Table of Contents
Volume 33, Number 1 · January 30, 1986
Norman Cohn, By Love Possessed 
Holy Anorexia by Rudolph M. Bell, epilogue by William N. Davis
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown
Primo Levi, Last Christmas of the War
Martha C. Nussbaum, Women's Lot
Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman by Jane Roland Martin
Edward Mortimer, To the Tehran Station
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran by Roy Mottahedeh
W.H. Auden, A Short Defense of Poetry
Christopher Benfey, Inconstant Anderson
Letters to Bab by Sherwood Anderson, edited by William A. Sutton
Kit Brandon by Sherwood Anderson
Gordon A. Craig, The German Mystery Case
The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany by David Blackbourn, by Geoff Eley
Reflexionen Finsterer Zeit: Zwei Vorträge by Fritz Stern, by Hans Jonas
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich by Jeffrey Herf
The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism by Woodruff D. Smith
S. Schoenbaum, EEK!
Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror by James B. Twitchell
C. Vann Woodward, The Lost Cause
Socialism and America by Irving Howe
R.J.W. Evans, Virtuoso
Renaissance Essays by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Murray Kempton, Outrageously Normal
Outrageous Misconduct by Paul Brodeur
Lord Zuckerman, The Wonders of Star Wars
Star Warriors: A Penetrating Look Into the Lives of the Young Scientists Behind Our Space Age Weaponry by William J. Broad
How to Make Nuclear Weapons Obsolete by Robert Jastrow
Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment
James Merrill, Lipstick, 1935 (poem)
Richard Cummings, Sanford Friedman, Victor Rabinowitz, et al. Allard Lowenstein: An Exchange
Howard Moss, A Night at the Palace
Larry Garber, Robert S. Leiken, The Nicaraguan Elections: An Exchange
Letters
Salo W. Baron, Yehuda Bauer, et al. Polish-Jewish Studies
Harold Brodkey, D.J. Enright, On 'Women and Angels'
Thomas R. Maertens, The Flight of Kal-007
Contributors
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.
Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His book A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade was published in April. (June 2008)
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. (September 2007)
Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist
for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of
Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events
and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1985.
James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)
Edward Mortimer was until 2006 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. (April 2008)
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)
C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)
