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November 19, 1987 • Volume 34, Number 18

  • E.J. Hobsbawm

    Slyest of the Foxes

    Duke Ellington by James Lincoln Collier

  • Eugenio Montale,
    Jonathan Galassi

    Little Testament (poem) e-edition

  • Thomas Powers

    Casey’s Case e-edition

    Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987 by Bob Woodward

  • Ian Buruma

    The Last Bengali Renaissance Man e-edition

    The Unicorn Expedition and Other Fantastic Tales of India by Satyajit Ray

    The Home and the World A film directed by Satyajit Ray. produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India

  • David Joravsky

    Off to a Bad Start e-edition

    The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce

    Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology by Philip J. Pauly

  • Robert Towers

    Grace Street Blues e-edition

    Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

  • Joseph Brodsky

    ‘Slave, Come to My Service!’ (poem) e-edition

  • Murray Kempton

    The Family Business e-edition

    I Pledge Allegiance…The True Story of the Walkers: An American Spy Family by Howard Blum

  • Oliver Sacks,
    Robert Wasserman

    The Case of the Colorblind Painter e-edition

    Some Uncommon Observations About Vitiated Sight by Robert Boyle

    “Disorders of Complex Visual Processing” by Antonio R. Damasio. in M-Marsel Mesulam, ed., Principles of Behavioral Neurology

    Caspar Hauser by Anselm von Feuerbach

    The Intelligent Eye by Richard L. Gregory

    Physiological Optics Society of America, Washington, DC, 1924 by Hermann von Helmholtz. original edition 1856–1867, translation published by The Optical

    “The Retinex Theory of Color Vision” by Edwin H. Land in Scientific American

    Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr

    “Retinex Theory and Colour Constancy,” article by J.J. McCann in Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind

    “Colour Vision: Eye Mechanisms,” article by W.A.H. Rushton in Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind

    Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein

    “The Construction of Colours by the Cerebral Cortex” an article by S. Zeki in Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain

    “Selective Disturbance of Movement Vision after Bilateral Brain Damage” in Brain, article by J. Zihl et al.

    Colourful Notions series The Nature of Things (1984) A film written and produced by John Roth

  • Veronica Geng

    Pat Robertson’s Catalog Essay for a New Exhibition of Paintings by David Salle e-edition

  • Claire Tomalin

    Frankenstein’s Mother e-edition

    Mary Shelley: A Biography by Muriel Spark

    The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814?–1844, Vol. I, 1814?–1822 Vol. II, 1822?–1844 edited by Paula R. Feldman, edited by Diana Scott-Kilvert

  • C. Vann Woodward

    The Lash and the Knout e-edition

    Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom by Peter Kolchin

  • Jug Suraiya

    Indian English e-edition

    Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive by Col. Henry Yule R.E., C.B., by A.C. Burnell Ph.D., C.I.E., new edition edited by William Crooke B.A.

  • Robert M. Adams

    Much Ado About Everything e-edition

    The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition by Jan Kott, translated by Daniela Miedzyrzecka, by Lillian Valee

  • Natalie Zemon Davis

    A New Montaigne e-edition

    Montaigne in Motion by Jean Starobinski, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

  • Stephen Toulmin

    The Conscientious Spy e-edition

    Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy by Robert Chadwell Williams

    Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb by Norman Moss

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.

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His most recent books are Chaos and Violence: What Globalization, Failed States, and Terrorism Mean for US Foreign Policy and Rousseau and Freedom, coedited with Christie McDonald.


Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) was a Russian poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, Brodsky moved to the United States when he was exiled from Russia in 1972. His poetry collections include A Part of Speech andTo Urania; his essay collections include Less Than One, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Watermark. In 1987, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He served as US Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1992.

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.

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.

Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)

Jonathan Galassi’s most recent collection of poems, Left-Handed, is coming out in paperback this fall. (June 2013)

E. J. Hobsbawm (1918–1987) was a British historian. Born in Egypt, he was educated at Cambridge; he taught at Birkbeck College and The New School. His works include The Age of Extremes; Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism; and On Empire.

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone. His latest book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. He is currently writing a memoir of his father, who once told him that the last time he met Clare Boothe Luce was in the office of Allen Dulles.


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.


Claire Tomalin is the author of many biographies, among them Jane Austen: A Life and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self. Her new book, Charles Dickens: A Life, will be published in October. (September 2011)

Natalie Zemon Davis is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton and Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author most recently of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds. (May 2008)

David Joravsky is Professor Emeritus of History at Northwestern. His books include The Lysenko Affairand Russian Psychology: A Critical History.

Robert Towers (1923–1995) was an American critic and novelist. Born in Virginia, Towers was educated at Princeton and served for two years as Vice Counsel at the American Consulate General in Calcutta before dedicating himself to literary studies. He taught English literature and creative writing at Princeton, Queens College and Columbia.

C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) was a historian of the American South. He taught at Johns Hopkins and at Yale, where he was named the Sterling Professor of History. His books include Mary Chesnut’s Civil War and The Old World’s New World.

Stephen Toulmin (1922–2009) was a British philosopher. First outlined in The Uses of Argument, his model for analyzing arguments has had a lasting influence on fields as diverse as law, computer science and communications theory. Toulmin’s other works include The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning and Return to Reason.