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February 19, 1976 • Volume 23, Number 2

  • H. Stuart Hughes

    The Cold War and Détente e-edition

    A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance by Martin J. Sherwin

    Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin 1941-1946 by W. Averell Harriman, by Elie Abel

  • Carl R. Proffer

    Writing in the Shadow of the Monolith e-edition

    Tales of the Mountains and Steppes by Aitmatoy Ch.

    The White Ship by Aitmatoy Ch.

    The Ascent of Mount Fuji by Aitmatoy Ch.

    Stikhi (Poems) by Bella Akhmadulina

    Selected Poems by Iosif Brodsky

    Chast’rechi (Part of Speech) by Iosif Brodsky

    Forbidden Fruit by Fazil Iskander

    Sandro iz Chegema (Sandro from Chegem), Novy Mir by Fazil Iskander

    The Goatibex Constellation by Fazil Iskander

    To Be Preserved Forever, in English by Lev Kopelev

    Khranit’ vechno, in Russian by Lev Kopelev

    Vremena (Times) by Naum Korzhavin

    (Three Tales), Novy Zhurnal (The New Review) by Yury Mamleev

    Blondin obeego tsveta (The Blond of Both Colors) by Vladimir Maramzin

    Istoriia zhenit’by Ivana Petrovicha (The Story of Ivan Petrovich’s Marriage), Continent by Vladimir Maramzin

    Collected Tales (in Russian) by Vladimir Maramzin

    Seven Days of Creation by Vladimir Maximov

    Kalina krasnaia (Red Snowball-Tree) by Vasily Shukshin

    Shkola dlia durakov (A School for Fools) by Sasha Sokolov

    White Grass by V. Soloukhin

    Prigovor (The Sentence) by V. Soloukhin

    Telenok bodalsia s dubom (The Calf Butts the Oak) by A. Solzhenitsyn

    Lenin v Tsiurikhe (Lenin in Zurich) by A. Solzhenitsyn

    The GULAG Archipelago Two by A. Solzhenitsyn

    Dolgoe proshchanie (A Long Goodbye) by Yury Trifonov

    “The Exchange,” Russian Literature Triquarterly by Yury Trifonov

    Drugaia zhizn’ (“Another Life”) by Yury Trifonov

    Zhizn’ i neobychainye prikliucheniia soldata Ivana Chonkin (The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin) by V. Voinovich

    Ivan’kiada (Ivankiada) by V. Voinovich

    “An Incident in the Metropole,” Continent by V. Voinovich

    Kontinent (Continent) Anchor/Doubleday

  • Hugh Trevor-Roper

    The Ultra Ultra Secret e-edition

    Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown

  • John Ashbery

    Houseboat Days (poem) e-edition

  • Jason Epstein

    The Last Days of New York

  • Leon Wieseltier

    Summoning Up the Kabbalah e-edition

    Kabbalah and Criticism by Harold Bloom

  • Nick Eberstadt

    Myths of the Food Crisis e-edition

    Give Us This Day…A Report on the World Food Crisis by the Staff of The New York Times

    Food: Politics, Economics, Nutrition and Research edited by Philip H. Abelson

  • Ellen Moers

    Vindicating Mary Wollstonecraft e-edition

    Thoughts on the education of daughters: with reflections on female conduct, in the more important duties of life by Mary Wollstonecraft, edited and introduced by Gina Luria

    Mary, a fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft, edited and introduced by Gina Luria

    A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft, edited and introduced by Gina Luria, by Miriam Kramnick

    An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and the Effect it has Produced in Europe by Mary Wollstonecraft, with an introduction by Janet M. Todd

    Posthumous works, Vol. 1: The wrongs of woman, or Maria (1st eight chapters) by Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by William Godwin, edited and introduced by Gina Luria

    Posthumous works, Vol. 2: The wrongs of woman, or Maria (chapter 9 to end) and The first book of a series of lessons for children by Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by William Godwin, edited and introduced by Gina Luria

    Posthumous works, Vol. 3: Letters [“to Imlay”] by Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by William Godwin, edited and introduced by Gina Luria

    Posthumous works, Vol. 4: Miscellaneous pieces by Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by William Godwin, edited and introduced by Gina Luria

    Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, with an introduction by Moira Ferguson

    Memoirs of the author of a vindication of the rights of woman by William Godwin, edited and introduced by Gina Luria

    Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography by Ralph M. Wardle

    Godwin and Mary edited by Ralph M. Wardle

    Mary Wollstonecraft by Eleanor Flexner

    The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin

    A Different Face: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Emily Sunstein

    Aspects généraux du roman féminin en Angleterre de 1740 à 1800 nouvelle série #52, Editions Ophrys 1966 by Philippe Séjourné

    La Destinée féminine dans le roman européean du dix-huitième siècle 1713-1807: Essai de gynécomythie romanesque by Pierre Fauchery

  • Virgil Thomson

    Looking for the Lost Generation e-edition

    Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939 by Hugh Ford, with a foreword by Janet Flanner

LETTERS

Contributors

Jason Epstein launched the trade paperback format in the US in 1952 as a young editor at Doubleday. In 1963 he was a founder of The New York Review and in 1979 cofounder with the late Edmund Wilson of the Library of America. In 2007 he cofounded On Demand Books. Among his many awards are the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books.
 (February 2011)

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.

Irvin Ehrenpreis (1920–1985) was the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. In 1984 he received the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa for the final volume of his trilogy, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age.

Virgil Thomson (1896–1989) was a composer and critic. He collaborated extensively with Gertrude Stein, who wrote the libretti for his operas Four Saints in Three Actsand The Mother of Us All. In 1988 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

H. R. Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) was a British historian and the author of The Last Days of Hitler. He taught at Oxford, where he was the Regius Professor Modern History.