Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 1 · January 29, 1987

Diane Johnson, Playtime

Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures by Frances FitzGerald

Theodore H. Draper, Reagan's Junta

Christopher Hill, Success Story

Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates by Robert C. Ritchie

Darryl Pinckney, Black Victims, Black Villains

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Reckless Eyeballing by Ishmael Reed

The Color Purple a film by Steven Spielberg

Ian Buruma, Korea: Shame & Chauvinism

Prison Writings by Kim Dae Jung, translated by Choi Sung-Il

T.H. Breen, New World Symphony

The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction by Bernard Bailyn

Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn, with the assistance of Barbara DeWolfe

Martin Filler, The Master Builder

Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work by Robert Twombly

The Curve of the Arch: The Story of Louis Sullivan's Owatonna Bank by Larry Millett

Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament by David Van Zanten, by William Jordy, by Wim de Wit, by Rochelle Elstein

Louis Sullivan and the Polemics of Modern Architecture: The Present against the Past by David S. Andrew

Lincoln Kirstein, Provocateur

The Gavin Ewart Show: Selected Poems 1939–1985 by Gavin Ewart

The Young Pobble's Guide to his Toes by Gavin Ewart

Oliver Sacks, Tics

"Etude sur une affection nerveuse caracterisée par de l'incoordination motrice accompagnée d'echolalie et de copralalie" by Georges Gilles de la Tourette

"Gilles de la Tourette on Tourette Syndrome" by C.G. Goetz, by H.L. Klawans. in Arnold J. Friedhoff and Thomas N. Chase, eds., Advances in Neurology, Vol. 35 (1982): Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

Psychopathology of Forced Movements and the Oculogyric Crises of Lethargic Encephalitis by Smith Ely Jelliffe

The Mind of a Mnemonist by A.R. Luria

Tics and Their Treatment by H. Meige, by E. Feindel. translated and edited by S.A.K. Wilson from 1902 original

"A Case of Gilles de la Tourette's Disease After 10 Years' Treatment with Haloperidol (R.1625)" by Jean-N. Seignot. in F.S. Abuzzahab and F.O. Anderson, eds., Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome: Vol. 1, International Registry

"Witty Ticcy Ray" in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

"The Possessed" in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

"Acquired Tourettism in Adult Life" by Oliver Sacks. in Arnold J. Friedhoff and Thomas N. Chase, eds., Advances in Neurology, Vol. 35: Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

"Limbic Innervation of the Striatum" by Walle J.H. Nauta. in Arnold J. Freidhoff and Thomas N. Chase, eds. Advances in Neurology, Vol. 35: Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

"Psychoanalytic Evaluation of Tic in Psychopathology of Children" by Margaret S. Mahler. in Psychoanalytic Study of the Child

Tics and Related Disorders by A.J Lees

Postencephalitic Respiratory Disorders by Smith Ely Jelliffe

D.S. Carne-Ross, The Strange Case of Leopardi

The Moral Essays by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Patrick Creagh

Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Giovanni Cecchetti

Pensieri by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by W. S. Di Piero

A Leopardi Reader edited and translated by Ottavio Casale

From 'Le Ricordanze' ('Memories') (poem)

Israel Shahak, Timothy Garton Ash, 'The Life of Death': An Exchange

Murray Kempton, Leaving Bad Enough Alone

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Letters

Nicholas Faith, Joseph W. Alsop, Art & Money
Roger Scruton, Martha C. Nussbaum, Conservative Advice
Shin-ichi Wicks, Frederick C. Crews, Hi-Tech

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

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.

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)

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.

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

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.

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