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May 30, 1985 • Volume 32, Number 9

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    The Teller and the Tape e-edition

    Mailer: His Life and Times by Peter Manso

  • Charles Rycroft

    Freud’s Creative Illness e-edition

    The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud To Wilhelm Fliess: 1887–1904 translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

    Sigmund Freud, Aus den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse edited by Marie Bonaparte, edited by Anna Freud, edited by Ernst Kris

    The Discovery of the Unconscious by Henri F. Ellenberger

    Extracts from the Fliess papers in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume 1 translated and edited by James Strachey

    The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Volume 1 by Ernest Jones

    The Origins of Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud, edited by Marie Bonaparte, by Anna Freud, by Ernst Kris

    “Some Additional ‘Day Residues’ of the ‘Specimen Dream of Psychoanalysis”’ in Psychoanalysis—A General Psychology edited by R.M. Loewenstein, edited by L.M. Newman, edited by M. Schur, edited by A.J. Solnit

    The Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

    Freud: The Man and the Cause by Ronald W. Clark

  • Ronald Steel

    The Ancient Mariner e-edition

    No More Vietnams by Richard Nixon

    A Vietcong Memoir by Truong Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff, by Doan Van Toai

  • John K. Fairbank

    Mission Impossible e-edition

    The Call by John Hersey

  • Jonathan Glover

    Matters of Life and Death e-edition

    The Right to Lifers: Who They Are, How They Operate, Where They Get Their Money by Connie Paige

    Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion by Beverly Wildung Harrison

    Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood by Kristin Luker

  • Francoise Cachin,
    Mimi Kramer

    The Impressionists on Trial e-edition

    The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers by T. J. Clark

  • M.F. Burnyeat

    Sphinx Without a Secret e-edition

    Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy by Leo Strauss, with an introduction by Thomas L. Pangle

  • Martin Gilbert

    The Fall of the Soviet Jews e-edition

    The Soviet Government and the Jews, 1948–1967 by Benjamin Pinkus

    Soviet Jewry in the Decisive Decade, 1971–80 edited by Robert O. Freedman

  • Harold Bloom

    The Flight of the Hawk e-edition

    New and Selected Poems: 1923–1985 by Robert Penn Warren

  • Amnesty International

    In Turkish Prisons: A Report from Amnesty International e-edition

  • Theodore H. Draper

    The Popular Front Revisited e-edition

    The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade by Harvey Klehr

    Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party During the Second World War by Maurice Isserman

    The American Communist Party: A Critical History by Irving Howe, by Lewis Coser

    Communists in Harlem During the Depression by Mark Naison

    The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions by Roger Keeran

    The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick

    Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists a film by Julia Reichert, by James Klein

    The View from Inside: A French Communist Cell in Crisis by Jane Jenson, by George Ross

  • Murray Kempton

    Anniversaries e-edition

  • William H. Nelson,
    Marilyn Rice,
    Israel Rosenfield

    Electroconvulsive Therapy: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Harold Bloom’s most recent books are The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible. He teaches at Yale and is at work on a play, To You Whoever You are: A Pageant Celebrating Walt Whitman.
 (February 2012)

M.F. Burnyeat is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato and A Map of Metaphysics Zeta. (November 2001)

Theodore H. Draper (1912–2006) was an American historian. Educated at City College, he wrote influential studies of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution and the Iran-Contra Affair. Draper was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association.

John K. Fairbank (1907–1991) was an American sinologist. His final book was China: A New History.

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.

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.

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.

Israel Rosenfield and Edward B. Ziff’s most recent book is DNA: A Graphic Guide to the Molecule That Shook the World. They are completing a book about the brain. Rosenfield is also completing a graphic novel illustrated by Fiammetta Ghedini. (June 2012)

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.

Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) was an English historian. He taught British history at Oxford and Princeton.

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy.

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.