The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘The Life of Kenneth Tynan’ Kathleen Tynan, reply by John Osborne
• A Failure of Glasnost? Philip Siegelman
• Acceptance Speech Joseph Brodsky
• All-American Novels Robert Towers
• Andrei Voznesensky Patricia Blake, reply by Elaine Feinstein
• Coming Down from the Summit Stanley Hoffmann
• High Point in Low Countries Jonathan Brown
• Islamic Revolution Bernard Lewis
• Market Garden Adolph G. Rosengarten Jr., reply by Brian Urquhart
• Mrs. Wharton in New York Elizabeth Hardwick
• Nicaragua: An Exchange Jane Burnett, reply by James Chace
• Nixon in Brooklyn Jonathan Lieberson
• On James Baldwin (1924–1987) Darryl Pinckney
• Starobinski in Translation Arthur Goldhammer
• The Chinese Behemoth John K. Fairbank
• The Condition We Call Exile Joseph Brodsky
• The Gorbachev Prospect George F. Kennan
• Was There a Witch Hunt in Ancient Athens? I.F. Stone

February

• A Time for Jeremiah Murray Kempton
• Blood Sport Garry Wills
• Born Too Late John K. Fairbank
• Chaucer on Our Doorstep Robert M. Adams
• China on My Mind Jonathan D. Spence
• Coming Up for Air James Joll
• How Franco Made It Raymond Carr
• Hunting the Homunculus J.Z. Young
• Low Expectations Thomas R. Edwards
• Nobs and Snobs Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Passing the Baton in Beijing Roderick MacFarquhar
• Poland: The New Opposition Abraham Brumberg
• Release Juris Bumeisters Joanne Landy, Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Gert Bastian, Gail Daneker, and Polly Duncan, et al.
• Restoring American Independence Felix G. Rohatyn
• Star John Gross
• The Cost of Bigness James Joll
• The Fundamentalists and the Constitution Gordon S. Wood
• The Kaiser and the Kritik Gordon A. Craig
• The Lindbergh Case: An Exchange Ludovic Kennedy and Anthony Scaduto, reply by Francis Russell
• The Polemical Philosopher William H. Gass
• The Threat to the INF Treaty Arlen Specter
• The Uprising Arthur Hertzberg
• Turkey’s Nonpeople Jeri Laber
• Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky
• Underground Artist Alison Lurie
• White Magic John Golding
• Worriers Gabriele Annan

March

• ‘Obnoxious’ Brooks Munkelt, reply by Charles Rosen
• ‘The Check Is in the Mail’ John Gregory Dunne
• ‘The Closing of the American Mind’ David Bain, reply by Martha C. Nussbaum
• ‘The Closing of the American Mind’ Barry R. Gross
• ‘The Gorbachev Prospect’: An Exchange Josef Skvorecky, reply by George F. Kennan
• A Stone’s Throw Anton Shammas
• Aerie Visions Garry Wills
• An Infinity of Points Howard Stein, reply by Martin Gardner
• An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Israel Kenneth J. Arrow, Nathan P. Glazer, Arthur Hertzberg, Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, and Seymour Martin Lipset, et al.
• Balanchine’s Steps Robert Craft
• Betrayal Neal Ascherson
• Black Crime, White Racism Andrew Hacker
• Bumps on the Head Martin Gardner
• Chopping Up ‘The Cherry Orchard’ Jonathan Lieberson
• Cracking the Socrates Case M.F. Burnyeat
• Economics Without Power Robert L. Heilbroner
• From the Akkadian Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, reply by Joseph Brodsky
• Getting Out of a Spin Richard Rhodes, reply by Rudolf Peierls
• Going Every Sort of Hog Gabriele Annan
• Has Arias Made a Difference? Aryeh Neier
• Help the Los Angeles Central Library Patricia O’Toole
• Huston’s Joyce Denis Donoghue
• Israel Larry Gross, Frank Furstenberg, Roger Abrahams, Paul Allison, and Christine Bachen, et al.
• Israel & US Public Opinion Fouad Moughrabi
• La Forza del Destino Adrian Lyttelton
• Let Handel Be Handel Philip Gossett
• Literature as the Bible Harold Bloom
• No Such Office Mark R. Parris
• Nuclear Wizards Lord Zuckerman
• Oblomov’s Travels John Bayley
• On the Pursuit of the Ideal Isaiah Berlin
• Portraits by Lowell Anthony Hecht
• Public Diplomacy John F. Guilmartin Jr., reply by Theodore H. Draper
• Pushkin, or the Real and the Plausible Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov
• Pussycats and the Owl Stephen Jay Gould
• Rescuing the Past Willibald Sauerländer
• Shah’s Legacy William Shawcross
• Spying on the Neighbors Maurice Keen
• The Benefit of Slavery David Brion Davis
• The Case for Dryden Robert M. Adams
• The Invention of Latin America Raymond Carr
• The Lie in the Soul J.M. Cameron
• The New Shakespeare? E.A.J. Honigmann
• The Quaking Bog Thomas Flanagan
• The Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize Giovanni Agnelli Foundation
• The Sense of Santayana Jonathan Lieberson
• The Slave Revolts Herbert Aptheker, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• The Vaccine Business Richard Abel, reply by M.F. Perutz
• The Way We Live Now Robert Towers
• Tolstoy Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov
• Varieties of Antifascism Stephen Schwartz, reply by Stephen Toulmin
• What Keeps the Japanese Going? Ian Buruma

April

• ‘Romantic Originals’: An Exchange Hugh Amory, reply by Charles Rosen
• A Southern Romantic C. Vann Woodward
• Amiable Genius Stuart Hampshire
• Among the Straussians Benjamin R. Barber, reply by Gordon S. Wood
• Attic Exits Bernard Knox
• Breaking Up Nicholas Lemann
• Charmed Circles Robert M. Adams
• Darwin Unbuttoned John R. Durant
• Down There on a Visit Janet Malcolm
• Down from Liberalism T.M. Scanlon
• For a Polish-Russian Dialogue: An Open Letter Jacek Bochenski, Andrzej Boguslawski, Marian Brandys, Zbigniew Bujak, and Andrzej Drawicz, et al.
• From the Uprising Amos Elon
• Getting to Sack the General James Chace
• Goodbye to All That James Joll
• Gore Vidal’s ‘Lincoln’?: An Exchange Gore Vidal, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• Grinding Axes Robert C. Williams, reply by Stephen Toulmin
• Heartsick Michael Wood
• History Turned Upside Down Christopher Hill
• I Am a Camera Jeremy Bernstein
• Islamic Revolution: An Exchange Tomis Kapitan and Abbas Milani, reply by Bernard Lewis
• It Wasn’t Them Peter Collier and David Horowitz, reply by Aryeh Neier
• More Than a Game Garry Wills
• News from Elsewhere Irving Howe
• Powell’s People Diana Trilling, reply by Gore Vidal
• Second Thoughts Helen Vendler
• Something Childish John Bayley
• The Art of War Gordon A. Craig
• The Integrity of Law Steven Ross, reply by Thomas C. Grey
• The Journey Westward James Collignon, reply by Denis Donoghue
• The Marvelous Boy David Lodge
• The Mystery of Max Eitingon Theodore H. Draper
• The Uses of Death Sidney Hook

May

• ‘Cultural Philistine’ Sidney Hook, reply by M.F. Burnyeat
• ‘Here was a Caesar!’ Jasper Griffin
• ‘Restoring American Independence’: An Exchange Anthony M. Solomon, reply by Felix G. Rohatyn
• ‘Vain Fortune’ Gabriel Austin, reply by Denis Donoghue
• Big Shots John Kenneth Galbraith
• Les Misérables in New York Murray Kempton
• Moscow Trials Victims Paul N. Siegel and Marilyn Vogt-Downey
• Neither Hope nor Glory Stanley Hoffmann
• Not So Grand Strategy Paul Kennedy
• Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man M.F. Perutz
• Rahel’s ‘Jewish Sofa’ Gordon A. Craig
• The Caruso of Jazz E.J. Hobsbawm
• The Historian as Populist Michael Kazin
• The Michelson-Morley Experiment Philip Taylor, reply by Martin Gardner
• The Politics of Paradise Elaine H. Pagels
• The Woman Who Rode Away Alison Lurie
• Unfinished Business C. Vann Woodward
• Who Are the Sandinistas? Michael Massing

June

• ‘The Mystery of Max Eitingon’: An Exchange Stephen Schwartz, Vitaly Rapoport, and Walter Laqueur, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• A Dancer’s Craft Greg Lawrence and Gelsey Kirkland
• A Letter of Resignation Irving Howe, Natan Zach, and Nissim Calderon
• Alien D.A.N. Jones
• America Against Itself Richard E. Beringer
• At the Summit Murray Kempton
• Big Buddy Garry Wills
• Comparative History C. Vann Woodward
• Desperate Condition Sybil Schlesinger
• Four French Revolutions Norman Hampson
• Freedom of Information and Other Queries Kenneth Heineman
• Freedom of Information and Other Queries Kathleen Tynan
• Genius Without Tears Josh Rubins
• Great Tew: An Exchange Hugh Trevor-Roper and Richard Ollard, reply by Robert M. Adams
• Heidegger and the Nazis Thomas Sheehan
• His Brilliant Career Hugh Trevor-Roper
• In Cuban Prisons Aryeh Neier
• Jamming the Jazz Section Josef Skvorecky
• Mission to Moscow Jeri Laber
• More Bumps on the Head Julian Winston, reply by Martin Gardner
• Negrophobia Edmund S. Morgan
• O Mighty Caesar! Arthur D. Kahn, reply by Jasper Griffin
• Politics of a Plague Gordon A. Craig
• Portrait of the Artist Sue Halpern
• Pound’s Book of Beasts Denis Donoghue
• Pulling No Punches Robert Craft
• Screen Gems James Harvey
• Seeing Stars Martin Gardner
• Signalled Brad Leithauser
• That Ephemeral Thing Harry Mathews
• The Best Years of Their Lives
• The Binghams Sallie Bingham, reply by Nicholas Lemann
• The Case of Mordechai Vanunu Hannes Alfven, Edoardo Amaldi, Paul Beeson, Hans A. Bethe, and Owen Chamberlain, et al.
• The Dedicated Despot Murray Kempton
• The Illusion of Jewish Unity Arthur Hertzberg
• The Last Days of Pinochet? Alfred Stepan
• The Real Reagan Economy Emma Rothschild
• The Revolution of the Deaf Oliver Sacks
• The Scandal of ‘Ulysses’
• The Secret House of Death David Cannadine
• The Triumph of Sin W.H.C. Frend
• The Ultimate Turtle Martin Gardner
• The World Without INF Lord Zuckerman
• The Writer Lectures John Updike
• Understanding the Uprising Avishai Margalit
• Wilfred of Arabia Ian Buruma
• Witness Al Alvarez
• Yes Robert M. Adams

July

• A Poet’s Reply Czeslaw Milosz, reply by Al Alvarez
• A Revolutionary Hero Raymond Carr
• An Armenian in Prison Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Shagan Arutunyan, Marzpet Arutunyan, Vartan Aristanyan, and Vladimir Borisov, et al.
• Free Spirits Geoffrey O’Brien
• Great Tew, Continued Hugh Trevor-Roper, reply by Robert M. Adams
• In Gorbachev’s Russia Murray Kempton
• In Love with Hitler John Lukacs
• Islam and Power Politics Shaul Bakhash
• Jews & Arabs Bernard Susser, reply by Anton Shammas
• National Forum Foundation James S. Denton, reply by Aryeh Neier
• Odd Man Out Peter Jenkins
• R_x from RN James Fallows
• Reagan’s Victims Christopher Lasch
• Sallie Bingham’s Philanthropy Lisa Koger, reply by Nicholas Lemann
• The London Library Appeal Mark Bonham-Carter
• The Prophet of Broadway Jonathan Lieberson
• The Reagan Economic Legacy Emma Rothschild
• The Triumph of Picasso John Golding

August

• ‘New Votuhs’ Garry Wills
• ‘The Scandal of Ulysses’: An Exchange John Updike, Robert Craft, Robert M. Adams, Hans Walter Gabler, and Jon N. Elzey, et al.
• AIDS Without End Diane Johnson and John F. Murray M.D.
• An Open Letter to Elie Wiesel Arthur Hertzberg
• Charlotte Mew Christopher Carduff
• Church Going Elizabeth Hardwick
• From the Grassy Knoll Robert Towers
• Hungary: The New Twist István Deák
• Israel and the Palestinians Drora Kass, Kenneth J. Arrow, Gerald B. Bubis, Marvin E. Frankel, and Nathan P. Glazer, et al.
• More Eitingon Mystery Pierre Broue, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• Oedipus at Berggasse 19 William J. McGrath
• Resisting Gorbachev Peter B. Reddaway
• The Big Muddle in France Stanley Hoffmann
• The Desert Anarchist Bill McKibben
• The Honorary Negro Darryl Pinckney
• The Ideal Woman Robert M. Adams
• The Moscow Convention Murray Kempton
• The Promised Land Gabriele Annan
• The Residue of Genius Joseph Kerman
• The Streak of Streaks Stephen Jay Gould
• Vidal’s ‘Lincoln’: An Exchange Harold Holzer and Richard N. Current, reply by Gore Vidal

September

• ‘Down from Liberalism’: An Exchange Thomas Sowell, reply by T.M. Scanlon
• ‘In Cuban Prisons’: An Exchange Debra Evenson, reply by Aryeh Neier
• A Master’s Legacy Brad Leithauser
• A Polish Hero Neal Ascherson
• Call of the Wild
• Death and the Dichter John Bayley
• Evangelists in Nicaragua David Stoll
• Exeter Revisited Joseph Brodsky
• Gentlemen vs. Players Noel Annan
• Mind-Reading Israel Rosenfield
• New York Pastoral Helen Vendler
• Notes from Jerusalem Irving Howe
• Odd Man In David Denby
• Outrageous Things David Lodge
• Playing to Win Jasper Griffin
• The Battle Over Post-Modern Buildings Hugh Honour
• The Continuing Scandal of ‘Ulysses’: An Exchange Thomas F. Staley, John O’Hanlon, and Hans Walter Gabler, reply by John Kidd
• The Dukakis Truce Murray Kempton
• The Empire in Decay Timothy Garton Ash
• The Morning After Anton Shammas
• The Strange Case of William Bullitt Ronald Steel

October

• ‘In Cuban Prisons’: Another Exchange Debra Evenson and Jeri Laber, reply by Aryeh Neier
• ‘The Scandal of Ulysses’ Hugh Kenner and A. Walton Litz, reply by The Editors
• A Plan for Peace Samir Abdalla, Chava Alberstein, Nabil Annani, Shim’on Balas, and Tulli Bauman, et al.
• A Star Is Born Robert Darnton
• AIDS and Its Metaphors Susan Sontag
• An Interview with Viktor Sosnora Darra Goldstein and Viktor Sosnora
• Every Eckermann His Own Man Gore Vidal
• Getting Rough on the Poor Andrew Hacker
• Insider Baseball Joan Didion
• Inventor of Modern Opera Charles Rosen
• Jesus in the Mean Streets Garry Wills
• Mighty Manchester Stephen Jay Gould
• November Ode James Merrill
• Operamania Philip Gossett
• Portrait of the Artist William H. Gass
• Reform or Revolution? Timothy Garton Ash
• Rich Kids James Fallows
• The Buried Past George F. Kennan
• The Campaign’s Hidden Issue Benjamin M. Friedman
• The Exile Wilfrid Sheed
• The Genius of San Jerónimo Michael Wood
• The Lost Moments of History Hugh Trevor-Roper
• The New England Ronald Dworkin
• The Opposition Timothy Garton Ash
• The Pearl Fisher John Osborne
• The Sad Degas Murray Kempton
• The Triumph of Will E.A.J. Honigmann
• The Turning Point? Arthur Hertzberg
• Three Poems by Viktor Sosnora Viktor Sosnora, translated by Darra Goldstein, John Statathos, and Kathryn Hellerstein
• Two Roads to Stockholm M.F. Perutz
• Valentine Lawford’s Views Hugh Thomas
• Vita Nuova Thomas R. Edwards
• Whose American Renaissance? Frederick C. Crews

November

• ‘Hungary’s New Twist’: An Exchange Geza Jeszenszky and Maria M. Kovacs, reply by István Deák
• ‘Roll, Jordan, Roll’ John Womack Jr., Lou Ferleger, and Robert Paquette, reply by Michael Kazin
• ‘The Morning After’: An Exchange Jerome M. Segal, Alvin Z. Rubinstein, and George Jochnowitz, reply by Anton Shammas
• Aeromance William R. Emerson, reply by Garry Wills
• An Exchange on Perestroika Silviu Brucan, reply by Peter B. Reddaway
• Appointment in Prague Jeri Laber
• Beyond Ecology Edward Abbey, reply by Bill McKibben
• Bombing in Bayreuth Jonathan Lieberson
• Did Nixon Beat Kennedy? Gordon Tullock, reply by Francis Russell
• Freud’s Cordelia Michael Ignatieff
• From Stupidity to Cupidity John Kenneth Galbraith
• Getting Dressed in the Dark Vickie Karp
• Glasnost Theater David Joravsky
• Heart of Darkness Murray Kempton
• I.F. Stone’s Socrates Sidney Hook
• I.F. Stone’s Socrates H.S. Thayer, reply by M.F. Burnyeat
• In Korean Jails Susan Sontag, Arthur Miller, Faith Sale, and Karen Kennerly
• Judging Pound John Tytell, reply by Denis Donoghue
• Just Say Yes Keith Thomas
• Keeping Up with the Shaws Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Magic Industry Derek Walcott
• Members Only Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Mr. Know-all John Bayley
• Nabokov and Jolán Földes Peter D. Lax, reply by Dmitri Nabokov
• Not So Grimm Janet Adam Smith
• Playing for Keeps Ian Buruma
• Poussin in Texas Richard Wollheim
• Pyrrho’s Sister David Bain, reply by Martha C. Nussbaum
• Roots of Revolution John K. Fairbank
• Roughing It Robert Towers
• Survivor of a Lost World Carl E. Schorske
• The Beast in the Jungle Robert M. Adams
• The Flying Dutchman Shaul Bakhash
• The Frog Prince Alison Lurie
• The Kennedys in the King Years Garry Wills
• The Kitsch of Israel Avishai Margalit
• The Other Russian Army Gordon A. Craig
• The Rights of the Old Nicholas Palmer, reply by Sidney Hook
• The Suburban Prejudice Ivan Strand, reply by Denis Donoghue

December

• ‘AIDS Without End’ Andrew R. Moss, reply by Diane Johnson and John F. Murray M.D.
• ‘AIDS Without End’ Joseph M. Colacino
• Alfred Chester’s Revival Edward Field
• An Artist’s Artist Henry Gifford
• Another Betrayal by Psychiatry? I.F. Stone
• Art of Cruelty Ian Buruma
• Beatlephobia Luc Sante
• City Lights James Joll
• Confessions of a Polymorph John Weightman
• Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter Charles Rosen
• In the Dawn’s Early Light Ira Gruber
• Is the World Getting Hotter? Bill McKibben
• It’s Available Jennifer Crewe
• Jews and Israelis Gabriel Moked, reply by Anton Shammas
• Journal of Refugee Studies Roger Zetter
• Looking Back on ‘Locos’ Mary McCarthy
• Lost Worlds Peter Partner
• Marx & Martí Carlos Ripoll, reply by Raymond Carr
• More on the New ‘Ulysses’ Michael Groden, reply by John Kidd
• Movie Patricia Storace
• Not-so Free Speech in Britain Peter Jenkins
• On Gorbachev: A Talk with Andrei Sakharov Andrei D. Sakharov, translated by Eugene Ostrovsky
• Play It Again, Sam Denis Donoghue
• Prophet of Lubyanka J.M. Cameron
• Proust in Lubyanka Aleksander Wat
• Rednecks V.S. Naipaul
• Roughing It Gabriele Annan
• Slaves and Mistresses C. Vann Woodward
• Soviet Psychiatry: A Message from Moscow Alexander Podrabinek and Peter B. Reddaway, translated by Andrew Meier
• Thanks for the Memory Francis Haskell
• The Defoe File Robert M. Adams
• The Election and the Future: A Symposium C. Vann Woodward, Garry Wills, Kevin Phillips, Benjamin M. Friedman, and Stanley Hoffmann, et al.
• The Eyewitness Style
• The First Jewish Senator Thomas Suddes, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• The Last Laugh Ian Buruma
• The Lovable Analyst Phyllis Grosskurth
• The Morning After Murray Kempton
• The Motives of T.S. Eliot Robert Craft
• The New ‘Ulysses’: The Hidden Controversy
• The Poet in Limbo Denis Donoghue
• The Prague Advertisement Timothy Garton Ash
• The Russians Have a Word for Dressing Up Reality Scot Shane
• The War on Cocaine Michael Massing
• Waiting for God in Inglenook Julian Moynahan
• White Racism, Black Crime Gilbert M. Johnson
• White Racism, Black Crime Heinz H. Spiess, reply by Andrew Hacker