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July 21, 1988 • Volume 35, Number 12

  • Jonathan Lieberson

    The Prophet of Broadway e-edition

    Speed-the-Plow a play by David Mamet, directed by Gregory Mosher

  • Christopher Lasch

    Reagan’s Victims e-edition

    The New Politics of Old Values by John Kenneth White

  • Peter Jenkins

    Odd Man Out e-edition

    The Stalker Affair by John Stalker

  • Geoffrey O’Brien

    Free Spirits e-edition

    Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges by James Harvey

  • John Lukacs

    In Love with Hitler e-edition

    Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels: Sämtliche Fragmente (The Goebbels Diaries: All Entries)

  • James Fallows

    Rx from RN e-edition

    1999: Victory Without War by Richard Nixon

  • John Golding

    The Triumph of Picasso e-edition

    Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1988 an exhibition at the Musée Picasso, Paris, January 26-April 18,. Picasso Museum, Barcelona, May 10-June 14, 1988, Catalog of the exhibition by Hélène Seckel, by William Rubin. others

    Le Dernier Picasso: 1953-1973 16, 1988 an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, February 17-May. Tate Gallery, London, as "Late Picasso," June 21-September 18, 1988, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac, by Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, by David Sylvester

    Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

  • Raymond Carr

    A Revolutionary Hero e-edition

    Inside the Monster: Writings on the United States and American Imperialism by José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall

    Our America: Writings on Latin America and the Struggle for Cuban Independence by José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall

    On Art and Literature: Critical Writings by José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall

  • Murray Kempton

    In Gorbachev’s Russia e-edition

  • Shaul Bakhash

    Islam and Power Politics

    The Neglected Duty: The Creed of Sadat’s Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East by Johannes J.G. Jansen

    Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and Pharaoh by Gilles Kepel, translated by Jon Rothschild

    The Islamic Struggle in Syria by Dr. Umar F. Abd-Allah, foreword and postscript by Hamid Algar

    Interpretations of Islam: Past and Present by Emmanuel Sivan

    The Political Language of Islam by Bernard Lewis

  • Emma Rothschild

    The Reagan Economic Legacy e-edition

    Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1989

    Economic Report of the President, Transmitted to the Congress, February 1988, Together with The Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers

LETTERS

Contributors

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. He is the author of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights.

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic.His books include Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel, Blind into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq, and China Airborne.

John Golding (1929–2012) was a British painter and art historian. He taught at the Courtauld Institute and the Royal College of Art. Among his many books was Cubism: A History and an Analysis, which refuted the notion that Cubism represented a break with the realist tradition. Golding also curated exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, including Picasso: Painter/Sculpter and Matisse Picasso.

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history.

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.

Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) was an American historian.

Jonathan Lieberson (1949–1989) was a philosopher, editor and critic. Lieberson taught at Barnard and Columbia. His book of essays, Varieties, included reflections on personalities as diverse as Diana Vreeland, Paul Valery and Clifford Geertz.

Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania. Over the course of his long and prolific career he published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

Al Alvarez is the author of Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His recent works include Early Autumn and The Fall of the House of Walworth. His new book Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002–2012 will be published in 2013.


Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at King’s College, Cambridge and Harvard, and Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment.

H. R. Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) was a British historian and the author of The Last Days of Hitler. He taught at Oxford, where he was the Regius Professor Modern History.

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 Lukacs was born in Budapest in 1924. He has written twenty-five works of history and criticism, including Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture; Historical Consciousness: Or, The Remembered Past; The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler; and, most recently, George Kennan: A Study of Character.

Nicholas Lemann is Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.