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October 12, 1978 • Volume 25, Number 15

  • V.S. Pritchett

    Character e-edition

    E.M. Forster: A Life by P.N. Furbank

  • Joseph Brodsky,
    Alan Myers

    Lithuanian Divertissement (poem) e-edition

  • John K. Fairbank

    Digging Out Doug e-edition

    American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 by William Manchester

  • Ronald Dworkin

    Soulcraft e-edition

    The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts by George F. Will

  • Lawrence Stone

    Death and Its History e-edition

    L’Homme devant la mort fall of 1979) by Philippe Ariès

    Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Ariès, translated by Patricia M. Ranum

  • Julian Symons

    Compulsion e-edition

    The Iron Staircase by Georges Simenon, translated by Eileen Ellenbogen

    The Girl with the Squint by Georges Simenon, translated by Helen Thomson

    The Family Lie by Georges Simenon, translated by Isabel Quigly

    Maigret’s Pipe by Georges Simenon, translated by Jean Stewart

    Maigret and the Hotel Majestic by Georges Simenon, translated by Caroline Hillier

  • David Joravsky

    The Scientist as Conformist e-edition

    Soviet Science by Zhores A. Medvedev

    Scientists under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich by Alan D. Beyerchen

    Proletarian Science? The Case of Lysenko by Dominique Lecourt, translated by Ben Brewster

  • Marshall Frady

    The Transformation of Bobby Kennedy e-edition

    Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

  • Keith Thomas

    The Wizard of Oc e-edition

    Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Barbara Bray

    Life in Renaissance France by Lucien Febvre, edited and translated by Marian Rothstein

    The Community of the Village: A Study in the History of the Family and Village Life in Fourteenth-Century England by Edward Britton

  • Francis Haskell

    Yesterday’s Today Show e-edition

    The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibitions 1600-1862 by Richard D. Altick

  • Quentin Skinner

    The Lesson of Thomas More

    The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 2: The History of King Richard III edited by Richard S. Sylvester

    The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 3 (Part I): Translations of Lucian edited by Craig R. Thompson

    The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 4: Utopia edited by Edward Surtz, edited by S. J. and J. H. Hexter

    The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 5: Responsio ad Lutherum edited by John M. Headley, translated by Sister Scholastica Mandeville

    The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 8: The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer edited by Louis A. Schuster, edited by Richard C. Marius, edited by James P. Lusardi, edited by Richard J. Schoeck

    The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 12: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation edited by Louis L. Martz, edited by Frank Manley

    The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 13: Treatise on the Passion; Treatise on the Blessed Body; Instructions and Prayers edited by Garry E. Haupt

    The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 14 (Parts I and I): De Tristitia Christi edited by Clarence H. Miller

    Utopia by Thomas More, translated and edited by Robert M. Adams

  • Michael Wood

    The Not So Light Fantastic e-edition

    Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

    A Manual for Manuel by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa

  • Stuart Hampshire

    The Illusion of Sociobiology e-edition

    On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson

  • Peter B. Reddaway

    K G B Psychiatry e-edition

  • John Kenneth Galbraith

    The Strategic Mind e-edition

    In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell

    Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA by William Colby, by Peter Forbath

    Decent Interval by Frank Snepp

  • Susan Sontag

    The Last Intellectual e-edition

    Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin, edited by Peter Demetz, translated by Edmund Jephcott

  • The Editors

    Short Reviews

    The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben by Joseph Borkin

    Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holstun Lopez

LETTERS

Contributors

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) was a Russian poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, Brodsky moved to the United States when he was exiled from Russia in 1972. His poetry collections include A Part of Speech andTo Urania; his essay collections include Less Than One, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Watermark. In 1987, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He served as US Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1992.

Robert L. Heilbroner (1919–2005) was an American economist. He taught economic history at the New School, where he was appointed Norman Thomas Professor of Economics in 1971.

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


John K. Fairbank (1907–1991) was an American sinologist. His final book was China: A New History.

Marshall Frady’s books include Wallace, Billy Graham, Southerners, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, and, most recently, Martin Luther King, Jr. He is currently writing a biography of Fidel Castro. (February 2004)

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was a Canadian economist and politician. He taught at Princeton and Harvard. His works include The Affluent Society, The Age of Uncertainty and Economics and the Public Purpose. Galbraith’s many honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Lomonosov Gold Medal, the Order of Canada, and the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award.

Stuart Hampshire (1914–2004) was an English philosopher. He taught at University College London, Princeton, Stanford and Oxford, where he was named Warden of Wadham College. His books include Thought and Action, Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.

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.

David Joravsky is Professor Emeritus of History at Northwestern. His books include The Lysenko Affairand Russian Psychology: A Critical History.

V.S. Pritchett (1900–1997) was a British essayist, novelist and short story writer. He worked as a foreign correspondent for the The Christian Science Monitorand as a literary critic forNew Statesman. In 1968 Pritchett was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire; he was knighted in 1975. His body of work includes many collections of short stories, in addition to travelogues, reviews, literary biographies and novels.

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)

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was a novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and one of the most influential critics of her generation. Her books include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and The Volcano Lover.

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England.

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

Peter B. Reddaway is Professor Emeritus of Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.

Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) was an English historian. He taught British history at Oxford and Princeton.