The New York Review of Books

January

• A La Recherche … …de Proust John Weightman
• A New, New Reich? Gordon A. Craig
• A Plan for The New Europe Stanley Hoffmann
• Changing Communism Irving Howe, reply by Simon Leys
• Down on the Farm Stephen Jay Gould
• Freud’s Favorite Paranoiac Phyllis Grosskurth
• From Estuaries, from Casinos John Ashbery
• Henry James Mix-Up Alan G. Thomas, reply by John Bayley
• Jonathan Lieberson Prize Isaac Levi and Sidney Morgenbesser
• Keeping Up With the News Murray Kempton
• Love Story Stuart Hampshire
• Nuclear Pollution: An Exchange Alan Day Haight, David J. Brenner, Jay M. Gould, and J. Kevin Branigan, reply by M.F. Perutz
• Poet of the Great Massacre J.M. Cameron
• Roman Grand Guignol Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Shylock Without Usury Garry Wills
• Sylvia Plath’s Journals Frances McCullough
• The Revolution of the Magic Lantern Timothy Garton Ash
• The Ultimate Scandal John Kenneth Galbraith
• Words on Words Václav Havel

February

• ‘Territory of Lies’ Wolf Blitzer, reply by Robert I. Friedman
• ‘The Incomprehensible Holocaust’: An Exchange Maurice Hatton, reply by István Deák
• Bleistein and Mr. Eliot Michael Wood
• Can South Africa Change?
• Eastern Europe: The Year of Truth Timothy Garton Ash
• From Abailard to Les Zutistes Robert M. Adams
• From a New Year’s Day Speech Václav Havel
• High Spirits John Russell
• House Hunting Martin Filler
• Inventing Shakespeare Anne Barton
• Look At Me Gabriele Annan
• Look Homeward, Angel Edward Rothstein
• Matter Over Mind Roger Penrose
• Maugham’s Half & Half Gore Vidal
• Mothers of Us All Edmund S. Morgan
• Never-Never Land David Cannadine
• Our Man in Panama Murray Kempton
• Poems of Tiananmen Square Walter Tonetto
• Quasimodo in America James Harvey
• Rereading ‘Indian Summer’ John Updike
• Salt of the Earth Peter Singer
• Seize the Day Robert L. Heilbroner
• Speaking Southern Charles Joyner, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• The Battle for San Salvador Julia Preston
• The Decline and Fall of the French Revolution Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Edge of Delusion Ernst Gombrich
• The Empire Strikes Back Jonathan Mirsky
• The Old Country Michael Ignatieff
• The Party of Envy Murray Kempton
• The Revolt of the Romanians Pavel Campeanu
• The True Amateur Noel Annan
• What Should Be Done about the Guilty? Aryeh Neier
• Whose Shakespeare? Charles Bryan, reply by E.A.J. Honigmann
• Working Girl Richard Dorment

March

• ‘Indian Summer’ Lynne Lawner, reply by John Updike
• ‘The Economics of Slavery’ Adrienne Rich
• A Declaration of the Democratic Platform Group All-Union Conference of Party Clubs and Party Organizations
• A Manifesto for Soviet Democracy Martin Malia
• Any Place You Want Brad Leithauser
• Babylon Revisited Louis S. Auchincloss
• Beyond Belligerence Murray Kempton
• Boys Will Be Boys Ian Buruma
• Canaletto in New York Matthew Rutenberg
• Celebrating Mencken Kurt Vonnegut Jr., William Styron, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, and John Kenneth Galbraith, et al.
• Did Noriega Declare War? Theodore H. Draper
• Discrepancy Alan Day Haight, reply by M.F. Perutz
• England’s Financial Revolution Lawrence Stone
• Fired in Belgrade Tony Judt, Ivo Banac, Gale Stokes, Daniel Chirot, and Jan T. Gross, et al.
• Great-Uncle
• Greed Michael M. Thomas
• Home Fires James Merrill
• In Sudanese Jails John Ryle, Douglas V. Johnson II, Richard Gray, Wendy James, and Mark Duffield, et al.
• Is Discrimination Wrong? Curtis Crawford
• Love and Sex in Greece Jasper Griffin
• Lucan & ‘Amours De Voyage’ P.F. Widdows, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Lucy and Lucifer Robert M. Adams
• Mascot of Modern Music Roger Shattuck
• On the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe George F. Kennan
• Parade’s End Lawrence Freedman
• The Best of Bloomsbury Noel Annan
• The Bucharest University Library Katherine Verdery and Barbara Jelavich
• The Case of the Cessna 310: An Exchange Eric Alterman, reply by Julia Preston
• The Constitution in Danger Theodore H. Draper
• The Decline and Rise of Publishing Jason Epstein
• The Doctrine of Destruction Lord Zuckerman
• The Dream of the Globe E.A.J. Honigmann
• The Fight Over Teen-age Abortion Sue Halpern
• The Fire Next Time John Bayley
• The Future of Central Europe Václav Havel
• The Inner Civil War C. Vann Woodward
• The Jews in America Calvin Goldscheider, reply by Arthur Hertzberg
• The Legend of King Christian: An Exchange Jens Lund, reply by István Deák
• The Lost World of the Mormons Diane Johnson
• The Morality of Journalism Janet Malcolm
• The Open Border Edward R.F. Sheehan
• The Palestinian Refugees Robert I. Friedman
• The Scientist and the Tyrant David Holloway
• The Sexual Fast Track Steve Chapple, reply by Diane Johnson
• The Shivering of Empire J.H. Elliott
• The Two William Bennetts Michael Massing
• The United Nations & Its Discontents Brian Urquhart
• The Wound and the Bow Charles Rycroft
• Tribune of the Republic Gordon A. Craig
• Virgil Finlay Drew It David Aylward
• Voice of Experience Alan Ryan
• Wake Up, America! James Fallows
• What Can’t the Computer Do? John Maynard Smith
• Who’s Afraid for Virginia Woolf? Quentin Bell
• Witness George F. Kennan

April

• ‘Mother Country’: An Exchange Marilynne Robinson, reply by M.F. Perutz
• ‘The UN and Its Discontents’: An Exchange Shirley Hazzard, reply by Brian Urquhart
• ‘To the Memory of Childhood’ Lydia Chukovskaya, reply by John Russell
• A Conversation in Prague Philip Roth
• A Modern Hero Natalie Zemon Davis
• A Picaresque Hero Jonathan D. Spence
• Agonized Wail Jon Wynne-Tyson
• Becoming What They Think We Are Felix G. Rohatyn
• Ceausescu’s Way Matei Calinescu, Thomas G. Pavel, Vladimir Tismaneanu, and Dorin Tudoran, reply by Pavel Campeanu
• Crime and Puzzlement Hilary Mantel
• East Germany: The Solution Timothy Garton Ash
• Greek Love: An Exchange David M. Halperin, reply by Jasper Griffin
• Guilt-Edged Insecurity Derek Jarrett
• Help Salman Rushdie! Larry McMurtry, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., David Lodge, Derek Walcott, and John Banville, et al.
• High Noon at the Likud Corral Avishai Margalit
• In A Cruel Country Jonathan Mirsky
• In Stalag Viia Sidney Thomas
• Marble and Marzipan Joseph Connors
• Monstre Désacré Garry Wills
• Mrs. Thatcher’s Last Stand? Peter Jenkins
• Preserving the Landscape John Ranlett, reply by Peter Singer
• Remembering Sakharov Evgeny Averin
• Rousseau in the Revolution Jean Starobinski, translated by David Bellos
• Soviet Lawyers in New York Murray Kempton
• The Defeat of the Sandinistas Julia Preston
• The Last Days of Hong Kong Ian Buruma
• The Middle Class Barbara Ehrenreich, reply by James Fallows
• The Music of Carl Dahlhaus: An Exchange J. Bradford Robinson, reply by Philip Gossett
• The Past in the Present Quentin Skinner
• The Pot that Didn’t Melt John Higham
• The Power of Flannery O’Connor Frederick C. Crews
• The Return of Germany Richard von Weizsaecker and Václav Havel, translated by Rita Klimova
• The Trial of Lithuania Neal Ascherson
• The Trials of C.S. Lewis J.M. Cameron
• The Way We Live Now? Louis S. Auchincloss
• Tripping Over the Future Robert M. Adams
• Unchildish Activities Janet Adam Smith
• Wartime James M. McPherson

May

• ‘The Constitution in Danger’: An Exchange David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lawrence J. Block, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• Are We Robots? Richard C. Lewontin, reply by John Maynard Smith
• Can Castro Last? Tad Szulc
• Feminism and Literature Helen Vendler
• From the Ming to Deng Xiaoping John K. Fairbank
• History of a Public Enemy Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
• Indomitable Pasternak Henry Gifford
• Interior Blaga Dimitrova, translated from the Bulgarian by Ludmilla Popova-Wightman
• Making Hay with Huxley Robert Craft
• Monet’s Way Jack Flam
• New Trouble in Panama Michael Massing
• Notes from Underground Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
• On Gorbachev Elena Bonner, translated by Conor Daly
• On Sarah Vaughan Murray Kempton
• On the Empress’s Mind John Ashbery
• Only Disconnect Ann Hulbert
• Protocols of Reading Robert Scholes, reply by Robert M. Adams
• Reconstructing Andrew Johnson Eric L. McKitrick
• Short Satisfactions Robert Towers
• Spinoza and the Happy Few Stuart Hampshire
• The Bulgarian Difference Jeri Laber
• The Communist Party Cut-Up David Remnick
• The Fall of Jim Wright Nicholas Lemann
• The Real Thing John Bayley
• The Rebel David Brion Davis
• The Top of the World Robert Craft
• Theme and Variations Gabriele Annan
• Trygve Lie & the War Guri Lie Zeckendorf
• Two Who Made a Revolution John Golding
• Was There a Missing Witness? Theodore H. Draper

June

• ‘A Sort of Intimate Whirlwind’ John Updike
• ‘The Emperor’s New Mind’: An Exchange John R. Searle, reply by John Maynard Smith
• A Bad Scout? Michael Rosenthal, reply by Ian Buruma
• A Matter of Intent Lester G. Crocker, reply by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• A Question of Character Stephen Toulmin
• An Armenian Leader in Prison Conor Daly
• Back to Mormonism Judith Freeman, reply by Diane Johnson
• Czechoslovak Society for the Handicapped Olga Havel
• Discontents at the UN: An Exchange Theodore W. Kheel, reply by Brian Urquhart
• Emerson and Racism Douglas Crase, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• Fallen Angels Richard C. Lewontin
• Fin-de-Siècle America Paul Kennedy
• Henry Adams as Holy Fool Garry Wills
• How Not to Deal with the Iran-Contra Crimes Theodore H. Draper
• How We Bombed Edward Field, reply by Lord Zuckerman
• Human Rights in China Jonathan Mirsky, Robert L. Bernstein, Orville Schell, Liu Binyan, and Perry Link, et al.
• Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment Amartya Sen
• It Isn’t Junk William E. Krisel, reply by Michael M. Thomas
• Life After Squirrel Nutkin Janet Adam Smith
• Lost History of the Lost Library Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Lost in the Cosmic Murray Kempton
• Mario Cuomo’s Trouble with Abortion Garry Wills
• Neither Salvation nor Sausage Viktor Erofeyev, translated from the Russian by Shirley M. Benson
• Prophet in Kentucky Bill McKibben
• Refighting the Revolution Robin Blackburn, reply by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Reflections on a Paradoxical Life
• South Africa: The Fire This Time? Leonard Thompson
• Stompin’ with the Savoy James Joll
• Ten Thoughts on the New Europe Timothy Garton Ash
• The Best Years of Their Lives Alan Brinkley
• The Brilliant Misfit Keith Thomas
• The Peace Dividend Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• The Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize Giovanni Agnelli Foundation
• The Trial of Alyosha Janet Malcolm
• The Turning Point? Abraham Brumberg
• The Way to the Wall Gordon A. Craig
• Tokyo Boogie-Woogie Ian Buruma
• Touché!
• Tripping D.L. Ouron, reply by Robert M. Adams
• Underground Man Thomas R. Edwards
• Viva Mencken! John Kenneth Galbraith
• Was Leonard Woolf a Marxian? S.J. Stearns, reply by Noel Annan
• Woodward’s Itinerary David Brion Davis
• Yugoslavia: the Awakening Michael Scammell

July

• ‘The Constitution in Danger’ H.C. Merillat
• A Tale of Two Nations Conor Cruise O’Brien
• In God’s Playground John Bayley
• In a Fratricidal Country Peter Partner
• Nothing But the Truth? Brenda Maddox, reply by Janet Malcolm
• Rediscovering the Bellinis Charles Hope
• Reunion in Budapest Hugh Trevor-Roper
• The Catastrophe and After David Holloway
• The Darkening Light Murray Kempton
• The New Yugoslavia Michael Scammell
• The Politics of Grievance Garry Wills
• The Real Camino Donald Windham
• The Shock of the Old Charles Rosen
• The Two Faces of Europe Adam Michnik , translated by Mariusz Matusiak and Christian Caryl
• War and Human Rights in Cambodia Sidney Jones
• What Did Cato Mean? Leo Steinberg, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Workers & Warriors Ian Buruma

August

• A Home Is Not A House Patricia Storace
• Beirut: The Hamra Jean Said Makdisi
• Dangers of Democracy Gavriil Popov, translated by Antonina W. Bouis
• Eastern Europe: Après Le Déluge, Nous Timothy Garton Ash
• Feminism and Literature: An Exchange Susan Gubar, Sandra M. Gilbert, Felicia Bonaparte, and Camille Paglia, reply by Helen Vendler
• For Whom the Bell Tolls Elena Bonner, translated by Antonina W. Bouis
• High on Science M.F. Perutz
• Inconclusive Evidence Robert Towers
• Invisible Cities Murray Kempton
• Persecution in Romania Jeri Laber
• The Constitution Still in Danger: An Exchange Lawrence J. Block, William M. Goldsmith, and David B. Rivkin Jr., reply by Theodore H. Draper
• The New Canadas J.M. Cameron
• The Passion of Graham Greene John Updike
• The Struggle for Light David Remnick
• The Theater of Cruelty Josef Skvorecky
• The Voice from Paxos Jonathan Aaron
• The War That Will Not End Jonathan Mirsky
• Titian and the Perils of International Exhibition Francis Haskell
• Unwarlike Warriors R.J.W. Evans
• Wonder Woman Geoffrey C. Ward
• Yugoslav Troubles Nora Beloff, reply by Michael Scammell

September

• Americans and Revolutionaries Gordon S. Wood
• An Open Letter on Anti-Armenian Pogroms in the Soviet Union Jacques Derrida, Isaiah Berlin, Alain Finkielkraut, Richard Rorty, and Adrian Lyttelton, et al.
• At the Bottom of the Pond Gabriele Annan
• Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism Isaiah Berlin
• Legends of King Christian: Another Exchange Leonard Mendes Nathan, James B. Sitrick, and Tage Kaarsted, reply by István Deák
• On Kafka Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson
• Painting the Unpaintable Richard Dorment
• Poohdom Janet Adam Smith
• Seize the Day Murray Kempton
• The Chequers Affair Timothy Garton Ash
• The Chinese Amnesia Fang Lizhi, translated by Perry Link
• The Comedian Of Horror Robert Craft
• The Making of Mandela George M. Fredrickson
• The Price of Gluttony Peter G. Peterson
• The Survivor Shaul Bakhash
• The Thief of Baghdad Edward Mortimer
• The Vanished Library Bernard Lewis, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• The Vanished Library Luciano Canfora, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Triumphs of Colonialism John Maynard Smith

October

• ‘Can Castro Last?’ Maurice Halperin
• ‘The New Yugoslavia’: An Exchange Quintin Hoare, reply by Michael Scammell
• A Malawi Poet under Arrest Rakiya Omaar
• Ancient Kids Jasper Griffin
• Back to Bork Lawrence Sager
• Begetting Big Science Daniel J. Kevles
• Dancing for Balanchine
• Do-It-Yourself Lear E.A.J. Honigmann
• God’s Playground Norman Davies
• Good News Is Not Bad News Albert O. Hirschman
• Is the US Declining? Joseph S. Nye Jr., reply by Paul Kennedy
• Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism: II Isaiah Berlin
• Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism: III Isaiah Berlin
• L’Homme Révolté John Weightman
• Liberators Robert M. Adams
• Long-Distance Runner Garry Wills
• Lucan’s Civil War William M. Calder III, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Lucan’s Civil War Roland F. Perkins, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Lucan’s Civil War David Schulenberg, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Lucan’s Civil War
• Making Way for the Messiah Robert I. Friedman
• Nelson Algren: An Exchange Bruce A. Toor, Bettina Drew, Art Shay, and Studs Terkel, reply by Thomas R. Edwards
• New Bird in Birdland George Plimpton
• Night for Day Julian Barnes
• Pacem in Terris Ronald Steel, reply by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• Portrait of the Critic as a Young Man John Banville
• Science and Anti-Semitism Harry G. Parke, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• Slaves in Islam David Brion Davis
• Stalin’s Dumping Ground Jeri Laber
• The Art of Frank Auerbach Robert Hughes
• The Art of Interpreting Nonexistent Inscriptions Written in Invisible Ink on a Blank Page Simon Leys
• The Devils of Hiroshima Ian Buruma
• The Fall of Jim Wright: An Exchange John M. Barry and Mary Connell, reply by Nicholas Lemann
• The Impasse Over Israel Arthur Hertzberg
• The Indonesian Way Willem Samuels, reply by Ian Buruma
• The Lost Weekend Harrison E. Salisbury, reply by Jonathan Mirsky
• The New Game in Guatemala Michael Massing
• The Rush to Capitalism John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Shame of Armenia Elena Bonner, translated by Jamey Gambrell
• The Shock of the Old Richard F. Taruskin, reply by Charles Rosen
• The Virtues of Nakedness Stephen Jay Gould
• Three Faces of Capitalism Robert L. Heilbroner

November

• ‘Rediscovering the Bellinis’: An Exchange Rona Goffen, Pia DeSantis Pell, and David Rosand, reply by Charles Hope
• A Lab of One’s Own Clifford Geertz
• A Phony Ancestor Lord Zuckerman
• Another Soul Murder Morton Schatzman
• Asad and Black September Conor Cruise O’Brien, reply by Shaul Bakhash
• Better Than Nature John Updike
• Civil Warriors C. Vann Woodward
• Early Music: An Exchange Malcolm Bilson, reply by Charles Rosen
• Endless War Orrin DeForest, reply by Jonathan Mirsky
• Germany Unbound Timothy Garton Ash
• Goodbye, Columbus Garry Wills
• Heroin, Laos, & the CIA William E. Colby, reply by Jonathan Mirsky
• Heroism in Hell István Deák
• How AIDS Came to Romania David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman
• How Saddam Is Dividing the Arab World Shaul Bakhash
• Iraq’s Chemical Warfare Douglas V. Johnson II and Stephen C. Pelletiere, reply by Edward Mortimer
• It’s A Girl! John Barton
• Keeping the Faith Darryl Pinckney
• Love and Death in South Africa Gabriele Annan
• Neurology and the Soul Oliver Sacks
• On Washington Square Elizabeth Hardwick
• Republican and Galilean Bernard Williams
• Rogue Genius Derek Jarrett
• Scholars in Solidarity William A. Hunt, Richard Kuhta, and John Valentine
• Sex and Power in the Middle Ages Maurice Keen
• Tell, Don’t Show Diane Johnson
• The Fall and Rise of New York Felix G. Rohatyn
• The Great Japanese Misunderstanding James Fallows
• The Pianist and the Program Alfred Brendel
• The Real Thing David Denby
• Trans-National America Andrew Hacker
• V.S.P. John Bayley
• Writers in Prison Larry McMurtry, William Styron, Rose Styron, Allen Ginsberg, and Susan Sontag, et al.

December

• ‘Darwin and Marx’ Richard C. Lewontin, reply by M.F. Perutz
• ‘Grand Hotel’ John Gregory Dunne, reply by Diane Johnson
• ‘The Art of Exclusion’ Albert Boime, reply by Richard Dorment
• At Stake in the Gulf Bernard Lewis
• Born Again African Roger Shattuck and Samba Ka
• Brave New Worlds Aileen Kelly
• Did Jefferson Blunder? Eric L. McKitrick
• Escaped Slaves of the Forest E.J. Hobsbawm
• FROM ‘THE LADY EVE’ Preston Sturges
• Getting Away from It All Witold Rybczynski
• History on the Wing John K. Fairbank
• In Violent Times John Banville
• Jews, Indians, and Imperialists Anita Desai
• Life Styles of the Rich and Famous Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Lost Horizons Jonathan Mirsky
• More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing Amartya Sen
• Mr. Magoo Remembers Garry Wills
• My Vote Against Walesa Adam Michnik
• Neurology and the Soul Oliver Sacks
• No Conservative Samson B. Knoll, reply by Isaiah Berlin
• Rackhamland Janet Adam Smith
• Reagan Lives! Benjamin M. Friedman
• Sociable Murder Gabriele Annan
• The Cabinet of Dr. Seuss Alison Lurie
• The Day Budapest Shut Down George P. Fletcher
• The Death of ‘Society’ Noel Annan
• The Gulf Crisis George W. Ball
• The Power of Ancient Mexican Art Octavio Paz, translated by Anthony Stanton
• The Shadow of the Guru V.S. Naipaul
• The Storm Over the University John R. Searle
• The Sturges Style Geoffrey O’Brien
• The Tragi-Comedy of S. T. Coleridge Robert Bernard Martin
• The Uses of Fakery Hugh Trevor-Roper
• There’s No Place Like Heimat Ian Buruma
• Was Cratylus Kidding? Robert M. Adams
• What De Gaulle Really Said Henry C. Pinkham, reply by Robert M. Adams
• Witness Gordon A. Craig