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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

  • Back to Burckhardt e-edition

  • David Trainer

    Nothing to Lose e-edition

  • 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

  • In the Trap e-edition

  • 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)

Andrew Hacker teaches at Queens College. His books include Money: Who Has How Much and Why, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, and, most recently, Higher Education, written with Claudia Dreifus. (February 2012)

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. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 2008)

Alfred Kazin’s most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. 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 died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)

Joyce Carol Oates is Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities and the Arts at Princeton. Her most recent books are A Widow’s Story: A Memoir and the forthcoming The Corn Maiden: Novellas and Stories. (September 2011)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

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. (November 2011)

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’s most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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)

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)

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech. (March 2012)

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 University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.

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 most recent books are Collected Poems and The Kick: A Life Among Writers. (February 2004)

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 teaches at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of Yeats and Violence. -