Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 17 · October 21, 1993

William Trevor, Lives of the Saints

No Other Life by Brian Moore

Tony Judt, Their Favorite Thief

Genet: A Biography by Edmund White

The Selected Writings of Jean Genet edited and with an introduction by Edmund White

Garry Wills, Chicago Underground

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon

Louis H. Sullivan: A System of Architectural Ornament Inc., 986 Woodland Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 07006, 908-757-4700; (fax) 908-756-4133. Discount available for booksellers.) foreword by John Zukowsky, by Susan Glover Godlewski, essay by Lauren S Weingarden

Constructing Chicago by Daniel Bluestone

Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893 by James Gilbert

Zbigniew Herbert, Achilles. Penthesilea (poem)

Tatyana Tolstaya, The Age of Innocence

Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molokhovets' 'A Gift to Young Housewives' translated and introduced by Joyce Toomre

Denis Donoghue, Joyce's Many Lives

James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882–1915 by Peter Costello

James Joyce: A Literary Life by Morris Beja

James Joyce's Chamber Music: The Lost Song Settings edited and with an introduction by Myra Teicher Russel

James Joyce's Chamber Music: Musical Settings by G. Molyneux Palmer sung by Robert White, accompanied by Samuel Sanders

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by R. B. Kershner

Ulysses by James Joyce, edited by Jeri Johnson

Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's Paris Journal edited by Thomas F. Staley, by Randolph Lewis

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by Seamus Deane

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, by Walter Hettche

Dubliners by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, by Walter Hettche

Picking Up Airs: Hearing the Music in Joyce's Text edited by Ruth H. Bauerle

Ronald Dworkin, Women and Pornography

Only Words by Catherine A. MacKinnon

Wislawa Szymborska, Cat in An Empty Apartment (poem)

Robert Hughes, The Medium Inquisitor

Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 1: Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944 (1986) edited by John O'Brian

Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1959–1969 edited by John O'Brian

Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 3: Affirmations and Refusals, 1950–1956 edited by John O'Brian

Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945–1949 (1986) edited by John O'Brian

Susan Sontag, Godot Comes to Sarajevo

Ernst Gombrich, What Art Tells Us

History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past by Francis Haskell

Isaiah Berlin, The Magus of the North

Charles Rosen, The Miraculous Mandarin

William Empson: Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume One, Donne and the New Philosophy edited by John Haffenden

William Empson: Argufying, Essays on Literature and Culture edited by John Haffenden

Roger Penrose, Nature's Biggest Secret

Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg

Eric Christiansen, How Europe Became Europe

The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950–1350 by Robert Bartlett

Joan Didion, The Golden Land

The California Water Atlas edited by William L. Kahrl

Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850–1986 by Robert Kelley

Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

A Companion to California by James D. Hart

The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland by Stephen Johnson, by Robert Dawson, text by Gerald Haslam

Papers in Honor of Josiah Royce on His Sixtieth Birthday

California, From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco: A Study in American Character by Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard (1992) by Robert V. Hine

Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915 by Kevin Starr

California: The Great Exception by Carey McWilliams

The Octopus by Frank Norris

The Ranch Papers: A California Memoir by Jane Hollister Wheelwright

Politics of Land: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Land Use in California

Up & Down California, 1860–1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer edited by Francis P. Farquhar

The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness by G. William Domhoff

The Greatest Men's Party on Earth: Inside the Bohemian Grove by John van der Zee

Impact of Defense Cuts on California prepared by the Commission on State Finance

Murray Kempton, Memories of Ellington

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Letters

David E. Stannard, J.H. Elliott, 'American Holocaust'
Tony Judt, 'Betrayal in France'

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Contributors

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

Eric Christiansen is Tutor in History at New College, Oxford, and the author of The Northern Crusades. (November 2000)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (November 2008)

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."

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Zbigniew Herbert, a leading Polish poet, died in 1998. The Collected Poems: 1956–1998, edited and translated by Alissa Valles, will be published by Ecco in February. (January 2007)

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn’t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (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.

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

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Wislawa Szymborska, one of Poland's leading poets, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. (February 2006)

Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.

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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