Table of Contents

Volume 32, Number 13 · August 15, 1985

Noel Annan, High Spirits

Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 1911–1925 edited by Dan H. Laurence

E.D. Hirsch, Irvin Ehrenpreis (1920–1985)

Bernard Lewis, The Shi'a

B. L., The Hijacking

Stephen Jay Gould, Mysteries of the Panda

The Giant Pandas of Wolong by George B. Schaller, by Hu Jinchu, by Pan Wenshi, by Zhu Jing

Eugenio Montale, A Poem by Eugenio Montale (poem)

David Brion Davis, Secrets of the Mormons

America's Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power by Robert Gottlieb, by Peter Wiley

Mormonism: The Story of A New Religious Tradition by Jan Shipps

Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington

Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman

John Bayley, Only Disconnect

Selected Letters of E.M. Forster Vol. II, 1921–1970 edited by Mary Lago, edited by P.N. Furbank

Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Graves at Deyá (poem)

Lord Zuckerman, The Prospects of Nuclear War

Hawks, Doves, and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War edited by Graham T. Allison, edited by Albert Carnesale, edited by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

The Button: The Pentagon's Strategic Command and Control System by Daniel Ford

Robert Towers, Moveable Types

Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge

Later the Same Day by Grace Paley

Self-Help by Lorrie Moore

Oliver Sacks, The President's Speech

Julia Preston, What Duarte Won

Joseph Kerman, Wagner Goes West

Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner. produced by the San Francisco Opera, June 1985

Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung by Nicholas John

Gavin Young, Vietnam: Casualties of Peace

James R. Barrett, Murray Bookchin, Paul Buhle, et al. Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange

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Letters

Carl D. Anderson, Richard P. Feynman, et al. Star Wars and Caltech
T.J. Clark, Francoise Cachin, 'Painting of Modern Life'
Theodore Lidz, Gore Vidal, Caring for the Bird

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

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).

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent books are Music of a Distant Drum and What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. (May 2002)

Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)

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.

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