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October 21, 1993 • Volume 40, Number 17

  • William Trevor

    Lives of the Saints e-edition

    No Other Life by Brian Moore

  • Tony Judt

    Their Favorite Thief e-edition

    Genet: A Biography by Edmund White

    The Selected Writings of Jean Genet edited and with an introduction by Edmund White

  • Garry Wills

    Chicago Underground e-edition

    Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon

    Perfect Cities: Chicago’s Utopias of 1893 by James Gilbert

    Constructing Chicago by Daniel Bluestone

    Louis H. Sullivan: A System of Architectural Ornament Inc., 986 Woodland Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 07006, 908-757-4700; (fax) 908-756-4133. Discount available for booksellers.) foreword by John Zukowsky, by Susan Glover Godlewski, essay by Lauren S Weingarden

  • Zbigniew Herbert,
    Joseph Brodsky

    Achilles. Penthesilea (poem)

  • Tatyana Tolstaya,
    Jamey Gambrell

    The Age of Innocence e-edition

  • Denis Donoghue

    Joyce’s Many Lives e-edition

    James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882–1915 by Peter Costello

    James Joyce: A Literary Life by Morris Beja

    James Joyce’s Chamber Music: The Lost Song Settings edited and with an introduction by Myra Teicher Russel

    James Joyce’s Chamber Music: Musical Settings by G. Molyneux Palmer sung by Robert White, accompanied by Samuel Sanders

    Picking Up Airs: Hearing the Music in Joyce’s Text edited by Ruth H. Bauerle

    Dubliners by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, by Walter Hettche

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, by Walter Hettche

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by R. B. Kershner

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by Seamus Deane

    Ulysses by James Joyce, edited by Jeri Johnson

    Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert’s Paris Journal edited by Thomas F. Staley, by Randolph Lewis

  • Ronald Dworkin

    Women and Pornography e-edition

    Only Words by Catherine A. MacKinnon

  • Wisława Szymborska,
    Stanisław Barańczak,
    Clare Cavanagh

    Cat in an Empty Apartment (poem)

  • Robert Hughes

    The Medium Inquisitor e-edition

    Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 1: Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944 (1986) edited by John O'Brian

    Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945–1949 (1986) edited by John O'Brian

    Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 3: Affirmations and Refusals, 1950–1956 edited by John O'Brian

    Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1959–1969 edited by John O'Brian

  • Susan Sontag

    Godot Comes to Sarajevo e-edition

  • Ernst Gombrich

    What Art Tells Us e-edition

    History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past by Francis Haskell

  • Isaiah Berlin

    The Magus of the North e-edition

  • Charles Rosen

    The Miraculous Mandarin e-edition

    William Empson: Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume One, Donne and the New Philosophy edited by John Haffenden

    William Empson: Argufying, Essays on Literature and Culture edited by John Haffenden

  • Roger Penrose

    Nature’s Biggest Secret e-edition

    Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg

  • Eric Christiansen

    How Europe Became Europe e-edition

    The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950–1350 by Robert Bartlett

  • Joan Didion

    The Golden Land e-edition

    The California Water Atlas edited by William L. Kahrl

    Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850–1986 by Robert Kelley

    Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

    A Companion to California by James D. Hart

    The Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland by Stephen Johnson, by Robert Dawson, text by Gerald Haslam

    Papers in Honor of Josiah Royce on His Sixtieth Birthday

    California, From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco: A Study in American Character by Josiah Royce

    Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard (1992) by Robert V. Hine

    Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915 by Kevin Starr

    California: The Great Exception by Carey McWilliams

    The Octopus by Frank Norris

    The Ranch Papers: A California Memoir by Jane Hollister Wheelwright

    Politics of Land: Ralph Nader’s Study Group Report on Land Use in California

    Up & Down California, 1860–1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer edited by Francis P. Farquhar

    The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness by G. William Domhoff

    The Greatest Men’s Party on Earth: Inside the Bohemian Grove by John van der Zee

    Impact of Defense Cuts on California prepared by the Commission on State Finance

  • Murray Kempton

    Memories of Ellington e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and 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. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

Eric Christiansen is Tutor in History at New College, Oxford, and the author of The Northern Crusades. (November 2000)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

Robert Hughes’s most recent book, Things I Didn–?t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Zbigniew Herbert, a leading Polish poet, died in 1998. The Collected Poems: 1956–1998, edited and translated by Alissa Valles, will be published by Ecco in February. (January 2007)

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

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.

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Charles Rosen’s recording The Romantic Generation, which contains a performance of Franz Liszt’s Reminiscences of Don Juan, was recently reissued. (February 2012)

Wisława Szymborska, who died on February 1, 2012, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. (March 2012)

Stanisław Barańczak is a poet, translator, and literary critic. He won the 2007 Nike Award for the best work of Polish literature published in the previous year and the 2009 Silesius Poetry Award for lifetime achievement. He is a professor of Polish language and literature at Harvard University.

Clare Cavanagh teaches Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Northwestern. Her most recent book, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. (March 2012)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. The article in the Review‘s November 24, 2011 issue is drawn from his new book, Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater (Viking).

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom’s Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact.”

Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva’s Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko’s writings, Experiments for the Future; and Tatyana Tolstaya’s novel, The Slynx. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik will be published in 2011.