Table of Contents
Volume 33, Number 5 · March 27, 1986
Jaroslaw Anders, Czeslaw Bielecki, Monologue on Rakowiecka Street
Francis Haskell, What's in a Portrait?
Degas: His Life, Times, and Work by Roy McMullen
Pompeo Batoni Introductory Text edited and prepared for publication by by Anthony Clark, A Complete Catalog of His Works with an Edgar Peters Bowron
Reynolds Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (to be published by Abrams in the fall) edited by Nicholas Penny
Edward R.F. Sheehan, The Country of Nada
James Joll, Mann and the Magician
Pro and Contra Wagner by Thomas Mann, translated by Allan Blunden, with an introduction by Erich Heller
Clive James, Secret Intelligence
Blessings in Disguise by Alec Guinness
Oliver Sacks, Mysteries of the Deaf
When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf by Harlan Lane
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard by Nora Ellen Groce
The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education edited by Harlan Lane, translated by Franklin Philip
Michael Wood, Broken Blossoms
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Alfred MacAdam
Farewell to the Sea by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Andrew Hurley
Czeslaw Milosz, Father Ch., Many Years Later
(poem)
M.F. Perutz, Lucky Alec
Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth by Gwyn Macfarlane
David Cannadine, Spooky Business
Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community by Christopher Andrew
Jerome S. Bruner, Carol Fleisher Feldman, Under Construction
Of Mind and Other Matters by Nelson Goodman
Daniel Pipes, Ronald Sanders, Yehoshua Porath, Mrs. Peters's Palestine: An Exchange
Letters
Martin Gardner, David Brion Davis, Niebuhr & Supernaturalism
Stephanie Martin, Norman Cohn, 'Holy Anorexia'
Contributors
Jerome Bruner is University Professor at New York University. His newest book, Making Stories, appeared in the spring. (September 2003)
Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)
Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. His latest and longest book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, will be published in the spring. (January 2007)
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.
M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)
Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.
Edward R. F. Sheehan is a former US diplomat in the Middle East, a novelist (Cardinal Galsworthy), and the author of The Arabs, the Israelis, and Kissinger. He is a former Fellow of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. (April 2004)
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)