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Contents

May 4, 1978 • Volume 25, Number 7

  • Andrew Hacker

    The Great Riddle e-edition

    Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald by Edward Jay Epstein

  • Nigel Dennis

    Portrait of the Artist e-edition

    Nadia: A Case of Extraordinary Drawing Ability in an Autistic Child by Lorna Selfe

  • Rosemary Dinnage

    Gothic Sibyl e-edition

    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

  • Neal Ascherson

    The Morose Revolution e-edition

    A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne

  • Edmund S. Morgan

    The Outsider e-edition

    The Young Hamilton: A Biography by James Thomas Flexner

  • Donald Woods

    The Indictment e-edition

  • Thomas R. Edwards

    Something About a Soldier e-edition

    Whistle by James Jones

  • David H. Wright

    Shortchanged at the Met e-edition

    “Treasures of Early Irish Art” January 15, 1978 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 15, 1977 to

    Treasures of Irish Art, 1500 BC-1500 AD with essays by G. Frank Mitchell, by Peter Harbison, by Liam de Paor, by Máire de Paor, by Roger A. Stalley

    “Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century” to February 12, 1978 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 19, 1977

  • John Phillips

    The Days of the Dulleses e-edition

    Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen, and John Foster Dulles and Their Family Network by Leonard Mosley

  • Robert Craft

    Light on Lasso e-edition

    Orlando di Lasso: Sämliche Werke, Neue Reihe edited by Wolfgang Boetticher

    Orlando di Lasso Volume I: Sein Leben Volume II: Briefe by Horst Leuchtmann

    Music of Orlando di Lasso: I: Missa Bell Amfitrit Altera; Penitential Psalm VII, II: Four Motets; Penitential Psalm V Choir of the Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, conducted by Simon Preston

  • C.B.A. Behrens

    How Did the Germans Do It? e-edition

    The Age of German Liberation, 1795-1815 by Friedrich Meinecke, edited with an introduction by Peter Paret, translated by Peter Paret, by Helmuth Fischer

    Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV by Steven L. Kaplan

LETTERS

Contributors

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.


C. B. A. Behrens (1904–1989) was a British historian of Europe. She was the author of The Ancien Régimeand Society, Government and The Enlightenment.

Robert Craft is a conductor and writer. Craft’s close working friendship with Igor Stravinsky is the subject of his memoir, An Improbable Life. In 2002 he was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival.

Nigel Dennis (1912–1989) was an English writer, critic and editor. His books include Boys and Girls Come Out to Play and An Essay on Malta.

Bernard Knox (1914–2010) was an English classicist. He was the first director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles’s translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Rosemary Dinnage’s books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Thomas R. Edwards (1928–2005) was Professor of English at Rutgers and editor of Raritan. His last book was Over Here: Criticizing America.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)

Richard Howard received a National Book Award for his translation of Les Fleurs du mal and a Pulitzer Prize for Untitled Subjects, his third volume of poems. He is the translator of the NYRB Classics Alien Hearts and The Unknown Masterpiece.

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.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book is The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America. (June 2011)