Table of Contents

Volume 29, Number 9 · May 27, 1982

John K. Fairbank, China on the Rocks

China: Alive in the Bitter Sea by Fox Butterfield

From the Center of the Earth: The Search for the Truth about China by Richard Bernstein

Robert Craft, La Grande Mademoiselle

Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music by Léonie Rosenstiel

Edward Crankshaw, The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe

The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin by Alex de Jonge

Seweryn Bialer, Alfred Stepan, Cuba, the US, and the Central American Mess

Peter Partner, Death of Venice

A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich

Clifford Geertz, Conjuring with Islam

Muslim Society by Ernest Gellner

Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society by Roy P. Mottahedeh

On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies by Wilfred Cantwell Smith

Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini translated and annotated by Hamid Algar

Studies on Islam translated and edited by Merlin L. Swartz

Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W. Said

Islam in the Modern World and Other Studies by Elie Kedourie

Mary Gordon, The Priestly Comedy of J. F. Powers

Prince of Darkness and Other Stories by J.F. Powers

Morte d'Urban by J.F. Powers

David Kahn, Did FDR Invite the Pearl Harbor Attack?

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange, in collaboration with Donald M. Goldstein, by Katherine V. Dillon

Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath by John Toland

Michael Wood, Fun in the Waste Land

Looking for Laforgue: An Informal Biography by David Arkell

C. Vann Woodward, Mysteries in History

After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson, by Mark Hamilton Lytle

Veronica Geng, The Rape of the Voice

Diva directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, screenplay by Jean-Jacques Beineix, by Jean Van Hamme. (adapated from the novel by Delacorta)

Darryl Pinckney, Slums of Empire

Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack by Austin Clarke

Crown Jewel by Ralph de Boissière

Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner, The Unhappy Medium

Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision by Albert Boime

Albert B. Belton, Helen Fein, William O. McCagg, et al. Genocide in Hungary: An Exchange

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Letters

Vivian Cadden, Farewell to the Family?
Sharon Mayberry, Andrew Hacker, Farewell to the Family?
Karen Lindsey, Farewell to the Family?
David Gordon, Bernard Williams, The Identity of Nozick
Leo Hamalian, Parajanov Arrested
Hayden N. Pelliccia, Diane Johnson, Goys Into Wasps

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Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)

David Kahn is the author of The Codebreakers. (November 2000)

Peter Partner's books include Arab Voices and The Pope's Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)

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