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Contents

Lincoln Kirstein

The Eyes of Ez

Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts edited with an introduction by Harriet Zinnes

Ezra Pound and His World by Peter Ackroyd
Andrew Hacker

Up for Grabs

The United States in the 1980s edited by Peter Duignan, edited by Alvin Rabushka

Setting National Priorities: Agenda for the 1980s edited by Joseph A. Pechman

Human Scale by Kirkpatrick Sale

The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler

The Microelectronics Revolution edited by Tom Forester

The 1980’s: Countdown to Armageddon by Hal Lindsey

A National Agenda for the Eighties: Report of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties

Life After ’80: Environmental Choices We Can Live With edited by Kathleen Courrier
John Richardson

Strictly from Hunger

The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage by Judy Chicago

Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework by Judy Chicago and Susan Hill

The Complete Dinner Party: The Dinner Party and Embroidering Our Heritage

John Russell

The Spirit of 1917

“Parade: An Evening of French Music Theatre”: Parade by Erik Satie, choreography by Gray Veredon

Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Francis Poulenc, libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire

L’Enfant et les Sortilèges by Maurice Ravel, libretto by Colette, conducted by Manuel Rosenthal, produced by John Dexter, sets and costumes by David Hockney, lighting by Gil Wechsler
Norman Stone

The Gambler

The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany: Starting World War II, 1937-1939 by Gerhard L. Weinberg

Germany and the Two World Wars by Andreas Hillgruber, translated by William C. Kirby
Keith Thomas

The Beast in Man

Animals’ Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress Pennsylvania 18411 by Henry S. Salt, revised edition with a preface by Peter Singer

Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind by James Turner
Michael Wood

Comedy of Ignorance

Rockaby and Other Short Pieces by Samuel Beckett

Company by Samuel Beckett

Just Play: Beckett’s Theater by Ruby Cohn

Frescoes of the Skull: The Later Prose and Drama of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson and John Pilling

Beckett and the Voice of Species: A Study of the Prose Fiction by Eric P. Levy
Jonathan D. Spence

Take Back Your Ming

1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline by Ray Huang

Li Zhi, philosophe maudit (1527-1602) Volume I by Jean-François Billeter

The Peony Pavilion (Mudan Ding) by Tang Xianzu, translated by Cyril Birch

The Chinese Vernacular Story by Patrick Hanan

Letters

Contributors

Freeman Dyson is Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science and mathematics at Queens College. His new book, The Math Myth and Other STEM ­Delusions, will appear next March.
 (July 2015)

Stanley Hoffmann (1928-2015) was the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His most recent books are Chaos and Violence: What Globalization, Failed States, and Terrorism Mean for US Foreign Policy and Rousseau and Freedom, coedited with Christie McDonald.


Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996) was a writer and ballet critic. In 1946, together with George Balanchine, Kirstein founded the Ballet Society, which would soon be renamed The New York City Ballet. In 1984 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Darryl Pinckney’s most recent book is a novel, Black Deutschland. (May 2018)

John Richardson’s four-volume Life of Picasso is due to be finished this year. (May 2016)

John Russell (1919–2008) was Chief Art Critic at The New York Times from 1982 until 1990. He was the author of many art-historical studies, including Matisse, Father & Son and The Meanings of Modern Art.

Jonathan Spence is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Death of Woman Wang, Treason by the Book, The Question of Hu, and The Search for Modern China.

Keith Thomas is an Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England.
 (October 2016)

Michael Wood is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is On Empson.