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October 12, 1989 • Volume 36, Number 15

  • Rosemary Dinnage

    White Magic e-edition

    Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England by T.M. Luhrmann

  • Gabriele Annan

    Chaste Lovers e-edition

    Count d’Orgel’s Ball by Raymond Radiguet, translated by Annapaola Cancogni, foreword by Jean Cocteau

  • Gordon A. Craig

    Making Way for Hitler e-edition

    How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939 by Donald Cameron Watt

    Chamberlain and Roosevelt: British Foreign Policy and the United States, 1937–1940 by William R. Rock

    Der Eisbrecher: Hitler in Stalins Kalkül by Viktor Suworow

  • Simon Leys

    After the Massacres e-edition

  • Walter McDonald

    Digging in a Footlocker (poem) e-edition

  • Darryl Pinckney

    Trickster Tales e-edition

    The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed

    The Terrible Threes by Ishmael Reed

    The Free-Lance Pallbearers: An Irreverent Novel by Ishmael Reed

    Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed

    Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

    The Last Days of Louisiana Red by Ishmael Reed

    New and Collected Poems by Ishmael Reed

    Writin’ Is Fightin’: Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper by Ishmael Reed

  • Diane Johnson

    In Bed with Social Science e-edition

    Sex and Morality in the U.S.: An Empirical Enquiry under the Auspices of the Kinsey Institute by Albert D. Klassen, by Colin J. Williams, by Eugene E. Levitt, edited by Hubert J. O'Gorman

  • Hugh Trevor-Roper

    The Prophet e-edition

    Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life by William H. McNeill

  • Garry Wills

    Mr. Memory e-edition

    The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow

  • Lord Zuckerman

    How to Kill Arms Control e-edition

  • Jan Kott,
    Jadwiga Kosicka

    Caesar at the Bastille e-edition

  • James M. McPherson

    How the North Nearly Lost e-edition

    Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History by Richard M. McMurry

    Stonewall Jackson: Portrait of a Soldier by John Bowers

    The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860–1865 edited by Stephen W. Sears

    Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander edited by Gary W. Gallagher

  • Peter Jenkins

    Her Majesty’s Secret e-edition

    The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy by Tom Nairn

  • Wilfrid Sheed

    Outside Baseball e-edition

    Summer of ‘49 by David Halberstam

    The Progress of the Seasons: Forty Years of Baseball in Our Town by George V. Higgins

    Necessities: Racial Barriers in American Sports by Philip M. Hoose

    Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers by John B. Holway

    Crash: The Life and Times of Dick Allen by Dick Allen, by Tim Whitaker

    The Story of My Life by Hank Greenberg, edited and with an introduction by Ira Berkow

    Out of the Blue by Orel Hershiser, with Jerry B. Jenkins

  • Peter B. Reddaway

    Should World Psychiatry Readmit the Soviets? e-edition

  • C.M. Woodhouse

    Who Killed George Polk? e-edition

    The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair by Edmund Keeley

  • Andrew Hacker

    Affirmative Action: The New Look e-edition

    Eliminating Racism: Profiles in Controversy edited by Phyllis A. Katz, edited by Dalmas A. Taylor

    Freshman Admissions at Berkeley: A Policy for the 1990s and Beyond Division, Academic Senate, University of California a Report by the Committee on Admissions and Enrollment, Berkeley, by Jerome Karabel chairman

    Choosing a College: A Guide for Parents and Students by Thomas Sowell

    The Case Against the SAT by James Crouse, by Dale Trusheim

    Blacks in College: A Comparative Study of Students’ Success in Black and in White Institutions by Jacqueline Fleming

    A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society edited by Gerald David Jaynes, edited by Robin M. Williams Jr.

    Visions of a Better Way: A Black Appraisal of Public Schooling by the Committee on Policy for Racial Justice, prepared by Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, preface by John Hope Franklin

    Minorities in Higher Education edited by Reginald Wilson, edited by Deborah J. Carter

LETTERS

Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Amos Elon (1926–2009) was an Israeli journalist. His final book was The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews In Germany 1743 – 1933.

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.

Rosemary Dinnage’s books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at New York University, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. His works include The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and The American Classics.

Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. Her books include Lulu in Marrakechand Le Divorce. Her new book, Flyover Lives, will be published in January 2014.

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Simon Leys is the pen name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. Leys’s writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Le Monde, Le Figaro Littéraire, and other periodicals. Among his books are Chinese Shadows, The Death of Napoleon (forthcoming from NYRB Classics), Other People’s Thoughts, and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper. In 1996 he delivered the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Boyer lectures. His many awards include the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Femina, the Prix Guizot, and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

James McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. His most recent book is War on the Waters: The Union and Confederates Navies, 1861-1865.

Peter B. Reddaway is Professor Emeritus of Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.

Wilfrid Sheed (1915–2011) was a British-American novelist and critic.

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.

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.

Lord Zuckerman (1904–1993) was a British zoologist and military strategist. Having advised the Allies on bombing strategy during World War II, he spent much of his later life campaigning for nuclear non-proliferation. Zuckerman was knighted in 1956 and made a life peer in 1971.

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.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)