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December 18, 1980 • Volume 27, Number 20

  • E.J. Hobsbawm

    Pact with the Devil e-edition

    The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael T. Taussig

  • Robert Towers

    The Good Ship Britannia e-edition

    Rites of Passage by William Golding

  • Sheldon S. Wolin

    Reagan Country e-edition

  • A.J.P. Taylor

    Old, Old Story e-edition

    No Man’s Land: 1918, The Last Year of the Great War by John Toland

    The End of Order: Versailles 1919 by Charles L. Mee Jr.

  • Neal Ascherson

    A Successful Martyr e-edition

    Olive Schreiner by Ruth First, by Ann Scott

  • Clive James

    The Gentle Slope of Castalia e-edition

    Photography and Society by Gisèle Freund

    Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography by Janet Malcolm

    The Eloquent Light photographs by Ansel Adams, text by Nancy Newhall

    Yosemite and the Range of Light photographs by Ansel Adams, introduction by Paul Brooks

    Time in New England photographs by Paul Strand, text selected and edited by Nancy Newhall

    Brett Weston: Photographs from Five Decades photographs by Brett Weston, text by R.H. Cravens

    Water’s Edge photographs by Harry Callahan, introductory poem by A.R. Ammons

    Harry Callahan: Color photographs and text by Harry Callahan, edited by Robert Tow, by Ricker Winsor

    Sudek photographs by Josef Sudek, text by Sonja Bullaty

    Lotte Jacobi photographs by Lotte Jacobi, edited by Kelly Wise, introduction by James Fasanelli

    Moholy-Nagy: Photographs and Photograms by Laszlo Maholy-Nagy, text by Andreas Haus, translated by Frederic Samson

    Beaton photographs by Cecil Beaton, edited with a text by James Danziger

    Allure by Diana Vreeland, by Chris Hemphill

    Eye for Elegance Company photographs by George Hoyningen-Huene

    The Art of the Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers, 1925-1940 by John Kobal

    Mrs. David Bailey photographs by David Bailey

    Special Collection 24 Photo Lithos by Helmut Newton

    Sleepless Nights photographs by Helmut Newton, introduction by Philippe Garner

    Women on Women: Twelve Photographic Portfolios with an introduction by Katherine Hollabird

    42nd Street Studio photographs by Joyce Baronio, introduction by Linda Nochlin

    The Best of Photojournalism, 5: People, Places, and Events of 1979 with an introduction by Tom Brokaw

    In China photographs by Eve Arnold

    Photographs for the Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II edited by Robert H. Allhouse

    Across the Rhine text by Franklin M. Davis Jr.. the editors of Time-Life Books

    Private Pictures photographs by Daniel Angeli, by Jean-Paul Dousset, introduction by Anthony Burgess

    Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition photographs by Dorothea Lange, text by Karin B. Ohrn

    Dialogue with Photography edited by Paul Hill, edited by Thomas Cooper

    Photography in the Twentieth Century by Peter Tausk

    Fox-Talbot and the Invention of Photography by Gail Buckland

  • Robert Craft

    Schoenberg and Dika e-edition

    Schoenberg Remembered: Diaries and Recollections (1938-1976) by Dika Newlin

  • Arnaldo Momigliano

    The Master of Mysticism

    From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth by Gershom Scholem, translated by Harry Zohn

  • M.F.K. Fisher

    Yuk!

    Unmentionable Cuisine by Calvin W. Schwabe

  • Leonard Schapiro

    Soviet Heroes e-edition

    Soviet Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human Rights by Joshua Rubinstein

    A Chronicle of Current Events No. 54 Journal of the Human Rights Movement in the USSR

  • John Bayley

    The All-Star Victorian e-edition

    Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart by Robert Bernard Martin

    The Tennyson Album: A Biography in Original Photographs by Andrew Wheatcroft

  • Quentin Bell

    Fine Art for Kids

    The Work of E.H. Shepard edited by Rawle Knox

    Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator by Gabriel White

    Nicholas and the Fast Moving Diesel by Edward Ardizzone

    A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone

  • Henri Zerner

    Masterwoodworks

    The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany by Michael Baxandall

  • George Plimpton

    A Clean Well-Lighted Place e-edition

  • Jack H. Hexter

    The Not-So-New Men e-edition

    Parliaments and English Politics 1621-1629 by Conrad Russell

  • Robert M. Adams

    Nabokov’s Show e-edition

    Lectures on Literature: British, French, and German Writers by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Fredson Bowers, with an introduction by John Updike

  • Josh Rubins

    Balancing Act e-edition

    Aberration of Starlight by Gilbert Sorrentino

    At the Shores by Thomas Rogers

  • Francis V. O’Connor,
    B.H. Friedman,
    Eugene Victor Thaw

    An Exchange on Art and Biography

LETTERS

Contributors

Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.

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.


John Bayley is a critic and novelist. His books include Elegy for Iris and The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.

Robert Craft is a conductor and writer. Craft’s close working friendship with Igor Stravinsky is the subject of his memoir, An Improbable Life. In 2002 he was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival.

Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was a science writer and novelist. He was the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, The Night is Large and Visitors from Oz.

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.

E. J. Hobsbawm (1918–1987) was a British historian. Born in Egypt, he was educated at Cambridge; he taught at Birkbeck College and The New School. His works include The Age of Extremes; Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism; and On Empire.

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.

Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) was an American historian.

Leonard Schapiro was a British political scientist and one of the world’s foremost experts on Soviet politics. His works include The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Russian Studies; he also translated Turgenev’s novel Spring Torrentsinto English.

A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) was a British diplomatic historian.

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.

Sheldon S. Wolin is Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton.

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l’histoire de l’art: Figures d’une discipline.

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.

Peter Singer is the Ira W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of *Animal Liberation*, the editor of *In Defense of Animals: The Second Wav*, and, with Paola Cavalieri, co-editor of *The Great Ape Project*.