Contents

February 26, 1987 • Volume 34, Number 3
  • Octavio Paz,
    Eliot Weinberger

    Food of the Gods e-edition

    The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art 17–August 24, 1986), and the Cleveland Museum of Art (October 8–December 14, 1986) An exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (May

    The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Worth) by Linda Schele, by Mary Ellen Miller

  • Alfred Kazin

    Mencken and the Great American Boob e-edition

    The Dreiser–Mencken Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser & H.L. Mencken, 1907–1945 Vol. I and II, edited by Thomas P. Riggio

    Mencken and Sara, A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

  • Bertram Wyatt-Brown

    Southern Gentleman e-edition

    Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter annotated with the assistance of Susan W. Walker) (with "The Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin, 1822–1890," edited and, by Theodore Rosengarten

  • D.J. Enright

    Writers at Play e-edition

    The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties by Alasdair Gray

    Saints and Strangers by Angela Carter

  • Ian Hacking

    When the Atom Broke Down e-edition

    Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World by Abraham Pais

  • Charles Rosen,
    Henri Zerner

    The Judgment of Paris e-edition

    Le Musée d’Orsay 1, rue de Bellechasse, Paris

    Le Triomphe des mairies 8, 1987) An exhibition at the Petit Palais, Paris, (November 8, 1986–January, Catalog by Thérèse Burollet, by Daniel Imbert, by Frank Folliot

    Les Concours d’esquisses peintes, 1816–1863 1986–December 14, 1986), and the National Academy of Design, New York (January 13, 1987–March 15, 1987). An exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (October 8,, Catalog by Philippe Grunchec

  • Denis Donoghue

    The Luck of the Irish e-edition

    The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse edited by Thomas Kinsella

    The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry edited by Paul Muldoon

  • Ronald Dworkin

    The Press on Trial e-edition

    Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time by Renata Adler

  • Murray Kempton

    A Sad Heart at the Supermarket e-edition

    Rating America’s Corporate Conscience by Steven D. Lydenberg, by Alice Tepper Martin, by Sean O'Brien Strub. the Council on Economic Priorities

  • Lawrence Stone

    The Century of Revolution e-edition

    Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640–1660 by Gerald E. Aylmer

    Authority and Conflict: England, 1603–1658 by Derek Hirst

    Faction and Parliament: Essays on Early Stuart History edited by Kevin Sharpe

    Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603–1660 by David Underdown

    Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London by Paul S. Seaver

    Order and Disorder in Early Modern England edited by A. Fletcher, edited by J. Stevenson

    Parliamentary Selection: Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England by Mark Kishlansky

LETTERS

Contributors

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom’s Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact.”

D. J. Enright’s books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)

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)

Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City, and his extraordinarily busy and fruitful life took him from civil-war Spain to surrealist Paris, from US universities to the Mexican embassy in New Delhi, where he served for six years as ambassador before resigning in protest after his government’s suppression of student demonstrations at the 1968 Olympic Games. A great poet, Paz was also the author of many essays and a study of Mexican identity, The Labyrinth of Solitude, as well as the founder and editor of two important journals, Plural and Vuelta. Octavio Paz received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Eliot Weinberger’s most recent book is the essay collection Oranges & Peanuts for Sale.