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Volume 30, Number 20 · December 22, 1983

Edward Mortimer, The Faraway War

Report from Afghanistan by Gérard Chaliand, translated by Tamar Jacoby

In Afghanistan: An American Odyssey by Jere Van Dyk

Behind Russian Lines: An Afghan Journal by Sandy Gall

A Hitch or Two in Afghanistan: A Journey behind Russian Lines by Nigel Ryan

Red Flag over Afghanistan: The Communist Coup, the Soviet Invasion and Their Consequences by Thomas T. Hammond

Afghanistan and the Soviet Union by Henry S. Bradsher

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Double Trouble

The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis

Elizabeth Hardwick, On the Eve: A Story

John Bayley, The Upper Depths

Writers in Russia: 1917-1978 by Max Hayward, edited with an introduction by Patricia Blake, preface by Leonard Schapiro

The Editors, Leonard Schapiro (1908–1983)

Murray Kempton, The Good Soldier

Delta Force by Charlie A Beckwith Col. USA (Ret.), by Donald Knox

Joseph Kerman, Wagner and Wagnerism

Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century by Martin Gregor-Dellin, translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn

The Fertilizing Seed: Wagner's Concept of the Poetic Intent by Frank W. Glass

Wagner and Aeschylus: The Ring and the Oresteia by Michael Ewans

I Saw the World End: A Study of Wagner's Ring by Deryck Cooke

Wagner's Siegfried: Its Drama, History, and Music by Patrick McCreless

The New Grove Wagner by John Deathridge, by Carl Dahlhaus

Kingdom on the Rhine: History, Myth and Legend in Wagner's Ring by Nancy Benvenga

Three Wagner Essays by Richard Wagner, translated by Robert L. Jacobs

The Opera Quarterly, Commemorative Wagner Issue, volume 1, no. 3 (Autumn 1983)

Dichtungen und Schriften: Jubiläumsausgabe in Zehn Bänden by Richard Wagner, edited by Dieter Borchmeyer

Tétralogies—Wagner, Boulez, Chéreau: Essai sur l'infidélité by Jean-Jacques Nattiez

In Search of Wagner [Versuch über Wagner] by Theodor Adorno, translated by Rodney Livingstone

Wagner Rehearsing the 'Ring': An Eye-Witness Account of the Stage Rehearsals of the First Bayreuth Festival by Heinrich Porges, translated by Robert L. Jacobs

My Life by Richard Wagner, translated by Andrew Gray, edited by Mary Whittall

Staging Wagnerian Drama by Adolphe Appia, translated with an introduction by Peter Loeffler

Joseph Brodsky, Near Alexandria (poem)

J.M. Cameron, Nuclear Catholicism

Confession of a Catholic by Michael Novak

Moral Clarity in the Nuclear Age by Michael Novak, foreword by Billy Graham, introduction by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Rosemary Dinnage, The Madonna of Bloomsbury

Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding

John Pope-Hennessy, Centenary of a Cipher

Raphael Vrbinas:II Mito Della Fornarina edited by Dante Bernini

Raphael in der Alten Pinakothek by Hubertus von Sonnenburg

Raffaello by Konrad Oberhuber

Raphael by Roger Jones, by Nicholas Penny

The Drawings of Raphael by Paul Joannides

Lester C. Thurow, The Elephant and the Maharajah

Inflation, Tax Rules, and Capital Formation by Martin Feldstein

Robert Craft, Compositions

Auden: An American Friendship by Charles H. Miller

This Man and Music by Anthony Burgess

Glenn Gould: Variations by Himself and His Friends, edited with an introduction by John McGreevy

Balthus: Drawings and Watercolors by Giovanni Carandente

The Letters of William Somerset Maugham to Lady Juliet Duff edited and with an introduction by Loren R. Rothchild

Mary Gordon, The Luck of the Irish

Fools of Fortune by William Trevor

The Stories of William Trevor

Ada Louise Huxtable, Rebuilding Architecture

Architecture Today by Charles Jencks, with a contribution by William Chaitkin

Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton

Modern Architecture since 1900 by William J.R. Curtis

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue by Richard Oliver

The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy by Klaus Herdeg

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Letters

Laura (Riding) Jackson, Reply

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

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)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a frequent contributor to 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 (NYRB Classics); the essay collections A View of My Own and Seduction and Betrayal (NYRB Classics).

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.

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).

Edward Mortimer was until 2006 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. (April 2008)

Lester Thurow is Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and the former Dean of the Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Zero-Sum Society, Head to Head, and The Future of Capitalism. (February 1998)

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