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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.


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 (1941–2002) was an American geologist, biologist and historian of science. He taught at Harvard, where he was named Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and at NYU. His last book was Punctuated Equilibrium.

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. His most recent book is Diodorus Siculus: The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens, Books 11–14.34 (480–401 BCE).
 (November 2012)

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. Among his books are Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, The Blaze of Obscurity, and A Point of View.

Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British critic and literary theorist. Born on the Isle of Man, he taught at University College London, Cambridge, Columbia and Harvard. Adapted from a series of lectures given at Bryn Mawr College, Kermode’s Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literary criticism.

Karl Miller is a British editor and critic. In 1979 he founded the London Review of Books.

Anthony Quinton (1925–2010) was a British philosopher. Quinton served as president of Trinity College, Oxford and as chairman of the British Library. His works include The Nature of Things, Hume, and From Wodehouse to Wittgenstein.

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 (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.

C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) was a historian of the American South. He taught at Johns Hopkins and at Yale, where he was named the Sterling Professor of History. His books include Mary Chesnut’s Civil War and The Old World’s New World.

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. Born in suburban South London, the only child of a clerk in the office of the mustard-maker Colman’s, he went to the City of London School on the Thames before winning an English scholarship to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Following service in the British Army’s Royal Corps of Signals during 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. Amis spent a year as a visiting fellow in the creative writing department of Princeton University and in 1961 became a fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, but resigned the position two years later, lamenting the incompatibility of writing and teaching (“I found myself fit for nothing much more exacting than playing the gramophone after three supervisions a day”). Ultimately he published twenty-four novels, including science fiction and a James Bond sequel; more than a dozen collections of poetry, short stories, and literary criticism; restaurant reviews and three books about drinking; political pamphlets and a memoir; and more. Amis received the Booker Prize for his novel The Old Devils in 1986 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. He had three children, among them the novelist Martin Amis, with his first wife, Hilary Anne Bardwell, from whom he was divorced in 1965. After his second, eighteen-year marriage to the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard ended in 1983, he lived in a London house with his first wife and her third husband.

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.

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

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.