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November 19, 1987 • Volume 34, Number 18

  • E.J. Hobsbawm

    Slyest of the Foxes e-edition

    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

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 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.


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 translation of Giacomo Leopardi’s Canti has just been published in paperback. The poem in this issue will appear in his new book of poems, Left-Handed, to be published by Knopf in March.
 (February 2012)

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.

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, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.

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)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut’s Civil War and The Old World’s New World. (February 1998)