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October 22, 1992 • Volume 39, Number 17

  • Julian Barnes

    ‘The Proudest and Most Arrogant Man in France’ e-edition

    Letters of Gustave Courbet edited and translated by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu

  • Garry Wills

    A Doll’s House? e-edition

  • James Fenton

    Cut-Throat Christ Or the New Ballad of the Dosi (poem) e-edition

  • Jonathan D. Spence

    The Other China e-edition

    A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947 by Lai Tse-han, by Ramon H. Myers, by Wei Wou

    A Farewell: A Collection of Short Stories by Bo Yang, translated by Robert Reynolds

    The Great Transition: Political and Social Change in the Republic of China by Hung-mao Tien

    Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization by Robert Wade

    The Protestant Community on Modern Taiwan: Mission, Seminary, and Church by Murray A. Rubinstein

    Taiwan: Beyond the Economic Miracle edited by Denis Fred Simon, edited by Michael Y.M. Kau

  • P. N. Furbank

    Looking for Napoleon e-edition

    The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys, translated by Patricia Clancy. the author

    The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. by Brian O'Doherty

    The Emperor’s Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena by Julia Blackburn

    Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy produced and edited by Proctor Patterson Jones

  • David J. Rothman,
    Sheila M. Rothman

    A Death in Zimbabwe e-edition

  • Sean Wilentz

    A Triumph of the Gilded Age e-edition

    The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel by Paul Krause

    ‘The River Ran Red’: Homestead 1892 edited by David P. Demarest Jr.

  • Jasper Griffin

    The Love that Dared to Speak its Name e-edition

    Bisexuality in the Ancient World by Eva Cantarella, translated by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin

  • Charles Rosen

    The Mad Poets e-edition

    The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 1, ‘Adelphi’ and Letters 1750–1781, edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

    The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 2, Letters 1782–1786 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

    The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 3, Letters 1787–1791 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

    The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 4, Letters 1792–1799 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

    The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 5, Prose 1756–c. 1799 and Cumulative Index edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

    William Cowper: Selected Letters edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

    The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 1, Jubilate Agno edited by Karina Williamson

    The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 2, Religious Poetry edited by Marcus Walsh, edited by Karina Williamson

    The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 3, A Translation of the Psalms of David edited by Marcus Walsh

    The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 4, Miscellaneous Poems, English and Latin edited by Karina Williamson

  • István Deák

    Witnesses to Evil e-edition

    In the Lion’s Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen by Nechama Tec

    Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933–1945 by Raul Hilberg

    A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis edited by Michael Berenbaum

    Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust edited by Richard C. Lukas

  • Robert Darnton

    Reading a Riot e-edition

    The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution by Arlette Farge, by Jacques Revel, translated by Claudia Miéville

  • Cass R. Sunstein

    How Independent is the Court? e-edition

    Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson by William H. Rehnquist

    The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? by Gerald N. Rosenberg

  • Robert Craft

    Great Dane e-edition

    Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally, afterword by Eric O. Johannesson

  • Abraham Brumberg

    Not So Free At Last e-edition

  • Arcadi Nebolsine

    SAVE ‘NOVY MIR’ e-edition

  • Abraham Brumberg

    Whose Crimea? e-edition

  • Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad,
    Rasool Nafisi,
    Bernard Lewis

    Tolerance Among Muslims, Christians, & Jews: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent books are Music of a Distant Drum and What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. (May 2002)

Julian Barnes has written eleven novels, three books of short stories, and four collections of essays. His latest novel, The Sense of an Ending, won the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

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

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.


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.

P. N. Furbank is the author of nine books, including biographies of Samuel Butler, Italo Svevo, and E.M. Forster.

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His books include Homer on Life and Death.

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

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.

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.

Cass Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2009 to 2012. His new book, Simpler: The Future of Government, was published in April. (May 2013)

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.

Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School, Columbia University. Their books written together include The Willowbrook Wars: A Decade of Struggle for Social Justice (1984) and The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement (2003).

Jonathan Spence is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Death of Woman Wang, Treason by the Book, The Question of Hu, and The Search for Modern China.

Noel Annan (1916–2000) was a British military intelligence officer and scholar of European history. His works include Leslie Stephen and Our Age, Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany, and The Curious Strength of Positivism in English Political Thought.

Sean Wilentz is George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton and author of The Rise of American Democracy. (February 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.