Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 18 · November 24, 1983

Stephen Jay Gould, Thwarted Genius

Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth R. Manning

Gabriele Annan, Escape Artist

Pierre Loti: The Legendary Romantic by Lesley Blanch

Neal Ascherson, The 'Bildung' of Barbie

Richard Ellmann, The Ghost of Westerly Terrace

Parts of a World, Wallace Stevens Remembered: An Oral Biography by Peter Brazeau

Richard Cobb, Gloom Over Gaul

The French by Theodore Zeldin

Howard Moss, Venice: Still Life (poem)

V.S. Naipaul, Writing 'A House for Mr. Biswas'

R.C. Smail, The Hunter and the Haunted

The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and their Myth by Peter Partner

Sanford Schwartz, Top of the Class

Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Desperate Times

Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 1932-45 by Wayne S. Cole

Claire Tomalin, Mr. Wrong

The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield selected and edited by C.A. Hankin

Josh Rubins, Small Expectations

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Joseph Rykwert, The Last Ornament?

The Bavarian Rococo Church: Between Faith and Aestheticism by Karsten Harries

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Man Who Stayed the Course

Garry Wills, Jefferson's Jesus

Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels: "The Philosophy of Jesus" and "The Life and Morals of Jesus" edited by Dickinson W. Adams

Andrzej Walicki, Marx and Freedom

Mark Kuchment, John Marshall Lee, Alexander M. Mood, et al. An Exchange on Nuclear War

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Letters

Stuart Margulies, Christopher Jencks, Jobs and Blacks
The Editors, Corrections
Volker Petzoldt, Bruno Bettelheim, Playing Dirty

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London.
(July 2009)

Richard Cobb (1917-1996) fell in love with France when he first visited in 1935. He went on to write many works of history—some in French, some in English—about the French Revolution and occupied France.

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

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