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October 11, 1979 • Volume 26, Number 15

  • Stephen Jay Gould

    Dreamer e-edition

    Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson

  • Michael Walzer

    Nervous Liberals e-edition

    The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America’s Politics by Peter Steinfels

  • Diane Johnson

    She Had It All e-edition

    My Life by George Sand, translated and adapted by Dan Hofstadter

    George Sand in Her Own Words translated and edited by Joseph Barry, introduction by Ellen Moers

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters translated by A.L. McKenzie

    The Double Life of George Sand, Woman and Writer by Renee Winegarten

  • Richard Murphy

    Tony White (poem) e-edition

  • V.S. Naipaul

    Argentine Terror: A Memoir e-edition

  • Amnesty International

    Amnesty International on Argentina e-edition

  • Michael Wood

    Bangs and Whimpers e-edition

    Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Coppola

  • Peter Green

    Tut-Tut-Tut e-edition

    Treasures of Tutankhamun with commentary by I.E.S. Edwards, photographs by Lee Boltin

    Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures by I.E.S. Edwards

    The Gold of Tutankhamun by Arnold C. Brackman, by Kamal El Mallakh, with a preface by William Kelly Simpson

    Egyptian Treasures from the Collections of the Brooklyn Museum with commentaries by Robert S. Bianchi, photographs by Seth Jowel

    An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary by E.A. Wallis Budge

    Egypt Observed by Henri Gougand, by Colette Gouvion

    Ramesses the Great, Master of the World by William MacQuitty, foreword by T.G.H. James

    Tutankhamun: The Untold Story by Thomas Hoving

    The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter, by A.C. Mace

    Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization by Michael A. Hoffman

    The Ancient Egyptians: A Sourcebook of Their Writings by Adolf Erman

    The Wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians by William MacQuitty

    Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography by Hermann Kees

    Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by E.A. Wallis Budge

    Egyptian Magic by E. A. Wallis Budge

    The Egyptian Gods: A Handbook by Alan W. Shorter

    Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs by Barbara Mertz

    Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz

    Ancient Egypt by Warner Hutchinson

    Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid by Piazzi Smyth

    The Great Pyramid Decoded by Peter Lemesurier

    Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt by John Anthony West

    The First Practical Pyramid Book by Norman Stark

    The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon translated by Alexandre Piankoff, edited by N. Rambova

    The Egypt Story: Its Art, Its Monuments, Its People, Its History with text by P.H. Newby, photographs by Fred J. Maroon

  • J.M. Cameron

    Cheerful Chronicle e-edition

    Confessions of a Conservative by Garry Wills

  • Peter Burke

    Back to Burckhardt e-edition

    Renaissance Man by Agnes Heller, translated by Richard E. Allen

    Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines

  • David Trainer

    Nothing to Lose e-edition

    Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr

  • Richard Storry

    Cult of the Sword e-edition

    Some Japanese Portraits by Donald Keene

    Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto, translated by William Scott Wilson

    Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 by Noel Perrin

  • Christopher Logue

    30 out of 600 (poem) e-edition

  • Robert Towers

    In the Trap e-edition

    The Tree House Confessions by James McConkey

    Ghost Images by Stephen Minot

    Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland

  • Neal Ascherson

    Upward to Defeat e-edition

    Gladstone: A Progress in Politics by Peter Stansky

  • Stephen Spender

    Meat Loaf e-edition

    What’s for Dinner? by James Schuyler

  • Daniel J. Kevles,
    Paul Feyerabend,
    David Joravsky

    Science and Society: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Saul Bellow, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, was the author of seventeen books of fiction. He died in 2005. (November 2011)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for her poetry. The poems in this issue will appear in Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, edited by Alice Quinn, to be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (March 2006)

William H. Gass is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, and emeritus professor of philosophy. His first novel, Omensetter’s Luck, about life in a small town in Ohio in the 1890s, was published in 1966. Since then he has published several more works of fiction, including In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, The Tunnel, and Middle C. He has also published several collections of essays, including Fiction and the Figures of Life, Habitations of the Word, Finding a Form, and Life Sentences. Gass has received many awards and honors, including grants from the Rockefeller and Solomon R. Guggenheim foundations, four Pushcart Prizes, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the American Book Award, and three National Book Critics Circle Awards for Criticism. In 2000, he was honored with the PEN/Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award.

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

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.

Anthony Hecht’sCollected Later Poems and Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry were published in 2003. He died on October 20. (December 2004)

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale.

Irving Howe (1920–1993) was an American literary and social critic. His history of Eastern-European Jews in America, World of Our Fathers, won the 1977 National Book Award in History.

Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was a writer and teacher. Among his books are On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from Howells to Faulkner, and the memoirs A Walker in the Cityand New York Jew. In 1996, he received the first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism from the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. She is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever, and the editor of The Oxford Book of Fairy Tales. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.


Peter Matthiessen won the 2008 National Book Award for his novel Shadow Country. His recent books include End of the Earth: Voyage to Antarctica and The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes. (November 2009)

James Merrill (1926–1995) was an American poet whose major work The Changing Light at Sandover describes a series of spirit communications conducted over many years. He won the National Book Award from his collections Nights and Days and Mirabell: Books of Number.

Joyce Carol Oates is the author most recently of the novel The Accursed. She is Roger S. Berlind Professor in the Arts and the Humanities at Princeton.


Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, which has served as the setting for many of his novels. He won the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus, and for Sabbath’s Theater, the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral, and three PEN/Faulkner awards, for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman.

Roger Shattuck (1923–2005) was an American writer and scholar of French culture. He taught at Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University, where he was named University Professor. His books includeForbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography.

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.

William Styron (1925–2006) was the author of several novels, including Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Richard Wilbur’s book Mayflies: New Poems and Translations will be published in April. (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.


Victor Brombert is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton, and has served as chairman of its Council of Humanities. A former president of the Modern Language Association and member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of a dozen books of literary criticism, in addition to his wartime memoirs Trains of Thought. He has published extensively on Flaubert, both in this country and in France.

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright. His many works include the memoirs Point to Point Navigation and Palimpsest, the novels The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, and Lincoln, and the collection United States: Essays 1952–1992.

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.

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)

Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. Her books include Lulu in Marrakechand Le Divorce. Her new book, Flyover Lives, will be published in January 2014.

Sidney Morgenbesser (1921–2004) was a philosopher. Educated at CUNY, The Jewish Theological Seminary and The University of Pennsylvania, Morgenbesser taught at Columbia, where he was named John Dewey Professor of Philosophy.

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

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

Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale. His recent works include The Baltimore Case and he is currently completing a history of intellectual property in plants, animals, and people.


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

Christopher Logue is the author of All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer’s Iliad Rewritten, of which the poem in this issue is a part. The new book, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is the latest installment of War Music, an adaptation of the Iliad. His other works include several volumes of poetry, a pornographic novel, and a memoir, Prince Charming. (May 2003)

Richard Murphy’s Collected Poems were published in 2001.

Stephen Spender (1909–1995) was an English poet and essayist. As a young man, he became friends with W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Christopher Isherwood, a loose collection often referred to as “the Auden Group” or “MacSpaunday.” He published many collections of poems, including The Still Centre and Ruins and Visions, and numerous volumes of nonfiction and other works, including Learning Laughterand Love-Hate Relations.

Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)

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

Robert Towers (1923–1995) was an American critic and novelist. Born in Virginia, Towers was educated at Princeton and served for two years as Vice Counsel at the American Consulate General in Calcutta before dedicating himself to literary studies. He taught English literature and creative writing at Princeton, Queens College and Columbia.