Table of Contents

Volume 32, Number 10 · June 13, 1985

Gordon A. Craig, Outsiders

German Jews Beyond Judaism by George L. Mosse

The German Jew: A Synthesis of Judaism and Western Civilization, 1730–1930 by H.I. Bach

Gore Vidal, Immortal Bird

The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto

Tennessee: Cry of the Heart by Dotson Rader

Milan Kundera, 'Man Thinks, God Laughs'

Hugh Trevor-Roper, A Jesuit Adventure

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence

Umberto Eco, On 'Krazy Kat' and 'Peanuts'

Robert O. Paxton, Mr. France

Pierre Mendès France by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch

Ernst Gombrich, Scenes in a Golden Age

Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting Pennsylvania Press) catalog of an exhibition organized by Peter C. Sutton

Murray Kempton, Parade's End

Brad Leithauser, Seahorses (poem)

Douglas V. Johnson, The 'Brain' of Italy

Cavour by Denis Mack Smith

Arthur Berger, The Tarrytown Impressionist

Charles T. Griffes: The Life of an American Composer by Edward Maisel

The Works of Charles T. Griffes: A Descriptive Catalogue by Donna K. Anderson

Rosemary Dinnage, Traveling Light

Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon

To the Frontier by Geoffrey Moorhouse

Where Nights Are Longest: Travels by Car through Western Russia by Colin Thubron

Martin Gardner, Physics: The End of the Road?

Superforce: The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature by Paul Davies

Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Heinz R. Pagels

Charles D. Baker, Robert Claiborne, Robert J. Glaser, et al. Overtreatment: An Exchange

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Letters

M.S. Trupp, Oliver Sacks, Do Fish Have Nostrils?
Martin Peretz, 'The New Republic,' Con't

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Contributors

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

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

Umberto Eco is an Italian philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays.

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

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.

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. He is also a Regional Editor of North American Birds magazine. (November 2008)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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