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November 28, 1974 • Volume 21, Number 19

  • V.S. Pritchett

    Nabokov’s Touch e-edition

    Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov

    Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov

  • C.H. Waddington

    The Mystery of the Libidinous Molecule e-edition

    Life: The Unfinished Experiment by S.E. Luria

    Animal Architecture by Karl von Frisch, with the collaboration of Otto von Frisch, translated by Lisbeth Gombrich

    The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology-Watcher by Lewis Thomas

  • Alexander Cockburn

    Propaganda of the Victors e-edition

    The Senate Watergate Report with an introduction by Daniel Schorr

    The Great Cover-Up: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate by Barry Sussman

    The Palace Guard by Dan Rather, by Gary Paul Gates

    The Fall of a President by the staff of the Washington Post

    Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent by E. Howard Hunt

    No Final Victories by Lawrence O'Brien

    Big Brother and the Holding Company: The World Behind Watergate edited by Steve Weissman, with introduction by Noam Chomsky

  • Francis Carney

    George Jackson and His Legend e-edition

    Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis

    Comrade George by Eric Mann

    “The Dragon Has Come” by Gregory Armstrong

  • Noel Annan

    Bring Back the Birch! e-edition

    Swinburne: Portrait of a Poet by Philip Henderson

    The Year of the Wombat: England, 1857 by Francis Watson

  • Harold L. Kahn

    Sitting on Top of the World e-edition

    Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-hsi by Jonathan D. Spence

  • Michael Wood

    Fiction in Extremis e-edition

    The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark

    The Connoisseur by Evan S. Connell Jr.

    The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner by Berry Morgan

  • John Ashbery

    Two Poems (poem) e-edition

  • Alfred Kazin

    Tolstoy and His Quaker e-edition

  • Susan Sontag

    Photography: The Beauty Treatment e-edition

    William H. Fox Talbot: Inventor of the Negative-Positive Process by André Jammes

    French Primitive Photography introduction by Minor White, commentaries by André Jammes, by Robert Sobieszek

    Paul Strand: A Retrospective Monograph, Vol. I, The Years 1915-1946; Vol. II, The Years 1950-1968 by Paul Strand

    The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Vol. I, Mexico by Edward Weston

    The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Vol. II, California by Edward Weston

  • Alison Lurie

    Happy Endings e-edition

    Waiting for the Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett by Ann Thwaite

  • Robert Mazzocco

    American Graffito e-edition

    Sinatra: The Main Event at Madison Square Garden, October 12 and 13

LETTERS

Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of *Animal Liberation*, the editor of *In Defense of Animals: The Second Wav*, and, with Paola Cavalieri, co-editor of *The Great Ape Project*.

Alexander Cockburn edits the newsletter CounterPunch and writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.

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

John Ashbery is the author of several books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. His latest book of poetry is Planisphere and his new translation of Rimbaud’s Illuminations will be available in paperback in May.


Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying’: Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is 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.

I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone’s Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.

Michael Wood teaches at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of Yeats and Violence. -