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June 29, 1989 • Volume 36, Number 11

  • Orville Schell

    China’s Spring e-edition

  • Bernard Knox

    Los Olvidados e-edition

    The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance by John Boswell

  • Robert Bernard Martin

    Romance Incarnate e-edition

    Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality by Emily W. Sunstein

  • C. Vann Woodward

    The Mississippi Horrors e-edition

    Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow by Neil R. McMillen

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    The Incredible Shrinking Man e-edition

    The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, by Timothy Cheek, by Eugene Wu, with contributions by Merle Goldman, by Benjamin Schwartz

  • Michael Ignatieff

    The Rise and Fall of Vienna’s Jews e-edition

    The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph by Robert S. Wistrich

    Vienna and Its Jews: The Tragedy of Success, 1880s–1980s by George E. Berkley

    A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670–1918 by William O. McCagg Jr.

    Judentum in Wien: Sammlung Max Berger November 12, 1987–June 5, 1988 catalog of the exhibition at the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien,

    The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria (revised edition) Peter Pulzer

    The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight and Exile by Paul Hofmann

    Vienna and the Jews, 1867–1938: A Cultural History by Steven Beller

  • Robert Hughes

    The Liberal Goya e-edition

    Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment 9–July 16, 1989). an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (May

    Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment catalog of the exhibition by Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, by Eleanor A. Sayre

  • Denis Donoghue

    The Strange Case of Paul de Man e-edition

    Wartime Journalism: 1939–1943 by Paul de Man, edited by Werner Hamacher, by Neil Hertz, by Thomas Keenan

    Responses: On Paul de Man’s Wartime Journalism edited by Werner Hamacher, edited by Neil Hertz, edited by Thomas Keenan

    Critical Writings: 1953–1978 by Paul de Man, edited and with an introduction by Lindsay Waters

    Reading de Man Reading edited by Lindsay Waters, edited by Wlad Godzich

  • Perry Link

    The Chinese Intellectuals and the Revolt e-edition

  • James Atlas

    Golden Boy e-edition

    Passage From Home by Isaac Rosenfeld, with a new foreword by Mark Shechner

    Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader edited and introduced by Mark Shechner, foreword by Saul Bellow

  • Ronald Steel

    A Gent of Dissent e-edition

    The Price of Empire by J. William Fulbright, with Seth P. Tillman

  • Ronald Dworkin

    The Great Abortion Case e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom’s Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact.”

Robert Hughes’s most recent book, Things I Didn–?t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

Perry Link is Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, specializing in modern Chinese literature and Chinese language. He is currently Chancellorial Chair for Innovation in Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside. Along with Andrew J. Nathan, Link translated the Tiananmen Papers, which detailed the governmental response to the 1989 democracy protests. He is editing a collection of essays and poems by Liu Xiaobo that will appear in 2012 from Harvard University Press.

Orville Schell is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City. (May 2010)

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles’s translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian of China. Until 1998 he was East Asia editor of The Times of London. (October 2011)

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)

Michael Scammell is Professor of Writing and Translation at Columbia. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography and Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic.
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