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March 28, 1991 • Volume 38, Number 6

  • Jack Flam

    Invader e-edition

    A Life of Picasso Volume 1: 1881–1906 by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully

  • Ian Buruma

    After the Fall e-edition

    The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

  • Garry Wills

    A Tale of Three Cities e-edition

    The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann

  • Michael Massing

    The Way to War e-edition

  • Alfred Brendel

    On Wilhelm Furtwängler e-edition

    ‘Leonore’ Overture No. 3 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

    Symphony No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 60 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

    Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (‘Choral’), Op. 125 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K 550, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

    Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 composed by Franz Schubert, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

    Symphony No. 9 in C (‘The Great’), D. 9444 composed by Franz Schubert, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

    Tristan und Isolde composed by Richard Wagner, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Opera Chorus

  • James Fenton

    Keeping Up with Salman Rushdie

    Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

  • Diane Johnson

    The Best of Times e-edition

    Possession by A.S. Byatt

  • Roger Penrose

    The Biggest Enigma e-edition

    Quantum Profiles by Jeremy Bernstein

  • Kenneth Maxwell

    The Mystery of Chico Mendes e-edition

    Into the Amazon: The Struggle for the Rain Forest by Augusta Dwyer

    The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest by Andrew Revkin

    Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in His Own Words additional material by Tony Gross

    The World Is Burning by Alex Shoumatoff

    The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by Susanna Hecht, by Alexander Cockburn

    The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rainforest by Adrian Cowell

    O Empate contra Chico Mendes by Márcio Souza

    Rural Violence in Brazil: February 1991 An Americas Watch Report

  • Helen Vendler

    Breath of Art e-edition

    The Dead Girl by Melanie Thernstrom

  • Anne Barton

    Perils of Historicism e-edition

    Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture by Stephen J. Greenblatt

  • James M. McPherson

    Generals in Politics e-edition

    Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West by Steven E. Woodworth

    Abandoned by Lincoln: A Military Biography of General John Pope by Wallace J. Schutz, by Walter N. Trenerry

    Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon by Christopher Phillips

  • Jeri Laber

    The Baltic Revolt e-edition

  • I. Andreeva,
    Yuri Afanasyev,
    Andrei Bitov,
    A. Vaksberg, et al.

    An Appeal for Democracy in the Baltic Republics e-edition

  • David M. Perlmutter

    The Language of the Deaf e-edition

    Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks

LETTERS

Contributors

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean.

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)

Viktor Erofeyev is the author of Russian Beauty, a novel, and the editor of The Penguin Book of New Russian Writing. He lives in Moscow. (March 2001)

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva’s Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko’s writings, Experiments for the Future; and Tatyana Tolstaya’s novel, The Slynx. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik will be published in 2011.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. His books include Murderer in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, and the novel The China Lover. His book Year Zero: A History of 1945 will be published in September 2013.

James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999, Fenton was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2007 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)

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.

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

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.

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying’: Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the Department of English at Harvard. Stone at Delphi: Seamus Heaney’s Poems with Classical References, Selected and Introduced by Helen Vendler has just appeared in a limited edition. (March 2013)

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.

Kenneth Maxwell is Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, will be published this month. (July 2003)

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.