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Contents

August 11, 1994 • Volume 41, Number 14

  • Nicholson Baker

    Leading with the Grumper e-edition

    Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Volume I, A-G) edited by J.E. Lighter

  • Garry Wills

    The Real Thing e-edition

    I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin January-April 1994; Art Institute of Chicago, April-July 1994; Cincinnati Art Museum, July 28-October 9, 1994; Baltimore Museum of Art, October 26-December 31, 1994; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,

    I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin catalog edited by Judith E. Stein

    Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series Birmingham Museum, July 10-September 4, 1994; St. Louis Art Museum, September 30-November 27, 1994; Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 12-April 11, 1995; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, April 25-June 25, 199 exhibition at the Phillips Collection, September 1993-January 1994;

    Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series catalog edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner

    Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence

    Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993), A Catalogue Raisonné Washington catalog of the exhibition at Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle,, essay by Patricia Hills, edited by Peter Nesbett

    A History of African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present by Romare Bearden, by Harry Henderson

    The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872 by Joseph D. Ketner

  • Geza Vermes

    The War Over the Scrolls e-edition

    A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls James M. Robinson prepared with an introduction and index by Robert H. Eisenman and

    The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered: The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents Withheld for Over 35 Years by Robert H. Eisenman, by Michael Wise

    The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent, by Richard Leigh

    Jesus & the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Unlocking the Secrets of His Life Story by Barbara Thiering

    Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the ‘Biblical Archaeology Review’ edited by Hershel Shanks

    Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls by Joseph A. Fitzmyer S.J.

  • Brad Leithauser

    Great Scott? e-edition

    Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

    F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli

  • Ronald Dworkin

    Mr. Liberty e-edition

    Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge by Gerald Gunther

  • Ann Hulbert

    New Wives’ Tales e-edition

    The Collected Stories by Grace Paley

  • Adrian Lyttelton

    Italy: The Triumph of TV e-edition

  • Ian Buruma

    Revenge in the Indies e-edition

    The Hidden Force by Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixera de Mattos

  • István Deák

    Post-Post-Communist Hungary e-edition

  • W.S. Merwin

    ‘Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang’

    Birds in Literature by Leonard Lutwack

  • Czesław Miłosz

    The State of Nature: Notes from a Diary e-edition

  • Shaul Bakhash

    Prisoners of the Ayatollah e-edition

    From Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution by Ehsan Naraghi, translated by Nilon Mobasser

    Death Plus Ten Years by Roger Cooper

  • Luc Sante

    The Genius of Blues

    Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians edited by Lawrence Cohn

    The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax

    King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton by Stephen Calt, by Gayle Wardlow

    Searching for Robert Johnson by Peter Guralnick

    Love in Vain:A Vision of Robert Johnson by Alan Greenberg

  • Adolf Gruenbaum,
    Thomas Nagel

    ‘Freud’s Permanent Revolution’: An Exchange

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.

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


Thomas Nagel is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at NYU. His latest book, Mind and Cosmos, was published in September. (December 2012)

Ann Hulbert is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford. She is currently at work on a book about twentieth-century American child-rearing experts. (June 1998)

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

M. F. Perutz (1914–2002) was an Austrian molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier.

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

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)

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Robert Conquest, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Great Terror. (March 1997)