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June 8, 1995 • Volume 42, Number 10

  • Jason Epstein

    The Man with Qualities e-edition

    Edmund Wilson: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

    From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson selected and introduced by Janet Groth, by David Castronovo

  • Robert Conquest

    The Somber Monster e-edition

    Lenin: A New Biography by Dmitri Volkogonov, translated and edited by Harold Shukman

  • Sergei Kovalev

    Death in Chechnya e-edition

  • Richard Holmes

    On the Enchanted Hill e-edition

    The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson 1854–1890 edited by Bradford A. Booth, edited by Ernest Mehew

    Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography by Frank McLynn

    Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny by Alexandra Lapierre, translated by Carol Cosman

  • Joseph Brodsky

    Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky (poem) e-edition

  • Gordon S. Wood

    Disturbing the Peace e-edition

    Tom Paine: A Political Life by John Keane

    Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom by Jack Fruchtman Jr.

    Thomas Paine: Collected Writings edited by Eric Foner

  • Avi Shlaim

    Woman of the Year e-edition

    This Side of Peace: A Personal Account by Hanan Ashrawi

  • Anne Barton

    Twice Around the Grounds e-edition

    Arcadia a play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Trevor Nunn

    Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

  • George M. Fredrickson

    Red, Black, and White e-edition

    Stories of Scottsboro by James Goodman

    Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D.G. Kelley

    Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers by Michael K. Honey

    Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South by John Egerton

  • D. Kern Holoman

    Dispatches from the New Era e-edition

    The Art of Music and Other Essays (A Travers Chants) by Hector Berlioz, translated and edited by Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay

  • Denis Donoghue

    Kicking the Air e-edition

    How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman

    The Dead School by Patrick McCabe

    Walking the Dog and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty

  • Jasper Griffin

    Vases or Pots? e-edition

    Artful Crafts: Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery by Michael Vickers and David Gill

  • P. N. Furbank

    Nothing Sacred e-edition

    The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton

    The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789 by Robert Darnton

    Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France by Arlette Farge, translated by Rosemary Morris

  • Stuart Cary Welch

    India’s Virtuoso Builders e-edition

    The History of Architecture in India: From the Dawn of Civilization to the End of the Raj by Christopher Tadgell

    The Royal Palaces of India by George Michell, photographs by Antonio Martinelli

  • David Lodge

    Behind the Smoke Screen e-edition

    The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II, 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry

    Graham Greene: The Man Within by Michael Shelden

    Graham Greene: Three Lives by Anthony Mockler

    Graham Greene: Friend and Brother by Leopoldo Duran, translated by Euan Cameron

    Reflections by Graham Greene, selected and introduced by Judith Adamson

    A World of My Own: A Dream Diary by Graham Greene

    The Graham Greene Film Reader: Reviews, Essays, Interviews & Film Stories edited by David Parkinson

  • Murray Kempton

    Working Girl e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean.

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) was a Russian poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, Brodsky moved to the United States when he was exiled from Russia in 1972. His poetry collections include A Part of Speech andTo Urania; his essay collections include Less Than One, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Watermark. In 1987, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He served as US Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1992.

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

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

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)

Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

Sergei Kovalev, a biologist and former political prisoner, is a leading candidate on the Yabloko Party list for the December election to the Russian State Duma. He is President of the Institute for Human Rights and Chairman of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (November 2007)

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.

D. Kern Holoman is Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis, where he conducts the UCD Symphony. He is editor of The Nineteenth-Century Symphony, to be published next month. (November 1996)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

William F. Schulz is Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA, and the author of In Our Own Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All. (April 2002)

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Author, Author and A Man of Parts. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His recent books include Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner.

Avi Shlaim is Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. His new book, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World since 1948, will be published in October. (July 1999)

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.

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

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