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March 12, 1987 • Volume 34, Number 4

  • David Malouf

    House of the Dead e-edition

    The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

  • John Ashbery

    A Mood of Quiet Beauty (poem) e-edition

  • V.S. Pritchett

    The Magician’s Trick e-edition

    The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov

  • Robert Lowell

    Near the Unbalanced Aquarium e-edition

  • Ian Buruma

    We Japanese e-edition

    My Life Between Japan and America by Edwin O. Reischauer

    Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony by Akio Morita, with Edwin M. Reingold, by Mitsuko Shimomura

  • John Pope-Hennessy

    Berenson’s Certificate e-edition

    Artful Partners: Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen by Colin Simpson

  • Felix G. Rohatyn

    The Blight on Wall Street e-edition

  • Peter Brown

    Brave Old World e-edition

    Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox

  • Robert M. Adams

    On the Trail of Santa Fe e-edition

    New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State Project Administration. for the American Guide Series by the Writers' Program of the Works

    New Mexico: A New Guide to the Colorful State by Lance Chilton, by Katherine Chilton, by Polly E. Arango, by James Dudley, by Nancy Neary, by Patricia Stelzner

    Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range by William deBuys

    Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region by Victor Westphall

    Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800–1933 by G. Emlen Hall

    New Mexico: A Bicentennial History by Marc Simmons

    Along the Santa Fe Trail essay by Marc Simmons, photographs by Joan Myers

    Haunted Highways: The Ghost Towns of New Mexico by Ralph Looney

    Four Fighters of Lincoln County by Robert M. Utley

  • Thomas C. Grey

    Advice for ‘Judge and Company’ e-edition

    Law’s Empire by Ronald Dworkin

  • Leo Marx

    A Visit to Mr. America e-edition

    The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson by Irving Howe

  • István Deák

    The Convert

    Georg Lukács: Record of a Life—An Autobiographical Sketch edited by István Eörsi, translated by Rodney Livingstone

    Georg Lukács and His Generation: 1900–1918 by Mary Gluck

    The Young Lukács by Lee Congdon

    Georg Lukács: His Life in Pictures and Documents compiled by Éva Fekete, by Éva Karádi

    Georg Lukács, Karl Mannheim und der Sonntagskreis edited by Éva Karádi, by Erzsébet Vezér, Translated from the Hungarian by Albrecht Friedrich

    Georg Lukács: Selected Correspondence, 1902––1920, dialogues with Weber, Simmel, Buber, Mannheim, and Others selected, edited, translated, and annotated by Judith Marcus, by Zoltán Tar, with an introduction by Zoltán Tar

  • J.Z. Young,
    Francisco J. Ayala,
    J. Szentagothai,
    Eliot Stellar, et al.

    Neural Darwinism: An Exchange

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.

John Ashbery is the author of several books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. His first collection, Some Trees (1956), was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. From 1990 until 2008 Ashbery was the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD, published in September. (December 2012)

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.

Robert Lowell (1917–1977) was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Life Studies, For the Union Dead, and The Dolphin are among his many volumes of verse. He was confounder of and contributor to The New York Review of Books.

David Malouf is a novelist and poet. His novel The Great World was awarded the Commonwealth Prize and Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He has received the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Jan Gross and Tony Judt, of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.

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.”


Leo Marx is the Kenan Professor of American Cultural History (Emeritus) at MIT and most recently the editor, with Bruce Mazlish, of Progress:Fact or Illusion? (July 1999)

V.S. Pritchett (1900–1997) was a British essayist, novelist and short story writer. He worked as a foreign correspondent for the The Christian Science Monitorand as a literary critic forNew Statesman. In 1968 Pritchett was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire; he was knighted in 1975. His body of work includes many collections of short stories, in addition to travelogues, reviews, literary biographies and novels.

Felix Rohatyn is an investment banker and has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, and US Ambassador to France. (October 2008)

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)