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November 20, 1986 • Volume 33, Number 18

  • Alfred Brendel

    The Noble Liszt e-edition

  • Noel Annan

    In Bed with the Victorians e-edition

    The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Vol. II: The Tender Passion by Peter Gay

  • Stanley Hoffmann

    An Icelandic Saga e-edition

  • Julian Barnes

    How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Baudelaire! e-edition

    Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude translated and edited by Rosemary Lloyd

  • Norman Davies

    The Survivor’s Voice e-edition

    Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Hanna Krall, translated by Joanna Stasinska, by Lawrence Weschler

  • Robert M. Adams

    The Nose Knows e-edition

    The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin

    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, translated by John E. Woods

  • E.J. Hobsbawm

    Murderous Colombia e-edition

    Human Rights in Colombia as President Barco Begins An Americas Watch Report

    Los años del tropel: Relatos de la violencia by Alfredo Molano

    Estado y subversión en Colombia: La violencia en el Quindío Años 50 by Carlos Miguel Ortiz Sarmiento

    Pasado y presente de la Violencia en Colombia edited by Gonzalo Sanchez, edited by Ricardo Peñaranda

    La paz, la violencia: testigos de excepción. Hechos ye testimonios sobre 40 años de violencia y paz que vuelven a ser hoy de palpitante actualidad by Arturo Alape

    Cese el fuego: Una historia politica de las FARC by Jacobo Arenas

    Colonización, coca y guerrilla by Jaime Jaramillo, by Leonidas Mora, by Fernando Cubides

    Bandoleros, gamonales y campesinos: el caso de la Violencia en Colombia by Gonzalo Sanchez, by Donny Meertens

    La Guerra por la paz by Enrique Santos Calderon, prologue by Gabriel García Márquez

    Historia de una traición by Laura Restrepo, with the assistance of Camilo Gonzalez

    Narcotrafico imperio de la cocaina by Mario Arango, by Jorge Child

    The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl

  • Jonathan Lieberson

    The Unimportance of Being Oscar e-edition

  • Raymond Carr

    The Don Quixote of Diplomacy e-edition

    The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline by J.H. Elliott

  • Helen Vendler

    The Hunting of Wallace Stevens e-edition

    Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self by Milton J. Bates

    Wallace Stevens: A Poet’s Growth by George Lensing

    Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879–1923 by Joan Richardson

  • T.H. Breen

    Right Man, Wrong Place e-edition

    The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580–1631) edited by Philip L. Barbour

  • Peter Bauer

    Anything Goes? e-edition

    Emerging from Poverty: The Economics That Really Matters by Gerald M. Meier

  • Rudolf Peierls

    Conservative Revolutionary e-edition

    The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science by J.L. Heilbron

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.

Noel Annan (1916–2000) was a British military intelligence officer and scholar of European history. His works include Leslie Stephen and Our Age, Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany, and The Curious Strength of Positivism in English Political Thought.

Julian Barnes has written eleven novels, three books of short stories, and four collections of essays. His latest novel, The Sense of an Ending, won the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

T.H. Breen is William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern. His most recent book is American Insurgents, American ­Patriots: The Revolution of the People. (April 2012)

Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002)

Norman Davies is the author of, among other books, Europe: A History, Rising 44: The Battle for Warsaw, and, most recently, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe.

 (May 2013)

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.

Leszek Kołakowski was professor of philosophy at the University of Warsaw until March 1968 when he was formally expelled for political reasons. He was later a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He was the author of several books, including Main Currents in Marxism. The article in this issue will appear in the collection of essays Is God Happy?, to be published in February by Basic Books. He died in 2009. (December 2012)

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.

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.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)

Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was a writer and teacher. Among his books are On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from Howells to Faulkner, and the memoirs A Walker in the Cityand New York Jew. In 1996, he received the first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism from the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history.

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.


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)

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.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft is the author of The Controversy of Zion, The Strange Death of Tory England, and Yo, Blair!
 (April 2013)

Leonard Thompson is Charles J. Stillé Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His books include The Political Mythology of Apartheid and A History of South Africa. (May 1998)