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Contents

March 28, 1985 • Volume 32, Number 5

  • Irvin Ehrenpreis

    The Seductive Journalist e-edition

    James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795 by Frank Brady

  • H.L.A. Hart

    Oxford and Mrs. Thatcher e-edition

  • Charles Rycroft

    A Hard Day’s Night e-edition

    The Nightmare: The Psychology and Biology of Terrifying Dreams by Ernest Hartmann

  • Murray Kempton

    Parade’s End e-edition

  • Irving Howe

    How to Write About the Holocaust e-edition

  • Luc Sante

    The Gentrification of Crime e-edition

    Four Novels: Nightfall, Down There, Dark Passage, The Moon in the Gutter by David Goodis

    Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson

    The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

    A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson

    The Getaway by Jim Thompson

    Glitz by Elmore Leonard

    The Hunter (also published as Point Blank)

    The Man with the Getaway Face

    The Outfit

    The Mourner

    The Score (to be published in August)

    The Jugger

    The Seventh

    The Handle

    The Rare Coin Score

    The Green Eagle Score

    The Black Ice Score

    The Sour Lemon Score

    Deadly Edge

    Slayground (to be published in August)

    Plunder Squad

    Butcher’s Moon

  • Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

    ‘Prich’: A New Deal Memoir e-edition

  • John Bayley

    Life in the Head e-edition

    Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys, with an introduction by Robertson Davies

    Weymouth Sands by John Cowper Powys, with an introduction by James Purdy

  • David Cannadine

    Munich Man e-edition

    Neville Chamberlain Volume I: Pioneering and Reform, 1869–1929 by David Dilks

  • D.J. Enright

    Calling Dr. Angst e-edition

    Concrete by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock

    The Inner Man by Martin Walser, translated by Leila Vennewitz

  • Murray Sayle

    Japan Victorious e-edition

    Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes by Ian Buruma

    Japan in the Passing Lane: An Insider’s Account of Life in A Japanese Auto Factory by Satoshi Kamata, translated and edited by Tatsuru Akimoto, introduction by Ronald Dore

    Trade War: Greed, Power, and Industrial Policy on Opposite Sides of the Pacific by Steven Schlossstein

    Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the “Japanese Miracle” by Jared Taylor

    The Management Challenge: Japanese Views edited by Lester C. Thurow

    The Japanese Conspiracy: The Plot to Dominate Industry Worldwide — and How to Deal with It by Marvin J. Wolf

  • David Underdown

    Radicals in Defeat e-edition

    The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries by Christopher Hill

LETTERS

Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

D. J. Enright’s books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of *Animal Liberation*, the editor of *In Defense of Animals: The Second Wav*, and, with Paola Cavalieri, co-editor of *The Great Ape Project*.

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Charles Rycroft is a psychoanalyst practicing in London. His books include A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Anxiety and Neurosis, The Innocence of Dreams, and Psychoanalysis and Beyond. (May 1997)

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.

Murray Sayle is an Australian journalist long based in Japan. His book The Myth of Hiroshima, on the end of World War II, will be published next year. (December 1997)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.