The New York Review of Books

January

• A Dog’s Life Harriet Ritvo
• Boys Will Be Boys Robert M. Adams
• Exile’s Return April Bernard
• Furtwängler & Toscanini Harris Green, reply by Robert Craft
• Guilty If Charged Richard J. Bernstein and Richard Bernstein
• He’d Rather Be Wright Martin Filler
• Judgment at Nuremberg: An Exchange John V.H. Dippel, Mark C. Medish, Renate Bridenthal, and Marion Kaplan, reply by István Deák
• Marshmallowing P. N. Furbank
• Slips on Downing Street Gordon Tullock, reply by Alan Ryan
• The Age of Aggression Noel Annan
• The Life of the Party Theodore H. Draper
• The Richest Vagabond Michael Meyer
• The Way They Live Now
• United We Fall
• Will Clinton’s Plan Be Fair? Ronald Dworkin

February

• ‘The Post-Communist Nightmare’: An Exchange Joseph Brodsky, reply by Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
• A New Year’s Wish Murray Kempton
• Another Country Denis Donoghue
• At Home in Babel Jonathan Raban
• Dutch Treat Peter C. Sutton
• Genocide & the Khmer Rouge Michael Haas, reply by Aryeh Neier
• Hollywood and the Holocaust John Gross
• How Dangerous is the Deficit? An Exchange Edward J. Nell, reply by Benjamin M. Friedman
• Kennedy Up Close George W. Ball
• Kosovo Survives! Aryeh Neier
• Laura (Riding) Jackson Elizabeth Friedman, reply by Helen Vendler
• Lise Meitner’s Genius Mark E. Smith, reply by M.F. Perutz
• Love and Friendship Gabriele Annan
• Mysteries of the Middle Class Nicholas Lemann
• Not an Anthropologist Alan Roland, reply by Rosemary Dinnage
• Oliver Stone’s USA Robert Stone
• On Rita Klímová (1931–1993) Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
• Shoot the Piano Player Sarah Kerr
• Singing in the Rain John Bayley
• Sons and Brothers John Bayley
• Stuck in Traffic David McClintick, reply by Michael Massing
• The Crime of Punishment David J. Rothman
• The Family of Mann Janet Malcolm
• The Menendez Show Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Sun Also Sets R.J.W. Evans
• The Unknown Freud: An Exchange J. Schimek, James Hopkins, Herbert S. Peyser, David D. Olds, and Marian Tolpin, et al.
• The Uses of the Holocaust Avishai Margalit
• Where the East Begins Jonathan D. Spence
• Writing on Rothko James E.B. Breslin
• Writing on Rothko Sam Hunter, reply by Jack Flam

March

• ‘Endangered American Dream’ Edward N. Luttwak, reply by Robert M. Solow
• ‘Guilty If Charged’: An Exchange Mary M. Clark and Barbara A. White, reply by Richard J. Bernstein and Richard Bernstein
• ‘I Had No Other Thrill or Happiness’ Joyce Carol Oates
• ‘Joseph Lash and the CP Theodore H. Draper
• ‘Misjudgment at Nuremberg’
• ‘More Humility, Fewer Illusions’——A Talk between Adam Michnik and Jürgen Habermas Adam Michnik and Juergen Habermas, translated from the German by Rodney Livingstone
• A Death in London James Fenton
• A Raisin in the Sun Murray Kempton
• Acts of an Apostle Robert L. Heilbroner
• Damsels in Distress Anita Desai
• Degas Out of Doors John Updike
• Eye on the Prize Jeremy Bernstein
• Fatal Attraction John Banville
• France: Keeping the Demons at Bay Stanley Hoffmann
• Grand Delusion Rosemary Dinnage
• Italy: Purgatorio W.V. Harris
• Look Homeward, Ira Robert Towers
• Lost Paradises Michael Wood
• Not at a Mass Iseult Honohan
• Of Ivory and the Survival of Elephants Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• Pornography: An Exchange Catherine A. MacKinnon, reply by Ronald Dworkin
• Prospero Without His Magic Jack Gilbert
• The Computer Wars James Fallows
• The Discreet Charms of Mrs. G. Robert Bernard Martin
• The Great Perhaps Robert M. Adams
• The Oed Revised John Simpson and Edmund Weiner
• The Old New Age Frank Kermode
• The Real RLS Janet Adam Smith
• The Soul’s Entrepreneurs Anthony Grafton
• The True Believer Gordon A. Craig
• The Welfare Blues Michael Massing
• Unjust Desserts? Andrew Hacker
• Walsh’s Last Stand Theodore H. Draper
• Worth a Detour Tim Parks

April

• ‘As a Man Grows Older’ Wendy Walker
• A Dissent on ‘Schindler’s List’ Jason Epstein
• Amplifying ‘The Piano’ J.G.A. Pocock
• Amplifying ‘The Piano’ Martha C. Nussbaum, reply by Sarah Kerr
• Cold Comfort Brad Leithauser
• Entitlement Reform: The Way to Eliminate the Deficit Peter G. Peterson
• Homage to Bosnia Michael Ignatieff
• Hope for Bosnia? Misha Glenny
• How Far from Canaan? Arthur Kempton
• Lawrence of Australia Simon Leys
• Leaving the Door Ajar Alison Lurie
• Leyster Redux Harry G. Parke
• Liberating Lincoln James M. McPherson
• Life on the Edge Clifford Geertz
• Look Over Jordan Amos Elon
• Stop the World, I Want to Get Off Cathleen Schine
• The ‘Unknown Freud’: Yet Another Exchange Robert R. Holt, Morris Eagle, and Allen Esterson, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• The Battle for Hong Kong Jonathan Mirsky
• The Cat in the Bag R.M. Jagmohan, reply by Edward W. Desmond
• The Homeless Christopher Jencks
• The Inner Civil War C. Vann Woodward
• The Long Goodbye Joan Acocella
• The Magic of W.B. Yeats Denis Donoghue
• The Nazis’ Theater of Seduction Willibald Sauerländer
• The Saint of Mott Street Garry Wills
• The West German Left & the East Norman Birnbaum, reply by Tony Judt
• Un-German Activities Willibald Sauerländer
• Unspeakable Sins
• Women Versus the Biologists Richard C. Lewontin

May

• ‘When One Is a Somebody’ Gabriele Annan
• A Class Act Garry Wills
• A Way In the World V.S. Naipaul
• Dog’s Bone Breyten Breytenbach
• Eliot Without Tears Louis Menand
• For Their Own Good Alan Brinkley
• Freud’s Permanent Revolution Thomas Nagel
• Hinterhof James Fenton
• Housing the Homeless Christopher Jencks
• In the Promised Land Patricia Storace
• Japan Against Itself Ian Buruma
• Jonathan Lieberson Prize Isaac Levi, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Charles Larmore
• Looking for Order Gordon A. Craig
• Lord of Unreason Richard Holmes
• Making a Man of Joyce Kees Tamboer, reply by Denis Donoghue
• Off the Map John Bayley
• Richard Nixon’s Revolution Murray Kempton
• Romancing Flaubert Julian Barnes
• Sacred Woods Anne Barton
• The Bitter Education of Vargas Llosa Alma Guillermoprieto
• The Delirium of the Brave Denis Donoghue
• The Fate of the Elephants Raymond Bonner, reply by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• The Golden Age of Junk Roger E. Alcaly
• The New Old Nationalism Tony Judt
• The Triumph of the Country David Brion Davis
• The White Plague M.F. Perutz
• Walking in Trieste Estelle Gilson, reply by Tim Parks
• Who Can Police the World? Brian Urquhart
• Would Clinton’s Plan Be Fair?: An Exchange Bruce L. Smith and Jack G. Kleinman, reply by Ronald Dworkin

June

• ‘Dissent on Schindler’s List’ Alan G. Gross
• ‘Dissent on Schindler’s List’ Monica Strauss
• ‘Dissent on Schindler’s List’ Marion Graeffin Doenhoff
• ‘Dissent on Schindler’s List’ Harold Pinter
• ‘Liberal Nationalism’ Yael Tamir, reply by Tony Judt
• A Case for Textual Harassment Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
• A Later Triumph David Brion Davis
• A Real Funny Guy John Banville
• At the Heart of the Onion Claire Tomalin
• Beyond the Picturesque John Updike
• Blindness in Haiti Murray Kempton
• Boris the First Tatyana Tolstaya
• Breakfast with Miss Bishop Helen Vendler
• Chinese Made Simple King-fai Tam, reply by Robert Stone
• City of the Future Robert Block
• Hostages to Fortune Edmund S. Morgan
• In Defense of Oppenheimer George F. Kennan
• Inventing American Capitalism Gordon S. Wood
• Journey to the Post-Communist East Timothy Garton Ash
• Keeping Up with Leonardo Ernst Gombrich
• Music à la Mode Charles Rosen
• Prime Suspects, USA Veronica Geng
• Radicals Robert O. Paxton
• Remembrance of Ming’s Past Jonathan D. Spence
• Serial Killers Anthony B. Cavender
• Serial Killers Catherine Yronwode, reply by Joyce Carol Oates
• Sons and Daughters of Chicago Garry Wills
• The Book of Books John Gross
• The Brooklyn Avengers Robert I. Friedman
• The Cabinet of Dr. Sartorius Luc Sante
• The Hidden War in Turkey Jeri Laber
• The Magician Michael Meyer
• The Misunderstood War Norman Davies
• The Old Left: An Exchange Paul Lyons and Maurice Isserman, reply by Theodore H. Draper
• The Old Man’s New China Perry Link
• The Pill of Pills Sherwin B. Nuland
• The Prodigal Sons Jonathan Mirsky
• Urn Burial Alastair Reid
• Were the Atomic Scientists Spies? Thomas Powers

July

• ‘Listening to Prozac’ Peter D. Kramer, reply by Sherwin B. Nuland
• ‘Something Horrible’ in El Salvador Joan Didion
• Action Painting in Venice Garry Wills
• After Cavafy James Merrill
• Agile Among the Tombs Michael Wood
• An Inability to Mourn Gordon A. Craig
• His Mystic Way P. N. Furbank
• Infinitive Joseph Brodsky
• Mysteries of the Mall Witold Rybczynski
• Nazis and Resisters Noel Annan, reply by István Deák
• Nixon Redivivus Theodore H. Draper
• On Omaha Beach William Preston Jr.
• On the Waterfront Jonathan Raban
• Reds Robert Conquest
• Testing, Testing… … Veronica Geng
• The Quiet American Louis Menand
• Women Versus the Biologists: An Exchange Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• World Capital: The Need & the Risks Felix G. Rohatyn

August

• ‘Freud’s Permanent Revolution’: An Exchange Adolf Gruenbaum, reply by Thomas Nagel
• ‘Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang’ W.S. Merwin
• Great Scott? Brad Leithauser
• Italy: The Triumph of TV Adrian Lyttelton
• Mr. Liberty Ronald Dworkin
• New Wives’ Tales Ann Hulbert
• Post-Post-Communist Hungary István Deák
• Prisoners of the Ayatollah Shaul Bakhash
• Revenge in the Indies Ian Buruma
• Schubert’s Death Wish Hans Eichner, reply by M.F. Perutz
• The Genius of Blues Luc Sante
• The Real Thing Garry Wills
• The State of Nature: Notes from a Diary Czeslaw Milosz
• The War Over the Scrolls Geza Vermes
• Who Is to Blame? Richard Pipes, reply by Robert Conquest

September

• ‘Music à La Mode’ Lawrence Kramer, reply by Charles Rosen
• ‘Were the Atom Scientists Spies?’: An Exchange Leona P. Schecter and Jerrold L. Schechter, reply by Thomas Powers
• A Hero of Diplomacy Scott MacLeod
• An Open Letter from Nobel Peace Laureates on the Fifth Anniversary of Aung San Suu Kyi’s Arrest Arrest Carole Samdup
• As You Like It Keith Thomas
• Clinton’s Troubles Garry Wills
• Fabulous Fabulist J. M. Coetzee
• Getting Russia Right David Remnick
• Indian Love Call Ian Buruma
• Lighting Up Shakespeare Robert M. Adams
• Lord Zuckerman Memorial Appeal Martin Holdgate, Lord Jenkins, and R. McNeill Alexander
• Makes the Going Great Veronica Geng
• Mysteries of Mallarmé P. N. Furbank
• Politics and Archaeology Amos Elon
• Population: Delusion and Reality Amartya Sen
• Sudden Death Alastair Reid
• The Possessed Charles Hope
• The Simpsons John Gregory Dunne
• The Tycoon Priest Douglas V. Johnson II

October

• Action Anglaise Ian Buruma
• Ah, Wilderness Anthony Grafton
• America’s Sweetheart Thomas Byrne Edsall
• An Upheaval for Czech Readers Ivan Klima, translated by Paul Wilson
• Ancestral Voices W.S. Merwin
• Bach’s Greatest Hit Joseph Kerman
• Barely Sighted Lives Brad Leithauser
• Catch-23 Thomas R. Edwards
• Conant & the FBI Sigmund Diamond, reply by Louis Menand
• Crackdown in Indonesia Bruce Grant
• Death of a Soul Helen Vendler
• Dialogue with Castro: A Hidden History Peter Kornbluh and James G. Blight
• Feminists and Philosophy Martha C. Nussbaum
• Going Baroque J.H. Elliott
• Greens in America Daniel J. Kevles
• Madonna in Distress Jack Flam
• Mission Impossible Theodore H. Draper
• Must We Compete? Benjamin M. Friedman
• Pioneers of Paranoia Edmund S. Morgan
• Schubert à la Mode Rita Steblin, reply by Charles Rosen
• So Near and Yet So Far Stephen Jay Gould
• The Bottom of the Well Jonathan Mirsky
• The Carter Mission Murray Kempton
• The Culture Wars Louis Menand
• The Election Mandela Lost William Finnegan
• The Long Latin Line Jasper Griffin
• The Lost World of Albert Camus Tony Judt
• The Tragedy of Rwanda Robert Block
• The Wandering Jewish Prophet in New York Gordon S. Wood
• Too Polish for the Poles John Bayley
• Wallace Redeemed? C. Vann Woodward

November

• ‘An Austrian Jew’ Sherwin B. Nuland
• ‘Soul Murder’ Zvi Lothane, reply by Rosemary Dinnage
• ‘The Culture Wars’: An Exchange Richard J. Bernstein and Richard Bernstein, reply by Louis Menand
• A Kinder, Gentler Perversity Geoffrey O’Brien
• A Seemingly Ordinary Man Raymond Carr
• All About Eve P. N. Furbank
• Apocalypse Now? Alan Ryan
• Back to the Future Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and Adam Krzeminski
• Bloom’s All-Time Greatest Hits Robert M. Adams
• CATS Desmond Morris
• Correction The Editors
• Correction The Editors
• Culture Wars Alan Gribben, reply by Louis Menand
• Doubles John Bayley
• Downhill Part of the Way Murray Kempton
• Haitians on Haiti Jean-Claude Bajeux, Laennec Hurbon, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, translated by David Jacobson and David Bellos
• Hide and Seek Geoffrey O’Brien
• Is the Party Over? Murray Kempton
• Jamestown/Jonestown David Lowenthal
• Loot Gordon A. Craig
• Love’s Old Sweet Song Gabriele Annan
• Magic Journalism Adam Hochschild
• Prisoners of Castro Frank Calzon
• The ‘Gothic Fox’ Claudio Veliz, reply by J.H. Elliott
• The Blood of the Poor Gabriele Annan
• The Mystery of Mexican Politics Sarah Kerr
• The New Painting Jack Flam
• The Penitent Sinner Theodore H. Draper
• The Revenge of the Repressed Frederick C. Crews
• The Rise and Fall of an Idealist Alan Brinkley
• Unmasking the Monster Jonathan Mirsky
• Vico for Now Stuart Hampshire
• War Without Peace John Banville
• Words for Music Perhaps Robert Craft

December

• ‘A Fair and Tranquil Land’ R.J.W. Evans
• ‘Trapping Fairies in West Virginia’ John Bayley
• ‘Wallace Redeemed?’: An Exchange Stephan Lesher, reply by C. Vann Woodward
• America’s Mission Tony Smith
• Character Witnesses Ingrid D. Rowland
• Down with Memory Lane Ross E. Cheit, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• Earth First! Susan Zakin, reply by Daniel J. Kevles
• Elegy for a Park Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Robert Mezey
• Enigma Variation Gabriele Annan
• Escape Artist Alfred Kazin
• Free of the Bad Old World Michael Wood
• Giving the Devil His Due Michael Meyer
• Happy Endings Murray Kempton
• Her Holiness Alfred Kazin
• In Another Country Bernard Knox
• Kohl’s Germany: The Beginning of the End? Timothy Garton Ash
• Multicultural Mandarin John Weightman
• New Heaven, New Earth Jasper Griffin
• Not a Liberal James T. Lemon, reply by Gordon S. Wood
• Only One Song Charles Rosen
• Poets of the Spanish Tragedy Bernard Knox
• Prince of the City Martin Filler
• Sex for Thought Robert Darnton
• Subversive Activities Joseph Frank
• The Disease of All Diseases James Fenton
• The Heart of Me J. M. Coetzee
• The Other Pope James Fenton
• The Pesher Technique Barbara Thiering, reply by Geza Vermes
• The Prairie Queen Caroline Fraser
• The Revenge of the Repressed: Part II Frederick C. Crews
• The Slave Trade and the Jews David Brion Davis
• The Spook of Spooks Thomas Powers
• The Tainted Sources of ‘The Bell Curve’ Charles Lane
• The Tragic Pope? Garry Wills
• The Wonder of the Soviet World Jamey Gambrell
• Tidying Up? Marshall Olds
• Vietnam: The Bitter Truth Philip Gourevitch
• Writer Without Borders Ann Hulbert