The New York Review of Books

January

• Berceuse
• Castles in the Mud
• Command Performances John Keegan
• Defending Habermas Thomas McCarthy
• Dostoevsky’s Conversion Joseph Frank
• Dutch Mistress Joseph Brodsky
• Experimental Station Christopher Hitchens
• Founding Uncle Robert O. Paxton
• It Ain’t Necessarily So Taki
• Living in the Interregnum Nadine Gordimer
• Make It Strange V.S. Pritchett
• Pandora’s Box Howard Stern, reply by Sara Laschever
• Perils of Cognitive Science Morton Hunt, reply by David Joravsky
• The Corpse in the Elevator Richard C. Lewontin
• The Fall of the Gentry Edmund S. Morgan
• The Myth of Liberation Gabriel Kolko, reply by Truong Nhu Tang
• The Plight of Petr Uhl Barbara C. Sproul
• The Prince of Pure Feeling Sanford Schwartz
• Under the Volcano Leonard Schapiro
• What Liberalism Isn’t Ronald Dworkin
• Whose Life Is It, Anyway? Irvin Ehrenpreis

February

• Berlin in the Light John Willett
• Ciao! Manhattan Robert Brustein
• Civil Defense Graham Greene
• Correction Ernst Badian
• Evdokimov Case Victor Bers, Ernst Badian, Anne Burnett, Diskin Clay, and Thomas Cole, et al.
• Exorcist and Analyst Rosemary Dinnage
• Honest Eggs? Steele Commager
• How Should a Gent Behave? Noel Annan
• Human Rights in Chile Ludmilla Thorne
• Inside Angola Xan Smiley
• Life Saving John Gross
• Living in the Breach Sven Birkerts
• Looking in on Pushkin John Bayley
• Memory and Its Discontents Harold Bloom
• Of Human Bondage David Brion Davis
• On John Cheever Saul Bellow
• Russia’s Old New Right Aileen Kelly
• Sleepwalker J.M. Cameron
• The Andropov Succession Seweryn Bialer
• The Bonaparte Papers Frank R. Hartman, reply by Phyllis Grosskurth
• The Case of Yuri Orlov Eddie Oshins
• The Ears of America Thomas Powers
• The Great Lobbyist Murray Kempton
• The Invisible Veterans Harry Maurer
• The Myth of More G.R. Elton
• Things As They Are John Ashbery
• This Land Is Our Land Gordon S. Wood
• Twilight of Authority Ian Hacking
• Wales’s End? A. Phillips Griffiths
• Wales’s End? Ivor G.H. Wilks, reply by Graham Hughes
• Wales’s End? Kenneth O. Morgan
• Was Cain Able? Luc Sante
• Why Liberals Should Believe in Equality Ronald Dworkin
• Why the Smokies Are Smoky (cont’d) Robert W. Loftin

March

• ‘How Is India Doing?’ An Exchange Devaki Jain, Ashok Mitra, Benedict Stavis, and K.N. Raj, reply by Amartya Sen
• A Martial Law Carol Joseph Brodsky
• A Matter of Survival McGeorge Bundy
• Acts of the Apostles Hugh Trevor-Roper
• An Exchange with Michel Foucault Michel Foucault, reply by Lawrence Stone
• Bleeding Poetry Stephen Spender
• Discrimination and Thomas Sowell Christopher Jencks
• From Infancy to Senility and Back Lester C. Thurow
• From the House of Life Hugh Honour
• Greece à la Française Bernard Knox
• Growing Pains Josh Rubins
• If U Cn Rd Ths James Merrill
• Kings of Comedy Veronica Geng
• Kiss and Don’t Tell Ian Hacking
• Maker and Teacher Lincoln Kirstein
• Making a Comeback Philip Gossett
• More Pleasant Adventures John Ashbery
• Nuclear Sense & Nonsense Richard Pipes, reply by Lord Zuckerman
• On Frances Yates Ernst Gombrich
• On the Thread of Language
• Portrait of a Bounder Eugene D. Genovese
• Ruins and Poetry Czeslaw Milosz
• Ruskin Our Contemporary? Diane Johnson
• Saving My Soul at the Plaza Alfred Kazin
• Southern Exposure C. Vann Woodward
• Special Treatment for Blacks? Christopher Jencks
• Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) Murray Kempton
• The Attack on Anatoly Koryagin Peter B. Reddaway
• The Case of Miklos Duray Irving Howe, Susan Sontag, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Freud Archives James H. Hutson, reply by Phyllis Grosskurth
• The Future of Social Security: An Exchange Rosemary Rinder and Alicia H. Munnell, reply by Peter G. Peterson
• The Game of the Soviet Censor Tomas Venclova
• The House of Feminism Nancy F. Cott
• The Roman Spring of Clement VII Peter Partner
• The Supreme Fairy Tale V.S. Pritchett
• The Way They Lived Then
• Utopia (Limited) Stephen Jay Gould
• V. Robert Craft
• Violent Places Robert Towers
• Wanted by the FBI! Jeffrey Meyers
• What Was Fascism? István Deák
• Which Side Was Rabelais On? D.P. Walker

April

• ‘The Corpse in the Elevator’: An Exchange Francis J. Rigney and Thomas A. Kursar, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• A Green Thumb
• All Things Rich and Amiable: Another Day in the Life of Junior W. Buckeye Prudence Crowther
• Auto-da-Fé Bernard Williams
• Available Italians Gladys Haddad
• Available Italians Thomas Lask
• Big Little Book Robert M. Adams
• Corrections Walker Percy
• Fingerprints Howard Moss
• He Aims to Please Sanford Schwartz
• His Brilliant Career Clive James
• Innocent at Home J.M. Cameron
• Kolbe & Anti-Semitism Daniel Schlafly and Warren Green, reply by John Gross
• Kolbe & Anti-Semitism Patricia Treece
• Looking Over Jordan Bernard Avishai
• Luther and Calvin Arthur A. Preisinger, reply by J.M. Cameron
• Mussolini in Concert Murray Kempton
• Norman in Egypt Harold Bloom
• Precedent Alan A. Gonzalez
• Reds Page Stegner
• Roots Darryl Pinckney
• Shakespeare for the Eighties Frank Kermode
• Smashed! James B. Jacobs
• The Case for Khrushchev Leonard Schapiro
• The Communist Party: An Exchange Max Gordon, reply by Harvey Klehr
• The Delusions of Deterrence Emma Rothschild
• The Karl Popper Problem David Miller, reply by Jonathan Lieberson
• The Man Who Plotted Against Hitler David Astor
• The Planistes David M. Ennis, reply by Robert O. Paxton
• The Real Stuff John K. Fairbank
• The Secret Sharers James Wolcott
• Three Poems by Czeslaw Milosz Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, and Renata Gorczynski
• To Each His Own Ronald Dworkin
• Trollope & Marriage Betsy Nicoletti, reply by Noel Annan
• What Einstein Did Rudolf Peierls
• What’s What Donald McFarlan, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Why Not the Best? Roger Shattuck

May

• A Great Place to Visit A.J.P. Taylor
• Back to Utopia Keith Thomas
• Blind Obedience John K. Fairbank
• Equality First Philip Selznick, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• Forbidden History Joshua Rubenstein and Mark Kuchment
• Getting Goedel Straight David J. Depew, reply by Ian Hacking
• Getting Goedel Straight Victor F. Weisskopf
• If Franco Lost Robert H. Whealey, reply by Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Jolly Rogers Christopher Hill
• Mulligan Stew Robert M. Adams
• Novel, Tale, Romance Mary McCarthy
• Saving the Economy Rosemary Rinder, reply by Peter G. Peterson
• Saving the Free World: An Exchange Samuel Lipman, Eugene D. Genovese, and John O’Sullivan, reply by Alfred Kazin
• Secrets of Caravaggio Francis Haskell
• The Collector Gore Vidal
• The Man Who Wasn’t There Gert Schiff
• The Underground Entrepreneur Thomas Powers
• The Written and the Unwritten Word Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
• Zero Options George F. Kennan

June

• A Corona for Wolfgang John Hollander
• Art for Whose Sake? David H. Wright
• As the Crow Flies Virgil J. Vogel, reply by Page Stegner
• Bradley’s Class Gordon A. Craig
• Byron and the ‘Lively Life’ John Bayley
• Can Begin Be Stopped? Bernard Avishai
• Closing Time Robert Towers
• Cracks in the Universe D.J. Enright
• Crimes Against the Cubists John Richardson
• Darwin’s Revolution Richard C. Lewontin
• Double Exposure Robert M. Adams
• Elias Defended Johan Goudsblom, reply by Geoffrey Barraclough
• Enemies of Modern Art Francis Haskell
• Ethnic America: An Exchange Maimon Schwarzschild, Martin Glaberman, and Thomas Sowell, reply by Christopher Jencks
• Extermination in Guatemala Aryeh Neier
• Genes on the Brain Stephen Jay Gould
• George Balanchine (1904–1983) Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale
• How Tough Is the Red Army? David Holloway
• Ibsen’s Secrets Elizabeth Hardwick
• In Porter’s “Hacienda” Thomas F. Walsh, reply by Irvin Ehrenpreis
• It’s Available Barbara B. Lamb
• Letterfrack Industrial School Richard Murphy
• Lincoln’s ‘Asiatic Style’ M.E. Bradford, reply by Alfred Kazin
• Little Emma A Story by Géza Csáth Geza Csath
• Living with the Enemy Robert O. Paxton
• Making It Jonathan Lieberson
• On the Eve Aileen Kelly
• On the Trail of Nature Stuart Hampshire
• Prophet J.M. Cohen
• Return of the Natives Geoffrey Barraclough
• Scandal in the Family Bruno Bettelheim
• Shakespeare & Co. Robert Giroux and Muriel Bradbrook, reply by Frank Kermode
• Skin Deep Alison Lurie
• Starving to Death in China Thomas P. Bernstein
• The Bishops and the Bomb McGeorge Bundy
• The Ducking Stool Francis J. Rigney, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• The Freud Archives Diana Riviere
• The Ghost in Poland Abraham Brumberg
• The Ratushinskaya Case Alison Lurie, William Kennedy, Edward Hower, James McConkey, and Kenneth McClane, et al.
• The Revolt of Islam Bernard Lewis
• The Right Stuff Robert Mazzocco
• The Strayed Reveller John Ashbery
• The Wealth of the Nation John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Wise and Gentle Lamb John Gross
• Translation Beth Archer, reply by Peter Partner
• Two-Eyed Jacks Roger Sale
• Victims of Politics Stephen Spender
• What Was Fascism? Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and Matthew Mestrovic, reply by István Deák
• Where Have the Jobs Gone? Andrew Hacker

July

• ‘Man & the Natural World’ William Earle, reply by Stuart Hampshire
• ‘Spheres of Justice’: An Exchange Michael Walzer, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• A Reply to Slander Andrei D. Sakharov
• Blue Suede Views Robert Craft
• Born Again Elaine H. Pagels
• Calling Dr. Thomas Stephen Jay Gould
• Correzione Donald O. Stewart Jr., reply by Murray Kempton
• Hitler Without His Diaries Gordon A. Craig
• Holbein’s Faces Maurice Grosser
• Mrs. Thatcher’s New England Peter Jenkins
• Murder in the Monastery? Richard Ellmann
• Paper Ogre Grove Koger
• Proustifications V.S. Pritchett
• Reading Shakespeare Robert Giroux, reply by Frank Kermode
• Room at the Top Liang Heng
• The Chestertons Alzina Stone Dale, reply by J.M. Cameron
• The Chestertons Graham Greene
• The Cosmic Bluff George W. Ball
• The Face Behind the Lines Robert Bernard Martin
• The Geremek Case Natalie Zemon Davis, Carl E. Schorske, Lawrence Stone, Arthur A. Link, and Cyril E. Black, et al.
• The Plague of Plagues William H. McNeill
• The Return of La Ronde Gabriele Annan
• Thus Spake Schweik Ludvik Vaculik
• Were the Rosenbergs Framed? Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton
• What’s a Girl to Do? Anne Barton

August

• A Family and Its Fortunes Gabriele Annan
• A Good Game in Europe Douglas V. Johnson II
• Anatomy of an Epidemic Jonathan Lieberson
• Fall of an Empire Neal Ascherson
• Graves and Goddesses Ian Hamilton
• Joyce and Company Robert M. Adams
• Month James Merrill
• On Nuclear War: An Exchange with the Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger and Theodore H. Draper, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• Our Colony Raymond Carr
• Poland and the Jews: An Exchange Piotr S. Wandycz and John Switalski, reply by Abraham Brumberg
• Report from a Besieged City Zbigniew Herbert, translated by Czeslaw Milosz
• Storm in a Teacup John Keegan
• The Lovers Sanford Schwartz
• The Mikhail Meilakh Case Edward Bradley, Marina Brownlee, Bruce Duncan, Colette L. Gaudin, and Jeffrey Hart, et al.
• The Tragedy in Lia
• The Triumph of the Italian Jews Bernard Knox
• Thoughts on Thoughts Rosemary Dinnage
• Time for a Change Felix G. Rohatyn

September

• ‘Invitation to an Inquest’: An Exchange Walter Schneir and Miriam Schneir, reply by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton
• Having It All Gabriele Annan
• In Search of a Foreign Policy Stanley Hoffmann
• International Episodes Conor Cruise O’Brien
• On Edwin Denby Lincoln Kirstein
• Poland’s Eternal Return Martin Malia
• Self-Realization Frits Staal, reply by Keith Thomas
• Shaggy Dog Fable Robert M. Adams
• Taking it on Faith J.M. Cameron
• The Best Years of Our Lives Gore Vidal
• The Pine Ridge Murders John Burrows, reply by Page Stegner
• The Truth of Karl Popper Paul Levinson, reply by Jonathan Lieberson
• The Two Robert Brownings Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Why Lebanon? Charles Glass
• You Can’t Go Home Again Anthony Lewis

October

• ‘Crimes Against the Cubists’: An Exchange Caroline K. (Mrs. Sheldon) Keck, Herbert Lank, Steven Miller, John Golding, and Angelica Zander Rudenstine, et al.
• ‘The Peculiar American Stamp’ Gore Vidal
• A Feelthy Penguin Clive James
• Absolution Thomas Kerth, reply by Richard Ellmann
• An Appeal for Solidarity with Polish Writers Janusz Anderman, Stanisław Barańczak, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Ewa Bienkowska, and Jacek Bierezin, et al.
• An Exchange on AIDS John Rechy, reply by Jonathan Lieberson
• Can Conservatism Work? Noel Annan
• Dishonorably Discharged Murray Kempton
• Falling Dominoes Theodore H. Draper
• Happy Days Are Here Again John Gregory Dunne
• No Exit Irving Howe
• On F. W. Dupee (1904 - 1979) Mary McCarthy
• Prophet with Honor Marshall Frady
• Reagan: The Fruits of Success James Fallows
• Repossessing America William P. Taylor
• Soviet Heroes Leonard Schapiro
• Stalin Wins F.T. Lambert, reply by Leonard Schapiro
• State of the Child Jerome S. Bruner
• Sumerian Feminism Harold Bloom
• The Art Biz John Bernard Myers
• The Computer in Your Future Joseph Weizenbaum
• The Gentle Genius Isaiah Berlin
• The Humming Poet V.S. Pritchett
• The Other Side of the World J.H. Elliott
• The Parnassians James Merrill
• The Return of Virgil D.S. Carne-Ross
• The Turning Point in Israel Meron Benvenisti
• The Word Turned Upside Down John R. Searle
• There’s No Geist like the Zeitgeist
• Uncle Harry’s Socks John Keegan
• Unholy Science David Joravsky
• Verdi Victorious Charles Rosen

November

• ‘Overdrive’: An Exchange William F. Buckley, reply by John Gregory Dunne
• ‘The First Man on Earth’ Stephen Spender
• An Exchange on Nuclear War John Marshall Lee, Alexander M. Mood, and Mark Kuchment, reply by George W. Ball
• An Exchange on the Rosenbergs Max Gordon, Ann Mari Buitrago, and Gerald Markowitz, reply by Ronald Radosh
• Corrections The Editors
• Desperate Times Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Escape Artist Gabriele Annan
• Farewell Buñuel Michael Wood
• For the Record Arthur Schlesinger Jr., reply by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Games People Play Al Alvarez
• Gloom Over Gaul Richard Cobb
• How Bad Are the Courts? Graham Hughes
• In Investigation Prison Adam Michnik , translated by Jerzy B. Warman
• In the American Grain Irving Howe
• Insult and Fury Amos Oz, translated from the Hebrew by Maurie Goldberg-Bartura
• Jefferson’s Jesus Garry Wills
• Jobs and Blacks Stuart Margulies, reply by Christopher Jencks
• Marx and Freedom Andrzej Walicki
• Mr. Wrong Claire Tomalin
• Mysteries of Dutch Painting Ernst Gombrich
• On Derek Walcott Joseph Brodsky
• Past Imperfect Harold R. Isaacs
• Picking Up the Pieces Norman Stone
• Playing Dirty Volker Petzoldt, reply by Bruno Bettelheim
• Saving the Cubists Gustav A. Berger, reply by John Richardson
• Small Expectations Josh Rubins
• The ‘Bildung’ of Barbie Neal Ascherson
• The Exceptional William James Alfred Kazin
• The Ghost of Westerly Terrace Richard Ellmann
• The Hunter and the Haunted R.C. Smail
• The Last Ornament? Joseph Rykwert
• The Man Who Stayed the Course John Kenneth Galbraith
• Thwarted Genius Stephen Jay Gould
• Top of the Class Sanford Schwartz
• Two Poems by Derek Walcott Derek Walcott
• Unwrapping Edmund Wilson John Gross
• Venice: Still Life Howard Moss
• Very Heaven J.H. Plumb
• Writing ‘A House for Mr. Biswas’ V.S. Naipaul

December

• ‘Before the Law’ Barbara C. Sproul
• ‘Computers in Your Future’ Edward A. Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck, reply by Joseph Weizenbaum
• A Guide to the Revolution Denis Donoghue
• After Modern Architecture Ada Louise Huxtable
• Centenary of a Cipher John Pope-Hennessy
• Compositions Robert Craft
• Double Trouble Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by David Bellos
• El Novel Robert Towers
• First Strike Murray Biggs
• Forked Tongue D.J. Enright
• Gardner’s Game with God George Groth
• In the Family Way Mary McCarthy
• Leonard Schapiro (1908–1983) The Editors
• Near Alexandria Joseph Brodsky
• Nuclear Catholicism J.M. Cameron
• On the Eve: A Story Elizabeth Hardwick
• On the Watch E.J. Hobsbawm
• On the West Bank Rafi Ben-Chaim, reply by Bernard Avishai
• Pharisees Alan M. Dershowitz, reply by Murray Kempton
• Pharisees Richard J. Shapiro
• Raymond Aron (1905–1983) Stanley Hoffmann
• Rebuilding Architecture Ada Louise Huxtable
• Reply Laura (Riding) Jackson
• The Coming Invasion Robert L. Hoilbroner
• The Elephant and the Maharajah Lester C. Thurow
• The Endless War James Chace
• The Faraway War Edward Mortimer
• The Good Soldier Murray Kempton
• The Luck of the Irish Mary Gordon
• The Madonna of Bloomsbury Rosemary Dinnage
• The Miracle of Chekhov Howard Moss
• The Not-So-New Deal C. Vann Woodward
• The Second Death of Perón? Robert Cox
• The Upper Depths John Bayley
• Wagner and Wagnerism Joseph Kerman