The New York Review of Books, Volume 61, Number 15, 9 October 2014

This includes Andrew O’Hagan’s “The Dark Dreams of William Burroughs,” a review of Barry Miles’ Call Me Burroughs: A Life (followed by a short review of Kill Your Darlings, directed by John Krokidas). This review includes two photographs of Burroughs by Allen Ginsberg.

Published in New York City by The New York Review of Books in October 2014.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20141009NYRB.61.15

Selected Contents:

• Tamsin Shaw: "Wonder Boys?" (review of Divine Fury: A History of Genius by Darrin M. McMahon)
• Rembrandt: etching, c. 1652
• Max Beerbohm: "Dante in Oxford" (drawing, 1904)
• Anka Muhlstein: "The Cut of Coco" (review of Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History by Rhonda K. Garelick)
• Douglas Kirkland: photograph
• George Hoyningen-Huene: photograph
• Tim Parks: "Muriel Spark, Moral Hypnotist" (combined review of The Informed Air: Essays and Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography, both by Muriel Spark)
• Ian Berry: photograph
• Robert Chandler: "Fearless Malevich" (combined review of books on Malevich)
• Kazimir Malevich: "The Knife Grinder" (painting, 1912–1913)
• Kazimir Malevich: "Portrait of the Artist's Wife" (painting, 1935)
• Jeremy Waldron: "It's All for Your Own Good" (combined review of Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism and Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas by Cass R. Sunstein)
• Ferguson: illustration
• Edward Lear: drawing
• Robert F. Worth: "The Pillars of Arab Despotism" (combined review of The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation Is Changing the Middle East by Juan Cole and Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East by Shahi Hamid)
• Alexei Druzhinin: photograph
• Peter E. Gordon: "Heidegger in Black" (combined review of multiple books by Martin Heidegger)
• Thomas Powers: "Texas: The Southern Baptists in Power" (review of Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State by Robert Wuthnow)
• Hiroji Kubota: photograph
• Brandon Thibodeaux: photograph
• Mary Beard: "How Stoical Was Seneca?" (combined review of books on Seneca)
• Peter Paul Rubens: "The Death of Seneca" (painting, 1612–1613)
• Christopher Jencks: "On America's Front Lines" (combined review of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman and a National Research Council report)
• Daniel Traub: photograph
• Shen Ting: photograph
• Ian Frazier: "'A New Way of Life'" (review of Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America by Steven Watts)
• Nathan Thrall: "Israel & the US: The Delusions of Our Diplomacy" (essay)
• Adel Hana: photograph
• Alan Ryan: "In the Spirit of Maya Lin" (review of Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum)
• Sally Ryan: photograph
• Peter Marlow: photograph
• Andrew O'Hagan: "The Dark Dreams of William Burroughs" (combined review of Call Me Burroughs: A Life by Barry Miles and John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings)
• Allen Ginsberg: photographs
• Thomas Nagel: "Listening to Reason" (review of T. M. Scanlon's Being Realistic about Reasons)
• Edward Gorey: illustration
• Benjamin M. Friedman: "The Pathology of Europe's Debt" (essay)
• Wolfgang Rattay: photograph
• Bernard Partridge: "The Goose That Couldn't—Or Wouldn't" (drawing)
• René Magritte: "Birth of the Idol" (painting, 1926)
• John R. Searle: "What Your Computer Can't Know" (combined review of The 4th Revolution: How the Infosphere Is Reshaping Human Reality by Luciano Floridi and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrum)
• Tim Judah: "Ukraine: What Putin Has Won" (essay)
• letters

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Robert B. Silvers
• Senior Editors: Michael Shae, Hugh Eakin, Eve Bowen, Jana Prikryl
• Contributing Editor: Ann Kjellberg
• Assistant Editors: Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Christopher Carroll
• Publisher: Rea S. Hederman
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