Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 2 · February 17, 1983

John Gross, Life Saving

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

A Man for Others: Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, in the Words of Those Who Knew Him by Patricia Treece

J.M. Cameron, Sleepwalker

Luther: A Life by John M. Todd

Martin Luther: An Illustrated Biography by Peter Manns, translated by Michael Shaw, with an introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan

Sven Birkerts, Living in the Breach

The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays of Eugenio Montale edited and translated by Jonathan Galassi

Rosemary Dinnage, Exorcist and Analyst

Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions by Sudhir Kakar

Ian Hacking, Twilight of Authority

Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary by Robert Nisbet

David Brion Davis, Of Human Bondage

Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study by Orlando Patterson

Harold Bloom, Memory and Its Discontents

Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Murray Kempton, The Great Lobbyist

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Lyndon B. Johnson: A Memoir by George Reedy

John Willett, Berlin in the Light

Berlin 1910-1933 by Eberhard Roters, with Janos Frecot, by Sonja Günther, by Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg, by Ulrich Gregor, by Arno Paul, translated by Margerite Mounier

Avant-Garde Photography in Germany, 1919-1939 by Van Deren Coke

Aileen Kelly, Russia's Old New Right

The Origins of Autocracy: Ivan the Terrible in Russian History by Alexander Yanov, translated by Stephen Dunn

Saul Bellow, On John Cheever

Xan Smiley, Inside Angola

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Letters

Ernst Badian, Victor Bers, et al. Evdokimov Case
A. Phillips Griffiths, Wales's End?
Ivor G.H. Wilks, Graham Hughes, Wales's End?
Robert W. Loftin, Why the Smokies Are Smoky (cont'd)
Kenneth O. Morgan, Wales's End?

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Contributors

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale. He is the author of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine and American Religious Poems: An Anthology. His new book is Fallen Angels, with illuminations by Mark Podwal. (November 2007)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)

Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

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