The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘Names-History’ Laura (Riding) Jackson
• A Dying Nation
• Et tu, Hugo Frederick Brown
• Fascism and Fanaticism John-Paul Himka
• Fascism and Fanaticism Joseph Machlis, reply by István Deák
• How Khomeini Made It Bernard Lewis
• How Nuclear War Could Start Thomas Powers
• Klingsor’s Apprentices James Joll
• Love of Flying Gore Vidal
• Our Town Edmund S. Morgan
• Plato & Affirmative Action Martha C. Nussbaum, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• Putting Freud to the Test Jonathan Lieberson
• Reagan and the Jews Arthur Hertzberg
• Revolution sans Revolutionaries Robert Darnton
• Scientist of the Fantastic Luc Sante
• Seifert’s Treatment Zdenka Brodska and Mary Hrabik Samal
• Spreading the News J.H. Plumb
• Ten Years of Animal Liberation Peter Singer
• The Actor Saint
• The Alchemist Neal Ascherson
• The Case for Mr. Ramsay John Clive
• The Charms of Certitude Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Golden Age John Golding
• The Magician Daniel Albright
• The New New Spanish History Raymond Carr
• The Passions of Géricault Henri Zerner
• The Spirit of Croly Michael Straight
• The Sweet Swan of Oxford? E.A.J. Honigmann
• The Unmysterious East Noel Annan
• Which Way Will Germany Go? Timothy Garton Ash
• Witness for Westmoreland Murray Kempton
• Women Beware Women Adam Mars-Jones

February

• ‘The Last King of France’ Robert O. Paxton
• ‘Welfare’: The Future of an Illusion Andrew Hacker
• A Passage to Cambridge Frank Kermode
• All in the Family Leo Marx
• An Actor Plays a Trumpet Brad Leithauser
• Caesar: Drama, Legend, History Ronald Syme
• Chameleon Michael Scammell
• Date Palms and Elephant Tusks Geoffrey Barraclough
• Evolving Margaret Mead Jane Howard, reply by Stephen Toulmin
• Evolving Margaret Mead Derek Freeman
• Evolving Margaret Mead Nathan Tarcov
• Four Hot Questions in Philosophy W.V. Quine
• Girl from Berlin Gabriele Annan
• Good Witches Peter Burke
• Hellfire Politics Gordon S. Wood
• How to Get Out of the Economic Rut Lester C. Thurow
• It’s Love John T. Noonan Jr.
• Pie in the Sky Theodore H. Draper
• Reagan’s Justice: An Exchange Grover Rees III, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• Richelieu & Olivares Israel Shahak, reply by Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Robin Hoodo E.J. Hobsbawm
• Shall We Dante? Irma Brandeis, reply by D.S. Carne-Ross
• Snake Train Edwin Frank
• Success Story Arthur Berger
• Talking to the Analyst: An Exchange Mortimer Ostow, Philip S. Holzman, and Donald P. Spence, reply by Janet Malcolm
• The Backlands Rebellion Michael Wood
• The Big Two Martin Gilbert
• The Case of the Crooked Bookman Christopher Ricks
• The Faith of a Skeptic D.P. Walker
• The Free ‘Brown’ Slaveholders C. Vann Woodward
• The Twins Oliver Sacks
• The Twins and Modular Arithmetic Oliver Sacks
• The Ultimate Ghetto Clifford Geertz
• The Unresigned Man Mary McCarthy
• The Wind that Blew in Reagan Murray Kempton
• Why Star Wars Is Dangerous and Won’t Work Hans A. Bethe, Richard L. Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, Henry W. Kendall, and Carl Sagan, et al.
• Wishful Thinking Conor Cruise O’Brien

March

• ‘Prich’: A New Deal Memoir Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• ‘The Lesser Evil’: An Interview with Norodom Sihanouk David Ablin, Marlowe Hood, and Norodom Sihanouk
• A Hard Day’s Night Charles Rycroft
• Animal Interests Dennis Flanagan, reply by Peter Singer
• Calling Dr. Angst D.J. Enright
• Conspirators Diane Johnson
• Crackdown in Yugoslavia Charles Biblowit, Adrian DeWind, Russell Karp, and Aryeh Neier
• Editing ‘The New Republic’ Martin Peretz
• Freud’s Fate Edward Erwin, reply by Jonathan Lieberson
• Give Him a Break! Gabriele Annan
• Heaney Agonistes Richard Ellmann
• How to Write About the Holocaust Irving Howe
• In Memoriam Joseph Brodsky
• Japan Victorious Murray Sayle
• Life in the Head John Bayley
• Living Theater Robert Brustein
• Misjudgment at Atlanta Murray Kempton
• Ms. Machiavelli Quentin Skinner
• Munich Man David Cannadine
• Newspook John Keegan
• Oxford and Mrs. Thatcher H.L.A. Hart
• Parade’s End Murray Kempton
• Radicals in Defeat David Underdown
• The Ali Taygun Case Robert Brustein, John Hersey, Susan Sontag, and Robert Wilson
• The Gentrification of Crime Luc Sante
• The New Brain Israel Rosenfield
• The Reasons Why Paul Kennedy
• The Right B.B. John Pope-Hennessy
• The Seductive Journalist Irvin Ehrenpreis
• The Unreliable Genius Janet Malcolm
• We Try Harder Graham Hughes
• Wells and Women Robert L. Patterson
• Wells and Women Anthony West, reply by Brigid Brophy

April

• ‘The Atlanta Child Murders’ Abby Mann, reply by Murray Kempton
• All that Jazz Pierre Schneider
• B-flat Movie Robert Craft
• Children of the Cape Neal Ascherson
• Dear Delmore, Helen Vendler
• Freud High and Low B.A. Farrell
• Giving the Devil His Due Norman Cohn
• Good News Rose Weil
• Green Giant Richard Poirier
• Hero of the Word Robert M. Adams
• KE007 A Conspiracy of Circumstance Murray Sayle
• Lovely to Look At Jonathan Lieberson
• Low Marx Andrzej Walicki
• Obsessed with Obsession Frank Kermode
• Odd Man Out Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Only Women Lawrence Stone
• Paradise Enow! Noel Annan
• Plato’s Bequest Wendell Clausen
• Private Faces and Public Places Bernard Williams
• Progress of a Revolutionary Nora Beloff
• Remembering Douglas Cooper John Richardson
• Spoils of War Howard Moss
• The Autist Artist Oliver Sacks
• The Dog in the Lifeboat: An Exchange Tom Regan, reply by Peter Singer
• The War for Star Wars George W. Ball
• Unhappy Utopian Tim Hilton
• Uprooted Robert Towers
• Vichy & Petain Herbert R. Lottman
• When Doctors Disagree John P. Bunker
• Working in the Dark Al Alvarez

May

• ‘The New Republic,’ cont’d Michael Straight
• A Machinist’s View Doug Hazen Jr.
• American Communism Revisited Theodore H. Draper
• Anniversaries Murray Kempton
• Breaking Away Stuart Hampshire
• Double Life John Bayley
• East of the West Marion Graeffin Doenhoff, reply by Timothy Garton Ash
• Electroconvulsive Therapy: An Exchange William H. Nelson and Marilyn Rice, reply by Israel Rosenfield
• Freud’s Creative Illness Charles Rycroft
• Getting It Wrong: An Exchange Gordon S. Haight, Paul Roazen, and Ann Thwaite, reply by Janet Malcolm
• Hawthorne and His Secret Gloria C. Erlich, reply by Leo Marx
• Heading for the Last Roundup Robert Mazzocco
• How Poor Are the Poor? Christopher Jencks
• In Turkish Prisons: A Report from Amnesty International Amnesty International
• Masterpiece Theatre David Cannadine
• Matters of Life and Death Jonathan Glover
• Mission Impossible John K. Fairbank
• Mozartiana Robert Craft
• Noon Elizabeth Vreeland
• Poet in the Sun Belt Christopher Benfey
• Robin Who? Maurice Keen
• Sam Shepard in Print The Editors
• Sheparditis Mark Tushnet, reply by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Sphinx Without a Secret M.F. Burnyeat
• The Ancient Mariner Ronald Steel
• The Fall of the Soviet Jews Martin Gilbert
• The Flight of the Hawk Harold Bloom
• The Impressionists on Trial Francoise Cachin, translated by Mimi Kramer
• The Popular Front Revisited Theodore H. Draper
• The Teller and the Tape Elizabeth Hardwick
• Women’s History Joan W. Scott, reply by Lawrence Stone
• Women’s History Mary Prior
• Working Woman Jean Strouse
• Yeats’s Second Puberty Richard Ellmann

June

• ‘The New Republic,’ Con’t Martin Peretz
• A Jesuit Adventure Hugh Trevor-Roper
• A Mozart Player Gives Himself Advice Alfred Brendel, translated from the German by Eugene Hartzell
• A Not-So-Simple Heart Darryl Pinckney
• An Open Letter to General Jaruzelski Kenneth J. Arrow, Julius Axelrod, Saul Bellow, Paul Berg, and Herbert Brown, et al.
• Big Little Books Janet Adam Smith
• Copping Pleas Lois G. Forer, reply by Graham Hughes
• Detention in Turkey Amnesty International
• Do Fish Have Nostrils? M.S. Trupp, reply by Oliver Sacks
• From Killer to Thinker Jasper Griffin
• Immortal Bird Gore Vidal
• Mr. France Robert O. Paxton
• Not a Talking Hen Roland Littlewood, reply by Mary Douglas
• On ‘Krazy Kat’ and ‘Peanuts’ Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
• Outsiders Gordon A. Craig
• Overtreatment: An Exchange Charles D. Baker, Robert J. Glaser, Robert Claiborne, and Gordon Tullock, reply by John P. Bunker
• Parade’s End Murray Kempton
• Physics: The End of the Road? Martin Gardner
• Pinochet’s Tyranny Mark A. Uhlig
• Poland: The Uses of Adversity Timothy Garton Ash
• Saigon Mon Amour Gabriele Annan
• Scenes in a Golden Age Ernst Gombrich
• Seahorses Brad Leithauser
• Self-Made Hero George M. Fredrickson
• Southern Discomfort James Wolcott
• The ‘Brain’ of Italy Douglas V. Johnson II
• The Passions of Tocqueville Francois Furet, translated by David Bellos
• The Progress of Klaus Barbie Francine du Plessix Gray
• The Tarrytown Impressionist Arthur Berger
• The Two Coplands
• Traveling Light Rosemary Dinnage

July

• A Musicological Offering Robert Winter
• Against Biography April Bernard
• Ah, the Fredonna Tree Michael Wood
• Happy Endings Natalie Zemon Davis
• Having It All Josh Rubins
• Indications Carlos Drummond de Andrade, translated by Thomas Colchie
• KE007: An Exchange Oliver Clubb, reply by Murray Sayle
• Letter from the Gdansk Prison Adam Michnik , translated by Jerzy B. Warman
• Liking Mrs. Morris Norman Kelvin, reply by Tim Hilton
• Naming the Dying Lady Karl Beckson, reply by Daniel Albright
• Noble Poet Al Alvarez
• O So Uchi! Ian Buruma
• Snails on the Couch B.A. Farrell
• Strategy or Romance? Lord Zuckerman
• The Artist and His Audience John Updike
• The Fire This Time Neal Ascherson
• The Good Witch of the West Eleanor Perenyi
• The Story Isn’t Over Robert M. Adams

August

• ‘Painting of Modern Life’ T.J. Clark, reply by Francoise Cachin
• A Poem by Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale, translated by Jonathan Galassi
• Caring for the Bird Theodore Lidz, reply by Gore Vidal
• High Spirits Noel Annan
• Irvin Ehrenpreis (1920–1985) E. D. Hirsch Jr.
• Moveable Types Robert Towers
• Mysteries of the Panda Stephen Jay Gould
• Only Disconnect John Bayley
• Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange Paul Buhle, James R. Prickett, James R. Barrett, Rob Ruck, and Norman Markowitz, et al.
• Robert Graves at Deyá Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anthony Kerrigan
• Secrets of the Mormons David Brion Davis
• Star Wars and Caltech Carl D. Anderson, Richard P. Feynman, William A. Fowler, Murray Gell-Mann, and Linus C. Pauling, et al.
• The Hijacking B. L.
• The President’s Speech Oliver Sacks
• The Prospects of Nuclear War Lord Zuckerman
• The Shi’a Bernard Lewis
• Vietnam: Casualties of Peace Gavin Young
• Wagner Goes West Joseph Kerman
• What Duarte Won Julia Preston

September

• ‘Rabu’ Conquers All Ian Buruma
• American Sage Denis Donoghue
• Brave New World M.F. Perutz
• Business as Usual James Joll
• Communism Re-Revisited Maurice Isserman, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• Jews, Have Pity! D.J. Enright
• Mythology Desmond Tutu
• On the Heights Harold Bloom
• Passage to Palestine Avishai Margalit
• Playing with Fire Brad Leithauser
• Poem Edwin Denby
• Preparation Czeslaw Milosz, translated with the author by Robert Hass
• Relations with Djilas Vladimir Dedijer, reply by Nora Beloff
• That’s Art John S. Lew, reply by Umberto Eco
• The Fate of KE007: An Exchange David E. Pearson, reply by Murray Sayle
• Transcendental Chutzpah Gabriele Annan
• Virtue & Terror Conor Cruise O’Brien

October

• ‘Losing Ground’: An Exchange Charles Murray, reply by Christopher Jencks
• A Letter from the Old Guard Derek Walcott
• Absalom in Israel Irving Howe
• Advertising Counsel Barbara Adams, Rachel Asher, William L. Ballinger, Christopher Benfey, and Elena Brunet, et al.
• Advertising Counsel Michael D. Fleshman
• An Exchange on ‘Gender’ S.F. Witelson, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• Andrade in Print! John J. Walsh
• Caviar to the General Bernard Knox
• China: How Much Freedom? Judith Shapiro and Liang Heng
• Conspicuous Consumption J.H. Elliott
• Darwin, Mendel & the Mind Richard C. Lewontin
• District of Devils C. Vann Woodward
• First Loves John Bayley
• Griffes Disharmony Edward Maisel, reply by Arthur Berger
• Lessons of Leo Strauss Werner J. Dannhauser, reply by M.F. Burnyeat
• Life’s Greatest Hits Alison Lurie
• New York: The Writer in the Powerhouse Alfred Kazin
• Notes from the Drought James Fenton
• Poem Velimir Khlebnikov, translated by Paul Schmidt
• Rambo-san Ian Buruma
• Satyagraha in Durban J. M. Coetzee
• Telling All Louis S. Auchincloss
• The Case of Daud Haider Karen Kennerly, Sharon Olds, Tillie Olsen, Susan Sontag, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Case of Dr. Koryagin Peter B. Reddaway
• The Freud Archives Peter J. Swales
• The Golden Arm Roger Draper
• The High Cost of Virtue Ronald Dworkin
• The Jews of Italy Arnaldo Momigliano
• The Liberal Pope Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Look that Freezes V.S. Pritchett
• The Second Assassination of Al Lowenstein Hendrik Hertzberg
• The Seduction Theory Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
• The Studies of Leo Strauss: An Exchange Joseph Cropsey, Harry V. Jaffa, Allan Bloom, Ernest J. Weinrib, and Thomas L. Pangle, et al.
• Three Poems by Adam Zagajewski Adam Zagajewski and Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Renata Gorczynski
• Waiting for Gorbachev Peter B. Reddaway
• What Maisie Didn’t Know Janet Malcolm
• Why Math Matters Ernest Nagel

November

• ‘Counsels of War’: An Exchange Gregg Herken, Albert Wohlstetter, and Thomas Powers, reply by Lord Zuckerman
• ‘Guardian of the Grail’ Alan Bullock
• A Cautionary Career Bernard McCabe
• A Conglomerate Country István Deák
• A Hero of the Brain Israel Rosenfield
• An Unfinished Man Rosemary Dinnage
• Balanchine Variations Robert Craft
• Body Building Reyner Banham
• City Lights Peter Bauer
• Dealing with Palestinians Moshe Ma’oz
• Ethiopia: Victors and Victims James Fenton
• Fauré Second Piano Quartet James Schuyler
• Franklin’s Mint J.H. Plumb
• Global Villagers Harry Levin
• Having Nightmares Ernest Hartmann
• Irresistible Demons Brad Leithauser
• Looking for Poetry in America Helen Vendler
• Lorenzo’s Return Primo Levi, translated by Ruth Feldman
• On Italo Calvino Gore Vidal
• Peace: The View from Prague Václav Havel, translated by Erazim V. Kohak
• Picasso & Poetry John Golding
• Redemption Through Violence George M. Fredrickson
• Southern Comfort Diane Johnson
• The Bologna Bombing John L. Harper, reply by Francine du Plessix Gray
• The Dishonest Economy Lester C. Thurow
• The Evdokimov Case Richard Peel
• The Force of Habit Gabriele Annan
• The Inner FDR Louis S. Auchincloss
• The Just Cause Nadine Gordimer
• The Triumph of the Jews Arthur Hertzberg
• To a Western Peace Activist V. H.
• What’s Left of Marx? Michael Walzer

December

• A Handle on Handel Winton Dean
• A Note on ‘Khovanshchina’ Isaiah Berlin
• Algeria Rising Alistair Horne
• Bad Housekeeping Alison Lurie
• Big Three John Bayley
• Brideshead Re-Revisited David Cannadine
• Depositions D.J. Enright
• Fink Shrinks Fritz Stern
• Founding Sons T.H. Breen
• Goodbye Charlie Luc Sante
• Limpid Pessimist Mavis Gallant
• Man in the Middle Aileen Kelly
• Marxism and Freedom Loyd D. Easton, reply by Andrzej Walicki
• Master of Exceptions Roy Foster
• Mrs. Huxtable’s Words Hilton Kramer and Samuel Lipman
• Nuclear Convictions Paul Bracken, reply by Lord Zuckerman
• Nuclear Convictions John M. Lee
• On Maina Wa Kinyatti Peter Nazareth
• On the Town Peter Partner
• Pathos and Power Thomas R. Edwards
• Picasso and L’Amour Fou John Richardson
• Return of the Native David Joravsky
• Subversive Activities Bernard Knox
• Survivor Stephen Spender
• Tall Stories Martin Filler
• The British in Yugoslavia Mark Wheeler, reply by Nora Beloff
• The Disappearance of Luisa Porto Carlos Drummond de Andrade, translated by Thomas Colchie
• The End of the Long March Roderick MacFarquhar
• The Hungarian Lesson Timothy Garton Ash
• The Life of Death Timothy Garton Ash
• The Nicaraguan Tangle Robert S. Leiken
• The Right Stuff Anthony Quinton
• Three-Part Inventions Robert Towers
• What Is Europe? Alain Finkielkraut