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October 9, 1986 • Volume 33, Number 15

  • Gordon A. Craig

    The Waldheim File e-edition

    Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socialism by Bruce F. Pauley

    Hitler’s Hometown: Linz, Austria, 1908-1945 by Evan Burr Bukey

    Kurt Waldheim’s Hidden Past: An Interim Report to the President, World Jewish Congress World Jewish Congress (June 2, 1986)

    Die Reichsidee bei Konstantin Frantz Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien (1944) (Courtesy of Simon Wiesenthal Center.) by Kurt Waldheim

    In the Eye of the Storm: A Memoir by Kurt Waldheim

  • Jason Epstein

    Edmund Wilson at Ease e-edition

    The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Leon Edel

  • Conor Cruise O’Brien

    Trop de Zèle e-edition

    The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet by Norman Podhoretz

  • Robert Darnton

    Pop Foucaultism e-edition

    Damning the Innocent: A History of the Persecution of the Impotent in Pre-Revolutionary France by Pierre Darmon, translated by Paul Keegan

  • Edward Mortimer

    The Road Not Taken e-edition

    The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon by Fouad Ajami

  • Italo Calvino,
    Patrick Creagh

    Why Read the Classics?

  • Ellen Levy

    Rec Room (poem) e-edition

  • Israel Rosenfield

    Neural Darwinism: A New Approach to Memory and Perception

    “Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function” 36, No. 1 (October 1982) by Gerald M. Edelman. in Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol.

    “Neural Darwinism: Population Thinking and Higher Brain Function” by Gerald M. Edelman, by in How We Know, ed. Michael Shafto

    “Group Selection and Phasic Reentrant Signaling: A Theory of Higher Brain Function” by Gerald M. Edelman, by in The Mindful Brain ed. G.M. Edelman, by V.B. Mountcastle

    “Group Selection as the Basis for Higher Brain Function” ed. by Gerald M. Edelman, by in The Organization of the Cerebral Cortex F.O. Schmitt et al.

    “Neuronal Group Selection in the Cerebral Cortex” by Gerald M. Edelman, by Leif H. Finkel, by in Dynamic Aspects of Neocortical Function ed. G.M. Edelman, by W.E. Gall, by W.M. Cowan

    “Cell Adhesion Molecules” by Gerald M. Edelman. in Science, Vol. 219, (February 4, 1983)

    “Expression of Cell Adhesion Molecules During Embryogenesis and Regeneration” by Gerald M. Edelman. in Experimental Cell Research 161 (1984)

    “Interaction of Synaptic Modification Rules Within Populations of Neurons” (February 1985) by Leif H. Finkel, by Gerald M. Edelman. in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Vol. 82

    “Selective Networks and Recognition Automata” by George N. Reeke Jr., by Gerald M. Edelman. in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1985)

  • Alan M. Dershowitz

    Tall Tales from the Drug Wars e-edition

    The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace by James Mills

  • Theodore H. Draper

    Eisenhower’s War-II e-edition

    Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945 by David Eisenhower

  • Stuart Cary Welch

    The Sahib’s Pictures e-edition

    From Merchants to Emperors: British Artists and India, 1757–1930 by Pratapaditya Pal, by Vidya Dehejia

  • Felix Gilbert

    The Other Florence e-edition

    Tuscans and Their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 by David Herlihy, by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber

    Giovanna and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence by Gene Brucker

    Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence by Katharine Park

    Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence by Ann G. Carmichael

    Pictures and Punishment: Art and Criminal Prosecution during the Florentine Renaissance by Samuel Y. Edgerton Jr.

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    Does Central Europe Exist? e-edition

    The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe by Václav Havel et al., introduction by Steven Lukes, edited by John Keane

    The Anatomy of a Reticence by Václav Havel

    Antipolitics: An Essay by George Konrád, Translated from the Hungarian by Richard E. Allen

    Letters from Prison and Other Essays by Adam Michnik, translated by Maya Latynski, foreword by Czeslaw Milosz, introduction by Jonathan Schell

    Takie czasy…Rzecz o kompromisie by Adam Michnik

    KOR: A History of the Workers’ Defense Committee in Poland, 1976–1981 by Jan Józef Lipski, translated by Olga Amsterdamska, by Gene M. Moore

  • Michael Reck,
    Theodore Weiss,
    Alfred Kazin,
    Oliver Taplin

    An Exchange on Ezra Pound

LETTERS

Contributors

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was an Italian writer and novelist. His works include The Road to San Giovanni, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, and Mr. Palomar.

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of many books, including The Magic Lantern, an eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989. His most recent book is Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name. He is currently leading an Oxford University 
research project for the discussion of global free speech norms (www.freespeechdebate.com) and working on a book about free speech.

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)

Ian Hacking teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto. From 2000 to 2006 Hacking held the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology.

Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) was a Scottish-American historian of Germany. He taught at both Princeton and Stanford, where he was named the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1979.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.


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.

Jason Epstein launched the trade paperback format in the US in 1952 as a young editor at Doubleday. In 1963 he was a founder of The New York Review and in 1979 cofounder with the late Edmund Wilson of the Library of America. In 2007 he cofounded On Demand Books. Among his many awards are the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books.
 (February 2011)

Edward Mortimer was until 2006 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. (April 2008)

Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917–2009) was an Irish historian and politician. He was elected to the Irish parliament in 1969 and served as a Minister from 1973 until 1977. His works include States of Ireland, The Great Melody and Memoir: My Life and Themes.

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.

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)