The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘Let the Trumpet Sound’ Herbert R Kohl, reply by Marshall Frady
• ‘Personal History’ John Keegan
• Apocalypse Then Harold Bloom
• Casual Wear James Merrill
• Class Act George M. Fredrickson
• Ending Unemployment? Melvin R. Levin
• Fall of a Genius Stephen Toulmin
• Fraud and Science William J. Broad and Nicholas Wade
• Fraud and Science Paul Feyerabend, reply by David Joravsky
• Good Rule Josef Skvorecky
• Her Way Sara Laschever
• Nuclear Temptations Theodore H. Draper
• Poems with a Heroine John Bayley
• Reagan and the Apocalypse Associated Press
• Return to ‘The Golden Bowl’ Gore Vidal
• Space Explorer Mark Girouard
• Sumerian Goddess Diane Wolkstein
• Syria: The Amnesty Report Amnesty International and John G. Healey
• The Kennedy Brothers Murray Kempton
• The Shaman and the Schlemiel John Leonard
• Three-Part Inventions Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Utopian Fevers John K. Fairbank

February

• An Exchange on Deconstruction Louis H. Mackey, reply by John R. Searle
• Art Biz John Bernard Myers
• Art Biz Darcy O’Brien
• Bunuel’s Voice Abigail Israel
• Danger in Moscow Seweryn Bialer
• Danton and Double-Entendre Robert Darnton
• Dostoevsky and His Double V.S. Pritchett
• Ending on Paumanok John Thompson
• Fair Comment Paul Morsey, reply by John Kenneth Galbraith
• In the Terror of Tehran Richard Dowden
• Judeo-Italian George Jochnowitz, reply by Bernard Knox
• Life Studies Helen Vendler
• Mrs. Velasquez and the Politicians Murray Kempton
• Revolution and Revelation Natalie Zemon Davis
• Ruth First Memorial Ronald Segal
• Sovietizing US Policy George W. Ball
• The Coming Struggle for Power Mark A. Uhlig
• The Deceiving Conscience Julian Moynahan
• The Defrocked Romantic Gabriele Annan
• The Great American Variety Show Christopher Lasch
• The Idea of Gardening Nadine Gordimer
• The Innocent Thomas R. Edwards
• The Lost Mariner Oliver Sacks
• The Meaning of Mother Goose Robert Darnton
• The New Lear E.A.J. Honigmann
• The Old New Wave John E. Bowlt
• The Revenge of Aaron Burr Gordon S. Wood
• The Right Volvo Robert L. Heilbroner
• The Victorian Sex Wars David Cannadine
• The Young Satan Sidney Monas
• Touching Lubitsch Rhoda Koenig
• Trouble in Paradise Luc Sante
• Where Does Math Come From? Ian Hacking
• Where Modern Politics Began Ronald Steel
• Worst Wishes Diane Johnson

March

• A Letter to My Scientific Colleagues Andrei D. Sakharov
• A Nymph of the New Alfred Kazin
• Aimez-Vous Brecht? James Fenton
• All the King’s Men Daniel Albright
• American Roulette Felix G. Rohatyn
• An Exchange on Dominoes MacGregor Knox and Richard Edes Harrison, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• Another De Profundis! Robert D. Pepper
• Beliefs of a Master Lincoln Kirstein
• Bishop’s Prose Gift Robert Giroux, reply by Helen Vendler
• Closely Watched Trains Leo Marx
• Closet Modern Bernard Knox
• Conrad by Daylight Frederick C. Crews
• Corrections Alfred J. Ayer
• Cracking ‘The Golden Bowl’ John Bayley, reply by Gore Vidal
• Death in the Family Robert Craft
• Deeper into the Mire James Chace
• Fable of the Poor Noel Annan
• History Lessons Gordon S. Wood
• In Love with the Adverb Gore Vidal
• Interpreting the Interpreter Jonathan Lieberson
• Israel in Embryo Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Let Us Calculate Alfred J. Ayer
• Making It in the USSR Mark Kuchment
• Marriage à la Mode Judith Shapiro and Liang Heng
• Marx and Freedom Bertell Ollman, reply by Andrzej Walicki
• Massacre in Guatemala: An Exchange M.S. S., reply by Aryeh Neier
• Mother and Son Anthony West
• Nabokov’s Passion Edmund White
• Neopersuasion Amartya Sen
• Nuclear Policy Stanley Diamond, Dell Hymes, Eleanor Leacock, Rayna Rapp, and Ashley Montagu
• Nuclear Readings Jonathan Schell, reply by George W. Ball
• On Robert Lowell Derek Walcott
• Oscar at Oxford Richard Ellmann
• Quanta Roger Shattuck
• Quiz Kids Martin Gardner
• Safety Last Robert Goff
• Satan Comes to Eden Vernon Young, reply by Luc Sante
• Slithering over the Brink James Joll
• Surviving in the Ruins V.S. Pritchett
• The Bloom Is Off Eleanor Perenyi
• The Costs of Reaganism Emma Rothschild
• The Future of Baby Doe
• The Hidden History of Emancipation Eric Foner
• The New Eighteenth Century Lawrence Stone
• The Power of the Doctors Arnold Relman
• The Sohoiad: Or, the Masque of Art: a Satire in Heroic Couplets Drawn from Life Junius Secundus
• The Two George Groszes John Willett
• Triumph of a Naturalist Stephen Jay Gould
• Twilight of the Quads David Piper
• Violence in South Africa Ira J. Sandperl

April

• A Case of Hysteria Charles Rycroft
• A Simple Problem Science Can’t Solve Richard C. Lewontin
• Apple Pie Samuel Engle Burr Jr., reply by Gordon S. Wood
• Battle over Berlioz Charles Rosen
• Beer, Onions, and Damnation D.J. Enright
• Darn that Darning Diane Johnson
• Force de Frappe Robert O. Paxton
• I’m the Greatest! Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Illegitimacy Patricia Storace
• Missiles for Europe? Mark N. Kramer, reply by George W. Ball
• Not So Close to Colette Gabriele Annan
• Poland’s Past Jozef Kasparek, reply by Martin Malia
• Poland’s Past Elisabeth Labrousse
• Poland’s Past Alex Kurczaba
• Reagan’s Star Wars Kurt Gottfried, Henry W. Kendall, Hans A. Bethe, Peter A. Clausen, and Richard L. Garwin, et al.
• The Joy and Malice of It All Robert M. Adams
• The King of Correspondence Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The Love Songs of Alfred J. Hitchcock Michael Wood
• The Master Linguist Joseph Frank
• The New Sound of Liszt Charles Rosen
• The Reagan Variety Show James Fallows
• The Real Me Harold Bloom
• The Rites of Martha Graham Howard Moss
• The Sakharovs in Gorky Natalya Viktorovna Helle and Vladimir Tolz
• The Schools Flunk Out Andrew Hacker
• The Solace of Intrigue V.S. Pritchett
• The Surprise of Solidarity Neal Ascherson
• Turing & the System Howard Stern and Lorraine Daston, reply by Stephen Toulmin
• Unheard Melodies Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Welcome to Munciekin Land Gerald Weales

May

• ‘Brecht in Context’ John Willett
• ‘Nuclear Temptations’: An Exchange Albert Wohlstetter, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• ‘The White-Boned Demon’ Ross Terrill, reply by Judith Shapiro and Liang Heng
• An American Education Thomas R. Edwards
• An Exchange on Mother Goose Jack Zipes and Irving B. Harrison, reply by Robert Darnton
• Excelsior! Keith Thomas
• Fascinatin’ Modulation Bayan Northcott
• Forster’s Shadow Stephen Spender
• Good Pix from Stix Robert Towers
• Heaven Can’t Wait Edmund S. Morgan
• Horacescope D.S. Carne-Ross
• How Guilty Were the Germans? István Deák
• Lermontov’s Demon Henry Gifford
• One for the Road Harold Pinter
• Pie in the Sky Hal Draper
• Real Guys Howard Moss
• Royalty and Genius Robert M. Adams, reply by Daniel Albright
• Saving the Western Alliance Helmut Schmidt
• Scrabbling in the ‘Wake’ Robert M. Adams
• Sex & Superstition Peter Singer
• Stories of Malamud Nina Pelikan Straus, reply by John Leonard
• That Uncertain Feeling William Paul, reply by Rhoda Koenig
• The Bells of Orvieto Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated by Paul Schmidt
• The Burial of Cambodia William Shawcross
• The Case of Raza Kazim Eqbal Ahmad, Ramsey Clark, Richard A. Falk, Marcus G. Raskin, and Edward W. Said, et al.
• The Egyptian Murder Case Bernard Lewis
• The Game of Lights Janet Malcolm
• The Guiding Light Edward I. Koch, reply by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• The Invisible Man Luc Sante
• The Keenest Critic M.H. Abrams
• The Outcasts of Iran Shaul Bakhash
• The Vicar’s Revenge Stanley Hoffmann
• Twice-Born Rosemary Dinnage
• Why TVA Failed

June

• ‘Not One of Us’ Alfred Kazin
• Abandon Nuke Power? Charles Komanoff
• An Exchange on Baby Doe Gordon Tullock, Jim Stone, and Jeanne Guillemin
• Art, Life, and T. S. Eliot Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Backing for Balfour Ronald Sanders, reply by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Bloomsbury & Homosexuals Louis Crompton, reply by Eleanor Perenyi
• Breaking Up in Haifa Gabriele Annan
• Ditto, Kiddo John Ashbery
• Happy Families G.R. Elton
• Housman at Work & Play Alan Bell
• Housman at Work & Play G.F.C. Plowden, reply by Bernard Knox
• Housman at Work & Play Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• In Memoriam Maurice Cranston, Peter B. Reddaway, Dominic Lieven, and Ellen Dahrendorf
• Israel: A Partial Indictment Avishai Margalit
• It Was September Jane Morley
• Junius Q. Publicus G.W. Bowersock
• Making It New Helen Vendler
• Nuclear Fantasies Lord Zuckerman
• Odor and Ardor Michael Wood
• On New Music
• Required Reading Robert Craft
• Revolution in the Church Thomas Sheehan
• Richesse d’embarras Jonathan Lieberson
• Savage & His Mother Donald Greene, reply by Anthony West
• Shrinking Michelangelo Leo Steinberg
• The Bull on the Mountain Oliver Sacks
• The Debt Won’t Be Paid Harold Lever
• The Fire Last Time Darryl Pinckney
• The Maginot Mentality Richard Pipes, reply by George W. Ball
• The Parfit Connection P.F. Strawson
• The Saving of El Salvador Christopher Dickey
• Two Poems by Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale, translated by Jonathan Galassi
• Warlock Diane Johnson
• Winner Take Less Ian Hacking
• Working-Class Casanova Robert Darnton
• Your Host of Hosts Robert G. Kaiser

July

• ‘Moveable Feasts’ Ruth F. Boorstin, reply by Keith Thomas
• A Hard Case Murray Kempton
• Balanchine after Balanchine Howard Moss
• Dead Roads William S. Burroughs
• Heroines Aileen Kelly
• In Hell Neal Ascherson
• Mastering the Signs J.H. Elliott
• Notes of a Friend and Brother Millicent Bell
• Oversight Janet Malcolm
• Portrait of a Genius as a Young Man Noel Annan
• The Catch in the Late Picasso John Richardson
• The Central Man Harold Bloom
• The End of the Tether
• The Return of the Native Denis Donoghue
• The Wealth of Nations Stephen A. Marglin
• Winter’s Tales Robert M. Adams

August

• ‘A Roaring Positive Fellow’ V.S. Pritchett
• ‘Assault on Truth’ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
• A Commencement Address Joseph Brodsky
• A Dangerous Occupation Scott MacLeod
• Between You and Your Genes Stephen Jay Gould
• Chomsky’s ‘Fateful Triangle’: An Exchange Edward W. Said, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Walzer, reply by Avishai Margalit
• Comic, Sad, Indefinite Rosemary Dinnage
• Elsewhere Derek Walcott
• Haunted Places Michael Wood
• Histoire Harry Mathews
• Lost Years Irina Ratushinskaya, translated from the Russian by Philip Balla
• Not Swann’s Way Roger Shattuck
• Rhineland MacGregor Knox, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• Snapshots of the Photographer Jonathan Lieberson
• Somebody Out There Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Election and After Edmund G. Brown Jr., Walter Dean Burnham, Kevin Phillips, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• The Secret of Danny Santiago John Gregory Dunne
• Who Cares? Roger Rosenblatt

September

• A Parable of Automation James Fallows
• An Exchange on Cambodia Nayan Chanda and Ben Kiernan, reply by William Shawcross
• Flunking the Schools George Burnet
• Flunking the Schools Louis Goldman
• Flunking the Schools Rudolf Flesch
• Flunking the Schools Ronald Gross
• Flunking the Schools Annette Y. Kirk, reply by Andrew Hacker
• Flunking the Schools John Van Doren
• Holding Up the Empire Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Hole in the World Jerome S. Bruner
• Home from Home D.J. Enright
• Jordan: Looking for an Opening Bernard Avishai
• Lives of the Poets Robert Craft
• Losing the Economic Race Lester C. Thurow
• Mitterrand vs. France? Stanley Hoffmann
• On Being ‘Inadmissible’ George Woodcock
• Orwell’s America T.R. Fyvel
• Our Mission in China Jonathan D. Spence
• Return to the Native Peter Nabokov
• Rilke in Life and Death Gabriele Annan
• The Darkest Deception Martin Gilbert
• Visions of the Grand Prize Bernard Knox

October

• ‘Hollywood Reds’ Arnold Dolin and Paul Jarrico, reply by John Gregory Dunne
• ‘Literary Domestics’ Mary Kelley, reply by Diane Johnson
• ‘Proto-Industrialization’ Franklin Mendels, reply by Lawrence Stone
• A Hard Act to Follow Murray Kempton
• Among the Republicans V.S. Naipaul
• Animated Paradox Robert M. Adams
• Discovery Joan Didion
• First Use John Clarke, reply by Lord Zuckerman
• First Use Gershon Silins
• Footnote to a Desperate Letter John Hollander
• Galapagos Affair, cont’d John Treherne
• Gorgeous George Marcus Cunliffe
• Hard Times Jonathan Raban
• His Angry Way V.S. Pritchett
• In Praise of Folly James Gutmann
• Inescapable Poe Harold Bloom
• Inside the Revolution Robert S. Leiken
• International Episodes Gabriele Annan
• Is Science Beautiful? David Joravsky
• Kallman in Athens Robert Craft
• Kallman in Athens David Jackson
• Life at the Top Noel Annan
• Living in the Night Neal Ascherson
• Making It New Seamus Heaney
• Meeting the Lord in the Air J.M. Cameron
• Monet’s Turf Robert L. Herbert
• Peaceful Coexistence Norman A. Stillman
• Plato’s Women R.J. Nelson, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• Politics Without Party Gordon S. Wood
• Popular Demand James Merrill
• Religious Belief and Public Morality Mario M. Cuomo
• Riding the Wave of the Future Alison Lurie
• Seeing Through the Brain Israel Rosenfield
• Super Trouper John Russell
• The Big Word in ‘Ulysses’ Richard Ellmann
• The Case of Alexandr Bogoslovski Karen Kennerly, Elizabeth Hardwick, Richard Howard, Norman Mailer, and Bernard Malamud, et al.
• The Grab for Greece C.M. Woodhouse
• The Path of a Prophet Aileen Kelly
• The Waste Land Without Pound Louis S. Auchincloss
• What Nathalie Knew Frank Kermode

November

• ‘War of Liberation’ A Talk with the Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas and Der Spiegel, translated by Edna McCown
• A Long-Suppressed Episode
• An Exchange on TVA Allan G. Pulsipher, reply by Jane Jacobs
• Another Country Hillel Halkin, reply by The Editors
• B. B. and Company Stephen Spender
• Back Yards Timothy Garton Ash
• Birth of a Nation George M. Fredrickson
• Design for Living Charles Taylor
• Field Marshal Stalin David Holloway
• Forthcoming Book John R. Miles
• General Keynes John Kenneth Galbraith
• Hands Oliver Sacks
• Honest Floozies James Wolcott
• Kitsch and the Novel John Bayley
• Method Acting Jonathan Lieberson
• Mod Gothic Willibald Sauerländer
• Mr. America Harold Bloom
• Part of a Letter, to Young Codignola Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated by Paul Schmidt
• Polymorphic Peter Pan John Weightman
• Prisoners & Pornographers D.J. Enright
• Reaching Back Richard Harrier
• Reagan’s Justice Ronald Dworkin
• Semidetached Politics Stanley Hoffmann
• The Debtor Economy: A Proposal Felix G. Rohatyn
• The Fast Lane Darryl Pinckney
• The First Laugh Prudence Crowther
• The Ideal Husband David Cannadine
• The Last Act Rosemary Dinnage
• The Long March Keith Thomas
• The Revolution in the Church Louis Dupre
• The Revolution in the Church Steven Englund, reply by Thomas Sheehan
• The Revolution in the Church Frederick Crosson, Ralph McInerny, and Alvin Plantinga
• Third Station of the Cross April Bernard
• To the Dead Frank Bidart
• Trade Secrets K.G. Denbigh
• Trade Secrets Steven B. Smith, reply by Martin Gardner
• Turning Toward War James Joll
• Violent Neighbors Tom Buckley, reply by Christopher Dickey
• White House Roulette George W. Ball
• Writing ‘Bloomer Girl’ Daniel James and Danny Santiago

December

• ‘I Am Prepared for Anything’ Jerzy Popieluszko, translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewski
• A Christmas Roundup Robert Craft
• A Traveling Man Michael Wood
• American Communism: An Exchange Elmer A. Benson and Robert Claiborne, reply by Hal Draper
• An Exchange on Automation B. Kuttner, reply by James Fallows
• An Interview with Ricardo Howard Moss
• Betwixt, Bothered & Bewildered Mary Douglas
• Can the US Compete? Francis T. Ventre, reply by Lester C. Thurow
• Cheever, or The Ambiguities Elizabeth Hardwick
• Correction Gabriele Annan
• Crackdown in Yugoslavia Richard J. Bernstein, Norman Birnbaum, Robert S. Cohen, Noam Chomsky, and Drucilla Cornell, et al.
• Difficult Daughter Oliver Taplin
• Embarrassing Colony Richard M. Morse
• Giants in Dwarfs’ Jackets D.S. Carne-Ross
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Part II. Derek Walcott
• Grand Chutzpah Simon Schama
• In a Cuban Prison Samuel Farber
• Inscrutable Genius Gabriele Annan
• Israel: The Divisions of ‘Unity’ Bernard Avishai
• King in a Corner Alistair Horne
• Light and Lively Robert Towers
• Mrs. Wallace’s Subsidy Barnabas McHenry, reply by Robert L. Herbert
• No Entrance David Cannadine
• On Art and Money Robert Hughes
• On the Frontier Ian Hacking
• Panic in the South George M. Fredrickson
• Parfit Gentil Knights R.C. Smail
• Senegal Kenneth Koch
• Shrinking Michelangelo Ellen Handler Spitz, reply by Leo Steinberg
• Shrinking Michelangelo Bernard Knox, reply by The Editors
• Sly Signature George P. Savidis
• Sons and Lovers Brigid Brophy
• Sweet Evening Breeze Darryl Pinckney
• The Alchemist Dramatist Harry Levin
• The Evolution of Margaret Mead Stephen Toulmin
• The Family Way Susan D. Amussen, reply by G.R. Elton
• The Godfather’s Grandfather Robert M. Adams
• The Ideal Husband Rosemary Dinnage
• The Patient Is Always Right Janet Malcolm
• The Voyage of Watteau Francis Haskell