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November 4, 1993 • Volume 40, Number 18

  • Gabriele Annan

    A Night at the Opera e-edition

    ‘Fast and Loose’ and ‘The Buccaneers’ by Edith Wharton, edited and with an introduction by Viola Hopkins Winner

    The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton, completed by Marion Mainwaring

    The Age of Innocence directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Jay Cocks, by Martin Scorsese

    The Age of Innocence: A Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Edith Wharton by Martin Scorsese, by Jay Cocks

    The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Introduction by R.W.B. Lewis

  • David Brion Davis

    Terror in Mississippi e-edition

    Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Conspiracy by Winthrop D. Jordan

    Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation edited by C. Peter Ripley, edited by Roy E. Finkenbine, edited by Michael F. Hembree, edited by Donald Yacovone

    Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War edited by Ira Berlin, edited by Barbara J. Fields, edited by Steven F. Miller, edited by Joseph P. Reidy, edited by Leslie S. Rowland

  • Czesław Miłosz

    Swing Shift in the Baltics e-edition

    The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven

  • Nicholson Baker

    Survival of the Fittest e-edition

    Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West by M. B. Parkes

  • Keith Thomas

    The View from the Keyhole e-edition

    Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660–1753 by Lawrence Stone

    Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660–1857 by Lawrence Stone

  • Mark Danner

    Haiti on the Verge e-edition

    Tout Homme Est Un Homme: Tout Moun Se Moun by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, with Christophe Wargny

    Aristide: An Autobiography by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, with Christophe Wargny, translated by Linda M. Maloney

    In the Parish of the Poor: Writings from Haiti by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, translated and edited by Amy Wilentz

    Théologie et politique by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, preface by Leonardo Boff

  • John Bayley

    ‘One Life, One Writing’ e-edition

    A Different Person: A Memoir by James Merrill

    Selected Poems: 1946–1985 by James Merrill

  • Darryl Pinckney

    The Best of Everything e-edition

    Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

    Home Repairs by Trey Ellis

  • Misha Glenny

    Bosnia: The Tragic Prospect e-edition

  • Oliver Sacks

    The Poet of Chemistry e-edition

    Humphry Davy: Science and Power by David Knight

  • Gore Vidal

    A Nineteenth-Century Man e-edition

    The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960–1972 by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Lewis M. Dabney

  • Stephen Jay Gould

    Baseball: Joys and Lamentations e-edition

    My Life As A Fan by Wilfrid Sheed

    Fridays With Red: A Radio Friendship by Bob Edwards

    The Era, 1947–1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World by Roger Kahn

    The Gospel According to Casey: Casey Stengel’s Inimitable, Instructional, Historical Baseball Book by Ira Berkow, by Jim Kaplan

    O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto edited by Tom Peyer, edited by Hart Seely

  • Avishai Margalit

    Prophets With Honor e-edition

    Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State by Yeshayahu Leibowitz, edited by Eliezer Goldman, translated by Eliezer Goldman, by Yoram Navon, by Zvi Jacobson, by Gershon Levi, by Raphael Levy

    The Letters of Martin-Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by Nahum N. Glatzer, by Paul Mendes-Flohr, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston, by Harry Zohn

    Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber by Maurice Friedman

    On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity by Martin Buber, edited by S.N. Eisenstadt

    Scripture and Translation by Martin Buber, by Franz Rosenzweig, translated by Lawrence Rosenwald, by Everett Fox

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

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

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) was an American geologist, biologist and historian of science. He taught at Harvard, where he was named Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and at NYU. His last book was Punctuated Equilibrium.

Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania. Over the course of his long and prolific career he published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. He is the author of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights.

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.

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.


Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England.

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright. His many works include the memoirs Point to Point Navigation and Palimpsest, the novels The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, and Lincoln, and the collection United States: Essays 1952–1992.

Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. His book Torture and the Forever War will be published in the spring of 2013. His writing and other work can be found at markdanner.com.

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.

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the winner of the 2012 Philosophical Book Award (Hannover) for his most recent book, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises.

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.