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Volume 32, Number 19 · December 5, 1985

John Bayley, Big Three

Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, by Rainer Maria Rilke, by Marina Tsvetayeva, edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, by Yelena Pasternak, by Konstantin M. Azadovsky, translated by Margaret Wettlin, by Walter Arndt

Letters on Cézanne by Rainer Maria Rilke, edited by Clara Rilke, translated by Joel Agee

Timothy Garton Ash, The Hungarian Lesson

Alain Finkielkraut, What Is Europe?

Martin Filler, Tall Stories

The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style by Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable: An Annotated Bibliography by Lawrence Wodehouse

Mavis Gallant, Limpid Pessimist

Alexis translated in collaboration with the author by Walter Kaiser

Coup de Grâce translated in collaboration with the author by Grace Frick

A Coin in Nine Hands translated in collaboration with the author by Dori Katz

Memoirs of Hadrian and Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian translated in collaboration with the author by Grace Frick

The Abyss translated in collaboration with the author by Grace Frick

Fires translated in collaboration with the author by Dori Katz

Plays translated in collaboration with the author by Dori Katz

The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays translated in collaboration with the author by Richard Howard

Oriental Tales translated in collaboration with the author by Alberto Manguel

With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Carlos Drummond de Andrade, The Disappearance of Luisa Porto (poem)

David Joravsky, Return of the Native

Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin by Lawrence Badash

Ispytuiushchie gody; Iz pisem P.L. Kapitsy k materi 1921–23 gg. ("Years of trial: From P.L. Kapitza's Letters to his Mother, 1921–1923") edited by P.E. Rubinin

Dvadtsat' dva otcheta akademika P.L. Kapitsy ("Twenty-three Reports of Academician P.L. Kapitza") edited by P.E. Rubinin

D.J. Enright, Depositions

A Maggot by John Fowles

Foreign Land by Jonathan Raban

Family and Friends by Anita Brookner

Peter Partner, On the Town

Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard

Alistair Horne, Algeria Rising

Roy Foster, Master of Exceptions

Workers: Worlds of Labor by Eric Hobsbawm

T.H. Breen, Founding Sons

A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War by Fred Anderson

To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775–1783 by E. Wayne Carp

Anthony Quinton, The Right Stuff

Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work Volume I: 1861–1910 by Victor Lowe

Robert S. Leiken, The Nicaraguan Tangle

Stephen Spender, Survivor

The Assault by Harry Mulisch, translated by Claire Nicolas White

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Letters

Mark Wheeler, Nora Beloff, The British in Yugoslavia
Loyd D. Easton, Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and Freedom
Paul Bracken, Lord Zuckerman, Nuclear Convictions
John M. Lee, Nuclear Convictions
Peter Nazareth, On Maina Wa Kinyatti

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Contributors

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

D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.

Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal and worked as a journalist at The Standard before moving to Europe to devote herself to writing fiction. After traveling extensively she settled in Paris, where she still resides. She was first published in The New Yorker in 1951. NYRB Classics publishes two collections of her stories: Varieties of Exile and Paris Stories.

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)

Alistair Horne is the author of eighteen books, including The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805–1815, and the official biography of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. He is a fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and lives in Oxfordshire. In 1993 Horne was awarded the French Légion d'Honneur and in 2003 received a knighthood for his work in the history of France. He lives in England.

Peter Partner's books include Arab Voices and The Pope's Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)

Anthony Quinton is the former president of Trinity College, Oxford, former chairman of the British Library, and the author of Hume. (June 2001)

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