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November 22, 1990 • Volume 37, Number 18

  • John Barton

    It’s A Girl! e-edition

    The Book of J translated by David Rosenberg, interpreted by Harold Bloom

  • Garry Wills

    Goodbye, Columbus e-edition

    The Harp and the Shadow by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Thomas Christensen, by Carol Christensen

    The Dogs of Paradise by Abel Posse, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden

    The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy by Kirkpatrick Sale

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    Germany Unbound e-edition

  • Diane Johnson

    Tell, Don’t Show e-edition

    Walter Winchell: A Novel by Michael Herr

    Wildlife by Richard Ford

    The Screenplay: A Blend of Film Form and Content by Margaret Mehring

  • Andrew Hacker

    Trans-National America e-edition

    Going to School: The African-American Experience edited by Kofi Lomotey

    Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America by Richard D. Alba

    The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by Jim Sleeper

    Forked Tongue: The Politics of Bilingual Education by Rosalie Pedalino Porter

    A Curriculum of Inclusion: Report of the Commissioner’s Task Force on Minorities

    From Gatekeeper to Gateway: Transforming Testing in America

    Campus Ethnoviolence and the Policy Options by Howard J. Ehrlich

    The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture by Lawrence H. Fuchs

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    On Washington Square e-edition

  • Darryl Pinckney

    Keeping the Faith e-edition

    Tearing Down the Color Bar: A Documentary History of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by Joseph F. Wilson

    A. Philip Randolph: Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula F. Pfeffer

  • Alfred Brendel

    The Pianist and the Program e-edition

  • Maurice Keen

    Sex and Power in the Middle Ages e-edition

    Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe by James A. Brundage

    The Medieval Idea of Marriage by Christopher N.L. Brooke

    Joan of Arc and Richard III: Sex, Saints, and Government in the Middle Ages by Charles T. Wood

  • Derek Jarrett

    Rogue Genius e-edition

    Henry Fielding: A Life by Martin C. Battestin, with Ruthe R. Battestin

    New Essays by Henry Fielding: His Contributions to the Craftsman (1734–1739) and Other Early Journalism by Martin C. Battestin

  • Oliver Sacks

    Neurology and the Soul e-edition

    Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology by Frederick C. Bartlett

    Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection by Gerald M. Edelman

    The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman

    The Mystery of the Mind by Wilder Penfield

    The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain by Israel Rosenfield, Introduction by Oliver Sacks

    La Conscience: Une Biologie du Moi Knopf in 1991 by Israel Rosenfield

    ‘A Critique of Artificial Intelligence’ by Israel Rosenfield. in The Enchanted Loom, edited by Pietro Corsi

    Man on his Nature by Sir Charles Sherrington

    The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Sir Charles Sherrington

    Migraine by Oliver Sacks

    Awakenings revised edition, by Oliver Sacks

    A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks

    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

    Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks

  • Rona Goffen,
    Pia DeSantis Pell,
    David Rosand,
    Charles Hope

    ‘Rediscovering the Bellinis’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of many books, including The Magic Lantern, an eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989. His most recent book is Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name. He is currently leading an Oxford University 
research project for the discussion of global free speech norms (www.freespeechdebate.com) and working on a book about free speech.

Jonathan Mirsky, a journalist and historian of China, is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London.
 (May 2013)

Charles Hope was Director of the Warburg Institute, London, from 2001 to 2010. He is the author of Titian.


Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.

Derek Jarrett is Editor of the Yale edition of Horace Walpole’s Memoirs. His edition of The Memoirs of the Reign of George III will be published later this year. (March 1999)

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.

Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002)

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

Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917–2009) was an Irish historian and politician. He was elected to the Irish parliament in 1969 and served as a Minister from 1973 until 1977. His works include States of Ireland, The Great Melody and Memoir: My Life and Themes.

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)

Edward Mortimer was until 2006 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. (April 2008)

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

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 Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. His latest book, Hallucinations, was published in November 2012.


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.