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Contents

June 15, 1978 • Volume 25, Number 10

  • Richard Ellmann

    The Life of Sim Botchit e-edition

    Samuel Beckett: A Biography by Deirdre Bair

  • Conor Cruise O’Brien

    Martyr e-edition

    Biko by Donald Woods

  • John Hollander

    Sphinx e-edition

    Saul Steinberg text by Harold Rosenberg

    Saul Steinberg April 14 - July 9, 1978 an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

  • Stephen Spender

    Hardy Hardy e-edition

    Thomas Hardy After Fifty Years edited by Lance St John Butler

    Thomas Hardy’s Later Years by Robert Gittings

    Young Thomas Hardy by Robert Gittings

    An Essay on Hardy by John Bayley

    The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy: Volume I, 1840-1892 edited by Richard Little Purdy, edited by Michael Millgate

    Thomas Hardy and the British Tradition by Donald Davie

    The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy edited by James Gibson

  • The Party Isn’t Over e-edition

  • Francis Haskell

    The Ideal Director e-edition

    Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World by David Robertson

  • Helen Muchnic

    The Undefeated e-edition

    Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Aileen Kelly, by Henry Hardy

  • Luigi Barzini

    The Bad Tooth e-edition

    The First Duce: D’Annunzio at Fiume by Michael A. Ledeen

  • Quentin Skinner

    The Flight from Positivism e-edition

    The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory by Richard J. Bernstein

  • Robert Towers

    Forced Marches e-edition

    Airships by Barry Hannah

    Detour by Michael Brodsky

  • Martin Gardner

    The Charms of Catastrophe e-edition

    Structural Stability and Morphogenesis: An Outline of a General Theory of Models by René Thom, translated by D.H. Fowler, with a foreword by C.H. Waddington

    Catastrophe Theory: Selected Papers 1972-1977 by E.C. Zeeman

    Catastrophe Theory by Alexander Woodcock, by Monte Davis

    Catastrophe Theory and Its Applications by Tim Poston, by Ian Stewart

LETTERS

Contributors

J.G.Farrell (1935–1979) was born with a caul, long considered a sign of good fortune. Academically and athletically gifted, Farrell grew up in England and Ireland. In 1956, during his first term at Oxford, he suffered what seemed a minor injury on the rugby pitch. Within days, however, he was diagnosed with polio, which nearly killed him and left him permanently weakened. Farrell’s early novels, which include The Lung and A Girl in the Head, have been overshadowed by his Empire Trilogy—Troubles, the Booker Prize–winning Siege of Krishnapur, and The Singapore Grip (all three are published by NYRB Classics). In early 1979, Farrell bought a farmhouse in Bantry Bay on the Irish coast. “I’ve been trying to write,” he admitted, “but there are so many competing interests–?the prime one at the moment is fishing off the rocks… . Then a colony of bees has come to live above my back door and I’m thinking of turning them into my feudal retainers.” On August 11, Farrell was hit by a wave while fishing and was washed out to sea. His body was found a month later. A biography of J.G. Farrell, J.G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer by Lavinia Greacen, was published by Bloomsbury in 1999.

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech. (March 2012)

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

Jonathan Miller has directed operas and plays throughout the world, most recently Pelléas and Mélisande at the Metropolitan Opera. His many books include The Body in Question, States of Mind, On Reflection, and Nowhere in Particular. The article that appears in this issue is based on a talk given at the New York Public Library. (May 2000)

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. His many plays include The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, and Moonlight. Please also see haroldpinter.org.

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 2008)

Conor Cruise O’Brien’s many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University. His most recent books are Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Liberty Before Liberalism. (November 2000)

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. (November 2011)