Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 18 · November 19, 1987

E.J. Hobsbawm, Slyest of the Foxes

Duke Ellington by James Lincoln Collier

Eugenio Montale, Little Testament (poem)

Thomas Powers, Casey's Case

Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987 by Bob Woodward

Ian Buruma, The Last Bengali Renaissance Man

The Unicorn Expedition and Other Fantastic Tales of India by Satyajit Ray

The Home and the World A film directed by Satyajit Ray. produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India

David Joravsky, Off to a Bad Start

The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce

Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology by Philip J. Pauly

Robert Towers, Grace Street Blues

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

Joseph Brodsky, 'Slave, Come to My Service!' (poem)

Murray Kempton, The Family Business

I Pledge Allegiance…The True Story of the Walkers: An American Spy Family by Howard Blum

Oliver Sacks, Robert Wasserman, The Case of the Colorblind Painter

Some Uncommon Observations About Vitiated Sight by Robert Boyle

Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr

Colourful Notions series The Nature of Things (1984) A film written and produced by John Roth

"Selective Disturbance of Movement Vision after Bilateral Brain Damage" in Brain, article by J. Zihl et al.

"The Construction of Colours by the Cerebral Cortex" an article by S. Zeki in Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain

Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Colour Vision: Eye Mechanisms," article by W.A.H. Rushton in Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind

"Retinex Theory and Colour Constancy," article by J.J. McCann in Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind

"The Retinex Theory of Color Vision" by Edwin H. Land in Scientific American

"Disorders of Complex Visual Processing" by Antonio R. Damasio. in M-Marsel Mesulam, ed., Principles of Behavioral Neurology

Caspar Hauser by Anselm von Feuerbach

The Intelligent Eye by Richard L. Gregory

Physiological Optics Society of America, Washington, DC, 1924 by Hermann von Helmholtz. original edition 1856–1867, translation published by The Optical

Veronica Geng, Pat Robertson's Catalog Essay for a New Exhibition of Paintings by David Salle

Claire Tomalin, Frankenstein's Mother

Mary Shelley: A Biography by Muriel Spark

The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814–1844,Vol. I, 1814–1822 Vol. II, 1822–1844 edited by Paula R. Feldman, edited by Diana Scott-Kilvert

C. Vann Woodward, The Lash and the Knout

Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom by Peter Kolchin

Jug Suraiya, Indian English

Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive by Col. Henry Yule R.E., C.B., by A.C. Burnell Ph.D., C.I.E., new edition edited by William Crooke B.A.

Robert M. Adams, Much Ado About Everything

The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition by Jan Kott, translated by Daniela Miedzyrzecka, by Lillian Valee

Natalie Zemon Davis, A New Montaigne

Montaigne in Motion by Jean Starobinski, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Stephen Toulmin, The Conscientious Spy

Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy by Robert Chadwell Williams

Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb by Norman Moss

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Letters

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Stanley Hoffmann, 'The Israeli Connection'

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Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

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)

Natalie Zemon Davis is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton and Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author most recently of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds. (May 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.

Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

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.

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)

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