Table of Contents

Volume 41, Number 21 · December 22, 1994

Garry Wills, The Tragic Pope?

Crossing the Threshold of Hope by His Holiness John Paul II, edited by Vittorio Messori, translated by Jenny McPhee, by Martha McPhee

Prayers and Devotions from Pope John Paul II introduction by edited and with an Bishop OSA van Lierde, Peter Canisius Johannes, translated by Firman O'Sullivan

Catechism of the Catholic Church

The Papacy by Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, translated by James Sievert

The Place Within: The Poetry of Pope John Paul II translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz

John Bayley, 'Trapping Fairies in West Virginia'

The Oxford Book of Comic Verse edited by John Gross

Max Beerbohm: Collected Verse edited with an introduction and notes by J. G. Riewald

A Christmas Garland woven by Max Beerbohm. illustrations by the author, Introduction by N. John Hall

David Brion Davis, The Slave Trade and the Jews

James Fenton, The Other Pope

Bernard Knox, Poets of the Spanish Tragedy

Edwin Rolfe: Collected Poems edited by Cary Nelson, edited by Jefferson Hendricks, introduction and notes by Cary Nelson

A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War by Laurie Lee

Edwin Rolfe: A Biographical Essay and Guide to the Rolfe Archive at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by Cary Nelson, by Jefferson Hendricks

Jorge Luis Borges, Elegy for a Park (poem)

Jasper Griffin, New Heaven, New Earth

Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn

Jamey Gambrell, The Wonder of the Soviet World

Alfred Kazin, Escape Artist

The Book of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman, translated by Betsy Rosenberg

Caroline Fraser, The Prairie Queen

The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane by William Holtz

West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco 1915 edited by Roger Lea MacBride

Farmer Boy

On the Banks of Plum Creek

The Long Winter

These Happy Golden Years

Little Town on the Prairie

By the Shores of Silver Lake

Little House on the Prairie

Little House in the Big Woods

A Little House Sampler by Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Rose Wilder Lane, edited by William T. Anderson

The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Martin Filler, Prince of the City

Philip Johnson: Life and Works by Franz Schulze

Philip Johnson: The Glass House edited by David Whitney, edited by Jeffrey Kipnis

The Oral History of Modern Architecture: Interviews with the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century by John Peter

Philip Johnson: The Architect in His Own Words by Hilary Lewis, by John O'Connor

J.M. Coetzee, The Heart of Me

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing

Philip Gourevitch, Vietnam: The Bitter Truth

South Wind Changing by Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh

Ann Hulbert, Writer Without Borders

Open Secrets by Alice Munro

R.J.W. Evans, 'A Fair and Tranquil Land'

Hanes Cymru by John Davies

A History of Wales by John Davies

Robert Darnton, Sex for Thought

L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale Fayard

Romans libertins du XVIIIe siècle edited by Raymond Trousson

Ces Livres qu'on ne lit que d'une main: Lecture et lecteurs de livres pornographiques au XVIIIe siècle by Jean Marie Goulemot

Vol. 1: Oeuvres érotiques de Mirabeau: (HIC-ETHAEC) ou l'Elève des Révérends Pères Jésuites d'Avignon Le Rideau levé ou l'éducation de Laure Ma Conversion ou le libertin de qualité L'Abbé IL-ET-ELLE

Vol. 2: Oeuvres érotiques de Restif de la Bretonne: règlement pour les prostituées L'Anti-Justine ou les délices de l'amour Dom Bougre aux Etats-Généraux ou doléances du Portier des Chartreux Les Revies, histories refaites sous une autre hypothèse du coeur humain dévoilé Le Pornographe ou idées d'un honnête homme sur un project de

Vol. 3: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (I): lui-mêmeMémoires du Suzon, soeur de D.. B.., portier des Chartreux, écrits par elle-même Histoire de Marguerite, fille du Suzon, nièce de D** B*****, La Cauchoise ou mémoires d'une courtisane célèbre Histoire de Dom B…, portier des Chartreux, écrite par

Vol. 4: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (II): d'Eulalie, ou tableau du libertinage de Paris Lucette ou les progrès du libertinage La courtisane anaphrodite ou la pucelle libertine Correspondance

Vol. 5: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (III): du Père Dirrag et de Mademoiselle Eradice Le Triomphe des religieuses ou les nonnes babillardes Lettres galantes et philosophiques de deux nonnes La Messaline française ou les nuits de la duchesse de Pol… et aventures mystérieuses de la princesse d'H… et de la… La Liberté ou Mlle Raucour Les Quarante Manières de foutre, dédiées au clergé de France Thérèse philosophe ou mémoires pour servir à l'histoire

Vol. 6: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (IV): célèbre libertine Décrets des sens sanctionnés par la volupté Requête et décret en faveur des putains, des fouteuses, des maquerelles et des branleuses contre les bougres, les bardaches et les brûleurs de paillasses Ordonnance de police de Messieurs les officiers et gouverneurs du Palais Royal Le Degré des âges du plaisir ou jouissances voluptueuses de deux personnes de sexes différents, aux différentes époques de la vie Eléonore ou l'heureuse personne Vénus en rut ou vie d'une

Vol. 7: Oeuvres érotiques du XVIIe siècle: des dames Vénus dans le cloître ou la religieuse en chemise L'Académie des dames Le Rut ou la pudeur éteinte L'Ecole des filles ou la philosophie

Murray Kempton, Happy Endings

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. (September 2007)

James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)

Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.

Caroline Fraser is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. (December 2004)

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.

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

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)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

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.

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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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