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June 25, 1981 • Volume 28, Number 11

  • Mary McCarthy

    Acts of Love e-edition

    If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

  • Keith Thomas

    A Working Girl e-edition

    Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner

    Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality by Frances Gies

  • Andrei D. Sakharov

    The Responsibility of Scientists e-edition

  • Roger Shattuck

    Kilmartin’s Way e-edition

    Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, by Terence Kilmartin, by Andreas Mayor

    Marcel Proust’s Grasset Proofs: Commentary and Variants (distributed by the University of North Carolina Press) by Douglas W. Alden

    Proust and the Art of Love: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in the Life, Times, and Art of Marcel Proust by J.E. Rivers

    Proust’s Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation by Randolph Splitter

    Proust dans la recherche littéraire by Sigbrit Swahn

    Proust’s Additions: The Making of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu,’ by Alison Winton

  • Sarah Plimpton

    Poem (poem) e-edition

  • Edward Rothstein

    The Revenge of the Vrai e-edition

    Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth

  • Nicholas von Hoffman

    Know Thy President e-edition

    Reagan the Man, the President by Hedrick Smith, by Adam Clymer, by Leonard Silk, by Robert Lindsey, by Richard Burt

    The Real Reagan: What He Believes, What He Has Accomplished, What We Can Expect From Him by Frank van der Linden

    Ronald Reagan: A Political Biography by Lee Edwards

    Reagan in Pursuit of the Presidency—1980 by Doug Wead, by Bill Wead

    Where’s the Rest of Me? The Autobiography of Ronald Reagan by Richard G. Hubler

    Ronald Reagan: His Life and Rise to the Presidency by Bill Boyarsky

    The Future Under President Reagan edited by Wayne Valis

    Reaganomics: Supply Side Economics in Action by Bruce Bartlett

  • John Bayley

    Return of the Native

    The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Louis Iribarne

    Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition paperback edition by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Catherine S. Leach

    Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision by Czeslaw Milosz

    Bells in Winter translated by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Lillian Vallee

    The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Jane Zielonko. (with a new foreword by the author)

  • Ronald Blythe

    The Way We Lived Then e-edition

    Edwardian Childhoods by Thea Thompson

    Roses in December: Edwardian Recollections by Amy Stewart Fraser

    East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding edited by Raphael Samuel

    The People’s England by Alan Ereira

    The Victorian Countryside edited by Gordon E. Mingay

    The Gentleman’s Country House and Its Plan 1835-1914 by Jill Franklin

  • Lawrence Sager

    The Shortcut to Outlaw Abortion e-edition

  • Francis Haskell

    Out of the Picture e-edition

    Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot by Michael Fried

  • Robert Towers

    Comic Schemes e-edition

    Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark

  • Stanley Hoffmann

    France: The Big Change? e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

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

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.

Stanley Hoffmann is 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.


Sarah Plimpton is a poet and artist working in several media, including oil painting, printmaking, and artists’ books. Her artwork is in such public collections as the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 (July 2011)

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.

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England.

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.

Nicholas von Hoffman is a columnist for The Huffington Post.

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.

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy’s Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).