Table of Contents
Volume 32, Number 16 · October 24, 1985
James Fenton, Notes from the Drought 
John Bayley, First Loves
John Ruskin: The Early Years, 1819–1859 by Tim Hilton
J.M. Coetzee, Satyagraha in Durban
A Revolutionary Woman by Sheila Fugard
Liang Heng, Judith Shapiro, China: How Much Freedom?
Janet Malcolm, What Maisie Didn't Know
Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood by Angelica Garnett
J.H. Elliott, Conspicuous Consumption
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz
Arnaldo Momigliano, The Jews of Italy
Czeslaw Milosz, Adam Zagajewski, Three Poems by Adam Zagajewski (poem)
Alison Lurie, Life's Greatest Hits
The Singing Game by Iona Opie, by Peter Opie
Ronald Dworkin, The High Cost of Virtue
Morality and Conflict by Stuart Hampshire
Ernest Nagel, Why Math Matters
Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge by Morris Kline
Bernard Knox, Caviar to the General
Pindar by D.S. Carne-Ross
Roger Draper, The Golden Arm
Robotics edited by Marvin Minsky
Work Transformed: Automation and Labor in the Computer Age by Harley Shaiken
The Robotics Revolution: The Complete Guide for Managers and Engineers by Peter B. Scott
Robots: Machines in Man's Image by Isaac Asimov, by Karen A. Frenkel
Smart Robots: A Handbook of Intelligent Robotic Systems by V. Daniel Hunt
S.F. Witelson, Richard C. Lewontin, An Exchange on 'Gender'
Charles Murray, Christopher Jencks, 'Losing Ground': An Exchange
Letters
Peter J. Swales, The Freud Archives
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Seduction Theory
Werner J. Dannhauser, M.F. Burnyeat, Lessons of Leo Strauss
John J. Walsh, Andrade in Print!
Karen Kennerly, Sharon Olds, et al. The Case of Daud Haider
Contributors
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)
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."
J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)
James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)
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.
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
Adam Zagajewski's books include Another Beauty and Without End: New and Selected Poems. The poem in this issue is from his new book, Eternal Enemies, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (April 2008)
