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
Letters
Nicola Courtright, Robert M. Adams, Baroque Reading
John M. Gates, Gore Vidal, Death in the Philippines
Laurence Veysey, Plight of the University
Stephen Rosskam Shalom, Death in the Philippines
Eric P. Levy, Michael Wood, Challenge
Contributors
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The 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, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
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 is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)
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 most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His most recent book is Rationality and Freedom. (December 2004)
Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)
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)
