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Contents

December 17, 1987 • Volume 34, Number 20

  • John Richardson

    A Côté Capote e-edition

    Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote

    The Capote Reader by Truman Capote

  • Seamus Heaney

    In Memoriam: Robert Fitzgerald (poem) e-edition

  • Primo Levi,
    Raymond Rosenthal

    Beyond Judgment e-edition

  • Darryl Pinckney

    The Outsider e-edition

    Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance by Wayne F. Cooper

  • Charles Rosen

    Romantic Originals e-edition

    La Comédie humaine by Honoré de Balzac, published under the direction of Pierre-Georges Castex

    Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works edited by Jerome J. McGann

    The Cornell Wordsworth edited by Stephen M. Parrish

    William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism An exhibition at the New York Public Library through January 2, 1988

    William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism Catalog of the exhibition by Jonathan Wordsworth, by Michael C. Jaye, by Robert Woof

  • John Bayley

    Fun While It Lasted e-edition

    The Neo-pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth by Paul Delany

  • Ronald Dworkin

    From Bork to Kennedy e-edition

  • Neal Ascherson

    Polish Nightmares e-edition

    Moonrise, Moonset by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Richard Lourie

    The Color of Blood by Brian Moore

  • Martin Filler

    Thoroughly Modern Master e-edition

    Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier, translated and with an introduction by Frederick Etchells

    The Villas of Le Corbusier: 1920–1930 by Tim Benton

    Le Corbusier: Architect of the Century

    Journey to the East by Le Corbusier, edited and annotated by Ivan Zaknić, translated by Ivan Zaknić, in collaboration with Nicole Pertuiset

    The Le Corbusier Guide by Deborah Gans

    Le Corbusier: 5 Projects 26, 1987) An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (March 26–May

    Le Corbusier: Une encyclopédie Catalog of the exhibition "L'Aventure Le Corbusier: 1887–1965" at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (October 6, 1987–January 3, 1988), edited by Jacques Lucan

    Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms by William J.R. Curtis

    Le Corbusier edited by H. Allen Brooks

    Le Corbusier: The City of Refuge, Paris, 1929–1933 by Brian Brace Taylor

    Pessac de Le Corbusier: 1927–1985, Etude socio-architecturale by Philippe Boudon, preface by Henri Lefebvre

    Le Corbusier: Early Works by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris with contributions by Geoffrey Baker, by Jacques Gubler

    Le Corbusier: La progettazione come mutamento Catalog of the exhibition at the Università Statale, Milan (December 15, 1986–January 31, 1987), edited by Cesare Blasi, by Gabriella Padovano

    Le Corbusier: Pittore e scultore Catalog of the exhibition at the Museo Correr, Venice (September 6–November 30, 1986)

    Le Corbusier Secret: Dessins et collages de la collection Ahrenberg Lausanne Catalog of the exhibition at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (April 2–May 10, 1987)

    The Decorative Art of Today by Le Corbusier, translated and introduced by James I. Dunnett

    L’Esprit Nouveau: Le Corbusier und die Industrie, 1920–1925 Catalog of the exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich(March 28–May 10, 1987)

  • Lawrence Stone

    Resisting the New e-edition

    The New History and the Old by Gertrude Himmelfarb

  • David Cannadine

    Too Proud to Fight? e-edition

    RAB: The Life of R.A. Butler by Anthony Howard

  • Theodore H. Draper

    An Autopsy e-edition

Contributors

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

David Cannadine is the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton.

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.

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


Martin Filler was the longtime architecture critic of House & Garden, until it ceased publication in 2007. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect, and author of Makers of Modern Architecture, which is based on essays from The New York Review. A second volume of his writings on architecture is forthcoming from New York Review Books.


John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso, Volume Three, was published in 2007. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991.

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

Seamus Heaney’s first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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

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.


Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.