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August 16, 1979 • Volume 26, Number 13

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    The Portable Canterbury e-edition

    Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness by Marshall Frady

    Billy Graham: Evangelist to the World by John Pollock

    Angels: God’s Secret Agents by Billy Graham

  • C. Vann Woodward

    Not So Freed Men e-edition

    Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack

  • Rosemary Dinnage

    Dodgson’s Passion e-edition

    The Letters of Lewis Carroll Vol. I: 1837-1885 Vol. II: 1886-1898 edited by Morton N. Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green

    Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies by Morton N. Cohen

  • Clive James

    Voznesensky’s Case e-edition

    Nostalgia for the Present by Andrei Voznesensky, by Vera Dunham, edited by Max Hayward

    The Making and Unmaking of a Soviet Writer by Anatoly Gladilin, translated by David Lapeza

  • Joan Didion

    Letter from ‘Manhattan’

    Manhattan directed by Woody Allen

    Interiors directed by Woody Allen

    Annie Hall directed by Woody Allen

  • Thomas Sheehan

    Italy: Behind the Ski Mask

    Guerriglia e guerra rivoluzionaria in Italia [Guerrilla Warfare and Revolutionary War in Italy] by Sabino S. Acquaviva

    II seme religioso della rivolta [The Religious Seed of Revolt] by Sabino S. Acquaviva

    Marx oltre Marx: Quaderno di lavoro sui Grundrisse [Marx Beyond Marx: A Workbook on the Grundrisse] by Antonio Negri

    La fabbrica della strategia: 33 lezioni su Lenin [The Factory of Strategy: 33 Lectures on Lenin] by Antonio Negri

    II dominio e il sabotaggio: Sul methodo marxista della trasformazione sociale [Domination and Sabotage: On the Marxist Method of Social Transformation] by Antonio Negri

  • Karl Miller

    Eminent Romantics e-edition

    Bloomsbury: A House of Lions by Leon Edel

  • Peter Green

    On the Thanatos Trail e-edition

    Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (The Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 46) by Emily Vermeule

  • Stephen Jay Gould

    Darwin Vindicated! e-edition

    Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X: New Light on the Evolutionists by Loren Eiseley

  • Jean Lacouture

    The New Horror e-edition

  • Jean-Francis Held

    How It Works e-edition

  • Neal Ascherson

    The Half-cracked Hero e-edition

    The Road to Khartoum: A Life of General Charles Gordon by Charles Chenevix Trench

  • Martha Duffy

    Pictures from an Expedition e-edition

    The White Album by Joan Didion

  • Frank Kermode

    ‘Love and Do as You Please’ e-edition

    Man of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess

    The Living End by Stanley Elkin

  • Hugh Honour

    Piranesi’s Year e-edition

    Piranesi Exhibition catalogue by John Wilton-Ely

    Piranesi: The Early Architectural Fantasies 1978-October 1, 1978 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), June 1,

    Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library by Felice Stampfle

    Piranesi: Incisioni, rami, legature, architetturae Exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice), edited by Alessandro Bettagno

    Disegni di Giambattista Piranesi Exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice), edited by Alessandro Bettagno

    Piranèse et les français, colloque tenu à la Villa Médicis edited by Georges Brunel

    Piranesi by Jonathan Scott

    Piranesi by Nicholas Penny

    The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi by John Wilton-Ely

    Archäologie des Traums: Versuch über Giovanni Battista Piranesi by Norbert Miller

    Rome: The Biography of Its Architecture from Bernini to Thorvaldsen by Christian Elling

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. (November 2011)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

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

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. (April 2011)

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. His latest and longest book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, will be published in the spring. (January 2007)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His latest book, Concerning E.M. Forster, was published in December. (July 2010)

Anthony Quinton is the former president of Trinity College, Oxford, former chairman of the British Library, and the author of Hume. (June 2001)

Charles Taylor was recently awarded the 2007 Templeton Prize. He is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill. His books include Hegel and The Ethics of Authenticity. (April 2007)

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut’s Civil War and The Old World’s New World. (February 1998)

Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)

Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century. He won an English scholarship to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Following army service in World War II, he completed his degree and joined the faculty at the University College of Swansea in Wales. Lucky Jim, his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a Somerset Maugham Award; from that point on he would publish roughly a book a year. Amis received the Booker Prize for his novel The Old Devils in 1986 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990.

Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. (December 2001)