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Contents

October 9, 1980 • Volume 27, Number 15

  • Anthony Lewis

    The Mysteries of Mr. Lippmann e-edition

    Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel

  • Frederick Brown

    The Heroic Hermaphrodite e-edition

    Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite introduced by Michel Foucault

  • Leonard Schapiro

    A Journey Into the Soviet Future e-edition

    Stalin’s Successors: Leadership, Stability, and Change in the Soviet Union by Seweryn Bialer

  • Edward Rothstein

    The Scar of Sigmund Freud e-edition

    Freud: The Man and the Cause by Ronald W. Clark

    Sigmund Freud’s Dreams by Alexander Grinstein

  • Gerard Chaliand

    With the Afghan Rebels e-edition

  • Gwyn Jones

    The Fury of the Northmen e-edition

    The Vikings William Morrow by James Graham-Campbell, by Dafydd Kidd

    The Viking World by James Graham-Campbell

    “The Vikings” 1980, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 4, 1980 to January 4,1981 an exhibition at the British Museum February 19, 1980 to July 20,

  • J.M. Cameron

    On the Edge e-edition

    Nietzsche: A Critical Life by Ronald Hayman

  • Francis Haskell

    Re-inventing the Eighteenth Century e-edition

    La Peinture d’histoire en France de 1747 à 1785 by Jean Locquin

    1700 tal: Tanke och form i rokokon an exhibition at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm October 5, 1979-January 6, 1980

    L’Arte del Settecento Emiliano: La Pittura an exhibition at Palazzo di Re Enzo, Bologna, September-November, 1979

    L’Arte del Settecento Emiliano: L’Arte a Parma dai Farnese ai Borbone an exhibition at Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, 1979

    Chardin, 1699-1779 by Pierre Rosenberg. catalogue of the exhibition at Le Grand Palais, Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979

    Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France by Gabriel P. Weisberg, with William S. Talbot. catalogue of the exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979

    Civiltà del ‘700 a Napoli, 1734-1799 an exhibition at the Palazzo di Capodimonte, Naples, December 1979-October, 1980

    The Architecture of the French Enlightenment by Allan Braham

    Alessandro Magnasco by Fausta Franchini Guelfi

    Goya: The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art by Fred Licht

    John Flaxman edited by David Bindman. catalogue of the exhibition at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Winter 1979

    The Fuseli Circle at Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s by Nancy L. Pressly. catalogue of the exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art 1979

    L’Art européen à la cour d’Espagne au XVIIIe siècle exhibition at La Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, Le Grand Palais, Paris, and Prado, Madrid, May 1979-April 1980

  • Dwight Macdonald

    Vote for Keaton e-edition

    Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn’t Lie Down by Tom Dardis

    Keaton: The Silent Features Close Up by Daniel Moews

    Buster Keaton by David Robinson

    Keaton by Rudi Blesh

  • Abraham Brumberg,
    Jan Litynski,
    Edward Lipinski

    After Gdansk: Two Interviews e-edition

  • D.S. Carne-Ross

    The Last of the Modernists e-edition

    The Dying Gaul and Other Writings by David Jones, edited by Harman Grisewood

    Introducing David Jones edited by John Matthias

  • Bruno Foa,
    Charles Nissim-Sabat,
    Michael Birkner,
    Andrew Hacker

    Inequality for Everyone? An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Abraham Brumberg (1926–2008) was an essayist, editor and translator. His memoir, Journey Through Vanishing Worlds, was published by New Academia in 2007.

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.

John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso, Volume Three, was published in 2007. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991.

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a political philosopher and historian of ideas. Born in Riga, he moved in 1917 with his family to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution. In 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy.

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

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment.

Dwight Macdonald (1906–1982) was born in New York City and educated at Exeter and Yale. On graduating from college, he enrolled in Macy’s executive training program, but soon left to work for Henry Luce at Time and Fortune, quitting in 1936 because of cuts that had been made to an article he had written criticizing U.S. Steel. From 1937 to 1943, Macdonald was an editor of Partisan Review and in 1944, he started a journal of his own, Politics, whose contributors included Albert Camus, Victor Serge, Simone Weil, Bruno Bettelheim, James Agee, John Berryman, Meyer Schapiro, and Mary McCarthy. In later years, Macdonald reviewed books for The New Yorker, movies for Esquire, and wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books.

Francis Haskell (1928-2000) was an English art historian. His works include Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italyand History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. Haskell taught at Oxford.