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
Letters
Stuart Margulies, Christopher Jencks, Jobs and Blacks
The Editors, Corrections
Volker Petzoldt, Bruno Bettelheim, Playing Dirty
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. (November 2007)
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's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
