgow (Scotland) Art Gallery and Museum. November 1980-January 1982 an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum,

The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 by Gabriel P. Weisberg

Simon Head, Brezhnev and After

Helen Gardner, Mark Justin, William Empson, 'There Is No Penance Due to Innocence': An Exchange

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Letters

Nicola Courtright, Robert M. Adams, Baroque Reading
John M. Gates, Gore Vidal, Death in the Philippines
Laurence Veysey, Plight of the University
Stephen Shalom, Death in the Philippines
Eric P. Levy, Michael Wood, Challenge

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Contributors

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a frequent contributor to Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights (NYRB Classics); the essay collections A View of My Own and Seduction and Betrayal (NYRB Classics).

Simon Head is a Senior Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford. His most recent book is The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age. (August 2007)

Anne Hollander's books include Seeing Through Clothes, Sex and Suits, and Feeding the Eye. Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting, a companion book for the upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery in London, will be published this spring. (February 2002)

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech. (November 2009)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

Charles Rosen's latest book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (March 2009)

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His most recent book is Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. (March 2009)

Helen Vendler's recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published later this year. (March 2009)

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)

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