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January 28, 1993 • Volume 40, Number 3

  • Alfred Kazin

    Love at Harvard e-edition

    Love’s Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray by Forrest G. Robinson

  • Misha Glenny

    Bosnia: The Last Chance? e-edition

  • John Bayley

    The Master at War e-edition

    Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, A Biography by Fred Kaplan

  • Andrew Hacker

    The Blacks & Clinton e-edition

    Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America by Jared Taylor

    A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character by Charles J. Sykes

    Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black Success by Audrey Edwards, by Dr. Craig K. Polite

    Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America by Richard Majors, by Janet Mancini Billson

    Deadly Consequences: How Violence Is Destroying Our Teenage Population and a Plan to Begin Solving the Problem by Deborah Prothrow-Stith, with Michaele Weissman

    Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell

    Putting People First: How We Can All Change America by Governor Bill Clinton, by Senator Al Gore

  • Gabriele Annan

    Peacetime Lies e-edition

    The Man Who Was Late by Louis Begley

  • Luc Sante

    American Pie e-edition

    Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success by Joseph McBride

  • Theodore H. Draper

    The End of Czechoslovakia e-edition

  • John Golding

    Living Still Life e-edition

    Juan Gris Press by Christopher Green, with contributions by Christian Derouet, by Karin von Maur

    Juan Gris 18–November 29, 1992; the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, December 18, 1992–February 14, 1993; the Rijksmuseum Kröller–Müller, Otterlo, March 6–May 2, 1993 an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, September

  • Peter B. Reddaway

    Russia on the Brink? e-edition

  • Murray Kempton

    His Honor e-edition

    The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958 by Jack Beatty

  • Robert M. Adams

    Death in Montana e-edition

    Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean

    A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, engravings by Barry Moser

    A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean

    A River Runs Through It a film directed by Robert Redford

  • Kenneth Maxwell

    ¡Adiós Columbus! e-edition

    The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World by Carlos Fuentes

    New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton, with April Shelford, by Nancy Siraisi

    The Times Atlas of World Exploration: 3,000 Years of Exploring, Explorers, and Mapmaking edited by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

    Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 by Alfred Crosby

    The Early Spanish Main by Carl Ortwin Sauer, foreword by Anthony Pagden

    The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 edited by William M. Denevan, foreword by W. George Lovell

    The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus by Irving Rouse

    Disease and Demography in the Americas edited by John W. Verano, edited by Douglas H. Ubelaker

    Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci’s Discovery of America edited by Luciano Formisano, foreword by Garry Wills, translated by David Jacobson

    Portugal and the Discovery of America: Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese by Alfredo Pinheiro Marques

    L’expansion Portugaise dans la littérature latine de la renaissance by Luis de Matos

    The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus by Valerie I.J. Flint

    Isabel The Queen: Life and Times by Peggy K. Liss

    The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

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.

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

John Bayley is a critic and novelist. His books include Elegy for Iris and The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.

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)

John Golding (1929–2012) was a British painter and art historian. He taught at the Courtauld Institute and the Royal College of Art. Among his many books was Cubism: A History and an Analysis, which refuted the notion that Cubism represented a break with the realist tradition. Golding also curated exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, including Picasso: Painter/Sculpter and Matisse Picasso.

Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was a writer and teacher. Among his books are On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from Howells to Faulkner, and the memoirs A Walker in the Cityand New York Jew. In 1996, he received the first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism from the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

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.

Kenneth Maxwell is Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, will be published this month. (July 2003)

Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917–2009) was an Irish historian and politician. He was elected to the Irish parliament in 1969 and served as a Minister from 1973 until 1977. His works include States of Ireland, The Great Melody and Memoir: My Life and Themes.

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.

Peter B. Reddaway is Professor Emeritus of Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.

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.

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

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