Table of Contents

Volume 32, Number 17 · November 7, 1985

Primo Levi, Lorenzo's Return

Nadine Gordimer, The Just Cause

Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld

Diane Johnson, Southern Comfort

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

James Fenton, Ethiopia: Victors and Victims

James Schuyler, Fauré Second Piano Quartet (poem)

Alan Bullock, 'Guardian of the Grail'

Hitler—Memoirs of a Confidant edited by Henry Ashby Turner Jr., translated by Ruth Hein

Peter Bauer, City Lights

Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life by Jane Jacobs

Gabriele Annan, The Force of Habit

All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Angus Davidson

Family Sayings by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by D.M. Low

The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Dick Davis

Reyner Banham, Body Building

Carlo, Rembrandt, Ettore, Jean Bugatti by Philip Dejean, edited by Nadine Coleno, by Uwe Hucke

The Amazing Bugattis by Malcolm Haslam, by Philippe Garner, by Mary Harvey, by Hugh Conway

Bernard McCabe, A Cautionary Career

Hilaire Belloc by A.N. Wilson

Robert Craft, Balanchine Variations

Balanchine's Tchaikovsky: Interviews with George Balanchine by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonia W. Bouis

Balanchine: A Biography by Bernard Taper

"But First a School": The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet by Jennifer Dunning

Portrait of Mr. B.: Photographs of George Balanchine with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein

Balanchine's 'Mozartiana': The Making of a Masterpiece by Robert Maiorano, by Valerie Brooks

Dancing for Balanchine by Merrill Ashley, with the assistance of Larry Kaplan, foreword by Clement Crisp

J.H. Plumb, Franklin's Mint

A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son by Willard Sterne Randall

Istvan Deak, A Conglomerate Country

The National Question in Yugoslavia by Ivo Banac

Helen Vendler, Looking for Poetry in America

Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry by Robert Hass

Local Assays: On Contemporary American Poetry by Dave Smith

American Poetry and Culture, 1945–1980 by Robert von Hallberg

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Letters

Ernest Hartmann, Having Nightmares
John L. Harper, Francine du Plessix Gray, The Bologna Bombing
Richard Peel, The Evdokimov Case

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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)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

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)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

James Schuyler (1923–1991) was a preeminent figure in the celebrated New York School of poets. He grew up in Washington, D.C., and near Buffalo, New York. After World War II, he made his way to Italy, where he served for a time as W.H. Auden’s secretary. His books include two other novels, A Nest of Ninnies (written with John Ashbery) and Alfred and Guinevere (also published by NYRB Classics), as well as numerous volumes of poetry.

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

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