The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘The Life of Death’: An Exchange Israel Shahak, reply by Timothy Garton Ash
• A New Deal in Poland? Abraham Brumberg
• Anniversary of an Uprising Joanne Landy
• Art & Money Nicholas Faith, reply by Joseph W. Alsop
• Artist of Angst Carl E. Schorske
• Black Victims, Black Villains Darryl Pinckney
• Bridges & Boundaries D.J. Enright
• Conservative Advice Roger Scruton, reply by Martha C. Nussbaum
• Foundling Fiction Josh Rubins
• From ‘Le Ricordanze’ (‘Memories’) translated by John Heath-Stubbs
• Hi-Tech Shin-ichi Wicks, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• Iran and the Americans Shaul Bakhash
• Korea: Shame & Chauvinism Ian Buruma
• Leaving Bad Enough Alone Murray Kempton
• Making Hash of the Blues Molly Haskell
• Mass for the Imprisoned Zbigniew Herbert, translated by Michael March and Jaroslaw Anders
• Monument to the End of an Era Oliver Taplin
• Neediest Cases Maurice Keen
• New World Symphony T.H. Breen
• Playtime Diane Johnson
• Pleasures of Lebanon Charles Issawi
• Provocateur Lincoln Kirstein
• Reagan’s Junta Theodore H. Draper
• Small Wonder Brad Leithauser
• Success Story Christopher Hill
• The Dreams of Martin Luther King C. Vann Woodward
• The Jewish Freud Peter Gay, reply by Michael Ignatieff
• The Master Builder Martin Filler
• The Strange Case of Leopardi D.S. Carne-Ross
• The War of the German Historians Gordon A. Craig
• Thoreau’s Book of Life Geoffrey O’Brien
• Tics Oliver Sacks
• Tod und Tango Suzanne Ruta, reply by D.J. Enright
• When Reagan Was Reagan Nicholas Lemann

February

• A Sad Heart at the Supermarket Murray Kempton
• A Test Case David Satter
• Don’t Mind If I Do Louis S. Auchincloss, reply by Robert Towers
• Fingerprinting Shakespeare E.A.J. Honigmann
• Food of the Gods Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger
• Free Evdokimov! Victor Bers
• Genes & Crime Christopher Jencks
• Homer for Henry W.R. Elton, reply by Christopher Hill
• Mencken and the Great American Boob Alfred Kazin
• Mit Umlaut Juergen Deininger, reply by Rudolf Peierls
• Never to Get It Really Right John Ashbery
• Playing Liszt Joseph Machlis, reply by Alfred Brendel
• Playing Liszt Rosalyn Tureck
• Really the Blues Macdonald Critchley
• Southern Gentleman Bertram Wyatt-Brown
• Talking Pictures Robert Bernard Martin
• The Bad New Tax Law Henning Gutmann
• The Century of Revolution Lawrence Stone
• The Ceremony of Farewell V.S. Naipaul
• The Chief Michael Massing
• The Forgotten People Mary McCarthy
• The Jazz Comeback E.J. Hobsbawm
• The Judgment of Paris Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
• The Luck of the Irish Denis Donoghue
• The Press on Trial Ronald Dworkin
• Updike’s Version George Hunsinger, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• Updike’s Version William H. Pritchard
• Waldheim’s Austria Gerald Stourzh, reply by Gordon A. Craig
• Watch on Colombia Aryeh Neier, reply by E.J. Hobsbawm
• When the Atom Broke Down Ian Hacking
• Writers at Play D.J. Enright

March

• A Mood of Quiet Beauty John Ashbery
• A Visit to Mr. America Leo Marx
• Advice for ‘Judge and Company’ Thomas C. Grey
• All That Jazz James Lincoln Collier, reply by E.J. Hobsbawm
• An Exchange on Burma Edith T. Mirante, Benedict R. Anderson, and Robert H. Taylor, reply by Ian Buruma
• Berenson’s Certificate John Pope-Hennessy
• Brave Old World Peter Brown
• China: Intellectuals at Bay Merle Goldman and Rudolf Wagner
• Closing Time David Lodge
• House of the Dead David Malouf
• Krazy’s Dad Edward T. James
• Lady in the Dark
• Liberator, Up to a Point Stuart Hampshire
• Mew Available Keith Goldsmith
• Natives and Others Robert M. Adams
• Near the Unbalanced Aquarium Robert Lowell
• Neural Darwinism: An Exchange J.Z. Young, Francisco J. Ayala, J. Szentagothai, and Eliot Stellar, reply by Israel Rosenfield
• Not-So-Belle Époque Charles Rearick
• On the Trail of Santa Fe Robert M. Adams
• Red Rosa James Joll
• Stalin’s Two Famines Peter Wiles
• The Blight on Wall Street Felix G. Rohatyn
• The Convert István Deák
• The Genius of Shandy Hall John Bayley
• The Magician’s Trick V.S. Pritchett
• The Political Impasse Thomas Byrne Edsall
• The Randall Case Renee Epstein
• The Spanish Tragedy Bernard Knox
• The Wandering Jew Josh Rubins
• Time’s Settlement Ronald Dworkin
• We Japanese Ian Buruma
• Yonder Shakespeare Joel Fineman, reply by Robert M. Adams
• Yonder Shakespeare Paul N. Siegel

April

• ‘At the Dawn of Tyranny’ Eli Sagan, reply by W.G. Runciman
• Am I My Brain? Jonathan Glover
• Amorous in Amherst Robert Craft
• By the Sound John Hollander
• Charmed Particles D.J. Enright
• Concerto Barocco J.H. Elliott
• Country Life John Bayley
• Down on the Farm George M. Fredrickson
• Dreams of a G-Man Alan Brinkley
• Goetz on Trial George P. Fletcher
• Isness Is Her Business Martin Gardner
• Justice for Leskov Irving Howe
• Living Through the War Gabriele Annan
• Now, Voyager Bernard Bailyn, reply by T.H. Breen
• On Being a Writer V.S. Naipaul
• Picasso’s Apocalyptic Whorehouse John Richardson
• Poles and Jews: An Exchange Abraham Brumberg, reply by Norman Davies
• Reagan’s Highest Folly Lord Zuckerman
• Reagan’s Junta Theodore H. Von Laue, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• Reagan’s Junta Martin Mayer
• Southern Hospitality Patricia Storace
• The Brass-Tacks Queen David Cannadine
• The Contra Contradiction Aryeh Neier
• The Contract for ‘Baby M’ Murray Kempton
• The Eye of the Master Louis S. Auchincloss
• The Father of It All Jasper Griffin
• The Maestro on the Market Robert Craft
• Time’s Rewrite William E. Smith, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• Twice-Told Tale Francis Russell
• Unguided Tour Rosemary Dinnage
• What Price Star Wars? Lord Zuckerman

May

• ‘Edmund Ironside’ Eric Sams, reply by Ernst Honigmann
• ‘Kipper of de Vineyards’ Monroe K. Spears
• ‘Sexual Desire’: An Exchange Roger Scruton, reply by Martha C. Nussbaum
• ‘The Fighting City’ The Editors
• A Neo-Victorian Romance Keith Thomas
• An Interview with Irina Ratushinskaya Ewa Kuryluk and Irina Ratushinskaya
• Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange Irving Howe, reply by Leo Marx
• Glasnost Aleksandr Bogoslovski
• Glasnost Arcadi Nebolsine
• Gorbachev the Bold Peter B. Reddaway
• In the Churchill Museum Timothy Garton Ash
• Israel: The Tragedy of Victory Arthur Hertzberg
• Jean Valjean, Superstar Luc Sante
• Miami Joan Didion
• No Success Like Failure Michael Wood
• Obsession Gore Vidal
• Pound in Rapallo Kay Boyle
• Reading Wallace Stevens Joan Richardson, reply by Helen Vendler
• Reagan’s Underworld Stanley Hoffmann
• Renaissance Beauties Charles Hope
• The Appointment of Death Murray Kempton
• The Chopin Touch Charles Rosen
• The Death Doctors Neal Ascherson
• The Discreet Charms of a Demogogue Garrett Epps
• The Great Pretender Stanley Hoffmann
• The Home Front David Lodge
• The Invisible Fist Raymond Carr
• The Metaphor and the Rock Frank J. Sulloway
• The Nuclear Opening Lord Zuckerman
• Two Poems from Prison by Irinia Ratushinskaya Irina Ratushinskaya, translated by Frances Padorr Brent and Carol Avins
• Under the Tudor Bed Christopher Hill
• Visions and Revisions D.J. Enright

June

• ‘The Spanish Tragedy’: An Exchange Ronald Radosh, reply by Bernard Knox
• A Family Fortune Gabriele Annan
• A Question of Upbringing? J.H. Elliott
• A Swiss Passion Gordon A. Craig
• A World’s Beginning John Wain
• Against Loans to Chile Edward Asner, Virginia Baron, Angela Berryman, Philip Berryman, and George Black, et al.
• An Interview with Arafat-Part II Scott MacLeod and Yasser Arafat
• An Interview with Yasser Arafat Scott MacLeod and Yasser Arafat
• Animals and Us Stephen Jay Gould
• Back from Oblivion Ernst Gombrich
• Before the Revolution Leonard Thompson
• Danger Zones Robert Towers
• Down a Sinkhole Murray Kempton
• From World War to Cold War Timothy Garton Ash
• Genes and Crime: An Exchange Elliott Currie and Richard J. Herrnstein, reply by Christopher Jencks
• Gorbachev’s Bottom Line Peter G. Peterson
• Joys of Desolation Rosemary Dinnage
• Leviathan’s Program Bernard Williams
• Looking for Lucifer J.M. Cameron
• Miami: ‘La Lucha’ Joan Didion
• Miami: Exiles Joan Didion
• Murder in Rome Adrian Lyttelton
• On the Brink Felix G. Rohatyn
• Pinochet’s Way Aryeh Neier and Cynthia Brown
• St. Cory and the Evil Rose Ian Buruma
• The Bust of Tiberius Joseph Brodsky, translated with the author by Alan Myers
• The Fictions of America Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Monstrous Itch Lincoln Kirstein
• The New New South C. Vann Woodward
• The Trouble in Space David C. Acheson
• True Confessions Alison Lurie
• War Victims E.L. Doctorow, John Irving, Gay Talese, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Whose Trope Is It Anyway? Denis Donoghue

July

• ‘Harvest of Sorrow’ Robert Conquest, reply by Peter Wiles
• ‘The Bad New Tax Law’: An Exchange Boris I. Bittker and Joseph A. Pechman, reply by Henning Gutmann
• American Hubris: From Truman to the Persian Gulf Theodore H. Draper
• Chance Missed Nicholas Lemann
• Dickinson & Death Robert Mezey, reply by Robert Craft
• Getting Along with Hitler
• Knowing S.J. Perelman Prudence Crowther
• Let Dr. Nadgornyi Out Ewa Kuryluk
• Living Legends Diane Johnson
• Mad About the Guy Roger Shattuck
• On R. Langton Douglas Claire Douglas, reply by John Pope-Hennessy
• Sexual Desire’s Jacket Erwin A. Glikes, reply by Martha C. Nussbaum
• Surviving the Hurricane Judith Shapiro
• The Avant-Garde and the Academy: An Exchange Albert Boime, reply by Henri Zerner
• The Best Man Alan Brinkley
• The Farbar Case Nora Ephron, Bruce Jay Friedman, Peter Matthiessen, Nicholas Pileggi, and George Plimpton, et al.
• Trachtenberg the Brain King Alfred Kazin
• Venetian Secrets Felix Gilbert
• Washington in Miami Joan Didion
• Wind and Flags

August

• A Global New Deal George Soros
• A Hero’s Mission Murray Kempton
• All Conquers Love Luc Sante
• Giving God a Hand Martin Gardner
• Grand Illusions Geoffrey O’Brien
• Indictments Thomas R. Edwards
• Marcos and Morality Ian Buruma
• New Mag in Moscow Martin Garbus
• On Accepting a Prize Andrei D. Sakharov
• On Lucian Freud Robert Hughes
• Pressure Under Grace Frederick C. Crews
• Summing Up Sartre John Weightman
• Tangled Nicaragua: An Exchange Tony Jenkins, Patt Derian, Nina H. Shea, and Bernard Aronson, reply by Robert S. Leiken
• The Bard of Wichita Falls Robert M. Adams
• The Bork Nomination Ronald Dworkin
• The Good Soldier Gordon A. Craig
• The Lizard Man Bruce Chatwin
• True Colors

September

• ‘Reckless Disregard’: An Exchange Anthony Murry, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• ‘Renaissance Beauties’: An Exchange Lynne Lawner, reply by Charles Hope
• American Emperors Richard Poirier
• Betrayal Noel Annan
• Big Bad Wolfe? Monroe K. Spears
• Changeling Gabriele Annan
• Churchill’s Papers Martin Gilbert, reply by Timothy Garton Ash
• Doomsday Book D.J. Enright
• Gilding Lincoln’s Lily C. Vann Woodward
• In Natasha’s Trunk Bruce Chatwin
• Junk-Bond Finance Roger E. Alcaly, reply by Felix G. Rohatyn
• Leonard Schapiro’s Russia Aileen Kelly
• Moshe and His Brothers David Malouf
• New Oxford Irish Thomas Kinsella, reply by Denis Donoghue
• Not a Witness Edward I. Lending
• Sight Gags Charles Hope
• Taking His Measure Laura (Riding) Jackson, reply by John Wain
• The Last Disaster of the War Brian Urquhart
• The Price of Peace Murray Kempton
• The Riddle of Terrorism Shaul Bakhash
• What Doctors Don’t Know Lewis Thomas

October

• ‘Pressure Under Grace’: An Exchange Peter Griffin and Philip Young, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• ‘The Bork Nomination’: An Exchange M.B.E. Smith, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• After the Reich Gordon A. Craig
• Another Bust Michael Reck
• Breaking the Spell Robert Towers
• Cheer Up, John Paul II Murray Kempton
• Crack-Up R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
• Crash Diets Maurice Keen
• Department of Defense M.F. Perutz
• Dreams of the Sixties Alan Brinkley
• Endangered Species Julie Lewin
• Et Tu, Anthony Noel Annan
• Fanning the Gemlike Flame Rosemary Dinnage
• Glasnost and the Jews Arthur Hertzberg
• Hemingway Books Available Christopher R. Kerr
• How They Got Galileo Italo Calvino, translated by James Marcus
• Independent People Arnaldo Momigliano
• It Rhymes with Fitz Lawrence Heyl Jr., reply by Francis Russell
• JFK’s Triumph Richard C. Wade, reply by Francis Russell
• Leaks Malcolm Turnbull, reply by Noel Annan
• Original Sen A.B. Atkinson
• Outreaching Daniel James, reply by Joan Didion
• Passion and Humdrum Robert Bernard Martin
• Poet of the Air John Bayley
• Prodigal Son Arthur Berger
• Riding the Bronze Horse John Bayley
• Ruskin Retrouvé Tim Hilton
• Storm Over the Sistine Ceiling John Pope-Hennessy
• The ‘War for Washington’ Stanley Hoffmann
• The Ehrenpreis Center Heinz J. Vienken
• The End of the Affair? James Chace
• The Fall of an American Junta Theodore H. Draper
• The Next Best Man David Cannadine
• The Rise of the American Junta Theodore H. Draper
• Tight Little Island Michael Wood
• Was It Archer City? Nicholas Lemann, reply by Robert M. Adams

November

• ‘Slave, Come to My Service!’ Joseph Brodsky
• ‘The Israeli Connection’ Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, reply by Stanley Hoffmann
• A New Montaigne Natalie Zemon Davis
• Casey and Woodward: Who Used Whom? Murray Kempton
• Casey’s Case Thomas Powers
• Dawn Powell, the American Writer Gore Vidal
• Economists at High Noon Robert L. Heilbroner
• Fallen Creatures Alfred Kazin
• Frankenstein’s Mother Claire Tomalin
• Ghost Story Thomas R. Edwards
• Grace Street Blues Robert Towers
• Indian English Jug Suraiya
• Is Nuclear Deterrence Moral? J.M. Cameron
• Little Testament Eugenio Montale, translated by Jonathan Galassi
• Making It Rudolf Peierls
• Mocking the Immemorial V.S. Pritchett
• Much Ado About Everything Robert M. Adams
• Off to a Bad Start David Joravsky
• Pat Robertson’s Catalog Essay for a New Exhibition of Paintings by David Salle Veronica Geng
• Slyest of the Foxes E.J. Hobsbawm
• The Best Man Arthur Hertzberg
• The Bork Nomination Nathan P. Glazer, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• The Case of the Colorblind Painter Oliver Sacks and Robert Wasserman
• The Case that Will not Close Francis Russell
• The Conscientious Spy Stephen Toulmin
• The Emperor of China Robert Craft
• The Family Business Murray Kempton
• The Labyrinth of Slavery David Brion Davis
• The Lash and the Knout C. Vann Woodward
• The Last Bengali Renaissance Man Ian Buruma
• The Woman Who Broke Away Phyllis Grosskurth
• Undemocratic Vistas Martha C. Nussbaum
• What Henry Knew Millicent Bell

December

• A Côté Capote John Richardson
• American Apartheid Andrew Hacker
• An Autopsy Theodore H. Draper
• Beyond Judgment Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal
• Cleaning Up Snow White Janet Adam Smith
• Cleaning the Sistine Ceiling Alexander Eliot, reply by John Pope-Hennessy
• Count Up Martin Gardner
• From Bork to Kennedy Ronald Dworkin
• Fun While It Lasted John Bayley
• Golden Boy John Osborne
• Haiti: The New Violence Michael Massing
• In Memoriam: Robert Fitzgerald Seamus Heaney
• Leaks Malcolm Turnbull
• Obsessed by Flaubert Katherine S. Kovacs, reply by Roger Shattuck
• Oscar Meets Walt Richard Ellmann
• Polish Nightmares Neal Ascherson
• Remembering the Uprising Fritz Stern, introduction by Timothy Garton Ash, translated by Edna McCown
• Resisting the New Lawrence Stone
• Ringing the Button Elaine Feinstein
• Romantic Originals Charles Rosen
• The Artist and the Museum Francis Haskell
• The Artist as Analyst Jerome S. Bruner
• The Outsider Darryl Pinckney
• Thoroughly Modern Master Martin Filler
• Too Proud to Fight? David Cannadine
• Two Poems by Les A. Murray Les Murray
• What Next? Felix G. Rohatyn