Table of Contents

Volume 28, Number 15 · October 8, 1981

Diane Johnson, After Jonestown

Our Father Who Art in Hell by James Reston Jr.

The Children of Jonestown by Kenneth Wooden

In My Father's House: The Story of the Layton Family and the Reverend Jim Jones by Min S. Yee, by Thomas N. Layton

Awake in a Nightmare—Jonestown: The Only Eyewitness Account by Ethan Feinsod

Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy by Shiva Naipaul

The Strongest Poison by Mark Lane

Joseph Kerman, A Bachward Glance

Bach and the Dance of God by Wilfrid Mellers

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Master Illusionist

The Speculator: Bernard M. Baruch in Washington, 1917-1965 by Jordan A. Schwarz

Marshall Frady, The Buck Stops Here

Governing America: An Insider's Report from the White House and the Cabinet by Joseph A. Califano Jr.

Toby Cohen, The Kennedy Solution

Richard Ellmann, O'Connor's Crab-apple Jelly

V.S. Naipaul, Tehran Winter

Christopher Jencks, Destiny's Tots

Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare by Richard A. Easterlin

Rhoda Koenig, A Genius for Revenge

Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro by A.J. Langguth

Peter Green, Greece Against Itself

Mediaeval Greece by Nicolas Cheetham

Ephesus After Antiquity: A Late Antique, Byzantine and Turkish City by Clive Foss

A Short History of Modern Greece by Richard Clogg

The Greek World by Eliot Porter, with a text by Peter Levi

The Struggle for Greece 1941-1949 by C.M. Woodhouse

The Greek Upheaval: Kings, Demagogues and Bayonets by Taki Theodoracopulos

The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece by Bruce R. Kuniholm

Ambassador MacVeagh Reports: Greece 1933-1947 edited by John O. latrides

Jeremy Bernstein, Modern Times

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

Michael Baxandall, On Michelangelo's Mind

Michelangelo and the Language of Art by David Summers

Irvin Ehrenpreis, Digging In

Poems 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney

Selected Poems by Mark Strand

A Coast of Trees: Poems by A.R. Ammons

Patricia Craig, Innocents

The Temptation of Eileen Hughes by Brian Moore

A Gift Horse and Other Stories by Kate Cruise O'Brien

The Editors, Short Reviews

Polywater by Felix Franks

Wounded Men, Broken Promises: How the Veterans Administration Betrays Yesterday's Heroes by Robert Klein

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Letters

Joseph Brodsky, The Azadovsky Affair
Kathleen J. Adams, Noam Chomsky, et al. The Case of Prof. Stastny
Jules Geller, Robert Darnton, What the Doctor Ordered
Kenneth S. Lynn, William Styron, Mrs. Chesnut's Affair

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Contributors

Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at Los Alamos. His forthcoming book is about the element plutonium. (May 2006)

Marshall Frady's books include Wallace, Billy Graham, Southerners, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, and, most recently, Martin Luther King, Jr. He is currently writing a biography of Fidel Castro. (February 2004)

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. (May 2008)

Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

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