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Clifford Geertz

Mysteries of Islam

The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 1: The Classical Age of Islam by Marshall G.S. Hodgson

The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods by Marshall G.S. Hodgson

The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 3: The Gunpowder Empire and Modern Times by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
Alexander Cockburn

The Psychopathology of Journalism

Hope and Fear in Washington (The Early Seventies): The Story of the Washington Press Corps by Barney Collier, with photographs by Maggi Castelloe

We’re Going to Make You a Star by Sally Quinn

The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam
The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker by Phillip Knightley

The First Time by Karl Fleming and Anne Taylor Fleming
Diane Johnson

The War Between Men and Women

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller

Rape: The Bait and the Trap by Jean MacKellar, with the collaboration of Dr. Menachem Amir

Rape and Its Victims: A Report for Citizens, Health Facilities and Criminal Justice Agencies Enforcement Assistance Administration, Washington, DC. Criminal Justice Reference Service, PO Box 24036, Southwest Post Office, Washington, DC 20024 by the Center for Women Policy Studies et al., funded by the Law
Carl E. Schorske

Cultural Hothouse

The Sacred Spring: The Arts in Vienna 1898-1918 by Nicolas Powell, with an introduction by Adolf Opel

Art in Vienna, 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and Their Contemporaries by Peter Vergo

Gustav Klimt by Werner Hofmann

Gustav Klimt illustrations by Alessandra Comini

Egon Schiele’s Portraits by Alessandra Comini

The Art of Egon Schiele by Erwin Mitsch, translated by W. Keith Haughan

Egon Schiele: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings by Rudolf Leopold, translated by Alexander Lieven

Letters

Contributors

John Ashbery’s new book of poems, Commotion of the Birds, will be published in November. (August 2016)

Alexander Cockburn edits the newsletter CounterPunch and writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.

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.

Nigel Dennis (1912–1989) was an English writer, critic and editor. His books include Boys and Girls Come Out to Play and An Essay on Malta.

Thomas R. Edwards (1928–2005) was Professor of English at Rutgers and editor of Raritan. His last book was Over Here: Criticizing America.

Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was a science writer and novelist. He was the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, The Night is Large and Visitors from Oz.

Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) was an anthropologist. Widely recognized as the most influential American anthropologist of the twentieth century, Geertz championed the role of symbols in the creation and interpretation of social meaning. His many books include Peddlers and Princes: Social Development and Economic Change in Two Indonesian Towns and Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics.

Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. She is the author of Lulu in Marrakech and Le Divorce, among other novels, and a memoir, Flyover Lives.
 (October 2017)

Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) was an American historian.

Alison Lurie is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American Literature Emerita at Cornell. She is the author of ten novels, two collections of essays on children’s literature, and the editor of The Oxford Book of Fairy Tales. Her most recent book is Reading for Fun. (March 2017)

Karl Miller is a British editor and critic. In 1979 he founded the London Review of Books.

John Thompson is an English sociologist. He has published several studies of the media and communication in modern societies, including The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Mediaand Political Scandal: Power and Visibility in the Media Age.