Table of Contents

Volume 29, Number 5 · April 1, 1982

Lester C. Thurow, How to Rescue a Drowning Economy

Minding America's Business: The Decline and Rise of the American Economy by Ira C. Magaziner, by Robert B. Reich

John Ashbery, Landscape (After Baudelaire) (poem)

Gabriele Annan, A Funny Meister

The Genius of Wilhelm Busch: Comedy of Frustration edited and translated by Walter Arndt

Francine du Plessix Gray, No Fool

Clare Boothe Luce by Wilfrid Sheed

James Fallows, The Rise of Hyman Rickover

Rickover by Norman Polmar, by Thomas B. Allen

Jerome S. Bruner, Reading for Signs of Life

On Learning to Read: The Child's Fascination with Meaning by Bruno Bettelheim, by Karen Zelan

Robert Towers, The Old Country

Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan

Jim Hoagland, How Strong Are the Saudis?

The Kingdom by Robert Lacey

Saudi Arabia in the 1980s: Foreign Policy, Security, and Oil by William B. Quandt

The House of Saud: The Rise and Rule of the Most Powerful Dynasty in the Arab World by David Holden, by Richard Johns

Malcolm Muggeridge, The Genius Syndrome

God's Fifth Column: A Biography of the Age, 1890-1940 by William Gerhardie, edited and with an introduction by Michael Holroyd, by Robert Skidelsky

Edward Rothstein, Dr. Shaw's Music Lessons

Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism edited by Dan H. Laurence

J.M. Cameron, Moses and Atheism

The Refusers: An Epic of the Jews by Stanley Burnshaw

Robert Mazzocco, The Supply-Side Star

Graham Hughes, Who Should Go to Prison?

Imprisonment in America: Choosing the Future by Michael Sherman, by Gordon Hawkins

Ian Hacking, Wittgenstein the Psychologist

Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Volume I edited by G.E.M. Anscombe, and G.H. von Wright, translated by G.E.M. Anscombe, Volume II edited by G.H. von Wright, and Heikki Nyman, translated by C.G. Luckhardt, by M.A.E. Aue

Jonathan D. Spence, China: Mulberries and Famine

China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937 University Press by Lillian M. Li

Bureaucratie et famine en Chine au 18e siècle by Pierre-Etienne Will

China by Keith Buchanan, by Charles P. FitzGerald, by Colin A. Ronan, with a foreward by Joseph Needham

A History of Chinese Civilization by Jacques Gernet, translated by J.R. Foster

Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey


Letters

Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, et al. Facing Deportation
Nicholas Penny, Henri Zerner, The Modern Tradition
Ernest A. Spiegel, P.B. Medawar, Foreshadowings
Barbara C. Sproul, Czech Prisoner
Bradley F. Smith, Robert Dallek, The Nazis on Trial
Lester K. Little, Dogs and Saints



Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

Jerome Bruner is University Professor at New York University. His newest book, Making Stories, appeared in the spring. (September 2003)

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)

Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)

Lester Thurow is Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and the former Dean of the Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Zero-Sum Society, Head to Head, and The Future of Capitalism. (February 1998)


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