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October 2, 1975 • Volume 22, Number 15

  • Michael Wood

    Coffee Break for Sisyphus e-edition

    Structural Fabulation by Robert Scholes

    Alternate Worlds by James Gunn

    The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny

  • Emma Rothschild

    The Boom in the Death Business e-edition

    Arms Uncontrolled Research Institute by prepared for the Stockholm International Peace Frank Barnaby, by Ronald Huisken

    The Arms Trade with the Third World by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

    World Armaments and Disarmament: SIPRI Yearbook, 1975

  • John Ashbery

    Valentine (poem)

  • Francis Haskell

    Perplexing Painters e-edition

    El Greco: The Expressionism of His Final Years by Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, with an Appendix by José Manuel Pita Andrade, translated by Robert Erich Wolf

    Zurbarán by Jonathan Brown

    Velázquez by José Gudiol

    The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya by Eleanor A. Sayre. the Department of Prints and Drawings

    Goya: 67 Drawings Introduction and comments by A. Hyatt Mayor

  • Robert Darnton

    Poverty, Crime & Revolution e-edition

    Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century by Louis Chevalier, translated by Frank Jellinek

    The Names of Kings: The Parisian Laboring Poor in the Eighteenth Century by Jeffry Kaplow

    The French Revolution, 1787-1799: From the Storming of the Bastille to Napoleon by Albert Soboul, translated by Alan Forrest, by Colin Jones

    The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France 1750-1789 by Olwen H. Hufton

  • E.J. Hobsbawm

    Dictatorship with Charm e-edition

  • Adrienne Rich

    The Theft of Childbirth e-edition

    Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth in America by Suzanne Arms

    Birth Without Violence by Frederick Leboyer

  • Donald Davie

    Gifts of the Gab e-edition

    Tales Told of the Fathers by John Hollander

    Vision and Resonance: Two Senses of Poetic Form by John Hollander

  • John Hollander

    Collected Novels (poem) e-edition

  • Thomas L. Haskell

    The True & Tragical History of ‘Time on the Cross’ e-edition

    Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross by Herbert G. Gutman

    “A Symposium on Time on the Cross” edited by Gary M. Walton

    Reckoning with Slavery: Critical Essays in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery by Paul A. David, by Herbert G. Gutman, by Richard Sutch, by Peter Temin, by Gavin Wright, with an introduction by Kenneth M. Stampp

  • N.A. Straight

    Girl Crazy e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

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. His first collection, Some Trees (1956), was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. From 1990 until 2008 Ashbery was the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

Francis Haskell (1928-2000) was an English art historian. His works include Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italyand History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. Haskell taught at Oxford.

Thomas Haskell is the McCann Professor of History at Rice University and the author of Objectivity is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History. (December 1997)

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.


E. J. Hobsbawm (1918–1987) was a British historian. Born in Egypt, he was educated at Cambridge; he taught at Birkbeck College and The New School. His works include The Age of Extremes; Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism; and On Empire.

Paul Auster is the author of ten novels, most recently The Book of Illusions. He lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, NY.

Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at King’s College, Cambridge and Harvard, and Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment.

Anthony Quinton (1925–2010) was a British philosopher. Quinton served as president of Trinity College, Oxford and as chairman of the British Library. His works include The Nature of Things, Hume, and From Wodehouse to Wittgenstein.

Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His books include Literature and the Taste of Knowledge and Yeats and Violence