Contents

January 13, 1994 • Volume 41, Number 1 & 2
  • Harriet Ritvo

    A Dog’s Life e-edition

    The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

    Particularly Cats…and Rufus by Doris Lessing

    Cats: Ancient and Modern by Juliet Clutton-Brock

  • Ian Buruma

    The Way They Live Now e-edition

    Naked a film directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh, produced by Simon Channing-Williams

    It’s a Great Big Shame! a play by Mike Leigh

    Life is Sweet directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

    High Hopes directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

    Four Days in July directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

    Meantime directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

    Abigail’s Party directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

    Nuts in May directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

    Bleak Moments directed by Mike Leigh

    Abigail’s Party’ and ‘Goose-Pimples’

    Smelling a Rat’ & ‘Ecstasy’

    Too Much of a Good Thing (broadcast by the BBC in 1992)

  • Richard J. Bernstein,
    Richard Bernstein

    Guilty If Charged e-edition

  • April Bernard

    Exile’s Return e-edition

    Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett C. Millier

    Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry by Lorrie Goldensohn

    Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity by Joanne Feit Diehl

    Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art edited by Lloyd Schwartz, edited by Sybil P. Estess

    Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell by David Kalstone, edited by Robert Hemenway, afterword by James Merrill

    The Complete Poems, 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop

    The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and with an introduction by Robert Giroux

  • Robert M. Adams

    Boys Will Be Boys e-edition

    The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor

  • Ronald Dworkin

    Will Clinton’s Plan Be Fair?

    Health Security Act 103d Congress, 1st Session

  • Michael Meyer

    The Richest Vagabond e-edition

    Alfred Nobel: A Biography by Kenne Fant, translated by Marianne Ruuth

  • Martin Filler

    He’d Rather Be Wright e-edition

    Frank Lloyd Wright by Meryle Secrest

    Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings: edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Introduction by Kenneth Frampton

    Wright Studies, Volume I: Taliesin, 1911–1914 edited by Narciso G. Menocal

    Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years 1910–1922: A Study of Influence by Anthony Alofsin

    Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks edited by David Larkin, by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, text by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

    Frank Lloyd Wright, Hollyhock House and Olive Hill by Kathryn Smith

    Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House by Donald Hoffmann

    Barnsdall House: Los Angeles, 1920 by James Steele

    The Wright Style by Carla Lind

    Frank Lloyd Wright Companion by William Allin Storrer

    About Wright: An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright by Edgar Tafel

    Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect 20–May 10, 1994) catalog of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (February, edited by Terence Riley

  • P. N. Furbank

    Marshmallowing e-edition

    On Love by Alain de Botton

  • Gordon A. Craig

    United We Fall e-edition

    The Rush to German Unity by Konrad H. Jarausch

    Beyond the Wall: Germany’s Road to Unification by Elizabeth Pond

    German Unification in the European Context by Peter H. Merkl, with a contribution by Gert-Joachim Glaessner

  • Noel Annan

    The Age of Aggression e-edition

    The Cultivation of Hatred by Peter Gay

    Bourgeois Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe edited by Jürgen Kocka, edited by Allen Mitchell

  • Theodore H. Draper

    The Life of the Party e-edition

    When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America’s First Mass Student Movement, 1929–1941 by Robert Cohen

    New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism edited by Michael E. Brown, edited by Randy Martin, edited by Frank Rosengarten, edited by George Snedeker

  • John V.H. Dippel,
    Mark C. Medish,
    Renate Bridenthal,
    Marion Kaplan, et al.

    Judgment at Nuremberg: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Noel Annan (1916–2000) was a British military intelligence officer and scholar of European history. His works include Leslie Stephen and Our Age, Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany, and The Curious Strength of Positivism in English Political Thought.

April Bernard’s most recent collection of poems is Romanticism. A novel, Miss Fuller, will be coming out in the spring.
 (December 2011)

Richard Bernstein was Time‘s bureau chief in China and has been a correspondent in France and Germany for The New York Times. His books include The Coming Conflict with China and, most recently, A Girl Named Faithful Plum: The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream.
 (February 2012)

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.

Theodore H. Draper (1912–2006) was an American historian. Educated at City College, he wrote influential studies of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution and the Iran-Contra Affair. Draper was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association.

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.”


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.


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

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.

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.

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.

Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.

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.

Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) was a Scottish-American historian of Germany. He taught at both Princeton and Stanford, where he was named the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1979.