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April 21, 1994 • Volume 41, Number 8

  • Michael Ignatieff

    Homage to Bosnia e-edition

    Bosnia: A Short History by Noel Malcolm

    Sarajevo: Survival Guide by the FAMA Collective, Sarajevo, 1993

    Why Bosnia? Writings on the Balkan War edited by Rabia Ali, edited by Lawrence Lifschultz

    Sarajevo: A War Journal by Zlatko Dizdarević, translated by Anselm Hollo, edited by Ammiel Alcalay

    Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović

  • James M. McPherson

    Liberating Lincoln

    Lincoln in American Memory by Merrill D. Peterson

    The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Phillip Shaw Paludan

    The Lincoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism by J. David Greenstone

  • Amos Elon

    Look Over Jordan e-edition

  • Willibald Sauerländer

    The Nazis’ Theater of Seduction e-edition

    ‘Degenerate Art’: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany by Stephanie Barron et al

    The Art of the Third Reich by Peter Adam

    Artists Under Vichy: A Case of Prejudice and Persecution by Michèle C. Cone

  • Christopher Jencks

    The Homeless e-edition

    Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s by Martha R. Burt

    The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy by the New York City Commission on the Homeless

    Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness by Peter H. Rossi

    Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People by David A. Snow, by Leon Anderson

    The Mole People by Jennifer Toth

    Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community by David Wagner

    Rude Awakenings: What the Homeless Crisis Tells Us by Richard W. White Jr.

  • Brad Leithauser

    Cold Comfort e-edition

    Absolution by Olafur Jóhann Olafsson

  • Simon Leys

    Lawrence of Australia e-edition

  • Garry Wills

    The Saint of Mott Street e-edition

  • Denis Donoghue

    The Magic of W.B. Yeats e-edition

    Yeats’s ‘Vision’ Papers, Volume 1: The Automatic Script: 5 November 1917–18 June 1918 General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Steve L. Adams, by Barbara J. Frieling, by Sandra L. Sprayberry

    Yeats’s ‘Vision’ Papers, Volume 2: The Automatic Script: 25 June 1918–29 March 1920 General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Steve L. Adams, by Barbara J. Frieling, by Sandra L. Sprayberry

    Yeats’s ‘Vision’ Papers, Volume 3: Sleep and Dream Notebooks, ‘Vision’ Notebooks 1 and 2, Card File General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Robert Anthony Martinich, by Margaret Mills Harper

    The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893–1938 edited by Anna MacBride White, by A. Norman Jeffares

    Running to Paradise: Yeats’s Poetic Art by M.L. Rosenthal

    Yeats and Artistic Power by Phillip L. Marcus

  • Wendy Doniger

    Unspeakable Sins e-edition

    Idolatry by Moshe Halbertal, by Avishai Margalit, translated by Naomi Goldblum

  • Arthur Kempton

    How Far from Canaan? e-edition

    The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church by Michael W. Harris

    Got to Tell it: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel by Jules Schwerin

  • Jason Epstein

    A Dissent on ‘Schindler’s List’ e-edition

  • Robert R. Holt,
    Morris Eagle,
    Allen Esterson,
    Frederick C. Crews

    The ‘Unknown Freud’: Yet Another Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Amos Elon (1926–2009) was an Israeli journalist. His final book was The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews In Germany 1743 – 1933.

Jason Epstein launched the trade paperback format in the US in 1952 as a young editor at Doubleday. In 1963 he was a founder of The New York Review and in 1979 cofounder with the late Edmund Wilson of the Library of America. In 2007 he cofounded On Demand Books. Among his many awards are the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books.
 (February 2011)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at New York University, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. His works include The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and The American Classics.

Michael Ignatieff, a former leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, is a fellow at Massey College and teaches human rights and international politics at the University of Toronto.
 (December 2012)

Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)

Arthur Kempton, the author of Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, is a fellow at the Institute for African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (March 2006)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

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.

Simon Leys is the pen name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. Leys’s writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Le Monde, Le Figaro Littéraire, and other periodicals. Among his books are Chinese Shadows, The Death of Napoleon (forthcoming from NYRB Classics), Other People’s Thoughts, and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper. In 1996 he delivered the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Boyer lectures. His many awards include the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Femina, the Prix Guizot, and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

James McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. His most recent book is War on the Waters: The Union and Confederates Navies, 1861-1865.

Willibald Sauerländer is a former Director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His latest book is Manet malt Monet: Ein Sommer in Argenteuil. (June 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.

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.

Wendy Doniger [O’Flaherty] graduated from Radcliffe College and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and her D.Phil. from Oxford University. She is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of many books, most recently The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was, and The Hindus: An Alternative History.