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January 31, 1985 • Volume 32, Number 1

  • John Golding

    The Golden Age e-edition

    Matisse by Pierre Schneider, translated by Michael Taylor, by Bridget Strevens Romer

  • G.R. Elton

    The Actor Saint e-edition

    Thomas More: A Biography by Richard Marius

  • James Joll

    Klingsor’s Apprentices e-edition

    Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics edited by David C. Large, edited by William Weber, edited by Anne Dzamba Sessa

  • Arthur Hertzberg

    Reagan and the Jews e-edition

  • Luc Sante

    Scientist of the Fantastic e-edition

    Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel, translated by Lindy Foord, by Rayner Heppenstall

    Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel, translated by Rupert Copeland Cunningham

    How I Wrote Certain of My Books by Raymond Roussel, translated, with notes and a bibliography, by Trevor Winkfield, with two essays on Roussel by John Ashbery, a translation of Canto III of Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique by Kenneth Koch

    Raymond Roussel by Rayner Heppenstall

  • Adam Mars-Jones

    Women Beware Women e-edition

    A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien

    Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

  • John Clive

    The Case for Mr. Ramsay e-edition

    Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian by Noel Annan

  • Robert Darnton

    Revolution sans Revolutionaries e-edition

    Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt

  • Jonathan Lieberson

    Putting Freud to the Test e-edition

    The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique by Adolf Grünbaum

  • Daniel Albright

    The Magician e-edition

    W.B. Yeats: The Poems a new edition edited by Richard J. Finneran

    Editing Yeats’s Poems by Richard J. Finneran

    A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats by A. Norman Jeffares

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    Which Way Will Germany Go? e-edition

    Wo Deutschland Liegt: Eine Ortsbestimmung by Günter Gaus

    Die Fernen Nachbarn: Erfahrungen in der DDR by Klaus Bölling

    From Red to Green: Interviews with New Left Review by Rudolf Bahro, translated by Gus Fagan, by Richard Hurst

    Cassandra by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck

    Die Deutsche Geschichte Geht Weiter by Richard von Weizsäcker

    Fighting for Hope by Petra Kelly, introduction by Heinrich Böll, translated by Marianne Howarth

    Judith by Rolf Hochhuth

    Schwarzenberg by Stefan Heym

    The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider, translated by Leigh Hafrey

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.


John Golding (1929–2012) was a British painter and art historian. He taught at the Courtauld Institute and the Royal College of Art. Among his many books was Cubism: A History and an Analysis, which refuted the notion that Cubism represented a break with the realist tradition. Golding also curated exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, including Picasso: Painter/Sculpter and Matisse Picasso.

Arthur Hertzberg (1921–2006) was a Conservative rabbi, scholar and activist. His books include The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism and The Zionist Idea.

James Joll (1936–2011) was a British historian. His books include The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870.

Adam Mars-Jones was born in London, where he lives and works. His fiction includes Monopolies of Love (1992) and The Waters of Thirst (1993). He writes about films and books for London newspapers.

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

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.

Jonathan Lieberson (1949–1989) was a philosopher, editor and critic. Lieberson taught at Barnard and Columbia. His book of essays, Varieties, included reflections on personalities as diverse as Diana Vreeland, Paul Valery and Clifford Geertz.