The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘I Am a Pencil’ Murray Kempton
• ‘Playing for Ourselves’ E.J. Hobsbawm
• A Night at the Palace Howard Moss
• A Short Defense of Poetry W.H. Auden
• Allard Lowenstein: An Exchange Richard Cummings, Barney Rosset, Victor Rabinowitz, and Sanford Friedman, reply by Hendrik Hertzberg
• Burying the Dead Jean Starobinski, translated by Peter France
• By Love Possessed Norman Cohn
• EEK! S. Schoenbaum
• Fog Over the Summit Stanley Hoffmann
• Inconstant Anderson Christopher Benfey
• Last Christmas of the War Primo Levi, translated by Ruth Feldman
• Lipstick, 1935 James Merrill
• Mrs. Peters’s Palestine Yehoshua Porath
• Neoconservative History Theodore H. Draper
• On ‘Women and Angels’ Harold Brodkey, reply by D.J. Enright
• On Philip Larkin John Bayley
• Outrageously Normal Murray Kempton
• Polish-Jewish Studies Walter Laqueur, Isaiah Berlin, Richard Pipes, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and David S. Landes, et al.
• Robots & Workers David Slawson, reply by Roger Draper
• The Flight of Kal-007 Thomas R. Maertens
• The German Mystery Case Gordon A. Craig
• The Knight of Knights Maurice Keen
• The Lost Cause C. Vann Woodward
• The Nicaraguan Elections: An Exchange Larry Garber, reply by Robert S. Leiken
• The Reality of AIDS Jonathan Lieberson
• The Taming of D. H. Lawrence J. M. Coetzee
• The Wonders of Star Wars Lord Zuckerman
• To the Tehran Station Edward Mortimer
• Turbulent Empire Jonathan D. Spence
• Two Poems James Merrill and Philip Larkin
• Virtuoso R.J.W. Evans
• Who Can Redeem Mother Filipinas? Ian Buruma
• Women’s Lot Martha C. Nussbaum

February

• ‘The Writer’s Imagination and the Imagination of the State’ Two Views Norman Mailer and Nadine Gordimer
• A New Philosophy of Defense George F. Kennan
• A New Turn in Turkey Jeri Laber
• A New Year Roundup Robert Craft
• A Triumph of Historical Excavation Stephen Jay Gould
• American Jeremiah David Brion Davis
• An Interview with Czeslaw Milosz Czeslaw Milosz and Nathan Gardels
• Calling Dr. Kubie Francine du Plessix Gray, reply by Gore Vidal
• Help the Afghans Peers Carter
• In a Room and a Half Joseph Brodsky
• Is Marx Dead? William A. Williams, reply by Michael Walzer
• Jane Austen in Japan Robert M. Adams
• Keeping the Lid On Murray Kempton
• No Place for Them Neal Ascherson
• Poet for a Dark Age Brad Leithauser
• Politics as Language Keith Thomas
• Protest R.M. Acheson, V.R. Cane, C.H. Chapman, J.A. Davis, and S. Drucker-Brown, et al.
• Protests on Nicaragua Joanne Landy, Jiri Dienstbier, Eva Kanturkova, Vaclav Maly, and Anna Sabatova Jr., et al.
• Science Turned Upside Down Ian Hacking
• The Awful Fate of Frederick the Great John Keegan
• The Decline of Higher Learning Andrew Hacker
• The Historical Jesus J.M. Cameron
• The Lemon Trees Eugenio Montale, translated by William Arrowsmith
• The Lesson of the Dreyfus Case Robert O. Paxton
• The Morality of Abortion: An Exchange Jim Stone, reply by Jonathan Glover
• The Right Historical Stuff Noel Annan
• The Sayings of Rabbi Kahane Robert I. Friedman
• The Sound of Musicology Rose Rosengard Subotnik, reply by Robert Winter
• The Writing on the Wall Stojan Dobrosavljevic, reply by István Deák
• Unspeakable Acts Peter Singer
• Voice of Exile Jaroslaw Anders
• Worlds of Wonder D.J. Enright

March

• ‘Holy Anorexia’
• An Event in Hungary Sandor Szilagyi, reply by Timothy Garton Ash
• Broken Blossoms Michael Wood
• Clinching the Case Francis Russell
• Father Ch., Many Years Later Czeslaw Milosz, translated with the author by Robert Hass
• Good Old Hotel E.J. Kahn Jr.
• Homer Comes Home Oliver Taplin
• Japanese Lib Ian Buruma
• Lucky Alec M.F. Perutz
• Mann and the Magician James Joll
• Monologue on Rakowiecka Street Czeslaw Bielecki and Jaroslaw Anders, translated by Jane Cave and Roman Dumas
• Mrs. Peters’s Palestine: An Exchange Ronald Sanders and Daniel Pipes, reply by Yehoshua Porath
• Mysteries of the Deaf Oliver Sacks
• Niebuhr & Supernaturalism Martin Gardner, reply by David Brion Davis
• Putting Pope in His Place Robert M. Adams
• Secret Intelligence Clive James
• Spooky Business David Cannadine
• Street Moves Howard Moss
• The Battle for Nicaragua Robert S. Leiken
• The Country of Nada Edward R.F. Sheehan
• The Fascination and Terror of Ezra Pound Alfred Kazin
• The Mind on Sex G.E.R. Lloyd
• The Moral Minority Hugh Trevor-Roper
• The Sixth Sense Charles Rycroft
• The Sound and the Fury Bertram Wyatt-Brown
• Under Construction Carol Fleisher Feldman and Jerome S. Bruner
• What’s in a Portrait? Francis Haskell

April

• ‘Schreibt un Farschreibt!’ Gordon A. Craig
• ‘The Peterhouse School’ Maurice Cowling, reply by Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Among the Freaks Al Alvarez
• Behind the Wall John Kenneth Galbraith
• Bringing Back Algardi Hugh Honour
• Everybody’s Jerusalem R.C. Smail
• False Scents Robert M. Adams
• Further Lessons of Leo Strauss: An Exchange Gregory Vlastos, Paul Sunstein, and Robert Gordis, reply by M.F. Burnyeat
• Handle with Felt Gloves Jason Epstein
• Ireland: The Mirage of Peace Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Lives of the Poets Robert Craft
• Marcos’ Millions Murray Kempton
• Marianne into Battle Peter Partner
• Monsieur Taste Stanley Hoffmann
• Nayman of Noland Richard Ellmann
• Neoconservative History: An Exchange Lionel Abel, Josef Skvorecky, and Robert Nisbet, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• On Democracy in Latin America Albert O. Hirschman
• Plans for an Escape to Carmelo Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Carole L. Kaye and Alberto Bolanos
• Republican America Thomas Byrne Edsall
• Screams and Whispers Robert Towers
• The Case of Gennady Trifonov Simon Karlinsky
• The Edo Lear Jan Kott, translated by Lillian Vallee
• The Genius of Margaret Fuller Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Illustrative Itch John Updike
• The Missing Eight Joshua D. Kreindler
• The Murky Economists Robert L. Heilbroner
• The New Anti-Semitism Bernard Lewis
• The New Chance for the Economy Felix G. Rohatyn
• The US and the Contras Aryeh Neier
• Unkind Cuts Macdonald Critchley

May

• ‘Contra’ Justice Aryeh Neier
• ‘Freedom & Peace’ & Prison Virginia Baron, Steven Becker, Noam Chomsky, Richard Baggett Deats, and Gail Daneker, et al.
• ‘Shoah’ and Poland Jerzy Turowicz, reply by Timothy Garton Ash
• A Big Bungle Shaul Bakhash
• A Comment Theodore H. Draper
• Absent Friends John Thompson
• Blood on the Border Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Boom at the Top Thomas R. Edwards
• Christian Kitsch Herbert McArthur, reply by J.M. Cameron
• City of Dreadful Night Ian Buruma
• Crackdown in Hungary Timothy Garton Ash, Peter Blake, Susan Sontag, Rose Styron, and Per Waestberg
• Hood’s Progress! Murray Kempton
• How Assad Has Won Scott MacLeod
• In The Big House of Theory Frederick C. Crews
• In Washington Alfred Kazin
• Jupiter’s Boy Charles Hope
• Psycho-Mom Rosemary Dinnage
• Puffs Josh Rubins
• Revolt in Vienna Carl E. Schorske
• Right Man, Wrong Job Robert M. Adams
• SRA & Lowenstein Nancy Macdonald
• Sacco and Vanzetti: An Exchange David E. Kaiser, reply by Francis Russell
• Sri Lanka Richard Murphy
• Supermaestro Gabriele Annan
• The Good Life J.M. Cameron
• The Gould Standard Louis S. Auchincloss
• The Medley Is the Message Helen Vendler
• The New Romantics Darryl Pinckney
• The Nicaraguan Tangle: An Exchange Marvin Jose Corrales Monjarrez and Enrique Sotelo Borgen, reply by Robert S. Leiken
• The Stagnant South Michael P. Johnson
• To Have and Have Not David S. Landes
• Underground Men Noel Annan
• WAP, SAP, PAP, & FAP Martin Gardner
• Waiting for Mandela J. M. Coetzee
• Yalta & the Fate of Poland Edward Mortimer, Frank Roberts, Leszek Kolakowski, and Antony Polonsky

June

• ‘The Body in Pain’ Paul Weiss, reply by Peter Singer
• A Farewell to Hemingstein Wilfrid Sheed
• A Hero of Our Own Times Denis Donoghue
• An Artist in Afghanistan Ghausuddin
• Before Edo James M. Diamond
• Building & Nothingness Martin Filler
• Eminent Edwardian Geoffrey Wheatcroft
• Esalen East James Joll
• False Gods Howard Moss
• Fire on the Road Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by Klara Glowczewski, William Brand, and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand
• Freedom & Peace, Corrected Joanne Landy and Steven Becker
• Good News Robert Towers
• Honduras: An Exchange Jane Burnett, John D. Negroponte, Stanley Karnow, and Richard Holbrooke, reply by Edward R.F. Sheehan
• Just Ducky Robin Johnson
• Mastering Speech John Bayley
• Men and Anorexia Rudolph M. Bell, reply by Norman Cohn
• Miraculous Mosaics Willibald Sauerländer
• Out of Exile Brad Leithauser
• Runners Patricia Storace
• State of the Union David Holloway
• The ‘Clean’ War Edward R.F. Sheehan
• The Color Red William B. Goodman, reply by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Faithless Shepherd Roger Draper
• The Itch Leonore Suhl
• The Jewish Freud Michael Ignatieff
• The Merry Wives of Windsor David Cannadine
• The New Celebrities of Washington James Fallows
• The Nicaraguan Tangle: Another Exchange Lord Chitnis, Lord Kennet, Frank Brodhead, Edward S. Herman, and Xavier Arguello, et al.
• The Stockman Episode John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Tenth Year of the Watch Anatoly Shcharansky, Yelena Bonner, and Ludmilla Alexeyeva
• Too Many People? Jonathan Lieberson

July

• Art into Money Joseph W. Alsop
• Castro’s Victims Aryeh Neier
• Chastisements D.J. Enright
• Death and the Maiden Harry Mulisch, translated by Claire Nicolas White
• Diamonds Are Forever Leonard Thompson
• Dr. Right Rosemary Dinnage
• Gone with the Wind C. Vann Woodward
• Good Housekeeping Louis S. Auchincloss
• Grand Illusions John Keegan
• Look Back in Anger John K. Fairbank
• Noise, Fire, and Hunger Josef Skvorecky
• Report from Hell Ronald Dworkin
• The Eighth Gothic Tale Jane Kramer
• The Freud Archives Harold P. Blum
• The Wealth of Nations Lawrence Solomon, reply by Peter Bauer
• The Yugoslav Partisans Vladimir Dedijer, reply by Nora Beloff
• Who Can Tell Right from Wrong? H.L.A. Hart

August

• Arrests in Poland Walter Abish, Edward Albee, John Ashbery, Stanisław Barańczak, and John Barth, et al.
• Can Guatemala Change? Victor Perera
• Goodness, How Sad Gabriele Annan
• No ‘Trust’ Evan J. Charkes, reply by Darryl Pinckney
• Reign of Terror Shaul Bakhash
• Scenes from Nicaragua Murray Kempton
• Special Subjects D.J. Enright
• The Death of Borges Hector Bianciotti
• The Futurist Past John Golding
• The Young Yeats Denis Donoghue
• Truly the Last Tycoons John Kenneth Galbraith
• Us and Others Ian Buruma
• Visiting Malraux and Nabokov Edmund Wilson
• Women at Work Andrew Hacker
• Yalta & the Fate of Poland: An Exchange Leszek Kolakowski, reply by Theodore H. Draper

September

• Cardboard Darwinism Stephen Jay Gould
• Eisenhower’s War Theodore H. Draper
• How to Think About the Deficit James Tobin
• MOMA’s Vienna Carl E. Schorske
• Mensch Peter B. Reddaway
• On the Verge V.S. Pritchett
• Thanks, Shchukin & Morozov Murray Kempton
• The Future of South Africa Richard John Neuhaus
• The Higher Learning Edward Adelson, reply by Andrew Hacker
• The Higher Learning Robert J. Dillman
• The Odd Couple Stanley Hoffmann
• The Other Germany Gordon A. Craig
• The Return of Maimonides Arthur Hertzberg
• The Siege C. Vann Woodward
• The War that Won’t Go Away John Gregory Dunne
• Washington’s New Celebrities: An Exchange Charles Krauthammer and Morton Kondracke, reply by James Fallows
• Ways Down South Robert Towers
• Yugoslavia & the British M.C. Wheeler, reply by Nora Beloff

October

• ‘Mysteries of the Deaf’: An Exchange William McCarthy, Bernard J. Sussman, and Arden Neisser, reply by Oliver Sacks
• An Art of Self-Discovery John Bayley
• An Exchange on Ezra Pound Michael Reck and Theodore Weiss, reply by Alfred Kazin and Oliver Taplin
• Birth and Death in Romania Name Withheld
• Does Central Europe Exist? Timothy Garton Ash
• Edmund Wilson at Ease Jason Epstein
• Eisenhower’s War-II Theodore H. Draper
• Eisenhower’s War: The Final Crisis Theodore H. Draper
• In the Zoo of the New Helen Vendler
• It Makes a Difference Stewart D. Friedman and Harbir Singh, reply by John Kenneth Galbraith
• Nabokov & Wilson Dmitri Nabokov
• Neural Darwinism: A New Approach to Memory and Perception Israel Rosenfield
• Pop Foucaultism Robert Darnton
• Rec Room Ellen Levy
• Revolution in Science I. Bernard Cohen, reply by Ian Hacking
• Something Fishy in the Hamptons Robert Hughes
• Tall Tales from the Drug Wars Alan M. Dershowitz
• The Bilingual Blur Howard Gardner
• The Birth of a Tragedy Avishai Margalit
• The Faker’s Art Joseph W. Alsop
• The Flight of KE007 Duncan Campbell, reply by Murray Sayle
• The Man Who Should Be King Christopher Hill
• The Other Florence Felix Gilbert
• The Road Not Taken Edward Mortimer
• The Road from Mandalay Ian Buruma
• The Sahib’s Pictures Stuart Cary Welch
• The Voices of Mikhail Bakhtin Joseph Frank
• The Waldheim File Gordon A. Craig
• Trop de Zèle Conor Cruise O’Brien
• What Is To Be Done? Leonard Thompson
• Why Read the Classics? Italo Calvino, translated by Patrick Creagh

November

• ‘Pintor Real’ Avigdor Arikha
• An Icelandic Saga Stanley Hoffmann
• Anything Goes? Peter Bauer
• Boers and Progressives Geoffrey Wheatcroft, reply by Leonard Thompson
• Conservative Revolutionary Rudolf Peierls
• Covering Washington Charles Mohr, reply by Alfred Kazin
• Help for ‘La Prensa’ Carl Gershman, reply by Murray Kempton
• How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Baudelaire! Julian Barnes
• In Bed with the Victorians Noel Annan
• In the American Mirror George F. Kennan
• Insulin & Innocence Alan Pryce-Jones
• It Wasn’t Knopf Ann Close, reply by Helen Vendler
• Lessons of the Master Gore Vidal
• Looking Backward Ronald Steel
• Master of Horror D.J. Enright
• Murderous Colombia E.J. Hobsbawm
• Natural Selection of Culture? John Maynard Smith
• New Bards for Old Robert M. Adams
• Now, Voyager Charles Rosen
• Perse Defended Peter Baker
• Right Man, Wrong Place T.H. Breen
• Saint Cory and the Yellow Revolution Ian Buruma
• Sisterhood Is Powerless Patricia McBroom, reply by Andrew Hacker
• The Don Quixote of Diplomacy Raymond Carr
• The Fate of Poland Leszek Kolakowski, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• The Fate of Poland Alfred J. Rieber
• The Freud Archives Paul Roazen
• The Hunting of Wallace Stevens Helen Vendler
• The Last Idol Neal Ascherson
• The Noble Liszt Alfred Brendel
• The Nose Knows Robert M. Adams
• The Survivor’s Voice Norman Davies
• The Unimportance of Being Oscar Jonathan Lieberson
• Transformations of Livy Zbigniew Herbert, translated by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter
• Unfriendly Persuasion Roger Dickinson, reply by Roger Draper
• Unfriendly Persuasion Dexter Masters
• Visiting Gertrude and Alice Maurice Grosser

December

• A House Is Not a Home Diane Johnson
• A Long Way from Poland Selden Rodman
• A Mind So Fine Eleanor Cook, reply by Gore Vidal
• A New New Testament J.M. Cameron
• Afghanistan’s Other War Jeri Laber
• All in the Family Rosemary Dinnage
• An Excellent Man John Bayley
• Announcement Peter Bokros, Tomas Molnar Lajos, Robert Palinkas Patak, Sandor Szilagyi Danko, and Jenoe Nagy Kalaszi
• Are Tyrants Necessary? W.G. Runciman
• Catching Up with the Avant-garde Roger Shattuck
• City Lights Mark Girouard
• Free the Jazz Section Campaign for Peace and Democracy
• From a West-East Diary Robert Craft
• Gulp! Thomas R. Edwards
• Harvard & Vietnam Marc Leepson, reply by John Gregory Dunne
• Japan: Prose of Departure James Merrill
• Mr. Updike’s Planet Frederick C. Crews
• Not So Common Man Kenneth S. Davis
• On Fame and the Writer Stephen Spender
• On the Edge of Revelation J. M. Coetzee
• Out of Phase Again Albert O. Hirschman
• Prisoner of Success Jefferson Morley
• Secrets of the Old One Martin Gardner
• Sex in the Head Martha C. Nussbaum
• She’s Got Rhythm Denis Donoghue
• The Academy of the Sixties Richard Ohmann, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• The Academy of the Sixties Page Smith
• The Americans in Space James Fallows
• The Betrayed People Margo Picken
• The FAP Flop Frank J. Tipler, reply by Martin Gardner
• The Faker’s Art Josua Bruyn, reply by Joseph W. Alsop
• The Faker’s Art Sherman E. Lee
• The Genius of George Herriman Adam Gopnik
• The Theater of Ethics Bernard Knox
• The Wild Blue Yonder Robert Towers