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January 16, 1992 • Volume 39, Number 1 & 2

  • Garry Wills

    The Presbyterian Nietzsche e-edition

    Woodrow Wilson by August Heckscher

    Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace by Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, translated by Herbert H. Rowen

    Young Nietzsche: Becoming A Genius by Carl Pletsch

    America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State by Ronald Schaffer

  • Luc Sante

    An American Abroad e-edition

    If He Hollers Let Him Go

    Lonely Crusade

    Cast the First Stone

    The Third Generation

    The End of a Primitive Virgin Publishing)

    Pinktoes

    A Rage in Harlem

    The Crazy Kill

    The Real Cool Killers

    Run Man Run

    The Big Gold Dream

    All Shot Up

    The Heat’s On

    Cotton Comes to Harlem

    Blind Man With a Pistol

    The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years

    My Life of Absurdity: The Later Years

    The Collected Stories of Chester Himes

  • Diane Johnson

    Something for the Boys e-edition

    Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly

    Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity by David D. Gilmore

    Fire in the Belly: On Being A Man by Sam Keen

    Transformation: Understanding the Three Levels of Masculine Consciousness by Robert A. Johnson

    King Warrior Magician Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore, by Douglas Gillette

    Prisoners of Men’s Dreams: Striking Out for a New Feminine Future by Suzanne Gordon

    Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

    The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf

    Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

  • Zbigniew Herbert,
    John Carpenter,
    Bogdana Carpenter

    Two Poems by Zbigniew Herbert (poem) e-edition

  • John Boardman

    Idolizing e-edition

    The Cycladic Spirit: Masterpieces from the Nicholas P. Goulandris Collection by Colin Renfrew, Introduction by Christos Doumas, photographs by John Bigelow Taylor

  • Jefferson Morley

    Bush and the Blacks: An Unknown Story e-edition

  • M.F. Perutz

    A Mystery of the Tropics e-edition

    The Malaria Capers: More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality by Robert S. Desowitz

  • John Weightman

    Twilight in Flanders e-edition

    Dear Departed by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Maria Louise Ascher

  • Geoffrey Hosking

    The Roots of Dissolution e-edition

  • Robert Towers

    The World We Live In e-edition

    The Translator by Ward Just

    Joe by Larry Brown

    The Dylanist by Brian Morton

  • Anita Desai

    ‘Women Well Set Free’ e-edition

    Women Writing in India Vol. I: 600 BC to the Early Twentieth Century edited by Susie Tharu, edited by K. Lalita

    Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India edited by Kali for Women, Introduction by Meena Alexander

  • Theodore H. Draper

    The Gulf War Reconsidered

    The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis by Elaine Sciolino

    Kuwait and Iraq: Historical Claims and Territorial Disputes by Richard Schofield

    From the House of War by John Simpson

    Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar by Jill Crystal

    Saddam’s War: The Origins of the Kuwait Conflict and the International Response by John Bulloch, by Harvey Morris

    Under Siege in Kuwait by Jadranka Porter

  • Brad Leithauser

    Just Folks e-edition

    Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler

  • Martin Heisenberg,
    Jeremy Bernstein

    The Heisenberg Case: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

John Weightman (1915–2004) was a critic and literary scholar. After working as a translator and announcer for the BBC French service, Weightman turned to the study of French literature. He taught at King’s College London and the University of London. His books include The Concept of the Avant-Gardeand The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd.

Anita Desai’s The Artist of Disappearance, a collection of three novellas, will be published this year. (April 2011)

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.

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Jeremy Bernstein’s books include Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element and Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know, which was published in paperback in February. (May 2010)

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and Folk Photography. He has translated Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines and written the introduction to George Simenon’s The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (both available as NYRB Classics). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Robert L. Heilbroner (1919–2005) was an American economist. He taught economic history at the New School, where he was appointed Norman Thomas Professor of Economics in 1971.

Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems 1956–1998 was published in English in 2007. The poem in this issue was prepared for a Polish edition of Herbert’s uncollected poems edited by Ryszard Krynicki. (June 2013)

John Carpenter is a poet and critic. (April 2006)

Bogdana Carpenter is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Michigan. (April 2006)

M. F. Perutz (1914–2002) was an Austrian molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier.

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.

Theodore H. Draper (1912–2006) was an American historian. Educated at City College, he wrote influential studies of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution and the Iran-Contra Affair. Draper was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association.

Robert Towers (1923–1995) was an American critic and novelist. Born in Virginia, Towers was educated at Princeton and served for two years as Vice Counsel at the American Consulate General in Calcutta before dedicating himself to literary studies. He taught English literature and creative writing at Princeton, Queens College and Columbia.