Contents

January 29, 1987 • Volume 34, Number 1
  • Diane Johnson

    Playtime e-edition

    Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures by Frances FitzGerald

  • Theodore H. Draper

    Reagan’s Junta e-edition

  • Christopher Hill

    Success Story e-edition

    Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates by Robert C. Ritchie

  • Darryl Pinckney

    Black Victims, Black Villains e-edition

    The Color Purple by Alice Walker

    The Color Purple a film by Steven Spielberg

    Reckless Eyeballing by Ishmael Reed

  • Ian Buruma

    Korea: Shame & Chauvinism e-edition

    Prison Writings by Kim Dae Jung, translated by Choi Sung-Il

  • T.H. Breen

    New World Symphony e-edition

    The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction by Bernard Bailyn

    Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn, with the assistance of Barbara DeWolfe

  • Martin Filler

    The Master Builder e-edition

    Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work by Robert Twombly

    The Curve of the Arch: The Story of Louis Sullivan’s Owatonna Bank by Larry Millett

    Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament by David Van Zanten, by William Jordy, by Wim de Wit, by Rochelle Elstein

    Louis Sullivan and the Polemics of Modern Architecture: The Present against the Past by David S. Andrew

  • Lincoln Kirstein

    Provocateur e-edition

    The Gavin Ewart Show: Selected Poems 1939–1985 by Gavin Ewart

    The Young Pobble’s Guide to his Toes by Gavin Ewart

  • Oliver Sacks

    Tics e-edition

    Etude sur une affection nerveuse caracterisée par de l’incoordination motrice accompagnée d’echolalie et de copralalie” by Georges Gilles de la Tourette

    Gilles de la Tourette on Tourette Syndrome” by C.G. Goetz, by H.L. Klawans. in Arnold J. Friedhoff and Thomas N. Chase, eds., Advances in Neurology, Vol. 35 (1982): Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

    Postencephalitic Respiratory Disorders by Smith Ely Jelliffe

    Psychopathology of Forced Movements and the Oculogyric Crises of Lethargic Encephalitis by Smith Ely Jelliffe

    Tics and Related Disorders by A.J Lees

    The Mind of a Mnemonist by A.R. Luria

    Psychoanalytic Evaluation of Tic in Psychopathology of Children” by Margaret S. Mahler. in Psychoanalytic Study of the Child

    Tics and Their Treatment by H. Meige, by E. Feindel. translated and edited by S.A.K. Wilson from 1902 original

    Limbic Innervation of the Striatum” by Walle J.H. Nauta. in Arnold J. Freidhoff and Thomas N. Chase, eds. Advances in Neurology, Vol. 35: Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

    Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

    Acquired Tourettism in Adult Life” by Oliver Sacks. in Arnold J. Friedhoff and Thomas N. Chase, eds., Advances in Neurology, Vol. 35: Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

    The Possessed” in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and OtherClinical Tales

    Witty Ticcy Ray” in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

    A Case of Gilles de la Tourette’s Disease After 10 Years’ Treatment with Haloperidol (R.1625)” by Jean-N. Seignot. in F.S. Abuzzahab and F.O. Anderson, eds., Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome: Vol. 1, International Registry

  • D.S. Carne-Ross

    The Strange Case of Leopardi e-edition

    The Moral Essays by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Patrick Creagh

    Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Giovanni Cecchetti

    Pensieri by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by W. S. Di Piero

    A Leopardi Reader edited and translated by Ottavio Casale

  • John Heath-Stubbs

    From ‘Le Ricordanze’ (‘Memories’) (poem) e-edition

  • Murray Kempton

    Leaving Bad Enough Alone e-edition

  • Israel Shahak,
    Timothy Garton Ash

    The Life of Death’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

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)

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.


Christopher Hill (1912–2003) was an English historian. Educated at Oxford, Hill taught at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire as well as Oxford, where he was elected Master of Balliol College. His books include Puritanism and Revolution,Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, and The World Turned Upside Down.

Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. Her books include Lulu in Marrakechand Le Divorce. Her new book, Flyover Lives, will be published in January 2014.

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.

Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996) was a writer and ballet critic. In 1946, together with George Balanchine, Kirstein founded the Ballet Society, which would soon be renamed The New York City Ballet. In 1984 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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

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.

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. His latest book, Hallucinations, was published in November 2012.


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.

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)

Frederick C. Crews is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays.