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Conor Cruise O'Brien

How Long Can They Last?

Why South Africa Will Survive: A Historical Analysis by L.H. Gann and Peter Duignan

South Africa: Time Running Out Africa. The Report of the Study Commission on US Policy Toward Southern

The Crisis in South Africa: Class Defense, Class Revolution by John S. Saul and Stephen Gelb
David Brion Davis

Out of the Shadows

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume One: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire general editor Ladislas Bugner and Jean Vercoutter and Jean Leclant and Frank M. Snowden Jr. and Jehan Desanges, translated by William Granger Ryan

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume Two: From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery” Part 1, From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood general editor Ladislas Bugner and Jean Devisse, with a preliminary essay by Jean Marie Courtès, translated by William Granger Ryan

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume Two: From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery” Part 2, Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World (Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries) general editor Ladislas Bugner and Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat, translated by William Granger Ryan
Kirkus Reviews

Short Reviews

Indian Running by Peter Nabokov

Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by James H. Jones

Russian Journal by Andrea Lee

Letters

Contributors

David Brion Davis was 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.

Robert L. Heilbroner (1919–2005) was an American economist. He taught economic history at the New School, where he was appointed Norman Thomas Professor of Economics in 1971.

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.

Edmund Keeley is Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English Emeritus at Princeton. His latest books are Borderlines: A Memoir and the novel Some Wine for Remembrance. (November 2007)

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy’s Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).

Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917–2009) was an Irish historian and politician. He was elected to the Irish parliament in 1969 and served as a Minister from 1973 until 1977. His works include States of Ireland, The Great Melody and Memoir: My Life and Themes.

Peter B. Reddaway is Professor Emeritus of Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.

Alastair Reid (1926 -2014) was a poet, prose chronicler, translator, and traveler. Born in Scotland, he came to the United States in the early 1950s, began publishing his poems in The New Yorker in 1951, and for the next fifty-odd years was a traveling correspondent for that magazine. Having lived in both Spain and Latin America for long spells, he was a constant translator of poetry from the Spanish language, in particular the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda. He published more than forty books, among them two word books for children, Ounce Dice Trice, with drawings by Ben Shahn, and Supposing…, with drawings by Bob Gill, both available from The New York Review Children’s Collection.

Leonard Schapiro was a British political scientist and one of the world’s foremost experts on Soviet politics. His works include The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Russian Studies; he also translated Turgenev’s novel Spring Torrentsinto English.

Wilfrid Sheed (1915–2011) was a British-American novelist and critic.

Robert Towers (1923–1995) was an American critic and novelist. Born in Virginia, Towers was educated at Princeton and served for two years as Vice Counsel at the American Consulate General in Calcutta before dedicating himself to literary studies. He taught English literature and creative writing at Princeton, Queens College and Columbia.

H. R. Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) was a British historian and the author of The Last Days of Hitler. He taught at Oxford, where he was the Regius Professor Modern History.