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November 18, 1993 • Volume 40, Number 19

  • Václav Havel,
    Paul Wilson

    How Europe Could Fail e-edition

  • Charles Hope

    Restoration or Ruination? e-edition

    Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business and the Scandal by James Beck, with Michael Daley

  • Robert Block

    Killers e-edition

  • Helen Vendler

    The White Goddess! e-edition

    First Awakenings: The Early Poems of Laura Riding edited by Elizabeth Friedmann, by Alan J. Clark, by Robert Nye

    The Word ‘Woman’ and Other Related Writings by Laura (Riding) Jackson, edited by Elizabeth Friedmann, edited by Alan J. Clark

    Four Unposted Letters to Catherine by Laura Riding, afterword by Elizabeth Friedmann, by Alan J. Clark

    In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding by Deborah Baker

  • Ian Buruma

    Soul Food e-edition

    The Phantom Empire by Geoffrey O'Brien

  • Alastair Reid

    Troublemaker e-edition

    Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Dolores M. Koch

    El Central translated by Anthony Kerrigan

    The Ill-fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando translated by Andrew Hurley

    Graveyard of the Angels translated by Alfred MacAdam

    Old Rosa and The Brightest Star translated by Ann Tashi Slater, translated by Andrew Hurley

    The Doorman translated by Dolores M. Koch

    Singing From The Well translated by Andrew Hurley

    The Palace of the White Skunks translated by Andrew Hurley

    Farewell to the Sea translated by Andrew Hurley

  • Mark Danner

    The Prophet e-edition

    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

  • Robert Craft

    Love in a Cold Climate e-edition

    ‘To My Best Friend’: Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck (1876–1878) translated by Galina von Meck, edited by Edward Garden, by Nigel Gotteri, Introduction by Edward Garden

    Tchaikovsky: The Final Years (1885–1893) by David Brown

  • Michael Meyer

    Danger: Thin Ice e-edition

    Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg, translated by Tiina Nunnally

  • Bernard Knox

    The Greek Way e-edition

    Shame and Necessity by Bernard Williams

  • P. N. Furbank

    Leave it to Chance e-edition

    Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance: The Novel and the Culture of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century France by Thomas M. Kavanagh

  • W.V. Harris

    Old Wives’ Tales e-edition

    Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance by John M. Riddle

    Demography and Roman Society by Tim G. Parkin

  • Frederick C. Crews

    The Unknown Freud e-edition

    Freud’s Russia: National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis by James L. Rice

    Father Knows Best: The Use and Abuse of Power in Freud’s Case of ‘Dora’ by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, by James C. Coyne

    Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud by Allen Esterson

    A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr

  • Veronica Geng

    Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea e-edition

    Short Cuts directed by Robert Altman, screenplay by Robert Altman, by Frank Barhydt, based on the writings of Raymond Carver

    Short Cuts: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver

LETTERS

Contributors

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.

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.

Frederick C. Crews is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays.

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

Václav Havel (1936–2011) was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic. Havel was one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard.”

Paul Wilson is a writer based in Toronto. He has translated major works by Josef Škvorecký, Ivan Klíma, Bohumil Hrabal, and Václav Havel. (May 2013)

Charles Hope was Director of the Warburg Institute, London, from 2001 to 2010. He is the author of Titian.


Michael Meyer (1921-2000) was a translator, novelist, biographer, and playwright, best known for his translations of the works of Ibsen and Strindberg. His biography of Ibsen won the Whitbread Prize for Biography in 1971.

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a political philosopher and historian of ideas. Born in Riga, he moved in 1917 with his family to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution. In 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy.

Bernard Knox (1914–2010) was an English classicist. He was the first director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles’s translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Alastair Reid is a poet, a prose chronicler, a translator, and a traveler. Born in Scotland, he came to the United States in the early 1950s, began publishing his poems in The New Yorker in 1951, and for the next fifty-odd years was a traveling correspondent for that magazine. Having lived in both Spain and Latin America for long spells, he has been a constant translator of poetry from the Spanish language, in particular the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda. He has published more than forty books, among them a wordbook for children, Ounce Dice Trice, with drawings by Ben Shahn. Most recently, in 2008, he published in the U.K. two career-spanning volumes, Outside In: Selected Prose and Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations. The substance of Supposing… e gleaned from the many children who have influenced him, to all of whom he owes and dedicates the text.

Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)

Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the Department of English at Harvard. Stone at Delphi: Seamus Heaney’s Poems with Classical References, Selected and Introduced by Helen Vendler has just appeared in a limited edition. (March 2013)

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.