The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘A Wonderful Life’ Stuart Hampshire
• ‘The Japanese Power Game’: An Exchange C. Fred Bergsten, reply by James Fallows
• Betrayals Patricia Storace
• Brutality in China Merle Goldman
• Empire on the Brink Peter B. Reddaway
• Enigma Variations Robert Towers
• Germany at the Frontier Timothy Garton Ash
• It’s Reagan’s Fault Alan Geller
• James Sacksified Gregory Ludwig, reply by Oliver Sacks
• Jonathan Lieberson Prize Isaac Levi, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Charles Larmore
• Lithuania and the Jews Stasys Lozoraitis, reply by István Deák
• Marie Syrkin Fellowship Leon Wieseltier
• Mission Impossible! Noel Annan
• New York: Sentimental Journeys Joan Didion
• Our Universal Civilization V.S. Naipaul
• Race & Violence in the Schools Howard J. Ehrlich, reply by Andrew Hacker
• Race & Violence in the Schools Booker C. Peek, reply by Andrew Hacker
• Radicals Henry Gifford
• Revising the Revolution Blair Worden
• Secrets of Benjamin Franklin Edmund S. Morgan
• She Got Lear Right Ned Polsky, reply by E.A.J. Honigmann
• Supreme Suprematist John Golding
• The Boy Friend Phyllis Grosskurth
• The Charms of Deception Matthew Rutenberg
• The Coming Dictatorship Yuri Afanasyev, translated by Antonina W. Bouis
• The East German Disaster Simon Head
• The Good Old Days Alan Brinkley
• The Greatest American Shambles Michael M. Thomas
• The Long Voyage Home Garry Wills
• The Nuclear Difference Robert Jay Lifton, reply by Ian Buruma
• The Piltdown Mystery: An Exchange Frank Spencer, reply by Lord Zuckerman
• The Price of War Stanley Hoffmann
• The Quebec Question Robert Laliberte, Pierre Teolis, and Danielle Tessier, reply by J.M. Cameron
• The Reich Stuff Gordon A. Craig
• The Right to Death Ronald Dworkin
• Uncle Whiz Robert Craft

February

• ‘The Shock of the Old’ Neal Zaslaw, reply by Charles Rosen
• ‘The Storm Over the University’: An Exchange George Levine, Gerald Graff, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith, reply by John R. Searle
• A Case of Amnesia Murray Kempton
• Fallen Woman Margaret Drabble
• In God We Trust C. Vann Woodward
• La Voix Charles Baudelaire, translated by Rachel Hadas
• Laughter in the Dark John Banville
• Native Son David Remnick
• Signs of Life Ian Buruma
• Storm over the Storm Charles Hope
• That’s Earl, Folks! Nicholas Lemann
• The Blue Pearl of Siberia Peter Matthiessen
• The Poet of Modern Life Denis Donoghue
• Welcome Homer! Hugh Lloyd-Jones

March

• ‘Sentimental Journeys’ Jim Sleeper, reply by Joan Didion
• ‘The Right to Death’ Richard Stith, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• A Sedentary Existence John Ashbery
• A Tale of Three Cities Garry Wills
• Achilles in the Caribbean Bernard Knox
• After the Fall Ian Buruma
• An Appeal for Democracy in the Baltic Republics I. Andreeva, Yuri Afanasyev, Andrei Bitov, A. Vaksberg, and V. Vasiliev, et al.
• Breath of Art Helen Vendler
• Class Dismissed Andrew Hacker
• Divorce à la Mode Keith Thomas
• Generals in Politics James M. McPherson
• In the Wake of ‘Desert Storm’ Scott MacLeod
• Innerlichkeit and Eigentümlichkeit John Updike
• Invader Jack Flam
• Israel and the Palestinians: An Exchange John Quigley, reply by Arthur Hertzberg
• Keeping Up with Salman Rushdie James Fenton
• Learning from the Gulf Brian Urquhart
• No Sorrow Left Unturned Michael Wood
• On Wilhelm Furtwängler Alfred Brendel
• Pasternak’s Great Fairy Tale John Bayley
• Perils of Historicism Anne Barton
• Revising Josephus Peter B. Nowell, reply by Hugh Trevor-Roper
• The Baltic Revolt Jeri Laber
• The Best of Times Diane Johnson
• The Biggest Enigma Roger Penrose
• The Detention of Sari Nussiebeh Stuart Hampshire, Ronald Dworkin, Sidney Morgenbesser, Bernard Williams, and Thomas Nagel, et al.
• The Gulf in Europe Timothy Garton Ash
• The Language of the Deaf David M. Perlmutter
• The Mystery of Chico Mendes Kenneth Maxwell
• The New Year in Prague Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson
• The Strange Fate of William Faulkner Frederick C. Crews
• The Tragedy of the Amazon Kenneth Maxwell
• The Vanished Library Luciano Canfora, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• The Way to War Michael Massing
• Three Who Made a Revolution David Cannadine

April

• ‘Glesca Belongs to Me!’ Gordon A. Craig
• A Fine Romance Alison Lurie
• A Handful of Dust: Return to Guiana V.S. Naipaul
• Aggressive Progressive Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Chaplygin Street Blues David Remnick
• Did It Flow? John Bayley
• Dinosaur Dilemmas John Maynard Smith
• Erebus John Ashbery
• In Cannibalistic Times Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell
• In Saddam’s Arms Peter Partner
• Iraq and Its Future Samir al-Khalil
• Man of the People Louis Menand
• Master of Regret David Bromwich
• Metropolitan Opera Robert M. Adams
• Mystery Man Xan Smiley
• Native Sons Arthur Kempton
• Paradise Lost Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Reading the ‘Tempest’ B.H. Friedman, reply by Charles Hope
• Revolt in Munich! James Joll
• Taming the Beasts Jack Flam
• The ‘Dark, Paradoxical Gift’ Oliver Sacks
• The Art of the Matter Noel Annan
• The Charms of a Physicist Jeremy Bernstein
• The Making of Mr. Major Peter Jenkins
• The Mountain Hedonist Bill McKibben
• The Pax Axis Ian Buruma
• The Plight of Kosovo Neal Ascherson, Timothy Garton Ash, Joanne Landy, Lynne Jones, and Steven Lukes, et al.
• Tripping the Not-So-Light Fantastic Robert Towers
• Two Worlds and Two Wives J.H. Elliott
• What Rasputin Said Lionel Joyce
• Who Saved Jews? An Exchange Shale Dworan and Inger M. Olsen, reply by István Deák

May

• ‘Agents of Influence’: An Exchange Jagdish Bhagwati, reply by James Fallows
• ‘Nothing But a Writer’ Malcolm Bradbury
• ‘The Final Secret of the Universe’? Daniel J. Kevles
• ‘The Storm Over the University’: A Further Exchange Gerald Graff, reply by John R. Searle
• A Star is Born John Gregory Dunne
• Anti-Intellectualism in American Life? Richard Sennett, reply by Robert M. Adams and Nicholas Adams
• Apes R Not Us Lord Zuckerman
• Cataloguing Malevich Jeanne D’Andrea, reply by John Golding
• Class Acts Benjamin DeMott, reply by Andrew Hacker
• Decadence Revisited Jasper Griffin
• Graham Greene and ‘The Quiet American’ Richard West
• How to Read a Fresco John Pope-Hennessy
• India’s Awful Prisons David J. Rothman and Aryeh Neier
• Iraq: The Road Not Taken Edward Mortimer
• Is Japan the Enemy? James Fallows
• Kuwait: The Last Forty-Eight Hours Andrew Whitley
• Living in a Russian Novel Jamey Gambrell
• Lulu Eric Bentley, reply by James Joll
• Mysteries of a Masterpiece Willibald Sauerländer
• On Graham Greene J.M. Cameron
• Phony Ancestors Jane W. Stedman, reply by Lord Zuckerman
• Poland and the Jews Adam Michnik
• Religion and American Historians John Patrick Diggins, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• Selective Affinities Gabriele Annan
• Slouching Toward Bethlehem John Banville
• That Old Chinese Black Magic Frederic Wakeman Jr.
• The ‘We’ Generation Ian Buruma
• The Angels and Devils of Dickens Garry Wills
• The Ghost Opera Geoffrey O’Brien
• The Good Old Days Robert Darnton
• The Iraq Nightmare Chris Goddard
• The Myth of Mao’s China Jonathan Mirsky
• The Reality Game Robert M. Adams
• The White World of Frederick Douglass David Brion Davis

June

• ‘The Greatest American Shambles’: An Exchange Martin Richardson and John Coates, reply by Michael M. Thomas
• ‘The Place of Narrative’ Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, reply by The Editors
• A Matter of Life and Death Janet Malcolm
• A New Dostoevsky? John Bayley
• Arenas’s Last Words J.J. Fraxedas
• Child of the Century William Trevor
• Dickens’s Girls Claire Tomalin, reply by Garry Wills
• Downward Mobility Nicholas Lemann, reply by Andrew Hacker
• Fate of the Amazon Roger D. Stone, reply by Kenneth Maxwell
• Foul Ball George F. Will
• French Cuffs Douglas V. Johnson II
• From Here to Eternity Hugh Honour
• Good Housekeeping Murray Kempton
• Hard Times Janet Adam Smith
• Herman Roth Philip Roth, reply by Robert M. Adams
• History Novel Robert Towers
• India: The Seed of Destruction Anita Desai
• Nietzsche’s Immoralism Philippa Foot
• Novel History Gordon S. Wood
• On Being Blind Walt Stromer, reply by Oliver Sacks
• Pen Translation Committee Lynne Lawner
• Poland After Solidarity Timothy Garton Ash
• Russia After Perestroika Abraham Brumberg
• Schadenfreud Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester, reply by Phyllis Grosskurth
• Sitting on Top of the News Michael Massing
• The Birth of Childhood Maurice Keen
• The Birth of the Two-Sex World Stephen Jay Gould
• The Cabinet of Doctor Keats Richard Holmes
• The Great White Hope Avishai Margalit
• The High Cost of Victory Murray Kempton
• The Man Who Wasn’t There Garry Wills
• The Nazis and the Atom Bomb: An Exchange Thomas Powers, Paul Lawrence Rose, Robert H. March, and Lee Ambrose, reply by Jeremy Bernstein
• The Nuclear Threat: A Proposal Hans A. Bethe, Kurt Gottfried, and Robert S. McNamara
• The Salvation of Panama? Michael Massing
• The Triumph of Abram Tertz Joseph Frank
• Underachiever Nicholas Lemann
• Witch Hunting Robert Bartlett

July

• ‘The Vanished Library’ Luciano Canfora, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• A New Russian Revolution? Martin Malia
• Armenia: A Report from the Border Felice D. Gaer and Scott Horton
• Armenia: An Open Letter Elena Bonner and Yuri Orlov
• Breaking Up with Castro Raymond Carr
• China on the Verge Jonathan D. Spence
• Dreams of E.A. Poe Diane Johnson
• Freedom & the Universities C. Vann Woodward
• Keeper of the Seal Garry Wills
• Looking Back at the Revolution Julia Preston
• On Gaza Beach Ari Shavit, translated from the Hebrew by Stephen Langfur
• Puerta De Golpe, Cuba Heberto Padilla, translated by Alastair Reid and Alexander Coleman
• The Flight of Gerard Manley Hopkins Denis Donoghue
• The Reagan Revolution and the Supreme Court Ronald Dworkin
• The Wake of the Storm Murray Kempton
• The Witches’ Sabbath Carlo Ginzburg, reply by Robert Bartlett

August

• ‘How to Leave a House of Slavery’ Neal Ascherson
• ‘Uncertain Strength’: An Interview With Václav Havel Václav Havel, Dana Emingerova, and Lubos Beniak, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
• A Little Mozart Tour Robert Craft
• Adventurers Thomas R. Edwards
• Can Saddam Survive? Michael Massing
• Critics at the Top Denis Donoghue
• Fitzgerald Revisited Jay McInerney
• Furtwängler’s Schubert David Hamilton, reply by Alfred Brendel
• Liberty and Pornography Ronald Dworkin
• Lincoln Up Close Gore Vidal
• Nationalists and Democrats Conor Cruise O’Brien
• On Being Silenced in Germany Peter Singer
• Revolution in the Court Charles Fried, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• Richly Flows Contingency John Bayley
• Scandal on the Seine Patrice Higonnet
• Seeing Double Patricia Storace
• The Case of Dr. Gallo Michael Specter
• The Return of Film Noir! Geoffrey O’Brien
• Turn of the Screw Murray Kempton

September

• ‘Illiberal Education’: An Exchange George M. Fredrickson, John Hope Franklin, Jon Wiener, Gene H. Bell-Villada, and Clyde de L. Ryals, et al.
• African Americans & African Africans George M. Fredrickson
• Beat the Devil Ruth Mellinkoff, reply by Willibald Sauerländer
• Casualty of the Cold War Ronald Steel
• Cautionary Tales Gabriele Annan
• Glasgow’s Glasgow Pat Lally, reply by Gordon A. Craig
• In Search of the Arab Soul Shaul Bakhash
• King of the Quantum Jeremy Bernstein
• Presidential Wars Theodore H. Draper
• Relics John Banville
• Samurai of Swat Ian Buruma
• Seven Days That Shook the World Jamey Gambrell
• The Anatomy of Collapse Roderick MacFarquhar
• The August Revolution Martin Malia
• The Espionage Lesson Norman Mailer
• Wind from the Prairie Elizabeth Hardwick

October

• ‘Japan Vs. the West’ Endymion Wilkinson, reply by James Fallows
• ‘The Best Man’ Murray Kempton
• Academic Freedom in Germany Ulrich Steinvorth, reply by Peter Singer
• An Enlightened Revolution? Robert Darnton
• Apes and Us: An Exchange Herbert Terrace, Philip Lieberman, and Vernon Reynolds, reply by Lord Zuckerman
• Bali H’ai Robert Craft
• Believe It or Not Robert Towers
• Closing the Goethe Gap Richard Holmes
• Darwinian Psychobiography Frank J. Sulloway
• Down & Out in Paris & London Al Alvarez
• Faulkner’s Strange Fate John N. Duvall, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• Four Poems by Edvard Kocbek Edvard Kocbek, translated by Michael Scammell and Veno Taufer
• From Rebel to Bureaucrat Irving Howe
• Good Intentions Thomas R. Edwards
• John King Fairbank (1907–1991) Roderick MacFarquhar
• Keeping the East Europeans Out William Pfaff
• Law & Disorder in Los Angeles John Gregory Dunne
• Law and Disorder in LA: Part Two John Gregory Dunne
• Let the East Europeans In! Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Mertes, and Dominique Moisi
• Lifting the Silent Depression Robert L. Heilbroner
• On Sakharov’s Memoirs Elena Bonner, translated by Antonina W. Bouis
• Playing the Racial Card Andrew Hacker
• Recognition Brooks D. Simpson
• Reconsidering Vietnam Jonathan Mirsky
• Showdown Arthur Hertzberg
• Slovenia and Its Poet Michael Scammell
• Solidarity’s Sources Lawrence Goodwyn, reply by Timothy Garton Ash
• That Old Middle Style Howard M. Ziff, reply by Denis Donoghue
• The Art of ‘Call It Sleep’ Alfred Kazin
• The H and Q of Baseball Stephen Jay Gould
• The Kerala Difference Barbara H. Chasin and Richard W. Franke, reply by Amartya Sen
• The New Psychology of Women Phyllis Grosskurth
• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Michael Wood
• The South Against Itself Bertram Wyatt-Brown
• The World After Columbus J.H. Elliott
• Two Poems by Osip Mandelstam Osip Mandelstam, translated by Robert Tracy
• Venice Out of Season Richard Dorment
• What the Jameses Knew Stuart Hampshire
• When It’s Rational to be Irrational Alan Ryan

November

• ‘Presidential Wars’: An Exchange David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• A Good Minestrone Robert M. Adams
• China Perceived James C. Thomson Jr., reply by Jonathan Mirsky
• Creations of the Dark Lord Zuckerman
• Do-Gooders Alan Ryan
• Folie à Trois Noel Annan
• How Noble Was Robert E. Lee? James M. McPherson
• How They Died Irving Howe
• Idealists Against the Jews Anthony Quinton
• In Which We Serve John Bayley
• In the New Republics Michael Ignatieff
• Inside the PLO Scott MacLeod
• Instruction Tomas Venclova, translated from the Lithuanian by Diana Senechal
• Justice for Clarence Thomas Ronald Dworkin
• Lincoln Addendum Gore Vidal
• Man of the Year Garry Wills
• Mapping the Air Helen Vendler
• Mastering Masters Hilary Masters, reply by Elizabeth Hardwick
• Not Choreographed by Balanchine Lincoln Kirstein
• Oxfam Unaffiliated David Jones, reply by David J. Rothman and Aryeh Neier
• The Back of the Bus Murray Kempton
• The Big Apfel Gordon A. Craig
• The End of the Empire Peter B. Reddaway
• The Endangered Monuments of Croatia Andrej Smrekar and Stane Bernik
• The Enigma of Georges Seurat Jack Flam
• The New Domestic Order? Felix G. Rohatyn
• The Nuclear Threat Rudolf Peierls, reply by Kurt Gottfried Hans Bethe
• The Nuclear Threat Marvin M. Miller
• The Politics of Deconstruction Louis Menand
• The Romance with Mexico James Fallows
• The Second-Best Bed E.A.J. Honigmann
• Through the Keyhole David Cannadine
• Tricks of Memory Robert O. Paxton
• Two Concepts of Nationalism: An Interview with Isaiah Berlin Nathan Gardels
• Was Tavora There? Augusta Dwyer, reply by Kenneth Maxwell
• Winners John Banville

December

• A Two-State Solution? Lee H. Hamilton
• Against the Japanese Grain Ian Buruma
• Armageddon Now? Wilfrid Sheed
• Dead Souls David Remnick
• Error Felix Richard T. Davies, reply by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Getting to Know You John Bayley
• Ghosts of Pearl Harbor Ian Buruma
• Golden Age Marie-Claire Bergere, reply by Jonathan D. Spence
• Help Manno Charlemagne Jonathan Demme
• How Jewish Was Freud? William J. McGrath
• How to Stop Hunger Robert M. Solow
• In Search of Islam’s Past Bernard Lewis
• In The Jungle of the Infinite Ian Stewart
• Lautrec’s Bitter Theater Richard Dorment
• Look Away, Dixie Land Patricia Storace
• On Home Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
• Radical, Conventional Mozart Charles Rosen
• Reading Henry Roth Joanna Clark, reply by Alfred Kazin
• Sex and the Devil John Weightman
• Snow Jobs James Merrill
• The Betrayal of the Contras Michael Massing
• The Empire of Joseph Roth Nadine Gordimer
• The Floating Operetta Robert M. Adams
• The Making E.P. Thompson, reply by David Cannadine
• The Melancholy Prince Gabriele Annan
• The Myth of Jerusalem Avishai Margalit
• The New Bibliothèque: An Exchange Roger Chartier, reply by Patrice Higonnet
• The Return of LBJ C. Vann Woodward
• Twin Peaks Derek Jarrett
• Universal Grammar Noam Chomsky, reply by Lord Zuckerman
• Was Giordano Bruno a Mole? Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Women in Retreat Benedetta Craveri, translated from the Italian by Joan Sax