Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 4 · February 13, 1992

Joyce Carol Oates, The Cruelest Sport

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser

The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing by Thomas Hauser

Sports Illustrated Boxing's Best: Muhammad Ali HBO Video, 60 minutes, $9.99

The Ali/Norton Trilogy NAC Home Video, 90 minutes (out of print)

Muhammad Ali: Skill, Brains and Guts Vid-America Inc., 90 minutes (out of print)

Ali vs. Foreman, 1974 Hemdale Home Video, 44 minutes, $19.95

Thomas Byrne Edsall, Willie Horton's Message

Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, and Swings by James A. Stimson

The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns by Samuel L. Popkin

The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras edited by Byron E. Shafer

Witold Rybczynski, Collapsing Modernism

The Details of Modern Architecture by Edward R. Ford

Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade by Vincent Scully

George W. Ball, JFK's Big Moment

The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963 by Michael R. Beschloss

Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Dino A. Brugioni

Darryl Pinckney, The Pretender Speaks

Garry Wills, The Golden 'Blade'

David Lodge, Lawrence in Love

D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years, 1885–1912 by John Worthen

Jack Flam, The Alchemist

Anselm Kiefer by Mark Rosenthal

Anselm Kiefer: Jason essay by John Hutchinson

Anselm Kiefer: Lilith essay by Doreet LeVitte Harten

The Books of Anselm Kiefer, 1969-1990 edited by Götz Adriani, translated by Bruni Mayor

Anselm Kiefer: The High Priestess foreword by Anne Seymour, essay by Armin Zweite

Alan Lightman, Inside the Box

The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context by Timothy Ferris

Gordon A. Craig, Demonic Democracy

Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber by Lawrence A. Scaff

Max Weber Briefe 1906–1908 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung II, Band V) edited by M. Rainer Lepsius, edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Birgit Rudhard, by Manfred Schön

Robert Bernard Martin, The Haunting of Thomas De Quincey

The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism by John Barrell

V.S. Naipaul, The End of Peronism?

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Letters

Joseph M. Levine, 'Battle of the Books'
Elaine Hoffman Baruch, Lucienne J. Serrano, et al. Psychologies of Women
Eduardo R. Tenenbaum, Derek Jarrett, 'Battle of the Books'

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Contributors

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)

Alan Lightman, a physicist, teaches at MIT. His latest book is The Diagnosis. (May 2002)

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. She is the editor, with Christopher Beha, of the forthcoming Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction. (September 2008)

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

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is architecture critic for Slate. His new book on American building, Last Harvest, has just been published. (May 2007)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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