The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘Burke’s Livery’ Conor Cruise O’Brien, reply by Alan Ryan
• ‘Confusion Over Evolution’: An Exchange John Maynard Smith and Daniel C. Dennett, reply by Stephen Jay Gould
• ‘Not So Free at Last’ Michael S. Flier
• ‘Not So Free at Last’ Magdalena Opalski
• ‘Not So Free at Last’ Peter J. Potichnyj, reply by Abraham Brumberg
• A Betrayed People J. M. Coetzee
• A New History of the Velvet Revolution Theodore H. Draper
• A Normal Nazi Thomas Sheehan
• American Pie Luc Sante
• Are Hetmen Heroes? Frank E. Sysyn, reply by Abraham Brumberg
• Bosnia: The Last Chance? Misha Glenny
• Criminal Elements Kerry Fried
• Death in Montana Robert M. Adams
• Gallant Pastiche John Bayley
• His Honor Murray Kempton
• In the Heart of Somalia Edward R.F. Sheehan
• Live Menu John Golding
• Living Still Life John Golding
• Love at Harvard Alfred Kazin
• Peacetime Lies Gabriele Annan
• Russia on the Brink? Peter B. Reddaway
• Slouching Toward Democracy Jeri Laber
• The Blacks & Clinton Andrew Hacker
• The End of Czechoslovakia Theodore H. Draper
• The Kennedy Scandals Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Master at War John Bayley
• The Wrong Catullus! John Dugan
• Women’s Place James D. Seymour, reply by Jonathan D. Spence
• Wraith’s Progress Hilary Mantel
• ¡Adiós Columbus! Kenneth Maxwell

February

• ‘L’affaire Derrida’ Jacques Derrida, reply by Thomas Sheehan
• ‘L’affaire Derrida’ John D. Moore
• An Appeal Timothy Garton Ash, Ivo Banac, Stanisław Barańczak, Norberto Bobbio, and Pierre Bourdieu, et al.
• An Urgent Appeal from Pen American Center Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, and Faith Sale, et al.
• Drugs and the Law Mark Kleiman, reply by Michael Massing
• Fatal Attraction John Weightman
• He’s the Top Martin Filler
• Invasion of the Mind Snatchers Alan Ryan
• Nietzsche vs. Nietzsche James Joll
• Outsiders Sander Vanocur, reply by James Chace
• Popes and Pagans Garry Wills
• Preparing for the 21st Century: Winners and Losers Paul Kennedy
• Sex and the Church Adam Schwartz, reply by M.F. Perutz
• South Africa on the Edge Scott MacLeod
• The Jumper Murray Kempton
• The Radical Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

March

• ‘Evil Money’ Peter Dale Scott and Rachel Ehrenfeld, reply by Michael Massing
• ‘L’Affaire Derrida’: Another Exchange Jacques Derrida, Didier Eribon, and Richard Wolin, reply by Thomas Sheehan
• ‘Outing Mrs. Roosevelt’ Blanche Wiesen Cook, reply by Geoffrey C. Ward
• A Master Materialist Anthony Quinton
• Americainerie Ian Buruma
• An Interview with Salman Rushdie John Banville
• An Open Letter to the United Nations, President Clinton, and the Congress Todd Gitlin, Joanne Landy, Thomas Harrison, Jennifer Scarlott, and Elinor Fuchs, et al.
• Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered Denis Donoghue
• Bosnia: Questions About Rape Jeri Laber
• Death in the Family George Plimpton
• Devil in the Flesh Gabriele Annan
• Dr. Rivlin’s Diagnosis & Mr. Clinton’s Remedy Robert M. Solow
• Getting the Picture Ernst Gombrich
• Haiti and Clinton Kenneth Roth
• Himalayan Ulster Edward W. Desmond
• L’affaire Derrida (cont’d) John D. Moore, reply by Thomas Sheehan
• Masterpiece Theater Robert Hughes
• Out of the Blue Robert Towers
• Peace in Bosnia Robert Jay Lifton, Joanne Landy, Elinor Fuchs, and Manuela Dobos
• Private Lives James Fenton
• Some Mistakes People Make About Poetry James Fenton
• Sour Grapes Nigel Hamilton
• Taking the Plunge Iris Murdoch
• The American Prospect Paul Kennedy
• The Counterrevolutionary David Remnick
• The Enemies of God Bernard Lewis
• The Great Diversifier Roger Penrose
• The Last Charmer Stuart Hampshire
• The Mind Wins! Thomas Nagel
• The Old New Order George M. Fredrickson
• The Party’s Secrets Jonathan Mirsky
• The Uses of Adversity Murray Kempton
• Wall Power Charles Hope
• Writer’s-Writer’s Writer David Lodge

April

• ‘Cutting Classes’ Patrick Joyce, reply by David Cannadine
• ‘L’Affaire Derrida’: Yet Another Exchange Helene Cixous, Derek Attridge, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, and Jonathan Culler, et al.
• ‘The End of Czechoslovakia’: An Exchange Rita Klimova, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• A Cruel Custom in Somalia Barbara Fulford
• Alive in Myth Jasper Griffin
• An Unnatural Disaster Liu Binyan, translated by Perry Link
• Art and the Great Utopia Jamey Gambrell
• Big News from Small Worlds John Banville
• Clinton & Rushdie Edmund Keeley
• Electra from Beverly Hills Gabriele Annan
• Foucault’s Life and Hard Times Alan Ryan
• From ‘The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony’ Roberto Calasso
• Guy Fawkes in America Antonia Fraser
• Heidegger and Nazism: An Exchange Ernst Nolte, reply by Thomas Sheehan
• Horror for Pleasure Geoffrey O’Brien
• How Wrong Was Churchill? Noel Annan
• La Femme Savante Gabriele Annan
• Lost Illusions William J. McGrath
• Making up the Mind Oliver Sacks
• Not on the Right Jeffrey Friedman, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• One Train May Hide Another Kenneth Koch
• One of the Lives W.S. Merwin
• Operation Roth Harold Bloom
• Secrets of the Shah’s Court Shaul Bakhash
• Star Diane Johnson
• The ‘Stress’ Revolution Jack A. Goldstone, reply by Lawrence Stone
• The Bomb That Never Was Rudolf Peierls
• The Death of a Yale Man John Gregory Dunne
• The Good Book and True John Barton
• The Mystery of a Masterpiece Julian Barnes
• The Rationalist in Power George W. Ball
• The Ridiculous & Sublime Charles Rosen
• The Scream Behind the Pattern Rosemary Dinnage
• The Threats to Secular India Amartya Sen
• The Way We Live Now Alfred Kazin
• Trollope’s Comédie Humaine John Gross
• Truth and El Salvador Murray Kempton
• Yeltsin and Russia: Two Views Elena Bonner, translated by Antonina W. Bouis

May

• ‘Anna of All the Russias’ John Bayley
• ‘The London Hanged’ Peter Linebaugh, reply by Keith Thomas
• Bisexuality in the Ancient World Eva Cantarella, reply by Jasper Griffin
• Diminishing Families Gordon Tullock, reply by Robert M. Solow
• Experimenting on Animals Adrian R. Morrison, reply by Peter Singer
• Freud’s Egyptian Dig Carl E. Schorske
• Goodbye to a United Europe? Stanley Hoffmann
• Grim Fairy Tale Ann Hulbert
• Hanging Out with Greeks Garry Wills
• Jefferson at Home Gordon S. Wood
• Jonathan Lieberson Prize Sidney Morgenbesser, Charles Larmore, and Bernard Berofsky
• Letters On Dark Times Gordon A. Craig
• Looking for the Center Ian Buruma
• Max Ernst’s Halo The Editors
• Murder in Turkey Kurt Vonnegut Jr., William Styron, Rose Styron, Anthony Lewis, and Toni Morrison, et al.
• Murder of the City Bogdan Bogdanovic, translated from the Serbian by Michael Henry Heim
• Nazis Among Us Slavenka Drakulic
• Outside the Shady Octopus Saloon Michael Wood
• Paradise Lost Andrew Hacker
• Safe Havens in Bosnia Robert Jay Lifton, Janet Coleman, Yael Danieli, Bogdan Denitch, and Michael Flynn, et al.
• Saying the Unsayable Edward Mortimer
• Shakespeare in the Sun Anne Barton
• Sitting Pretty Anita Desai
• The Balkan Tragedy Michael Ignatieff
• The Case Against Science Timothy Ferris
• The Genius of Gin Lane Richard Dorment
• The Iran-Contra Secrets Theodore H. Draper
• The Lean and Optical Dane John Updike
• The Lost Kingdom of Orson Welles Joseph McBride
• The Nowhere City Amos Elon
• The Post-Communist Nightmare Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
• The Truth About the CIA Thomas Powers
• This Is a Test Leo Steinberg
• Twenty-first Century Blues Alan Ryan
• What Is To Be Done? Misha Glenny

June

• ‘The Buried Mirror’ Peggy K. Liss
• ‘The Buried Mirror’ Kirkpatrick Sale, reply by Kenneth Maxwell
• A Family’s Fortune Murray Kempton
• A UN Volunteer Military Force—Four Views Lee H. Hamilton, Gareth Evans, Carver, and Stanley Hoffmann, reply by Brian Urquhart
• A Very Important Spy Jerrold L. Schechter, reply by Thomas Powers
• An Embarrassing Anniversary Adam Michnik , translated from the French by Olivia Emmet
• Ancient Hearts on Fire Jasper Griffin
• Bakhtin the ‘Outsider’ Fred Davis, reply by Aileen Kelly
• Byron Lives! Anne Barton
• Cautionary Tales Alan Ryan
• Dream Work Denis Donoghue
• Feminism and Abortion Ronald Dworkin
• Flowers of Florence John Pope-Hennessy
• For a UN Volunteer Military Force Brian Urquhart
• Free Choi Il-Bung! Paul D’Amato
• Iran-Contra: The Mystery Solved Theodore H. Draper
• Is Anti-Semitism Dying Out? Arthur Hertzberg
• Made in America Sarah Kerr
• Martyrs on the Block Alice Truax
• Night Mail John Bayley
• Painting and Patronage Bram Kempers, reply by Charles Hope
• Playing the Unplayable E.A.J. Honigmann
• Poem about Quantity Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Robert Mezey
• Professor Lenny Joseph Horowitz
• Tempest over Titian Charles Hope
• The Anarch at Twilight Ian Buruma
• The City-Planner Pope Garry Wills
• The Jews’ Jews Amos Elon
• The New Nuclear Menace Lord Zuckerman
• The Politics of Catastrophe David Holloway
• The Rediscovery of America J.H. Elliott
• The Skull Beneath the Skin Gabriele Annan
• Unjust Desserts Jonathan D. Spence
• Unlikely Friendship Julian Barnes
• Wagner’s Anti-Semitism Barry Millington, reply by Charles Rosen
• War in the Garden James Fenton

July

• ‘A Small Correction’ Bernard Knox
• ‘Professor Lenny’ Humphrey Burton, reply by Joseph Horowitz
• A Note on ‘Ruthenia’ Theodore H. Draper
• A UN Volunteer Force—The Prospects Robert Oakley, McGeorge Bundy, Sadruddin Aga Khan, General Olusegun Obasanjo, and Anthony Parsons, et al.
• Art & the Apocalypse Francis Haskell
• Delusions of the Drug Cops Michael Massing
• Haunted Islands Edmund Keeley
• Living in the Shadows John Banville
• Lyrical Historian Blair Worden
• Mussolini’s Femme Fatale Adrian Lyttelton
• Partisan For Life T.M. Scanlon
• Tales From the Narmada Woods Gabriele Annan
• The Balkan Crisis: 1913 and 1993 George F. Kennan
• The Clinton Budget: Will It Do? Benjamin M. Friedman
• The Complacent Democracies William Pfaff
• The Dictatorship Returns Jeri Laber
• The Mystery of Cities Witold Rybczynski
• What Shultz Knew Charles Hill, reply by Theodore H. Draper

August

• ‘Greatly Exaggerated’? Phyllis Grosskurth, reply by William J. McGrath
• A New Cambodia William Shawcross
• A Visit with Arafat Amos Elon
• An Exchange on Hogarth Ronald Paulson, reply by Richard Dorment
• Art and ‘Accuracy’ Robert L. Herbert
• Betrayal in France Tony Judt
• Caves of the Vatican Xavier Rynne
• Comrades John Bayley
• Dinomania Stephen Jay Gould
• Far from Saigon Robert Towers
• Friend of the Great Gabriele Annan
• Le Carré’s New War David Remnick
• Liberalism: The New Twist Stuart Hampshire
• The Aesthete Garry Wills
• The Bosnian Catastrophe Ivo Banac, Branka Magas, Bojan Bujic, and Vesna Domany Hardy
• The Godfather of Bihac Misha Glenny
• The Hill-Thomas Mystery Kathleen M. Sullivan
• Weeping Tears of Nostalgia Ian Buruma

September

• ‘The Evil of This Time’
• ‘The Fifth Freedom’: An Exchange Morton Mintz, reply by M.F. Perutz
• ‘The Great Hatred’ Joel Carmichael, reply by Arthur Hertzberg
• A Waltz Dream John Ashbery
• Double Indemnity Hilary Mantel
• How Mexican Is It? Diane Johnson
• Living Others’ Deaths Garry Wills
• Pioneer George M. Fredrickson
• Putting Saddam Hussein on Trial Aryeh Neier
• Reasons of the Heart Alan Ryan
• Shultz’s Revenge Ronald Steel
• Solitary Enigma John Terborgh
• That Old Time Religion Maurice Keen
• The Bosnian Case Kasim Trnka
• The Chinese Miracle? Jonathan D. Spence
• The Heroism of Despair Denis Donoghue
• The Human Comedy of the Divine Marquis John Weightman
• The New Romania David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman
• Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You! Robert Stone
• Unlikely Hero Paul Wilson

October

• ‘American Holocaust’
• ‘An Intellectual Bumblebee’ M.F. Perutz
• ‘Betrayal in France’ Tony Judt
• ‘Diversity’ and Its Dangers Andrew Hacker
• A New Ireland? Conor Cruise O’Brien
• Achilles. Penthesilea Zbigniew Herbert, translated from the Polish by Joseph Brodsky
• Bosnia and Beyond George Soros
• Cat in an Empty Apartment Wisława Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
• Chicago Underground Garry Wills
• Clinton, So Far Thomas Byrne Edsall
• Daedalus in Sicily Joseph Brodsky
• Godot Comes to Sarajevo Susan Sontag
• How Europe Became Europe Eric Christiansen
• In Love with Love Jasper Griffin
• Intimate Enemies Shaul Bakhash
• Joyce’s Many Lives Denis Donoghue
• Lives of the Saints William Trevor
• Memories of Ellington Murray Kempton
• Misjudgment at Nuremberg István Deák
• Nature’s Biggest Secret Roger Penrose
• Never Call a Boy a Pig Julian Moynahan
• Not Nulla Salvatio Roy Andrew Miller, reply by John Bayley
• Reading Hogarth Ronald Paulson, reply by Richard Dorment
• Support Nigerian Democracy! Joanne Landy, Thomas Harrison, and Jennifer Scarlott
• The Age of Innocence Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
• The Furtwängler Enigma
• The Golden Land Joan Didion
• The Hostess with the Mostest Noel Annan
• The Magus of the North Isaiah Berlin
• The Master Builder Jonathan Brown
• The Medium Inquisitor Robert Hughes
• The Miraculous Mandarin Charles Rosen
• The Politics of Memory Amos Elon
• Their Favorite Thief Tony Judt
• Vatican Caves Charles F. Delzell, reply by Xavier Rynne
• What Art Tells Us Ernst Gombrich
• Women and Pornography Ronald Dworkin

November

• ‘One Life, One Writing’ John Bayley
• ‘The Magus of the North’ James C. O’Flaherty, reply by Isaiah Berlin
• A Night at the Opera Gabriele Annan
• A Nineteenth-Century Man Gore Vidal
• Baseball: Joys and Lamentations Stephen Jay Gould
• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Veronica Geng
• Bosnia: The Tragic Prospect Misha Glenny
• Danger: Thin Ice Michael Meyer
• Haiti on the Verge Mark Danner
• How Europe Could Fail Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
• Killers Robert Block
• Leave it to Chance P. N. Furbank
• Love in a Cold Climate Robert Craft
• Old Wives’ Tales W.V. Harris
• Prophets With Honor Avishai Margalit
• Restoration or Ruination? Charles Hope
• Soul Food Ian Buruma
• Swing Shift in the Baltics Czeslaw Milosz
• Terror in Mississippi David Brion Davis
• The ‘Other Woman’ Brian R. Sullivan, reply by Adrian Lyttelton
• The Best of Everything Darryl Pinckney
• The Greek Way Bernard Knox
• The Nuremberg Precedent Aryeh Neier, reply by István Deák
• The Poet of Chemistry Oliver Sacks
• The Prophet Mark Danner
• The Unknown Freud Frederick C. Crews
• The View from the Keyhole Keith Thomas
• The White Goddess! Helen Vendler
• Troublemaker Alastair Reid

December

• ‘Sweep on, O River…’ Brad Leithauser
• A Tale of Two Cities Sarah Kerr
• An American Prodigy Louis Menand
• An Exchange on Ernst Jünger Hilary Barr, reply by Ian Buruma
• Big, Bright & Bendayed John Updike
• Blame the Foreigner Robert M. Solow
• Bringing Up Raja Rosemary Dinnage
• Cootie Power Alison Lurie
• Donna Giovanna Gabriele Annan
• Footnote to Freud Frederick C. Crews
• For Andrew Wood James Fenton
• How the East Was Won Tony Judt
• Journey to Gorgonzola Aldo Buzzi, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
• Moscow: Storm Over the Press Jamey Gambrell
• On the Eve Peter B. Reddaway
• Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Made Man Wilfrid Sheed
• Portraits by Freud Caroline Blackwood
• Power to the People? Edmund S. Morgan
• Resisters J. M. Coetzee
• Sophisticated Peasant John Golding
• Supergirls Diane Johnson
• The Agonies of Success Jack Flam
• The Fall of the Prophet Mark Danner
• The Lost Art Benedetta Craveri, translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh and Noga Arikha
• The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street Geoffrey O’Brien
• The New Threat to History E.J. Hobsbawm
• The Wild Child Alice Truax
• Weather and Turtles John Ashbery
• What the Butler Saw Ian Buruma
• Writing on Life Support John Banville
• Yes, Minister