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February 13, 1992 • Volume 39, Number 4

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    The Cruelest Sport

    Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser

    The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing by Thomas Hauser

    Sports Illustrated Boxing’s Best: Muhammad Ali HBO Video, 60 minutes, $9.99

    Ali vs. Foreman, 1974 Hemdale Home Video, 44 minutes, $19.95

    The Ali/Norton Trilogy NAC Home Video, 90 minutes (out of print)

    Muhammad Ali: Skill, Brains and Guts Vid-America Inc., 90 minutes (out of print)

  • Thomas Byrne Edsall

    Willie Horton’s Message e-edition

    Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, and Swings by James A. Stimson

    The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns by Samuel L. Popkin

    The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras edited by Byron E. Shafer

  • Witold Rybczynski

    Collapsing Modernism e-edition

    The Details of Modern Architecture by Edward R. Ford

    Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade by Vincent Scully

  • George W. Ball

    JFK’s Big Moment e-edition

    The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963 by Michael R. Beschloss

    Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Dino A. Brugioni

  • Darryl Pinckney

    The Pretender Speaks e-edition

  • Garry Wills

    The Golden ‘Blade’ e-edition

  • David Lodge

    Lawrence in Love e-edition

    D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years, 1885–1912 by John Worthen

  • Jack Flam

    The Alchemist e-edition

    Anselm Kiefer by Mark Rosenthal

    The Books of Anselm Kiefer, 1969-1990 edited by Götz Adriani, translated by Bruni Mayor

    Anselm Kiefer: The High Priestess foreword by Anne Seymour, essay by Armin Zweite

    Anselm Kiefer: Lilith essay by Doreet LeVitte Harten

    Anselm Kiefer: Jason essay by John Hutchinson

  • Alan Lightman

    Inside the Box e-edition

    The Mind’s Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context by Timothy Ferris

  • Gordon A. Craig

    Demonic Democracy e-edition

    Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber by Lawrence A. Scaff

    Max Weber Briefe 1906–1908 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung II, Band V) edited by M. Rainer Lepsius, edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Birgit Rudhard, by Manfred Schön

  • Robert Bernard Martin

    The Haunting of Thomas De Quincey e-edition

    The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism by John Barrell

  • V.S. Naipaul

    The End of Peronism? e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

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)

Alan Lightman, a physicist, teaches at MIT. His latest book is The Diagnosis. (May 2002)

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Author, Author and A Man of Parts. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Joyce Carol Oates is Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley. Her new novel is Daddy Love.


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

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate. His book on American building, Last Harvest, was published in 2007.

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.

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)