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

David Cannadine is the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton.

Irvin Ehrenpreis (1920–1985) was the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. In 1984 he received the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa for the final volume of his trilogy, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age.

D.J. Enright (1920–2002) was a British poet, novelist and critic. He held teaching positions in Egypt, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. In 1981 Enright was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Peter Singer is the Ira W. Decamp 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*.

Irving Howe (1920–1993) was an American literary and social critic. His history of Eastern-European Jews in America, World of Our Fathers, won the 1977 National Book Award in History.

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 (1940–1996) was a Russian poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, Brodsky moved to the United States when he was exiled from Russia in 1972. His poetry collections include A Part of Speech andTo Urania; his essay collections include Less Than One, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Watermark. In 1987, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He served as US Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1992.

Charles Rycroft (1914–1998) was a British psychoanalyst and writer. His books include A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Anxiety and Neurosis, The Innocence of Dreams, and Psychoanalysis and Beyond.

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. (1917–2007) was an American historian and social critic. He served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. His Journals: 1952– 2000 were published in 2007.

Robert Brustein is a playwright, director, critic, teacher, and founder of the Yale Repertory and American Repertory Theatres. His play The Last Will opens in New York in April at Abingdon’s June Havoc Theater, and then goes to the Wuzhen Festival in China. In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. (April 2013)

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was a novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and one of the most influential critics of her generation. Her books include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and The Volcano Lover.