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December 22, 1994 • Volume 41, Number 21

  • Garry Wills

    The Tragic Pope? e-edition

    Crossing the Threshold of Hope by His Holiness John Paul II, edited by Vittorio Messori, translated by Jenny McPhee, by Martha McPhee

    Prayers and Devotions from Pope John Paul II introduction by edited and with an Bishop OSA van Lierde, Peter Canisius Johannes, translated by Firman O'Sullivan

    Catechism of the Catholic Church

    The Place Within: The Poetry of Pope John Paul II translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz

    The Papacy by Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, translated by James Sievert

  • John Bayley

    ‘Trapping Fairies in West Virginia’ e-edition

    The Oxford Book of Comic Verse edited by John Gross

    Max Beerbohm: Collected Verse edited with an introduction and notes by J. G. Riewald

    A Christmas Garland woven by Max Beerbohm. illustrations by the author, Introduction by N. John Hall

  • David Brion Davis

    The Slave Trade and the Jews e-edition

  • James Fenton

    The Other Pope e-edition

  • Bernard Knox

    Poets of the Spanish Tragedy e-edition

    Edwin Rolfe: Collected Poems edited by Cary Nelson, edited by Jefferson Hendricks, introduction and notes by Cary Nelson

    Edwin Rolfe: A Biographical Essay and Guide to the Rolfe Archive at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by Cary Nelson, by Jefferson Hendricks

    A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War by Laurie Lee

  • Jorge Luis Borges,
    Robert Mezey

    Elegy for a Park (poem) e-edition

  • Jasper Griffin

    New Heaven, New Earth e-edition

    Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn

  • Jamey Gambrell

    The Wonder of the Soviet World e-edition

  • Alfred Kazin

    Escape Artist e-edition

    The Book of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman, translated by Betsy Rosenberg

  • Caroline Fraser

    The Prairie Queen e-edition

    The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane by William Holtz

    The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

    A Little House Sampler by Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Rose Wilder Lane, edited by William T. Anderson

    West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco 1915 edited by Roger Lea MacBride

    Little House in the Big Woods

    Farmer Boy

    Little House on the Prairie

    On the Banks of Plum Creek

    By the Shores of Silver Lake

    The Long Winter

    Little Town on the Prairie

    These Happy Golden Years

  • Martin Filler

    Prince of the City e-edition

    Philip Johnson: Life and Works by Franz Schulze

    Philip Johnson: The Glass House edited by David Whitney, edited by Jeffrey Kipnis

    The Oral History of Modern Architecture: Interviews with the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century by John Peter

    Philip Johnson: The Architect in His Own Words by Hilary Lewis, by John O'Connor

  • J. M. Coetzee

    The Heart of Me

    Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing

  • Philip Gourevitch

    Vietnam: The Bitter Truth e-edition

    South Wind Changing by Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh

  • Ann Hulbert

    Writer Without Borders e-edition

    Open Secrets by Alice Munro

  • R.J.W. Evans

    ‘A Fair and Tranquil Land’ e-edition

    Hanes Cymru by John Davies

    A History of Wales by John Davies

  • Robert Darnton

    Sex for Thought e-edition

    L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale Fayard

    Romans libertins du XVIIIe siècle edited by Raymond Trousson

    Ces Livres qu’on ne lit que d’une main: Lecture et lecteurs de livres pornographiques au XVIIIe siècle by Jean Marie Goulemot

    Vol. 1: Oeuvres érotiques de Mirabeau: (HIC-ETHAEC) ou l’Elève des Révérends Pères Jésuites d’Avignon Le Rideau levé ou l’éducation de Laure Ma Conversion ou le libertin de qualité L'Abbé IL-ET-ELLE

    Vol. 2: Oeuvres érotiques de Restif de la Bretonne: règlement pour les prostituées L’Anti-Justine ou les délices de l’amour Dom Bougre aux Etats-Généraux ou doléances du Portier des Chartreux Les Revies, histories refaites sous une autre hypothèse du coeu Le Pornographe ou idées d'un honnête homme sur un project de

    Vol. 3: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (I): lui-mêmeMémoires du Suzon, soeur de D.. B.., portier des Chartreux, écrits par elle-même Histoire de Marguerite, fille du Suzon, nièce de D** B*****, La Cauchoise ou mémoires d’une courtisane célèbre Histoire de Dom B…, portier des Chartreux, écrite par

    Vol. 4: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (II): d’Eulalie, ou tableau du libertinage de Paris Lucette ou les progrès du libertinage La courtisane anaphrodite ou la pucelle libertine Correspondance

    Vol. 5: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (III): du Père Dirrag et de Mademoiselle Eradice Le Triomphe des religieuses ou les nonnes babillardes Lettres galantes et philosophiques de deux nonnes La Messaline française ou les nuits de la duchesse de Pol… e Thérèse philosophe ou mémoires pour servir à l'histoire

    Vol. 6: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (IV): célèbre libertine Décrets des sens sanctionnés par la volupté Requête et décret en faveur des putains, des fouteuses, des maquerelles et des branleuses contre les bougres, les bardaches et les brûleurs de pa Eléonore ou l'heureuse personne Vénus en rut ou vie d'une

    Vol. 7: Oeuvres érotiques du XVIIe siècle: des dames Vénus dans le cloître ou la religieuse en chemise L’Académie des dames Le Rut ou la pudeur éteinte L'Ecole des filles ou la philosophie

  • Murray Kempton

    Happy Endings e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

John Bayley is a critic and novelist. His books include Elegy for Iris and The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine short story writer, poet, and essayist. His fiction, which drew on his interest in mathematics and detective stories, made him one of the influential writers of the twentieth century. English-language anthologies of his stories include Ficciones, The Aleph, and Labyrinths.

J. M. Coetzee, the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Literature, is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History Emeritus at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. (July 2012)

James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999, Fenton was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2007 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.


Martin Filler was the longtime architecture critic of House & Garden, until it ceased publication in 2007. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect, and author of Makers of Modern Architecture, which is based on essays from The New York Review. A second volume of his writings on architecture is forthcoming from New York Review Books.


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.

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His books include Homer on Life and Death.

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)

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.

Caroline Fraser ‘s most recent book, Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution, was published in December. (May 2010)

Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was a writer and teacher. Among his books are On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from Howells to Faulkner, and the memoirs A Walker in the Cityand New York Jew. In 1996, he received the first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism from the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

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.

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.

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.

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.