The New York Review of Books

Lessons of the Master

November 18, 2004

Author, Author by David Lodge

In Love with Verdi

November 6, 2003

Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism by David R.B. Kimbell

The Man Verdi by Frank Walker

Verdi: A Biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

‘The Illness of Ingrained Sorrow’

April 11, 2002

The Crack-Up

October 4, 2001

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia by Jeffery Smith

The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva edited by Jennifer Radden

Lost World

September 21, 2000

Rodinsky’s Room by Rachel Lichtenstein, by Iain Sinclair

‘Mad Travelers’

April 13, 2000

On the Road

January 20, 2000

Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses by Ian Hacking

Dreamer

June 10, 1999

Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes

In the Dark Continent

March 4, 1999

Elegy for Iris by John Bayley

Good Grief

February 4, 1999

Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier

Doris Lessing’s Double Life

November 19, 1998

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 by Doris Lessing

So Alert with Love

April 9, 1998

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

Delightful Tears

February 19, 1998

Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century by Laurence Lerner

Out of the Ruins

August 14, 1997

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Whirr of Wings

May 29, 1997

Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee

The Blasted Oak Tree

March 6, 1997

Augustus John: The New Biography by Michael Holroyd

Themes and Variations: The Drawings of Augustus John 1901-1931 with essays by Michael Holroyd, by Mark Evans, by Rebecca John

Portraits of Women: Gwen John & Her Forgotten Contemporaries by Alison Thomas

Rescuing R.D. Laing

February 20, 1997

Working with Laing

December 19, 1996

The Rise & Fall of a Half-Genius

November 14, 1996

The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D. Laing by Daniel Burston

Mad to be Normal: Conversations with R.D. Laing by Bob Mullan

The Survivor

June 20, 1996

Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy by Nina Sutton, translated by David Sharp

Death’s Gray Land

February 15, 1996

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

Regeneration by Pat Barker

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

Melting into Air

January 11, 1996

The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, translated from Italian by William Weaver

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman

The Wild Man

June 22, 1995

The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. by Alfred Habegger

Kicking the Myth Habit

April 6, 1995

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm

Night Thoughts

March 23, 1995

Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep, and Dreams by A. Alvarez

The Downhill Slope

January 12, 1995

The Afterlife and Other Stories by John Updike

A Private View by Anita Brookner

‘Soul Murder’

November 3, 1994

Grand Delusion

March 3, 1994

In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry by Zvi Lothane

Not an Anthropologist

February 17, 1994

Bringing Up Raja

December 16, 1993

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

The Scream Behind the Pattern

April 8, 1993

Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art by Maurice Tuchman, by Carol S. Eliel

Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli by Walter Morgenthaler, translated by Aaron H. Esman

The Good Doctor

December 21, 1989

Human Nature by D.W. Winnicott

White Magic

October 12, 1989

Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England by T.M. Luhrmann

Exiles

June 1, 1989

Latecomers by Anita Brookner

Baumgartner’s Bombay by Anita Desai

Fanning the Gemlike Flame

October 8, 1987

Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend by Ernest Samuels, with the collaboration of Jayne Newcomer Samuels

Joys of Desolation

June 25, 1987

Stevie: A Biography of Stevie Smith by Jack Barbera, by William McBrien

Unguided Tour

April 23, 1987

Persian Nights by Diane Johnson

All in the Family

December 4, 1986

The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women by Diana E.H. Russell

The Original Sin: Incest and Its Meaning by W. Arens

Forbidden Partners: The Incest Taboo in Modern Culture by James B. Twitchell

Dr. Right

July 17, 1986

Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst by D.W. Winnicott, compiled and edited by Clare Winnicott, by Ray Shepherd, by Madeleine Davis

Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis by D.W. Winnicott

Psycho-Mom

May 8, 1986

Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work by Phyllis Grosskurth

Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924–1925 edited by Perry Meisel, edited by Walter Kendrick

An Unfinished Man

November 21, 1985

Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer by Michael De-la-Noy

Traveling Light

June 13, 1985

Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon

To the Frontier by Geoffrey Moorhouse

Where Nights Are Longest: Travels by Car through Western Russia by Colin Thubron

The Ideal Husband

December 20, 1984

T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd

The Last Act

November 8, 1984

The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 5, 1936–1941 edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie

Comic, Sad, Indefinite

August 16, 1984

A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters by Barbara Pym, edited by Hazel Holt, by Hilary Pym

Twice-Born

May 31, 1984

Becoming William James by Howard M. Feinstein

The Madonna of Bloomsbury

December 22, 1983

Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding

Thoughts on Thoughts

August 18, 1983

States of Mind by Jonathan Miller

Exorcist and Analyst

February 17, 1983

Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions by Sudhir Kakar

Staying the Course

August 12, 1982

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy by Rebecca West

The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-1917 selected and introduced by Jane Marcus

1900 by Rebecca West

Going Crazy in India

November 19, 1981

A Family Romance

January 22, 1981

Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse

The Death and Letters of Alice James selected correspondence edited, with a biographical essay, by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Henry James, Letters Volume III: 1883-1895 edited by Leon Edel

The Great Mystifier

October 23, 1980

The Harmonious Circle: The Lives and Work of G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky, and Their Followers by James Webb

Gurdjieff and Mansfield by James Moore

Who Are You, Monsieur Gurdjieff? by René Zuber

Her Life as a Man

April 17, 1980

The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White

Men, Women, and Lit.

March 6, 1980

In the Shadow

March 6, 1980

Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage by Mary Soames

Regina Pinxit

February 7, 1980

Queen Victoria’s Sketchbook by Marina Warner

Re-creating Eve

December 20, 1979

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert, by Susan Gubar

Dodgson’s Passion

August 16, 1979

The Letters of Lewis Carroll Vol. I: 1837-1885 Vol. II: 1886-1898 edited by Morton N. Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green

Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies by Morton N. Cohen

No Surrender

April 19, 1979

Surviving and Other Essays by Bruno Bettelheim

Anorexia

April 19, 1979

The Starved Self

February 22, 1979

The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa by Hilde Bruch

The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron

Self-Starvation: From Individual to Family Therapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa by Mara Selvini Palazzoli

Psychosomatic Families: Anorexia Nervosa in Context by Salvador Minuchin, by Bernice L. Rosman, by Lester Baker

The Corruption of Love

February 8, 1979

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Praxis by Fay Weldon

The Piaget Way

December 21, 1978

The Essential Piaget edited by Howard E. Gruber, edited by J. Jacques Vonèche

The Origins of Intelligence in Children by Jean Piaget, translated by Margaret Cook

The Construction of Reality in the Child by Jean Piaget, translated by Margaret Cook

Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood by Jean Piaget, translated by C. Gattegno, by F.M. Hodgson

Behavior and Evolution by Jean Piaget, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith

Jean Piaget: The Man and His Ideas by Richard I. Evans, translated by Eleanor Duckworth

Jean Piaget: Psychologist of the Real by Brian Rotman

Children’s Minds by Margaret Donaldson

Downtown

October 26, 1978

The Child in the City by Colin Ward

Before Her Time

September 28, 1978

Stories by Doris Lessing

Throwaways

June 29, 1978

Infanticide by Maria W. Piers

Gothic Sibyl

May 4, 1978

Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship with Karen Blixen by Errol Trzebinski

Isak Dinesen’s Art: The Gayety of Vision by Robert Langbaum

The Angelic Avengers by Isak Dinesen

Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales by Isak Dinesen

The Radiant Monster

November 10, 1977

Passionate Crusader: The Life of Marie Stopes by Ruth Hall

Over the Edge

August 5, 1976

The Facts of Life by R.D. Laing

Anna by David Reed

Jung and God

April 15, 1976

C.G. Jung: Letters Volume 2 1951-1961 selected and edited by Gerhard Adler, in collaboration with Aniela Jaffé, translated by R.F.C. Hull

C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time by Marie-Louise von Franz, translated by William H. Kennedy

Jung and the Story of Our Time by Laurens van der Post

Jung on Elementary Psychology: A Discussion Between C.G. Jung and Richard Evans by C.G. Jung, by Richard Evans

In the Disintegrating City

July 17, 1975

The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing

The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing