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January 30, 1992 • Volume 39, Number 3

  • Robert M. Adams

    The Wizard of Lake Cayuga e-edition

    Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years by Brian Boyd

  • David Brion Davis

    Life and Death in Slavery e-edition

    Celia: A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin

    Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North by Thomas P. Slaughter

  • Stuart Hampshire

    The Tory Anarchist e-edition

    Orwell: The Authorized Biography by Michael Shelden

  • V.S. Naipaul

    Argentina: Living With Cruelty

  • Murray Kempton

    The Charms of Terror e-edition

    The Inner Circle a film by Andrei Konchalovsky

    The Inner Circle: An Inside View of Soviet Life Under Stalin by Andrei Konchalovsky, by Alexander Lipkov, translated and edited by Jamey Gambrell

  • Garry Wills

    Why Cuomo Said No e-edition

  • Abraham Brumberg

    The Road to Minsk e-edition

  • Francis Haskell

    Only Collect e-edition

    Le Géant, La Licorne et La Tulipe: Collections françaises au XVII siècle by Antoine Schnapper

    Les Frères Goncourt: collectionneurs de dessins by Elizabeth Launay

    J.P. Morgan: The Financier as Collector by Louis Auchincloss

    Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500–1800 by Krzysztof Pomian

    Pricing the Priceless: Art, Artists, and Collectors by William D. Grampp

    The Return of Cultural Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield

    The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? edited by Phyllis Mauch Messenger

  • Misha Glenny

    The Massacre of Yugoslavia e-edition

  • Richard West

    Royal Family Thais e-edition

    Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj, translated by Tulachandra

    Kukrit Pramoj: His Wit and Wisdom edited by Steve Van Beek

    A Child of the Northeast by Kampoon Boontawee, translated by Susan Fulop Kepner

    Letters from Thailand by Botan, translated by Susan Fulop Kepner

  • Theodore H. Draper

    The True History of the Gulf War

    From Shield to Storm: High-Tech Weapons, Military Strategy, and Coalition Warfare in the Persian Gulf by James F. Dunnigan, by Austin Bay

    In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf by Roger Cohen, by Claudio Gatti

    Desert Victory: The War for Kuwait by Norman Friedman

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

    Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War

    On the Basra Road by Stephen Sackur

    George Bush’s War by Jean Edward Smith

    The Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf by John J. Fialka

LETTERS

Contributors

Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.

Abraham Brumberg (1926–2008) was an essayist, editor and translator. His memoir, Journey Through Vanishing Worlds, was published by New Academia in 2007.

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.

Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)

Stuart Hampshire (1914–2004) was an English philosopher. He taught at University College London, Princeton, Stanford and Oxford, where he was named Warden of Wadham College. His books include Thought and Action, Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is the author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.

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.

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.


Charles Rosen is a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.

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

Francis Haskell (1928-2000) was an English art historian. His works include Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italyand History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. Haskell taught at Oxford.

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.