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December 19, 1985 • Volume 32, Number 20

  • Bernard Knox

    Subversive Activities e-edition

    Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in Nineteenth-Century England by Louis Crompton

  • Alison Lurie

    Bad Housekeeping e-edition

    The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing

    The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbour & If the Old Could… by Doris Lessing

  • Luc Sante

    Goodbye Charlie e-edition

    Chaplin: His Life and Art by David Robinson

    Charlie Chaplin by Maurice Bessy

  • David Cannadine

    Brideshead Re-Revisited e-edition

    The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting Washington November 3, 1985 to March 16, 1986, National Gallery of Art,

    The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting edited by Gervase Jackson-Stops

    The English Country House: A Grand Tour Book/Little, Brown by Gervase Jackson-Stops, by James Pipkin

  • Robert Towers

    Three-Part Inventions e-edition

    World’s Fair by E.L. Doctorow

    Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut

    Where She Was by Anderson Ferrell

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    The Life of Death e-edition

    Heimat A film by Edgar Reitz

    Shoah A film by Claude Lanzmann

    Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust the complete text of the film by Claude Lanzmann, preface by Simone de Beauvoir

    When Light Pierced the Darkness: Righteous Christians and the Polish Jews by Nechama Tec

  • Isaiah Berlin

    A Note on ‘Khovanshchina’ e-edition

  • Roderick MacFarquhar

    The End of the Long March e-edition

  • Winton Dean

    A Handle on Handel e-edition

    Handel by Christopher Hogwood

    Handel and his World by H.C. Robbins Landon

    Handel: The Man and his Music by Jonathan Keates

    Essays on Handel and Italian Opera by Reinhard Strohm

  • Fritz Stern

    Fink Shrinks e-edition

    Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Göring Institute by Geoffrey Cocks

    Die Professionalisierung der deutschen Psychologie im Nationalsozialismus by Ulfried Geuter

  • Thomas R. Edwards

    Pathos and Power e-edition

    Honorable Men by Louis Auchincloss

    Luisa Domic by George Dennison

    The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes, translated with the author by Margaret Sayers Peden

  • Aileen Kelly

    Man in the Middle e-edition

    Who Is to Blame? by Alexander Herzen, translated by Michael R. Katz

  • John Richardson

    Picasso and L’Amour Fou e-edition

    Mystery, Magic, and Love in Picasso, 1925–1938: Picasso and the Surrealist Poets Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Part of the dissertation, in revised and expanded form, will be published by Yale University Press in 1986 under the title Art as a Form of M by Lydia Gasman

    Picasso’s ‘Caseta,’ His Memories, and His Poems by Lydia Gasman

    Through the Eye of Picasso, 1928–1934: The Dinard Sketchbook and Related Paintings and Sculpture New York from the collection of Marina Picasso. in cooperation with Jan Krugier, Geneva, and Jan Krugier, Fine Art,

    Musée Picasso: Catalogue sommaire des collections Musées Nationaux

LETTERS

Contributors

David Cannadine is the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton.

Thomas R. Edwards (1928–2005) was Professor of English at Rutgers and editor of Raritan. His last book was Over Here: Criticizing America.

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of many books, including The Magic Lantern, an eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989. His most recent book is Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name. He is currently leading an Oxford University 
research project for the discussion of global free speech norms (www.freespeechdebate.com) and working on a book about free speech.

Aileen Kelly is a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Her books include Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin.

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. She is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever, and the editor of The Oxford Book of Fairy Tales. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.


Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book is the edited volume The Politics of China: Sixty Years of the People’s Republic of China. (April 2013)

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and Folk Photography. He has translated Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines and written the introduction to George Simenon’s The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (both available as NYRB Classics). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Bernard Knox (1914–2010) was an English classicist. He was the first director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles’s translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Fritz Stern is University Professor Emeritus and the former provost of Columbia University. His books include The Politics of Cultural Despair (1963), Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire (1977), and Five Germanys I Have Known (2006).

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.

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.