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Volume 40, Number 21 · December 16, 1993

John Updike, Big, Bright & Bendayed

Roy Lichtenstein 8, 1993–January 16, 1994 an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York October

Roy Lichtenstein catalog of the exhibition by Diane Waldman

Robert M. Solow, Blame the Foreigner

The Endangered American Dream: How to Stop the United States from Becoming a Third World Country and How to Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy by Edward N. Luttwak

Gabriele Annan, Donna Giovanna

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

James Fenton, For Andrew Wood (poem)

Caroline Blackwood, Portraits by Freud

Lucian Freud: Recent Work Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 16, 1993–March 13, 1994; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, April 6–June 13, 1994 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, September–November 1993; the

Lucian Freud: Recent Work catalog by Catherine Lampert

Lucian Freud: Early Works Robert Miller Gallery, New York, November 23, 1993–January 8, 1994

Brad Leithauser, 'Sweep on, O River…'

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume One: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman edited by John Hollander

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals edited by John Hollander

Wilfrid Sheed, Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Made Man

Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939–1966 by Martin Stannard

Alison Lurie, Cootie Power

The People in the Playground by Iona Opie

Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School by Barrie Thorne

Sarah Kerr, A Tale of Two Cities

Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry

Ian Buruma, What the Butler Saw

The Remains of the Day directed by James Ivory, produced by Mike Nichols, by John Calley, by Ismail Merchant, screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

John Banville, Writing on Life Support

Beckett's Dying Words by Christopher Ricks

Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett

John Golding, Sophisticated Peasant

Joan Miró 1993–January 11, 1994 an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 17,

Joan Miró catalog of the exhibition by Carolyn Lanchner

Joan Miró: Campo de Estrellas Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

A toute épreuve by Paul Eluard, woodcuts by Joan Miró, Introduction by Anne Hyde Greet

Miró by Jacques Dupin

Tony Judt, How the East Was Won

In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent by Timothy Garton Ash

Aldo Buzzi, Journey to Gorgonzola

E.J. Hobsbawm, The New Threat to History

Rosemary Dinnage, Bringing Up Raja

All the Mothers Are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis by Stanley N. Kurtz, foreword by S.J. Tambiah

Jamey Gambrell, Moscow: Storm Over the Press

Hilary Barr, Ian Buruma, An Exchange on Ernst Jünger

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Letters

Frederick C. Crews, Footnote to Freud

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into a rich Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. She rebelled against her background at an early age and led a hectic and bohemian life, which included marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell. In the 1970s Blackwood began to write. Among her books are several novels, including Great Granny Webster and Corrigan (both available as NYRB Classics); On the Perimeter, an account of the women's anti-nuclear protest at Greenham Common; and The Last of the Duchess, about the old age of the Duchess of Windsor.

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)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko's writings, Experiments for the Future, and many of the stories included in Tatyana Tolstaya's White Walls. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin's Ice has recently been published by NYRB Classics.

John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (November 2007)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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