The New York Review of Books

January

• A Case of the American Jitters Thomas R. Edwards
• A Turn in Atlanta V.S. Naipaul
• Best and Worst John Bayley
• Coriolanus Without Rome Garry Wills
• Distinguished Dissident Ernst Gombrich
• Gorbachev in Armenia Murray Kempton
• Heirs to Freud Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, reply by Michael Ignatieff
• How Rembrandt Made It David Freedberg
• Loading the Canon David S. Reynolds, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• My House Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal
• Razing Romania István Deák, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Carl E. Schorske
• Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story Theodore H. Draper
• Scapegoats G.R. Elton
• The Intimidated Press Anthony Lewis
• The National Gallery Competition Peter Ahrends, reply by Hugh Honour
• The New ‘Ulysses’: Unanswered Questions Philip Gaskell, Peter du Sautoy, Clive Hart, and Roma Woodnutt, reply by Charles Rossman
• The Price China Has Paid: An Interview with Liu Binyan Nathan Gardels
• The Silver Fox Lord Zuckerman
• The Songlines Quartet Bruce Chatwin
• The Tragedy of AIDS Stephen Jay Gould
• The War of Southern Aggression James M. McPherson
• Vulcan’s Net Howard Stein, reply by Charles Rosen
• What Was Revolutionary about the French Revolution? Robert Darnton

February

• ‘Friend & Lover’ Virginia Gardner
• ‘Ulysses’ Update Michael Groden, reply by John Kidd
• 1588 and All That J.R. Hale
• A Second Career! Michael J. Foster
• A South Sea Renaissance Clifford Geertz
• An Old Counting-Game John Hollander
• An Open Letter to Fidel Castro Czeslaw Milosz, Saul Bellow, David Rieff, Susan Sontag, and Mario Vargas Llosa, et al.
• Artificial Intelligence and the Chinese Room: An Exchange Elhanan Motzkin, reply by John R. Searle
• China’s Despair and China’s Hope Fang Lizhi, translated by Perry Link
• Civil Rights & the Kennedys Edwin O. Guthman, reply by Garry Wills
• Do Nuclear Weapons Matter? Stanley Hoffmann
• Dorrit Without Politics Garry Wills
• Engaged Philosopher Stuart Hampshire
• Facing Up to the Nazis Gordon A. Craig
• Flight from Philosophy Michael Walzer
• Getting FDR’s Ear Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Intruders in the Dust Robert Towers
• Jews and Geniuses Robert Craft
• Johns William H. Gass
• Message from Mao Jonathan Mirsky
• Milton and the Schismatics David Leverenz, reply by Thomas Flanagan
• Paranormal Companionship Martin Gardner
• Prisoners of Conscience Václav Havel, Jan Brabec, Ivan Lamper, David Nemec, and Petr Placak, et al.
• Queen Bee Eleanor Perenyi
• Rules of the Game Gabriele Annan
• Schubert’s Last Sonatas Alfred Brendel
• Suitcase in Harlem Darryl Pinckney
• The Devil and the Flesh W.H.C. Frend
• The Origin of the Universe Victor F. Weisskopf
• The Rights of Gorbachev I.F. Stone
• The Rise of the Homeless Sue Halpern
• The Shroud of Mahfouz Anton Shammas
• Tin Cans in the Rockies Robert M. Adams
• Unkind to Animals Peter Singer
• Village Prose: An Exchange Kathleen Parthe, reply by Sergei Kovalyov
• With Tenure David Lehman

March

• ‘Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story’: An Exchange Michael A. Ledeen, Jane Mayer, and Doyle McManus, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• ‘Schubert’s Last Sonatas’: An Exchange Walter Frisch, reply by Alfred Brendel
• ‘The Kitsch of Israel’ Menahem Fogel, reply by Avishai Margalit
• ‘The Lives of John Lennon’ Albert Goldman, reply by Luc Sante
• ‘The Satanic Verses’ Edward W. Said, Aga Shahid Ali, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Akeel Bilgrami, and Eqbal Ahmad
• ‘The War on Cocaine’: An Exchange Ann B. Wrobleski and Victor Mosquera Chaux, reply by Michael Massing
• A Tale of Two Governments Murray Kempton
• Alibi Alley Robert M. Adams
• All the Rage in China Frederic Wakeman Jr.
• An Interview with Andrei Sakharov Jean-Pierre Barou
• Another Russian Exile Nicholas Humphrey
• Automatic Writing Is Born Mary Ann Caws
• Beauty in Numbers Martin Gardner
• Can the US Remain Number One? Paul Kennedy
• Confidence Boy Nicholas Lemann
• Dangerous Liaisons Gordon A. Craig
• Desperate Over Drugs Michael Massing
• Do We Have What It Takes? Andrew Hacker
• Erikson’s Second Thoughts Paul Roazen
• Fun City István Deák
• God’s Greene John Bayley
• Greeks, Romans, Jews & Others Jasper Griffin
• In Fancy Uniform Pratapaditya Pal, reply by Ian Buruma
• Inside the Whale Neal Ascherson
• Israel’s Riot Control
• Juggler’s Code Garry Wills
• Keeping up with the New China John K. Fairbank
• Moscow: The Struggle for Reform Abraham Brumberg
• On Bruce Chatwin Michael Ignatieff
• So, and Not So D.J. Enright
• Software Wars Robert M. Adams
• Something from Nothing Ann Morrissett Davidon, reply by Victor F. Weisskopf
• Sticking It Out Michael Kazin
• The Book Burning Salman Rushdie
• The Courage of Stephen Crane Christopher Benfey
• The Dark Legacy of the Enlightenment Garry Wills
• The Death of English Richard F. Gombrich
• The Divided Liberal Robert O. Paxton
• The Double Life of Benazir Bhutto Ian Buruma
• The Ends of Slavery David Brion Davis
• The Fate of the Shatskiis Lilya Finkel and Fyodor Finkel
• The First Persecution I.W. Gittleman
• The GOP Blues Murray Kempton
• The Last New Negro Darryl Pinckney
• The New ‘Ulysses’: Grave Matters Alistair McCleery and Hans Walter Gabler, reply by John Kidd and Charles Rossman
• The Primal Scene of Education E. D. Hirsch Jr.
• The Reddening of America Roger Shattuck
• The Revel’s Ended Denis Donoghue
• The Road to Polygamy Lawrence Stone
• The Sad Captain of Criticism Denis Donoghue
• The Soul of Translation Arthur Goldhammer, reply by John Weightman
• The United Tates Monroe K. Spears
• Tolstoy in Embryo Robert M. Adams

April

• ‘Do Nuclear Weapons Matter?’: An Exchange Gar Alperovitz, reply by Stanley Hoffmann
• ‘The Primal Scene of Education’: An Exchange Herbert R Kohl, reply by E. D. Hirsch Jr.
• A Lost Chance to Save the Jews? Conor Cruise O’Brien
• A Memory of James Baldwin Mary McCarthy
• A Statement to the Court Václav Havel
• A Talk with Arafat Robert O. Freedman
• An Affair of the Heart Robert Craft
• Black vs. White in Chicago Thomas Byrne Edsall
• Bunyan’s Progress Christopher Hill, reply by Robert M. Adams
• Crackdown in Prague Neal Ascherson, Noam Chomsky, Todd Gitlin, Harold Pinter, and Joanne Landy, et al.
• Fighting Back in Prague Jeri Laber
• Hermits and Fools David Lodge
• High Romance Gabriele Annan
• Look Back on Burton John Osborne
• Mao and Snow John K. Fairbank, reply by Jonathan Mirsky
• Mystery Women Robert Towers
• No Man’s Land James Joll
• On Bruno Schulz Witold Gombrowicz, translated by Lillian Vallee
• On the Bum Luc Sante
• Repeat Performance Neal Zaslaw, reply by Alfred Brendel
• Romania: Breaking the Silence William Pfaff, Gheorghe Apostol, Alexandru Birladeanu, Corneliu Manescu, and Constantin Pirvulescu, et al.
• Russian Roulette: Bad Bet Gary Boucher, reply by John Bayley
• Some Like It Hot E.J. Hobsbawm
• TV: A Day in the Life Jonathan Lieberson
• The Debt Addiction Felix G. Rohatyn
• The Explorer Helen Vendler
• The Fall of a Great Museum John Pope-Hennessy
• The Fate of Paul Robeson Murray Kempton
• The Friendly Fascist Robert O. Paxton
• The Mircea Raceanu Case Samuel J. Eldersveld, Raphael S. Ezekiel, David A. Hollinger, Alfred G. Meyer, and Bert G. Hornback, et al.
• The New PLO? Scott MacLeod
• The Pleasures of Paine Edmund S. Morgan
• The Power of Delight John Bayley
• The Science of Metamorphoses Richard C. Lewontin
• The Stravinsky Beat Niel Glixon, reply by Robert Craft
• The Two French Revolutions Norman Hampson
• The Unhappy Winner David Cannadine
• The Upper Class and the Underworld Noel Annan
• Truth about Ghorbanifar Michael A. Ledeen, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• Unkind to Animals Berkley A. Lynch, reply by Peter Singer
• Unkind to Animals Susan Sperling, reply by Peter Singer
• Words and Music Virgil Thomson

May

• ‘The Two French Revolutions’: An Exchange Simon Schama, reply by Norman Hampson
• 1588 and All That Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, reply by J.R. Hale
• A Master of the Middle Ages Maurice Keen
• Citizen Updike Elizabeth Hardwick
• Czech Mates D.J. Enright
• Distrusting Economics Alan Ryan
• Einstein & the Jews Shloime Perel, reply by Robert Craft
• Giacometti’s Code Avigdor Arikha
• Goldwynism John Gregory Dunne
• Good Night, Sweet Princes Ian Buruma
• I Porni Robert M. Adams
• In Gorbachev’s Courts George P. Fletcher
• Israel and the Occupied Territories: An Urgent Appeal By the Icrc Gail Pressberg
• It Wasn’t Peter Salem David Brion Davis
• Moscow & Harold Wilson
• Mozart à la Mode Joseph Kerman
• Sad New El Salvador Michael Massing
• Should Genes Be Screened? M.F. Perutz
• The Battle Inside NATO Simon Head
• The Magic Flute Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Peter Kussi

June

• ‘Jews and Geniuses’: An Exchange Richard F. Taruskin, reply by Robert Craft
• ‘Razing Romania’ Pal Veress
• ‘The Scandal of Ulysses’: Yet Another Exchange Alistair McCleery, reply by John Kidd
• A Deficit of Civic Courage Benjamin M. Friedman
• A Gent of Dissent Ronald Steel
• A Question of Racism Howard Schuman
• Admiring Paul Robeson Martin Bauml Duberman, reply by Murray Kempton
• Animal Experiments Stephen Rothman, reply by Peter Singer
• China’s Spring Orville Schell
• Cuba: The Human Rights Show Aryeh Neier
• Evangels of Abortion Garry Wills
• Exiles Rosemary Dinnage
• Ghosts & Poltergeists Colin Wilson, reply by Martin Gardner
• Golden Boy James Atlas
• Gorbachev’s Progress Abraham Brumberg
• GrÜNewald Lives Jill Johnston
• Help Professorial Sanjay Amin, James W. Cook, Ralph D’Cruz, H.L. Kalani, and Vijay Mehta, et al.
• It Was Vincenzio Milton Kirchman, reply by Virgil Thomson
• Lament for Russia Norman Davies
• Langston Hughes in the USSR Michael Scammell
• Libros RevoluciÓN Bookstore Gary Sanders
• Los Olvidados Bernard Knox
• Marx and France George C. Comninel, reply by Norman Hampson
• Not Guilty Simon Schama, reply by Norman Hampson
• Race & Chicago Politics Kevin Sweeney, reply by Thomas Byrne Edsall
• Remembering Orson Welles Gore Vidal
• Revolution: The Springtime of Two Nations Timothy Garton Ash
• Romance Incarnate Robert Bernard Martin
• Sex and Sin Paul J. Weithman
• The Bartered Bride Ian Buruma
• The Chinese Intellectuals and the Revolt Perry Link
• The Gorbachev Prospect George Soros
• The Great Abortion Case Ronald Dworkin
• The History of Arnold Toynbee George F. Kennan
• The Incredible Shrinking Man Jonathan Mirsky
• The Liberal Goya Robert Hughes
• The Master of the Ordinary Derek Walcott
• The Mississippi Horrors C. Vann Woodward
• The Old Devil
• The Patron Saint of Neo-Pop Robert Hughes
• The Raj Quartet Christopher Hill
• The Real Thing Henry Gifford
• The Rise and Fall of Vienna’s Jews Michael Ignatieff
• The Rising Star of the German Right Gordon A. Craig
• The Settlers Robert I. Friedman
• The Strange Case of Paul de Man Denis Donoghue
• What Dreams Are Made Of B.A. Farrell
• What to Do about Decline? Joseph S. Nye Jr., reply by Paul Kennedy
• What to Do about Decline? David C. Hendrickson
• Who Are These Coming to the Sacrifice? Jasper Griffin
• Who Killed Carlo Tresca? Daniel Aaron
• Why Noriega Wins Murray Kempton
• Winners J.M. Cameron
• Winston Agonistes David Cannadine

July

• Artemisia’s Revenge? Francis Haskell
• Bad Behavior Bernard Williams
• Cruel and Usual Punishment Jeri Laber
• Cuba’s Prisoners Maurice Halperin, reply by Aryeh Neier
• Democrats on the Take Thomas Byrne Edsall
• Letters from the Other China Fang Lizhi, translated by Orville Schell
• One Size Fits All: a Critical Essay David Lehman
• Precious Stones Jasper Griffin
• Sex & Czechs William E. Harkins, reply by D.J. Enright
• Shooting the Legend George Stevens Jr., reply by John Gregory Dunne
• The Curse of the Man Who Could See the Little Fish at the Bottom of the Ocean Simon Leys
• The Emperor’s Clothes McGeorge Bundy
• The End of the Chinese Revolution Roderick MacFarquhar
• The Freud-Ferenczi Letters Enid Balint
• The Parting of the Twains Frederick C. Crews
• The Raw and the Cooked Robert Towers
• The Real Japan James Fallows
• Water Music Geoffrey O’Brien
• What Khomeini Did Shaul Bakhash

August

• A Speech to the People’s Congress Andrei D. Sakharov, translated by Edward Kline
• Arrested in China Larry McMurtry and Karen Kennerly
• Becoming Conrad Aiken Edward Butscher
• Dithering in Nicaragua James Chace
• Four Prized Poets Helen Vendler
• Free Taysir Aruri! Freeman Dyson and Edward Witten
• Freud & Ferenczi Axel Hoffer, reply by Phyllis Grosskurth
• Freud & Ferenczi Mark Paterson
• Guest of the Age Ronald Steel
• Isaiah Berlin at Eighty Joseph Brodsky
• Jerusalem: The Future of the Past Amos Elon
• Living with Trollope John Bayley
• Microscopy Brad Leithauser
• Naming the Animals Anthony Hecht
• Pro-Life Pro Philip Roth
• Revelations of the North Trial Theodore H. Draper
• Revolution in Hungary and Poland Timothy Garton Ash
• Romania: Defying the Tyrant William Pfaff
• Rosebud Jay Topkis, reply by Gore Vidal
• Sad Young Men Thomas R. Edwards
• Spook of Spooks Thomas Powers
• The Grand Decider Gordon A. Craig
• The Real Leonardo Charles Hope
• The Threat to Gorbachev Peter B. Reddaway
• Training the Artist Henry Hope Reed

September

• ‘Black Athena’ Martin Bernal, reply by Jasper Griffin
• ‘Black Athena’ Douglas J. Stewart, reply by Jasper Griffin
• ‘Giacometti’s Code’ James Lord
• A Letter to the Polish Electorate Lech Walesa
• A Poet and Her Myths Al Alvarez
• About the European House Neal Ascherson
• Amazement Roger Scruton, reply by Bernard Williams
• An Exchange on Mark Twain Susan Gillman, Wendy Lesser, and Garry Wills, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• Betrayal Viktor Erofeyev
• Converging on Peace? Lord Zuckerman
• Fleeting Impressionism Jack Flam
• Haggling Presences Denis Donoghue
• How Free Is the Soviet Press? Michael Massing
• Justice, East and West Jeremy Waldron and Susan Sterett, reply by George P. Fletcher
• Oh What a Lovely War! Noel Annan
• On George Ortiz Bruce Chatwin
• Reading Larkin Thomas W. Perry, reply by Derek Walcott
• Shakespeare’s Double Vision E.A.J. Honigmann
• The Deficit: An Exchange Robert Eisner, reply by Benjamin M. Friedman
• The Faces of Joseph Campbell Brendan Gill
• The Future of Abortion Ronald Dworkin
• The Gap Between the Writer and the Reader Nadine Gordimer
• The Higher Criticism Daniel Bell, reply by Denis Donoghue
• The Incomprehensible Holocaust István Deák
• The Not-So-Spiritual East James Sterba
• The Pizza Is Burning! Murray Kempton
• Why China’s Rulers Fear Democracy John K. Fairbank

October

• A Front-Line Classicist Jasper Griffin
• AIDS in Cuba H. Daniel and Ronald Bayer
• Affirmative Action: The New Look Andrew Hacker
• After the Massacres Simon Leys
• Balancing Act Robert M. Adams
• Basic Englishing Elizabeth Hardwick
• Being and Dying William H. Gass
• Caesar at the Bastille Jan Kott, translated by Jadwiga Kosicka
• Can South Africa Change? George M. Fredrickson
• Chaste Lovers Gabriele Annan
• China Witness, 1989 Jonathan D. Spence
• Deconstruction, the Nazis, & Paul De Man Charles L. Griswold Jr., reply by Denis Donoghue
• Digging in a Footlocker Walter McDonald
• From Hirohito to Heimat Ian Buruma
• Her Majesty’s Secret Peter Jenkins
• How the North Nearly Lost James M. McPherson
• How to Kill Arms Control Lord Zuckerman
• In Bed with Social Science Diane Johnson
• Jerusalem Lawrence Besserman, reply by Amos Elon
• Jerusalem Donald Neff
• Love in the Lower Depths Garry Wills
• Making Way for Hitler Gordon A. Craig
• Mr. Memory Garry Wills
• Outside Baseball Wilfrid Sheed
• Should World Psychiatry Readmit the Soviets? Peter B. Reddaway
• Stories from the Ice Age Jonathan Mirsky
• Success Story Lionel Gossman
• Sylvia Plath: An Exchange Olwyn Hughes and Anne Stevenson, reply by Al Alvarez
• The Narcissistic South C. Vann Woodward
• The Prophet Hugh Trevor-Roper
• The Secret Agent Robert I. Friedman
• The Vatican and Hitler Sheldon Avery, reply by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Vatican and Hitler Jacques Kornberg, reply by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• They Didn’t Use Animals Bruce Max Feldmann D.V.M., reply by Peter Singer
• Trickster Tales Darryl Pinckney
• Up from Beethoven Philip Gossett
• Whistling in the Pentagon Nicholas Lemann
• White Magic Rosemary Dinnage
• Who Killed George Polk? C.M. Woodhouse

November

• A Dictionary for Deconstructors Alison Lurie
• A Family Romance Alan Ryan
• American Gothic Alfred Kazin
• An Unlikely Demon Hugo Young
• Art and Anarchy James Joll
• Behind Closed Doors Keith Thomas
• England, Whose England? Hilary Mantel
• Good Housekeeping Witold Rybczynski
• Having What It Takes Gordon Tullock, reply by Andrew Hacker
• Hero of the Wilderness Bill McKibben
• Impressionism Robert L. Herbert, reply by Jack Flam
• Is Britain ‘Befouled’? M.F. Perutz
• Israel: The Rise of the Ultra-Orthodox Avishai Margalit
• Joseph Campbell: An Exchange Joan Konner, Huston Smith, Roy Finch, Carol Wallace Orr, and Roberta H. Markman, et al.
• Juggler Robert M. Adams
• Lyrical Dreiser Andrew Delbanco
• Mary Mc Carthy (1912–1989) Robert Lowell
• No Homeland Ian Hancock
• Petit Maître John Gross
• Pipe Dreams Robert Craft
• Prince of Poets Julian Barnes
• Putting Pound Together Harry Levin
• Struggle Over the Puritans Gordon S. Wood
• The Boat People in Peril William Shawcross
• The Perfect In-and-Outer Stanley Hoffmann
• The Poor Curator Gabriel Austin
• The Power of Impotence Garry Wills
• The Wasp Ascendancy Joseph W. Alsop and Adam Platt
• Tiananmen Archives Leo Ou-fan Lee and Benjamin Lee
• Vengeance in China Merle Goldman
• West Bank Story Dina Shalit, reply by Robert I. Friedman
• What Future for American Jews? Arthur Hertzberg

December

• ‘Knee Deep in the Hoopla’ Peggy Noonan
• A Speech in East Berlin Christa Wolf, translated by Henning Gutmann
• Affirmative Action: An Exchange Michael Haas and Jerome Karabel, reply by Andrew Hacker
• All This and Heaven, Too Maurice Keen
• Another Dirty Secret Murray Kempton
• God and the Devil John Bayley
• Just Say Noh Ian Buruma
• Keeping the Faith Fang Lizhi, translated by Orville Schell and James H. Williams
• Life at Court Joan Didion
• Machine Dreams David Joravsky
• Mad About Guns Murray Kempton
• Me, Myself, and I E.A.J. Honigmann
• On the High Wire Gabriele Annan
• Paradise Lost Daniel J. Kevles
• Recoiling from Reason Martha C. Nussbaum
• Shaw and Super-Shaw John Gross
• Soviet Psychiatry: An Exchange Alfred M. Freedman and Abraham L. Halpern, reply by Peter B. Reddaway
• Sylvia Plath’s Biographers Olwyn Hughes, reply by Al Alvarez
• The Ages of Jackson Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• The Art of M. F. K. Fisher Patricia Storace
• The Case of Elizardo Sanchez Juan E. Mendez
• The Case of Silviu Brucan Radu J. Bogdan and Immanuel Wallerstein
• The Case of the Dizzy Detective Anthony Hecht
• The Common House of Europe Fritz Stern
• The Company of Owls Robert O. Paxton
• The Czech Party Ludvik Vaculik, translated by Barbara Day
• The German Revolution Timothy Garton Ash
• The Good Doctor Rosemary Dinnage
• The Incomprehensible Holocaust: An Exchange Alan Adelson, George Diestel, John-Paul Himka, and Michael Nelson, reply by István Deák
• The Master at Home John Bayley
• The Phallic Pulpit Garry Wills
• The Strangeness of Wordsworth M.H. Abrams
• The Trial that Shook Cuba Julia Preston
• Upward in Slavery
• War Crimes R.J.W. Evans
• War Crimes Michael Stuermer, reply by Ian Buruma
• War Crimes Avraham Weiss
• Wheels Rolf Kaltenborn, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• Written on Water John Weightman
• You Can Go Home Again Robert Towers