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July 16, 1992 • Volume 39, Number 13

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James M. McPherson

The Art of Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
James Fenton

Cory Lives!
Ian Buruma

The Ways of Survival

Jakob Littners Aufzeichnungen aus einem Erdloch by Wolfgang Koeppen

A Feast in the Garden by George Konrád, translated by Imre Goldstein
David Brion Davis

The American Dilemma

Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker

The Dispossessed: America’s Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present by Jacqueline Jones
John Richardson

Go Go Guggenheim
Luc Sante

The Possessed

Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line by Terry Williams

Clockers by Richard Price
C. Vann Woodward

Made in the U.S.A.

Truman by David McCullough
Francine du Plessix Gray

Splendor and Miseries

Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 by Alain Corbin, translated by Alan Sheridan

La Vie quotidienne dans les maisons closes, 18301930 by Laure Adler

Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France by Charles Bernheimer

Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era by Hollis Clayson
Michael Wood

Austere Fireworks

Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Federico García Lorca, edited by Christopher Maurer

Four Puppet Plays, ‘Play Without a Title,’ The Divan Poems and Other Poems, Prose Poems and Dramatic Pieces by Federico García Lorca, translated by Edwin Honig

Line of Light and Shadow: The Drawings of Federico García Lorca by Mario Hernández, translated by Christopher Maurer

The House of Bernarda Alba a film directed by Nuria Espert, by Stuart Burge, produced by Holmes for Channel 4
Matthew Rutenberg

The Genius of Cento

Guercino: Master Painter of the Baroque 15May 17, 1992 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March

Guercino: Master Painter of the Baroque catalog of the exhibition by Denis Mahon, with contributions by Andrea Emiliani, by Diane De Grazia, by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer

Guercino: Drawings from Windsor Castle an exhibition at The Drawing Center, New York, June 2August 1, 1992

Guercino: Drawings from Windsor Castle catalog of the exhibition, by Nicholas Turner

Guercino: Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections catalog by David M. Stone

Guercino (15911661): Drawings From Dutch Collections catalog by Carel van Tuyll Van Serooskerken
David Remnick

Dons of the Don

The Soviet Mafia by Arkady Vaksberg, translated by John Roberts, translated by Elizabeth Roberts
Robert M. Adams

Fatal Triangles

A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare by René Girard

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.

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Jan Gross and Tony Judt, of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.

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.

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

Francine du Plessix Gray received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006 for her memoir Them: A Memoir of Parents.

David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin’s Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.

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 Craft is a conductor and writer. Craft’s close working friendship with Igor Stravinsky is the subject of his memoir, An Improbable Life. In 2002 he was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival.

C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) was a historian of the American South. He taught at Johns Hopkins and at Yale, where he was named the Sterling Professor of History. His books include Mary Chesnut’s Civil War and The Old World’s New World.

Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His books include Literature and the Taste of Knowledge and Yeats and Violence

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.

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.

John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso, Volume Three, was published in 2007. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991.