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Volume 32, Number 20 · December 19, 1985

Bernard Knox, Subversive Activities

Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in Nineteenth-Century England by Louis Crompton

Alison Lurie, Bad Housekeeping

The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing

The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbour & If the Old Could… by Doris Lessing

Luc Sante, Goodbye Charlie

Chaplin: His Life and Art by David Robinson

Charlie Chaplin by Maurice Bessy

David Cannadine, Brideshead Re-Revisited

The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting Washington November 3, 1985 to March 16, 1986, National Gallery of Art,

The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting edited by Gervase Jackson-Stops

The English Country House: A Grand Tour Book/Little, Brown by Gervase Jackson-Stops, by James Pipkin

Robert Towers, Three-Part Inventions

World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow

Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Where She Was by Anderson Ferrell

Timothy Garton Ash, The Life of Death

Heimat A film by Edgar Reitz

Shoah A film by Claude Lanzmann

Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust the complete text of the film by Claude Lanzmann, preface by Simone de Beauvoir

When Light Pierced the Darkness: Righteous Christians and the Polish Jews by Nechama Tec

Isaiah Berlin, A Note on 'Khovanshchina'

Roderick MacFarquhar, The End of the Long March

Winton Dean, A Handle on Handel

Handel by Christopher Hogwood

Handel and his World by H.C. Robbins Landon

Handel: The Man and his Music by Jonathan Keates

Essays on Handel and Italian Opera by Reinhard Strohm

Fritz Stern, Fink Shrinks

Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Göring Institute by Geoffrey Cocks

Die Professionalisierung der deutschen Psychologie im Nationalsozialismus by Ulfried Geuter

Thomas R. Edwards, Pathos and Power

Honorable Men by Louis Auchincloss

Luisa Domic by George Dennison

The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes, translated with the author by Margaret Sayers Peden

Aileen Kelly, Man in the Middle

Who Is to Blame? by Alexander Herzen, translated by Michael R. Katz

John Richardson, Picasso and L'Amour Fou

Mystery, Magic, and Love in Picasso, 1925–1938: Picasso and the Surrealist Poets Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Part of the dissertation, in revised and expanded form, will be published by Yale University Press in 1986 under the title Art as a Form of Magic in Picasso. by Lydia Gasman

Picasso's 'Caseta,' His Memories, and His Poems by Lydia Gasman

Through the Eye of Picasso, 1928–1934: The Dinard Sketchbook and Related Paintings and Sculpture New York from the collection of Marina Picasso. in cooperation with Jan Krugier, Geneva, and Jan Krugier, Fine Art,

Musée Picasso: Catalogue sommaire des collections Musées Nationaux

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Letters

Hilton Kramer, Samuel Lipman, Mrs. Huxtable's Words

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Contributors

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

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 books include Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name and (as editor with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
 (December 2009)

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

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 a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book, Mao’s Last Revolution, written with Michael Schoenhals, came out in paperback in 2008.
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John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

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