Table of Contents

Volume 41, Number 14 · August 11, 1994

Nicholson Baker, Leading with the Grumper

Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Volume I, A-G) edited by J.E. Lighter

Garry Wills, The Real Thing

I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin January-April 1994; Art Institute of Chicago, April-July 1994; Cincinnati Art Museum, July 28-October 9, 1994; Baltimore Museum of Art, October 26-December 31, 1994; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 1-April 30, 1995 exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series Birmingham Museum, July 10-September 4, 1994; St. Louis Art Museum, September 30-November 27, 1994; Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 12-April 11, 1995; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, April 25-June 25, 1995; Denver Art Museum, July 15-September 10, 1995; Chicago Historical Society, September 22-November 26, 1995 exhibition at the Phillips Collection, September 1993-January 1994;

I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin catalog edited by Judith E. Stein

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series catalog edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner

Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993), A Catalogue Raisonné Washington catalog of the exhibition at Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle,, essay by Patricia Hills, edited by Peter Nesbett

The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872 by Joseph D. Ketner

A History of African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present by Romare Bearden, by Harry Henderson

Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence

Geza Vermes, The War Over the Scrolls

A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls James M. Robinson prepared with an introduction and index by Robert H. Eisenman and

The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered: The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents Withheld for Over 35 Years by Robert H. Eisenman, by Michael Wise

Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the 'Biblical Archaeology Review' edited by Hershel Shanks

Jesus & the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Unlocking the Secrets of His Life Story by Barbara Thiering

The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent, by Richard Leigh

Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls by Joseph A. Fitzmyer S.J.

Brad Leithauser, Great Scott?

Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli

Ronald Dworkin, Mr. Liberty

Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge by Gerald Gunther

Ann Hulbert, New Wives' Tales

The Collected Stories by Grace Paley

Adrian Lyttelton, Italy: The Triumph of TV

Ian Buruma, Revenge in the Indies

The Hidden Force by Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixera de Mattos

Istvan Deak, Post-Post-Communist Hungary

W.S. Merwin, 'Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang'

Birds in Literature by Leonard Lutwack

Czeslaw Milosz, The State of Nature: Notes from a Diary

Shaul Bakhash, Prisoners of the Ayatollah

From Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution by Ehsan Naraghi, translated by Nilon Mobasser

Death Plus Ten Years by Roger Cooper

Luc Sante, The Genius of Blues

Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians edited by Lawrence Cohn

The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax

King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton by Stephen Calt, by Gayle Wardlow

Searching for Robert Johnson by Peter Guralnick

Love in Vain:A Vision of Robert Johnson by Alan Greenberg

Adolf Gruenbaum, Thomas Nagel, 'Freud's Permanent Revolution': An Exchange

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Letters

Hans Eichner, M.F. Perutz, Schubert's Death Wish
Richard Pipes, Robert Conquest, Who Is to Blame?

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Contributors

Nicholson Baker’s new book, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, will be published this month. (March 2008)

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

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)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

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."

Ann Hulbert is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford. She is currently at work on a book about twentieth-century American child-rearing experts. (June 1998)

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

Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

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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