Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 17 · November 8, 1984

Rosemary Dinnage, The Last Act

The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 5, 1936–1941 edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie

George W. Ball, White House Roulette

Deadly Gambits by Strobe Talbott

Darryl Pinckney, The Fast Lane

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

Fish Tales by Nettie Jones

Oliver Sacks, Hands

Felix G. Rohatyn, The Debtor Economy: A Proposal

David Cannadine, The Ideal Husband

The Cult of the Prince Consort by Elisabeth Darby, by Nicola Smith

Prince Albert: His Life and Work by Hermione Hobhouse

Prince Albert: A Biography by Robert Rhodes James

John Weightman, Polymorphic Peter Pan

The Fetishist by Michel Tournier, translated by Barbara Wright

Ronald Dworkin, Reagan's Justice

Stephen Spender, B. B. and Company

Mary Berenson: A Self-Portrait from Her Letters and Diaries edited by Barbara Strachey, edited by Jayne Samuels

Stanley Hoffmann, Semidetached Politics

Prudence Crowther, The First Laugh

That Old Gang O' Mine: The Early and Essential S.J. Perelman edited by Richard Marschall

Frank Bidart, To the Dead (poem)

George M. Fredrickson, Birth of a Nation

Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy by Eric Foner

The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850–1890 by Steven Hahn

White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia by Charles L. Flynn Jr.

Willibald Sauerländer, Mod Gothic

French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries by Jean Bony

Jonathan Lieberson, Method Acting

A Treatise on Social Theory Volume I: The Methodology of Social Theory by W.G. Runciman

Allan G. Pulsipher, Jane Jacobs, An Exchange on TVA

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Letters

Tom Buckley, Christopher Dickey, Violent Neighbors
K.G. Denbigh, Trade Secrets
Daniel James, Danny Santiago, Writing 'Bloomer Girl'
Steven B. Smith, Martin Gardner, Trade Secrets
Hillel Halkin, The Editors, Another Country
John R. Miles, Forthcoming Book

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Contributors

Prudence Crowther is the copy chief at BusinessWeek. (April 2007)

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

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Felix Rohatyn is an investment banker and has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, and US Ambassador to France. (October 2008)

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.

Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His most recent books are Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments and Essai sur les Visages des Bustes de Houdon. (June 2007)

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

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