The New York Review of Books

January

• An Incredible Strategy Michael Howard
• Appalachian Spring V.S. Pritchett
• Birth & Fortune Samuel H. Preston, reply by Christopher Jencks
• Bombs Away Murray Kempton
• Calling Dr. Cooper P.B. Medawar
• Credit for Micah Robert Gordis, reply by J.M. Cameron
• Dido in Love translated by Robert Fitzgerald
• Dulles and Eisenhower E.J. Beigel
• Dulles and Eisenhower John B. Anderson, reply by Ronald Steel
• Facing Up to Realism Robert Farrell, reply by Martin Gardner
• Guide Rouge Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• How Not to Crack the Silkwood Case John M. Crewdson
• How Peace, after Asking Its Question, Becomes War Vickie Karp
• Hunger Strikers John P. Harrington, reply by Denis Donoghue
• Letter to My Foreign Colleagues Andrei D. Sakharov
• More Kicks than Pricks James Wolcott
• Neither Here Nor There Richard Ellmann
• New York and the Nation Felix G. Rohatyn
• Now, Voyager Jonathan Raban
• On Nuclear War George F. Kennan
• One Mo’ Time Michael Wood
• The Father of Us All Alfred Kazin
• The Making of Reaganism Tom J. Farer
• The Mantle of Munchausen John Richardson
• The Medici Megalopolis Felix Gilbert
• The Polish Crisis: Three Statements Joseph Brodsky, Czeslaw Milosz, Susan Sontag, Stanisław Barańczak, and Tomas Venclova, et al.

February

• A Musical Offering Robert Craft
• All Souls Food Noel Annan
• Begin and the Jews Arthur Hertzberg
• Cosmic Philosopher Bernard Williams
• Could the Hungarian Jews Have Survived? István Deák
• Enemies Within Al Alvarez
• Family Man John Bayley
• Golden Boy Robert Brustein
• Help the Poles Vasily Aksenov, Efim Etkind, Pyotr Grigorenko, Zinaida Grigorenko, and Lev Kopelev, et al.
• Ike Plus Eight Paul Finkelman, reply by Ronald Steel
• Infighting over Iran John D. Stempel, reply by Shaul Bakhash
• Is Intelligence for Real? An Exchange Steven Orzack, Robert M. Martin, and Terry Tomkow, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• Looking for Heroes Gordon S. Wood
• Man and Supermini B. Joshua Rosen
• Man and Supermini Donald Larner, reply by Jeremy Bernstein
• Nuremberg in Washington Robert Dallek
• Odd Couple Rudolf Peierls
• Reagan Abroad Stanley Hoffmann
• Recession Economics John Kenneth Galbraith
• Sartre’s Last Case Frederick Brown
• Solidarity Meeting E.L. Doctorow, Carlos Fuentes, Allen Ginsberg, Ralph Schoenman, and Dave Skocik, et al.
• Some Pains Whitman Knapp
• Strange Fruits John Appleton
• The Case of Joesoef Ishak Noam Chomsky
• The Dream of Karl Rahner Thomas Sheehan
• The Flight of the Bumble Bee Diane Johnson
• The Illegitimate Theater Nigel Dennis
• The Logic of Franz Kafka V.S. Pritchett
• The Magician Gabriele Annan
• The Other Sylvia Plath Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The Polish Revolution Leonard Schapiro
• The Quack Detector Stephen Jay Gould
• The Rise of Andy Warhol Robert Hughes
• The Sacco-Vanzetti Case Brain Jackson, reply by Francis Russell
• The Sacco-Vanzetti Case David E. Kaiser, reply by Francis Russell
• Up Against the Great Wall Frederic Wakeman Jr.
• What Is, and Is Not, Realism? Henri Zerner and Charles Rosen

March

• ‘There Is No Penance Due to Innocence’: An Exchange Helen Gardner and Mark Justin, reply by William Empson
• A Bunch of Reds Elizabeth Hardwick
• A Tight Squeeze Anne Hollander
• Advice from Admiral Rickover Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
• An Appeal to General Jaruzelski Zygmunt Nagorski, John Brademas, Robert B. Silvers, James D. Wolfensohn, and Donald Barthelme, et al.
• An Appeal to Psychiatrists Peter B. Reddaway
• Baroque Reading Nicola Courtright, reply by Robert M. Adams
• Brezhnev and After Simon Head
• Challenge Eric P. Levy, reply by Michael Wood
• Death in the Philippines John M. Gates, reply by Gore Vidal
• Death in the Philippines Stephen Shalom
• Enemies of Realism Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
• Farewell to the Family? Andrew Hacker
• Good at Games Veronica Geng
• Guilty Secrets Stephen Spender
• Hangovers D.J. Enright
• Jane Alpert’s Defense Jane Alpert, reply by Murray Kempton
• Jane Alpert’s Defense Susanne P. Schad-Somers
• Jane Alpert’s Defense Judith Weissman
• Jogging to the Abyss Robert M. Adams
• Just Deserts Amartya Sen
• Not in the Chips? John J. Nangle, reply by Robert B. Reich
• Plight of the University Laurence Veysey
• Poet of Two Worlds Helen Vendler
• Point of Departure Diane Johnson
• Poland: The Winter War Martin Malia
• Prussia Lives! Felix Gilbert
• Sentimental Education Joan Didion
• Settlers and ‘Savages’ on Two Frontiers George M. Fredrickson
• The Fly on Nixon’s Wall Nicholas von Hoffman
• The Parajanov Case Alaiya, Michael Arlen, Linda Bastian, Camille Billops, and Vivian E. Browne, et al.
• The Polish Wake Jaroslaw Anders
• The World of the Pied Piper Alison Lurie
• Tough Act to Follow Peter Green
• ValÉRy: Palme translated by James Merrill
• Verdi’s Hit Parade Joseph Kerman

April

• ‘Prince of the City’ cont’d Jay Presson Allen and Whitman Knapp
• A Fourth Time Karl Reyman
• A Funny Meister Gabriele Annan
• A Good Read J.M. Cameron
• A Guide to El Salvador Murray Kempton
• A Raw Deal Felix G. Rohatyn
• Ask the Fact Vernon Shetley
• Begin and the Jews: An Exchange Alan M. Milner, Robert Fink, and Rabbi Ephraim Rubinger, reply by Arthur Hertzberg
• Bright and Silly Denis Donoghue
• Chance-taker Robert M. Adams
• China: Mulberries and Famine Jonathan D. Spence
• Correction The Editors
• Czech Prisoner Barbara C. Sproul
• Desegregation Irving Lavin, reply by Robert M. Adams
• Dogs and Saints Lester K. Little
• Dr. Shaw’s Music Lessons Edward Rothstein
• Elephant Man John Gregory Dunne
• Facing Deportation Stanley Diamond, Noam Chomsky, William Sloane Coffin Jr., Edward W. Said, and Ramsey Clark, et al.
• Famous but Unknown Francis Haskell
• Foreshadowings Ernest A. Spiegel, reply by P.B. Medawar
• Glamour Boy A.J.P. Taylor
• How Strong Are the Saudis? Jim Hoagland
• How to Rescue a Drowning Economy Lester C. Thurow
• How to Understand Slavery Stanley M. Elkins
• Ireland: The Shirt of Nessus Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Landscape (After Baudelaire) John Ashbery
• Medici Florence: An Exchange Richard C. Trexler, reply by Felix Gilbert
• Moby-Dad Robert Towers
• Moses and Atheism J.M. Cameron
• Mysterious Incest Nadine Gordimer
• No Fool Francine du Plessix Gray
• Not Soft on Communism Robert Frazier, reply by Peter Green
• Our Town Roger Sale
• Poet of Sacrifice David McDuff
• Quantum Squabbles Rudolf Peierls
• Queen Story Harry Mathews
• Rags Anne Hollander
• Reading for Signs of Life Jerome S. Bruner
• Smoke in the Smokies Charles Schwartz, reply by V.S. Pritchett
• Solidarity Support Seymour Melman, Alexander Erlich, Barbara Garson, Pete Camarata, and Lawrence Weschler, et al.
• The Azadovsky Case Michael Scammell
• The Genius Syndrome Malcolm Muggeridge
• The Kindly Stranger Murray Kempton
• The Lowest Depths E.J. Hobsbawm
• The Modern Tradition Nicholas Penny, reply by Henri Zerner
• The Myth of the Computer John R. Searle
• The Nazis on Trial Bradley F. Smith, reply by Robert Dallek
• The Old Country Robert Towers
• The Philosophy of Reaganism Emma Rothschild
• The Return of Henry Kissinger Stanley Hoffmann
• The Rise of Hyman Rickover James Fallows
• The Ruins of Washington Gore Vidal
• The Silkwood Case David Burnham and Howard Kohn, reply by John M. Crewdson
• The Supply-Side Star Robert Mazzocco
• Who Should Go to Prison? Graham Hughes
• Will Man Become Obsolete? Stephen Jay Gould
• Wittgenstein the Psychologist Ian Hacking

May

• A Fine Romance D.M. Thomas
• China on the Rocks John K. Fairbank
• Conjuring with Islam Clifford Geertz
• Cuba, the US, and the Central American Mess Seweryn Bialer and Alfred Stepan
• Death of Venice Peter Partner
• Detaching the Retina Norman Turner, reply by Henri Zerner
• Did FDR Invite the Pearl Harbor Attack? David Kahn
• Electronic Maestros David Hamilton
• Emperor of China Studies David S. Nivison
• Farewell to the Family? Vivian Cadden
• Farewell to the Family? Sharon Mayberry, reply by Andrew Hacker
• Farewell to the Family? Karen Lindsey
• Flushed with Ideas Al Alvarez
• Fun in the Waste Land Michael Wood
• Genocide in Hungary: An Exchange Helen Fein, Albert B. Belton, and William O. McCagg Jr., reply by István Deák
• Goys Into Wasps Hayden N. Pelliccia, reply by Diane Johnson
• Help Save “Que Me” Czeslaw Milosz, Susan Sontag, Jean-Marie Domenach, Stanisław Barańczak, and Fernando Arrabal, et al.
• In Defense of Wordsworth Norman Fruman, reply by John Bayley
• La Grande Mademoiselle Robert Craft
• Letters from Zola Frederick Brown
• Message from Heraclitus M.F. Burnyeat
• Mysteries in History C. Vann Woodward
• On Stage Jonas Barish
• Parajanov Arrested Leo Hamalian
• Pillars of the Third Reich Norman Stone
• Playing to Empty Pockets Patricia Craig
• Post-Conservative America Kevin Phillips
• Scientists and Life Steve J. Heims, reply by Rudolf Peierls
• Slums of Empire Darryl Pinckney
• Storming the Fortress John Maynard Smith
• The Art of Dying Robert Darnton
• The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe Edward Crankshaw
• The House Fly James Merrill
• The Identity of Nozick David Gordon, reply by Bernard Williams
• The Missed Chance to Stop the H-Bomb McGeorge Bundy
• The Priestly Comedy of J. F. Powers Mary Gordon
• The Rape of the Voice Veronica Geng
• The Terror Facing the Bahais Firuz Kazemzadeh
• The Unhappy Medium Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner

June

• ‘Just Deserts’: An Exchange Peter Bauer, reply by Amartya Sen
• ‘Magazines for Poland’ R.C. Packer, Jim Lance, and Robert Poole Jr.
• A Naughty President Francis Russell
• A Pitch for Socialism Robert L. Heilbroner
• Brezhnev and After Karl W. Ryavec
• Brezhnev and After Richard F. Taruskin, reply by Simon Head
• Brezhnev and After Albert L. Weeks
• Busting the People’s Case Graham Hughes
• China’s Secret Prison Name Withheld
• Chosen People John Clive
• Fraina and ‘Reds’ Rachelle Marshall
• Getting Out of the Central American Maze James Chace
• Godfathers and Sons Luigi Barzini
• Going Strong Jonathan Raban
• Is Locke the Key? Ian Hacking
• Last Exit to Nature Richard Murphy
• Living Nightmares Michael Wood
• Mars Bars Bernard Lovell
• More Fog in the Smokies Joshua Banner
• My Life with Stravinsky Robert Craft
• Playing Tag with Japan Robert B. Reich
• Practical Sense James Fallows
• Shyster Saints Robert M. Adams
• So Big Robert Towers
• Social Scientists Protest Howard E. Gruber
• Sparkle Plenty Alan Pryce-Jones
• Straw Dogs James Wolcott
• The Inferiority Complex Hans A. Bethe
• The Last Puritan Noel Annan
• The Myth of the Computer: An Exchange Daniel C. Dennett, reply by John R. Searle
• The Question of Orientalism Bernard Lewis
• The Road to Disaster Bernard Avishai
• The Voice of the People Ronald Blythe
• The Way of All Flesh Robert L. Heilbroner
• Where Does Language Come From? Jerome S. Bruner and Carol Fleisher Feldman
• Where Zweig Died Edvard Fendler
• Woman in Dark Times Alfred Kazin

July

• Breaking Away Irving Howe
• Changeling Stephen Spender
• Excelsior! A.J.P. Taylor
• Free Boguslawski Robert Fiengo, Charles Cairns, Helen Cairns, and Noam Chomsky
• General Galtieri’s Case Murray Kempton
• Good Morning, America Thomas R. Edwards
• Good Poems, Sad Lives Howard Moss
• How Not to Think About Nuclear War Theodore H. Draper
• Lincoln and His Legend George M. Fredrickson
• Mrs. Thatcher’s Case Noel Annan
• R.I.P. James Wolcott
• Refusing Stanley Burnshaw, reply by J.M. Cameron
• The High Cost of Living Suzy Hallock-Butterworth, reply by Andrew Hacker
• The Return of Meyerhold John Russell
• Watergate Over the Dam Mary McCarthy
• Why People Go Hungry Kenneth J. Arrow

August

• From Alberti to Zoppo Hugh Honour
• Good Men Are Hard to Find Robert Towers
• How Far Down? Robert Summers, reply by Lester C. Thurow
• Keeping Up with Mr. B Robert Craft
• Manifest Destiny A.B. Yehoshua, translated by D. Nottman
• Orientalism: An Exchange Edward W. Said and Oleg Grabar, reply by Bernard Lewis
• Pictures from an Expedition A.J.P. Taylor
• Private Lives V.S. Pritchett
• Progress of Stories Laura (Riding) Jackson, reply by Harry Mathews
• Public Faces Robert M. Adams
• Response Elie Kedourie
• Rite of Passage Diane Johnson
• Star-Spangled History Gordon S. Wood
• Staying the Course Rosemary Dinnage
• The Case of Dr. Besikci Stanley Diamond, Richard A. Falk, Robert L. Heilbroner, and Edward J. Nell
• The FBI and Pearl Harbor Graham Greene
• The Lesson of the Master Cynthia Ozick
• The Lower Depths Andrew Hacker
• The Man Who Wasn’t There Bruce Heinly
• What Hope for the Economy? Wassily Leontief
• Year One Stanley Hoffmann

September

• ‘How Not to Think About Nuclear War’: An Exchange Rudolf Peierls, Thomas Powers, Aron M. Bernstein, Jeanne Theis Whitaker, and Daniel B. Kaplan, et al.
• ‘Stargazer’ Available Marion Boyars
• Battle over Translation Daniel Weissbort, reply by David McDuff
• Bronzino Returns Craig Hugh Smyth
• Cherry Pie Jerome C. Weeks, reply by Robert Mazzocco
• Classic Classicists Bernard Knox
• Credit B.L. Lewis
• Frances Yates Fellowship J.B. Trapp
• From Moses to Gilboa Harold Bloom
• Going for Broke Jason Epstein
• Heraclitus’ Home Truths Martin Wenglingsky, reply by M.F. Burnyeat
• Khomeini’s Mind Hamid Algar
• Monkey Business Gore Vidal
• Neo-Con Art Robert Rosenblum, reply by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
• Nuclear City Paul Loeb, reply by Roger Sale
• Pecking Orders John Keegan
• Pennies from Heaven C. Vann Woodward
• Post-Conservative America William Brandenburg, reply by Kevin Phillips
• Post-Conservative America Bruce Majors
• Post-Conservative America Robert W. Whitaker
• Prisons & Punishment Robert A. Pugsley, reply by Graham Hughes
• Purity and Danger Raymond Carr
• Reds Wilfrid Sheed
• Roots of Creole John Holm, reply by Carol Fleisher Feldman and Jerome S. Bruner
• Speaking of the Unspeakable J.M. Cameron
• That Old Czech Magic Neal Ascherson
• The Bahais Patrick Clawson, reply by Firuz Kazemzadeh
• The Creeping Griffon Helen Vendler
• The Natural Artificer Alexander Cockburn
• Why Are You Scared? Ian Hacking

October

• ‘The Unhappy Medium’: An Exchange Albert Boime, reply by Henri Zerner
• A Genius of Journalism Murray Kempton
• Blame the White House? James B. Sibbison, reply by David Kahn
• Body, Mind, and Machine David Joravsky
• Chinatowns John Gregory Dunne
• Clockwork History Geoffrey Barraclough
• Complaint Ishmael Reed, reply by Robert Towers
• Complex Oedipus Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Desperate Saying Paul Violi, reply by Alan Pryce-Jones
• Dissent on the Falklands Bernard Crick, reply by Noel Annan
• Feminism & Hannah Arendt Virginia Held, reply by Alfred Kazin
• Grub Street Revolutionaries Norman Hampson
• Habermas’s Reformation Quentin Skinner
• Locke and Language Thomas Willard, reply by Ian Hacking
• Now at Harvard John Womack Jr.
• On the Brink of Dulles Ronald Steel
• Pandora’s Box Sara Laschever
• Reforming Women Willie Lee Rose
• Sacred Space Frank Kermode
• School of the Blind Janet Malcolm
• Sentimental Education Lester C. Thurow
• So Big Malcolm Muggeridge
• The Child Is the Man Nadine Gordimer
• The Discreet Charm of Fontane Gabriele Annan
• The Myth of a Liberation Truong Nhu Tang
• The Party’s Over Darryl Pinckney
• The Revenge of the Mortal Hand Jaroslaw Anders
• The Tragedy and the Hope Arthur Hertzberg
• The Two Hardys John Bayley
• The Underclass David Courtwright
• The Underclass Kathy Fitzgerald, reply by Andrew Hacker
• The Underclass Edith E. Flynn
• The Underclass Kim Hopper
• The Underclass Bickley Townsend
• The Very Rich Hours of the Shah Michael Levey
• Two Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell
• Ultra Ultra Secrets Zara Steiner
• Where Is Israel Going? Nahum Goldmann
• Wonder Woman Denis Donoghue
• Young Churchill Ted Morgan, reply by A.J.P. Taylor

November

• Amadevious Alan Tyson
• An Exagmination of Imagination W. Jackson Bate
• Brutality in Poland Halina M. Stieglitz
• Chumps and Chimps Mordecai Richler
• Correction Lee Simmons
• Cuba and the Us Carlos Ripoll, reply by Alfred Stepan and Seweryn Bialer
• Cuba and the Us Kassahun Checole
• Dangerous Topic Clayton Libolt, reply by Noel Annan
• Dear Mr. Weinberger An Open Reply to an Open Letter Theodore H. Draper
• Dissent & Israel: An Exchange Ivan J. Novick, reply by Arthur Hertzberg and Irving Howe
• How Venetian Is Venetian Painting? Charles Hope
• In El Salvador Joan Didion
• In El Salvador: Soluciones Joan Didion
• Innocents Abroad Jonathan Raban
• Jew d’Esprit Josh Rubins
• Joyce at 100 Richard Ellmann
• Mission from Japan Irving Howe
• Robert Lowell: Life Studies Ian Hamilton
• Save the Wales? Graham Hughes
• Secretary of Defense Weinberger’s Letter of August 23 Caspar W. Weinberger
• Slow Food Geoffrey Grigson
• The ‘Truth’ of Karl Popper Jonathan Lieberson
• The Making of Canetti S.S. Prawer
• The Party’s Over Harvey Klehr
• The Primal Code C. Vann Woodward
• The Rebel
• The Revolution Against Itself Shaul Bakhash
• The State of the Banks Felix G. Rohatyn
• Tom Wolfe’s Greatest Hits James Wolcott
• Un-Canadian Activities Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Under Eastern Eyes R.W. Southern
• Witch Hunting Edmund S. Morgan

December

• ‘Red’ or ‘Expert’? John K. Fairbank
• A Note on a Borrowing by Conrad V.S. Naipaul
• American Graffiti Robert Towers
• American Poet Helen Vendler
• An Unwanted Civil War? Kevin Sharpe
• Ancient Biggies Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Beautiful and Damned Michael Wood
• Buddies John Gross
• Catch Up John A. Garraty
• Catholics Lucy L. Bridges
• Complaint Ishmael Reed, reply by The Editors and Robert Towers
• Dissent on Broszat Jane Caplan, reply by Norman Stone
• El Salvador: Illusions Joan Didion
• Epitaph for a Tyrant Joseph Brodsky
• Eyewitness ARTnews Elizabeth Hardwick
• For Old Times’ Sake James Fallows
• How Is India Doing? Amartya Sen
• In Flaubert’s Laboratory Stuart Hampshire
• In the Garrison Jane Kramer
• LA’s Vital Fluid Joseph R. Conlin, reply by John Gregory Dunne
• LA’s Vital Fluid Michael Kazin, reply by John Gregory Dunne
• Madness Lawrence Stone
• Marx in the Agora Ernst Badian
• Mein liebes Tagebuch, Gordon A. Craig
• More Szymborska Theodore Weiss and Renee Weiss, reply by Jaroslaw Anders
• Nuclear Sense and Nonsense Lord Zuckerman
• Puppy Love Ned Rorem, reply by Robert Craft
• Social Security: The Coming Crash Peter G. Peterson
• Surprises Ada Long
• The Art of Collecting Art Ernst Gombrich
• The Danger in Poland: A Letter George Konrad
• The Old Imperialism Tony Smith, reply by John Keegan
• The Romantic Rationalist Jonathan Lieberson
• The Salvation of Social Security Peter G. Peterson
• The Shrink Princess Phyllis Grosskurth
• Two Poems from ‘Tristia’ Osip Mandelstam, translated by Robert Tracy
• Understanding Islam Elie Kedourie, reply by Clifford Geertz
• Variety Shows Josh Rubins
• Writing History: An Exchange Jackson Lears, John Patrick Diggins, and Cushing Strout, reply by Gordon S. Wood