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February 18, 1988 • Volume 35, Number 2

  • John Gross

    Star

    Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

  • Garry Wills

    Blood Sport e-edition

    The Manly Art by Elliott J. Gorn

    John L. Sullivan and His America by Michael T. Isenberg

    Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society by Jeffrey T. Sammons

    On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates

  • Felix G. Rohatyn

    Restoring American Independence e-edition

  • Alison Lurie

    Underground Artist e-edition

    A Game of Dark

    Salt River Times

    Max’s Dream

    A Parcel of Trees

    While the Bell Rings

    Underground Alley

    Earthfasts

    Winter Quarters

  • John K. Fairbank

    Born Too Late e-edition

    The Last Emperor a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

    Twilight in the Forbidden City (1973), out of print by Reginald F. Johnston. with a preface by the Emperor

    From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi translated by W.J.F. Jenner

    From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi reprinted with new general and chapter introductions by W.J.F. Jenner, afterword by Simon Winchester

    The Last Emperor by Edward Behr

    The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China translated by Kuo Ying Paul Tsai, edited, with a revised preface and epilogue, by Paul Kramer

    A Dream of Tartary: The Origins and Misfortunes of Henry Pu Yi by Henry McAleavy

    Pu Yi: J’étais empereur de Chine: L’autobiographie du dernier empereur de Chine (1906–1967)

  • Joseph Brodsky

    Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky (poem)

  • Gordon A. Craig

    The Kaiser and the Kritik e-edition

    Kaiser, Hof und Staat: Wilhlem II und die deutsche Politik by John C.G. Röhl

    Max Weber and German Politics: 1890–1920 by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, translated by Michael S. Steinberg

    Max Weber zur Politik im Weltkrieg: Schriften und Reden, 1914–1918 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung 1, Band 15) edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Gangolf Hübner

    Max Weber and his Contemporaries edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, edited by Jürgen Osterhammel

  • Roderick MacFarquhar

    Passing the Baton in Beijing e-edition

  • Abraham Brumberg

    Poland: The New Opposition e-edition

  • James Joll

    Coming Up for Air e-edition

    Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich by Harold B. Segel

    Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope, 1870–1925 by Elaine Brody

  • Jonathan D. Spence

    China on My Mind e-edition

    China Watch by John King Fairbank

    The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800–1985 by John King Fairbank

  • Gordon S. Wood

    The Fundamentalists and the Constitution e-edition

    The American Founding: Politics, Statesmanship, and the Constitution edited by Ralph A. Rossum, edited by Gary L. McDowell

    The Complete Anti-Federalist edited by Herbert J. Storing

    “The Constitutional Order, 1787–1987” edited by Irving Kristol, edited by Nathan Glazer

    Constitutionalism and Rights edited by Gary C. Bryner, edited by Noel B. Reynolds

    The Founders’ Constitution edited by Philip B. Kurland, edited by Ralph Lerner

    The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution edited by Leonard W. Levy, edited by Dennis J. Mahoney

    The Moral Foundations of the American Republic edited by Robert H. Horwitz

    Saving the Revolution: “The Federalist Papers” and The American Founding edited by Charles R. Kesler

    Taking the Constitution Seriously by Walter Berns

    The Thinking Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the New Republic by Ralph Lerner

  • Ludovic Kennedy,
    Anthony Scaduto,
    Francis Russell

    The Lindbergh Case: An Exchange

  • Murray Kempton

    A Time for Jeremiah e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

Abraham Brumberg (1926–2008) was an essayist, editor and translator. His memoir, Journey Through Vanishing Worlds, was published by New Academia in 2007.

Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) was a Scottish-American historian of Germany. He taught at both Princeton and Stanford, where he was named the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1979.

John Gross (1935–2011) was an English editor and critic. From 1974 to 1981, he was editor of The Times Literary Supplement; he also served as senior book editor and critic at The New York Times. His memoir, A Double Thread, was published in 2001.

James Joll (1936–2011) was a British historian. His books include The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870.

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.

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)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His study of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. His latest book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, was published in February 2013.

John K. Fairbank (1907–1991) was an American sinologist. His final book was China: A New History.

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was a poet and one of most prominent figures of the Beat Generation. His epic poem “Howl,” which denounced bourgeois conformity and capitalistic greed, became the subject of a landmark obscenity trial in San Francisco. Known for his celebration of the marginalized and the downtrodden and his opposition to American militarism, Ginsberg drew inspiration from the long lines and anaphoric rhythms of Walt Whitman. His 1981 collection Plutonium Ode won the National Book Award; in 1993 Ginsberg was awarded the medal of Chevalier Des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Rose B. Styron is a poet, journalist and human rights activist. She is the author of By Vineyard Light, a collection of poems centered on Martha’s Vineyard, where she and her husband, writer William Styron, spent extended summers. Her other books include From Summer to Summer, Thieves’ Afternoon and Modern Russian Poetry.

Jonathan Spence is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Death of Woman Wang, Treason by the Book, The Question of Hu, and The Search for Modern China.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. She is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever, and the editor of The Oxford Book of Fairy Tales. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.


Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book is the edited volume The Politics of China: Sixty Years of the People’s Republic of China. (April 2013)