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January 16, 1986 • Volume 32, Number 21 & 22

  • E.J. Hobsbawm

    ‘Playing for Ourselves’ e-edition

    Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie as told to Albert Murray

    The World of Count Basie by Stanley Dance

  • Theodore H. Draper

    Neoconservative History e-edition

  • Jean Starobinski,
    Peter France

    Burying the Dead e-edition

    The Architecture of Death: The Transformation of the Cemetery in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Richard A. Etlin

  • John Bayley

    On Philip Larkin e-edition

  • James Merrill,
    Philip Larkin

    Two Poems (poem) e-edition

  • Stanley Hoffmann

    Fog Over the Summit e-edition

  • Murray Kempton

    ‘I Am a Pencil’ e-edition

    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (November 7,1985 - January 26, 1986)

  • Ian Buruma

    Who Can Redeem Mother Filipinas? e-edition

    Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines by David Haward Bain

    Revolution in the Philippines: The United States in a Hall of Cracked Mirrors by Fred Poole, by Max Vanzi

    The Philippines After Marcos edited by R. J. May, edited by Francisco Nemenzo

  • J. M. Coetzee

    The Taming of D. H. Lawrence e-edition

    Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess

    D. H. Lawrence: Life into Art by Keith Sagar

    Class, Politics and the Individual: A Study of the Major Works of D. H. Lawrence by Peter Scheckner

    D. H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration edited by Peter Balbert, edited by Phillip L. Marcus

    The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence, edited by Andrew Robertson

    The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence, edited by John Worthen

    Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays by D. H. Lawrence, edited by Bruce Steele

    Letters, Volume III by D. H. Lawrence, edited by James T. Boulton, by Andrew Robertson

  • Yehoshua Porath

    Mrs. Peters’s Palestine

    From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab–Jewish Conflict Over Palestine by Joan Peters

  • Maurice Keen

    The Knight of Knights e-edition

    William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry by Georges Duby, translated by Richard Howard

  • Jonathan D. Spence

    Turbulent Empire e-edition

    The Magistrate’s Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-Century Ch’ing China by Madeleine Zelin

    The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China by Philip C. C. Huang

    From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China Harvard University Press by Benjamin A. Elman

  • Jonathan Lieberson

    The Reality of AIDS e-edition

    A Strange Virus of Unknown Origin by Dr. Jacques Liebowitch, translated from French by Richard Howard, with an introduction by Dr. Robert Gallo

    Medical, Social, and Political Aspects of the AIDS Crisis: A Bibliography compiled by D.W. McLeod, by Alan V. Miller

    Review of the Public Health Service’s Response to AIDS: A Technical Memorandum, February 1985 Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment

    AIDS in the Mind of America by Dennis Altman

    AIDS: The Emerging Ethical Dilemmas Hastings Center Report

    The Question of AIDS by Richard Liebmann-Smith

    Understanding AIDS: A Comprehensive Guide edited by Victor Gong, foreword by F. Mervyn Silverman

LETTERS

Contributors

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

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. His books include Murderer in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, and the novel The China Lover. His book Year Zero: A History of 1945 will be published in September 2013.

J. M. Coetzee, the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Literature, is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

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.

E. J. Hobsbawm (1918–1987) was a British historian. Born in Egypt, he was educated at Cambridge; he taught at Birkbeck College and The New School. His works include The Age of Extremes; Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism; and On Empire.

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His most recent books are Chaos and Violence: What Globalization, Failed States, and Terrorism Mean for US Foreign Policy and Rousseau and Freedom, coedited with Christie McDonald.


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.

James Merrill (1926–1995) was an American poet whose major work The Changing Light at Sandover describes a series of spirit communications conducted over many years. He won the National Book Award from his collections Nights and Days and Mirabell: Books of Number.

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.

Jonathan Spence is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Death of Woman Wang, Treason by the Book, The Question of Hu, and The Search for Modern China.

Jean Starobinski is Professor Emeritus of French literature at the University of Geneva. Blessings in Disguise and Largesse are among his works in English. A translation of his recent Action et réaction is to appear later this year. (May 2003)

Peter France is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Edinburgh, the author of Politeness and Its Discontents, and the editor of The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. (June 2005)