Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 2 · February 16, 1984

Helen Vendler, Life Studies

The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop, edited, with an introduction, by Robert Giroux

Seweryn Bialer, Danger in Moscow

Gabriele Annan, The Defrocked Romantic

Heine's Jewish Comedy: A Study of His Portraits of Jews and Judaism by S.S. Prawer

The Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine: A Modern English Version translated by Hal Draper

Oliver Sacks, The Lost Mariner

Robert Darnton, Danton and Double-Entendre

Danton written by Jean-Claude Carrière, directed by Andrzej Wajda

Thomas R. Edwards, The Innocent

The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer by Jackson J. Benson

John E. Bowlt, The Old New Wave

Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings Vol. 1, 1900–1915 by Hans K. Roethel, by Jean K. Benjamin

Vladimir Tatlin and the Russian Avant-Garde by John Milner

Russian Constructivism by Christina Lodder

Ronald Steel, Where Modern Politics Began

The Warrior and the Priest by John Milton Cooper Jr.

Sidney Monas, The Young Satan

Mikhail Bakunin: A Study in the Psychology and Politics of Utopianism by Aileen Kelly

Rhoda Koenig, Touching Lubitsch

Three Screen Comedies by Samson Raphaelson, with an introduction by Pauline Kael

Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy by William Paul

To Be or Not to Be directed by Alan Johnson, produced by Mel Brooks, screenplay by Thomas Meehan, by Ronny Graham

Ian Hacking, Where Does Math Come From?

The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge by Philip Kitcher

Diane Johnson, Worst Wishes

Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge by Susan Jacoby

Man Slaughter by Steven Englund

Julian Moynahan, The Deceiving Conscience

Cal by Bernard Mac Laverty

The Summoning by Robert Towers


Letters

Robert L. Heilbroner, The Right Volvo
Paul Morsey, John Kenneth Galbraith, Fair Comment



Contributors

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

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (April 2008)

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

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)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Julian Moynahan is Professor of English Emeritus at Rutgers University. His most recent book is Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture. (May 2000)

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

Helen Vendler's new book, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form, was published last autumn. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (March 2008)


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