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Volume 31, Number 20 · December 20, 1984

Elizabeth Hardwick, Cheever, or The Ambiguities

Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever

D.S. Carne-Ross, Giants in Dwarfs' Jackets

Paradiso: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Book 3 commentary by a new verse translation with introduction and Allen Mandelbaum

Janet Malcolm, The Patient Is Always Right

Analysis of Transference, Vol. I: Theory and Technique by Merton M. Gill

Analysis of Transference, Vol. II: Studies of Nine Audio-Recorded Psychoanalytic Sessions by Merton M. Gill, by Irwin Z. Hoffman

Gabriele Annan, Inscrutable Genius

Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling

Francis Haskell, The Voyage of Watteau

Watteau: 1684–1721 by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, by Pierre Rosenberg, with the assistance of Nicole Parmantier

Antoine Watteau by Donald Posner

Le Serment du Jeu de Paume de Jacques-Louis David by Philippe Bordes

Rosemary Dinnage, The Ideal Husband

T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd

Derek Walcott, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Part II. (poem)

Darryl Pinckney, Sweet Evening Breeze

Mary Douglas, Betwixt, Bothered & Bewildered

Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth by Edmund Leach, by D. Alan Aycock

Robert M. Adams, The Godfather's Grandfather

The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga, translated by Raymond Rosenthal, with a new introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti

Mastro-Don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga, translated with an introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti

The She-Wolf and Other Stories by Giovanni Verga, translated with an introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti

Robert Craft, A Christmas Roundup

Principles of the Harpsichord by Monsieur de Saint Lambert, translated and edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick

Lulu: The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume II by George Perle

Postscript to 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

Egon Schiele, an Exhibition Museo d'Arte Moderna Ca' Pesaro, Venice (August 26–November 25)

Egon Schiele by Serge Sabarsky

Ian Hacking, On the Frontier

Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation by Donald Davidson

Howard Moss, An Interview with Ricardo

Simon Schama, Grand Chutzpah

The English Rothschilds by Richard Davis

Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, Butterflies and History by Miriam Rothschild

Harry Levin, The Alchemist Dramatist

Ben Jonson, dramatist by Anne Barton

Kenneth Koch, Senegal (poem)

David Cannadine, No Entrance

An Open Elite? England 1540–1880 by Lawrence Stone, by Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone

B. Kuttner, James Fallows, An Exchange on Automation

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Letters

Francis T. Ventre, Lester C. Thurow, Can the US Compete?
Susan D. Amussen, G.R. Elton, The Family Way
Barnabas McHenry, Robert L. Herbert, Mrs. Wallace's Subsidy
George P. Savidis, Sly Signature

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Contributors

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

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.

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)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The 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, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)

Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.

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

Simon Schama's most recent book is A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British, 1603–1776, the companion volume to his ongoing BBC/History Channel television series. (February 2002)

Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His most recent book is Selected Poems. (May 2008)

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