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November 6, 1986 • Volume 33, Number 17

  • George F. Kennan

    In the American Mirror e-edition

    The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

  • Gore Vidal

    Lessons of the Master e-edition

    Henry James: Literary Criticism Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers

    Henry James: Literary Criticism French Writers, Other European Writers, The Prefaces to the New York Edition

  • Zbigniew Herbert,
    John Carpenter,
    Bogdana Carpenter

    Transformations of Livy (poem) e-edition

  • John Maynard Smith

    Natural Selection of Culture? e-edition

    Culture and the Evolutionary Process by Robert Boyd, by Peter J. Richerson

  • Ian Buruma

    Saint Cory and the Yellow Revolution e-edition

    The Snap Revolution by James Fenton

    People Power: An Eyewitness History edited by Monina Allarey Mercado

    Bayon Ko!

    Crisis in the Philippines: The Marcos Era and Beyond edited by John Bresnan

  • Alan Pryce-Jones

    Insulin & Innocence e-edition

    Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case by Alan M. Dershowitz

  • Avigdor Arikha

    ‘Pintor Real’ e-edition

    Velázquez: Painter and Courtier by Jonathan Brown

  • Maurice Grosser

    Visiting Gertrude and Alice

  • Ronald Steel

    Looking Backward e-edition

    Thinking in Time:The Uses of History for Decision-Makers by Richard E. Neustadt, by Ernest R. May

  • Neal Ascherson

    The Last Idol e-edition

    Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend by Philip Warner

    The Kitchener Enigma by Trevor Royle

  • D.J. Enright

    Master of Horror e-edition

    Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist—Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna by Edward Timms

    In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader edited by Harry Zohn, with translations by Joseph Fabry, by Max Knight, by Karl F. Ross, by Harry Zohn

    Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms by Karl Kraus, edited and translated by Harry Zohn

  • Robert M. Adams

    New Bards for Old e-edition

    On Shakespeare by Northrop Frye

    Shakespeare and the Question of Theory edited by Patricia Parker, edited by Geoffrey Hartman

    Shakespeare’s Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets by Joel Fineman

    New Readings vs. Old Plays: Recent Trends in the Reinterpretation of English Renaissance Drama by Richard Levin

    The Devil’s Party: Critical Counter-interpretations of Shakespearian Drama by Harriett Hawkins

    Shakespeare’s English and Roman History Plays by Paul N. Siegel

    William Shakespeare by Terry Eagleton

    That Shakespeherian Rag by Terence Hawkes

    Such is My Love: A Study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Joseph Pequigney

  • Charles Rosen

    Now, Voyager e-edition

    Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760–1840 by Barbara Maria Stafford

LETTERS

Contributors

Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.


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.

Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the Department of English at Harvard. Stone at Delphi: Seamus Heaney’s Poems with Classical References, Selected and Introduced by Helen Vendler has just appeared in a limited edition. (March 2013)

George F. Kennan (1904–2005) was an American diplomat, political scientist and historian. He is best known for his role in shaping US foreign policy during the Cold War and, in particular, for the doctrine of containment. Kennan was Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and served as Ambassador to the USSR in 1952 and as Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His books include At a Century’s Ending and An American Family.

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 2000)

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.

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright. His many works include the memoirs Point to Point Navigation and Palimpsest, the novels The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, and Lincoln, and the collection United States: Essays 1952–1992.

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.

Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems 1956–1998 was published in English in 2007. The poem in this issue was prepared for a Polish edition of Herbert’s uncollected poems edited by Ryszard Krynicki. (June 2013)

John Carpenter is a poet and critic. (April 2006)

Bogdana Carpenter is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Michigan. (April 2006)

Charles Rosen is a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.