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Volume 34, Number 3 · February 26, 1987

Octavio Paz, Food of the Gods

The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art 17–August 24, 1986), and the Cleveland Museum of Art (October 8–December 14, 1986) An exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (May

The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Worth) by Linda Schele, by Mary Ellen Miller

Alfred Kazin, Mencken and the Great American Boob

The Dreiser–Mencken Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser & H.L. Mencken, 1907–1945 Vol. I and II, edited by Thomas P. Riggio

Mencken and Sara, A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Gentleman

Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter annotated with the assistance of Susan W. Walker) (with "The Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin, 1822–1890," edited and, by Theodore Rosengarten

D.J. Enright, Writers at Play

The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties by Alasdair Gray

Saints and Strangers by Angela Carter

Ian Hacking, When the Atom Broke Down

Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World by Abraham Pais

Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner, The Judgment of Paris

Le Musée d'Orsay 1, rue de Bellechasse, Paris

Le Triomphe des mairies 8, 1987) An exhibition at the Petit Palais, Paris, (November 8, 1986–January, Catalog by Thérèse Burollet, by Daniel Imbert, by Frank Folliot

Les Concours d'esquisses peintes, 1816–1863 1986–December 14, 1986), and the National Academy of Design, New York (January 13, 1987–March 15, 1987). An exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (October 8,, Catalog by Philippe Grunchec

Denis Donoghue, The Luck of the Irish

The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse edited by Thomas Kinsella

The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry edited by Paul Muldoon

Ronald Dworkin, The Press on Trial

Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time by Renata Adler

Murray Kempton, A Sad Heart at the Supermarket

Rating America's Corporate Conscience by Steven D. Lydenberg, by Alice Tepper Martin, by Sean O'Brien Strub. the Council on Economic Priorities

Lawrence Stone, The Century of Revolution

Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640–1660 by Gerald E. Aylmer

Authority and Conflict: England, 1603–1658 by Derek Hirst

Faction and Parliament: Essays on Early Stuart History edited by Kevin Sharpe

Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603–1660 by David Underdown

Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London by Paul S. Seaver

Order and Disorder in Early Modern England edited by A. Fletcher, edited by J. Stevenson

Parliamentary Selection: Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England by Mark Kishlansky

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Letters

Gerald Stourzh, Gordon A. Craig, Waldheim's Austria
Victor Bers, Free Evdokimov!
Aryeh Neier, E.J. Hobsbawm, Watch on Colombia
Rosalyn Tureck, Playing Liszt
Joseph Machlis, Alfred Brendel, Playing Liszt

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Contributors

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

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)

Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

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.

Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City, and his extraordinarily busy and fruitful life took him from civil-war Spain to surrealist Paris, from US universities to the Mexican embassy in New Delhi, where he served for six years as ambassador before resigning in protest after his government's suppression of student demonstrations at the 1968 Olympic Games. A great poet, Paz was also the author of many essays and a study of Mexican identity, The Labyrinth of Solitude, as well as the founder and editor of two important journals, Plural and Vuelta. Octavio Paz received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent books are The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War and the forthcoming Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition. (October 2002)

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)

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