Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 17 · November 10, 1983

Alfred Kazin, The Exceptional William James

A Stroll with William James by Jacques Barzun

Michael Wood, Farewell Buñuel

My Last Sigh by Luis Buñuel, translated by Abigail Israel

Ernst Gombrich, Mysteries of Dutch Painting

The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century by Svetlana Alpers

Irving Howe, In the American Grain

Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist by Nick Salvatore

John Gross, Unwrapping Edmund Wilson

The Forties by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Leon Edel

The Portable Edmund Wilson edited by Lewis M. Dabney

J.H. Plumb, Very Heaven

The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784 by Charles Coulston Gillispie

Al Alvarez, Games People Play

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

The Cannibal Galaxy by Cynthia Ozick

Graham Hughes, How Bad Are the Courts?

The Limits of Law Enforcement by Hans Zeisel

Court Reform on Trial by Malcolm F. Feeley

Joseph Brodsky, On Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott, Two Poems by Derek Walcott (poem)

Norman Stone, Picking Up the Pieces

Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939-1941 by Martin Gilbert

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester

Winston Churchill's World View: Statesmanship and Power by Kenneth W. Thompson

Stephen Spender, 'The First Man on Earth'

Kleist: A Biography by Joachim Maass, translated by Ralph Manheim

Harold R. Isaacs, Past Imperfect

One Day in China: May 21, 1936 translated, edited, and introduced by Sherman Cochran, by Andrew C.K. Hsieh, with Janis Cochran

Amos Oz, Insult and Fury

Adam Michnik, In Investigation Prison

William F. Buckley, John Gregory Dunne, 'Overdrive': An Exchange

Ann Mari Buitrago, Max Gordon, Gerald Markowitz, et al. An Exchange on the Rosenbergs

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Letters

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Conor Cruise O'Brien, For the Record
Gustav A. Berger, John Richardson, Saving the Cubists

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Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

John Gross's most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Parodies, which will be published in July. (April 2010)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. (September 2008)

Amos Oz's latest novel is Don't Call It Night. Two collections of essays, Israel, Palestine, and Peace and Under this Blazing Light, have recently been published in the US. (November 1996)

Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. His latest collection of poems, White Egrets, will be published next year. (November 2009)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (March 2010)

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