Table of Contents, March 12, 1987 - The New York Review of Books

New Mexico: A New Guide to the Colorful State by Lance Chilton, by Katherine Chilton, by Polly E. Arango, by James Dudley, by Nancy Neary, by Patricia Stelzner

Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range by William deBuys

Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region by Victor Westphall

Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800–1933 by G. Emlen Hall

New Mexico: A Bicentennial History by Marc Simmons

Along the Santa Fe Trail essay by Marc Simmons, photographs by Joan Myers

Haunted Highways: The Ghost Towns of New Mexico by Ralph Looney

Four Fighters of Lincoln County by Robert M. Utley

Thomas C. Grey, Advice for 'Judge and Company'

Law's Empire by Ronald Dworkin

Leo Marx, A Visit to Mr. America

The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson by Irving Howe

Istvan Deak, The Convert

Georg Lukács: Record of a Life—An Autobiographical Sketch edited by István Eörsi, translated by Rodney Livingstone

Georg Lukács and His Generation: 1900–1918 by Mary Gluck

The Young Lukács by Lee Congdon

Georg Lukács: His Life in Pictures and Documents compiled by Éva Fekete, by Éva Karádi

Georg Lukács, Karl Mannheim und der Sonntagskreis edited by Éva Karádi, by Erzsébet Vezér, Translated from the Hungarian by Albrecht Friedrich

Georg Lukács: Selected Correspondence, 1902–1920, dialogues with Weber, Simmel, Buber, Mannheim, and Others selected, edited, translated, and annotated by Judith Marcus, by Zoltán Tar, with an introduction by Zoltán Tar

Francisco J. Ayala, Eliot Stellar, J. Szentagothai, et al. Neural Darwinism: An Exchange

Letters

Ronald Dworkin, Time's Settlement
Charles Rearick, Not-So-Belle Époque

Contributors

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton. The twentieth-anniversary edition of his book The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity will be published in June. (April 2008)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)

Istvan Deak has written books on Weimar Germany’s left-wing intellectuals, the 1848 revolution in Hungary, the Habsburg army officer corps, and Europe during World War II. (March 2007)

Robert Lowell died in 1977. His Collected Poems was published this summer. The letters in this issue will be included in The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, to be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. (November 2003)

David Malouf is a novelist and poet. His novel The Great World was awarded both the Commonwealth Prize and Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He has received the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Leo Marx is the Kenan Professor of American Cultural History (Emeritus) at MIT and most recently the editor, with Bruce Mazlish, of Progress:Fact or Illusion? (July 1999)

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)