Table of Contents

Volume 29, Number 17 · November 4, 1982

Felix G. Rohatyn, The State of the Banks

Joan Didion, In El Salvador

Jonathan Raban, Innocents Abroad

J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice by Graham Greene

Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene

James Wolcott, Tom Wolfe's Greatest Hits

The Purple Decades: A Reader by Tom Wolfe

R.W. Southern, Under Eastern Eyes

The Muslim Discovery of Europe by Bernard Lewis

Theodore H. Draper, Dear Mr. Weinberger An Open Reply to an Open Letter

Irving Howe, Mission from Japan

The Samurai by Shusaku Endo, translated by Van C. Gessel

Charles Hope, How Venetian Is Venetian Painting?

Painting in Cinquecento Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto by David Rosand

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Un-Canadian Activities

Fragile Freedoms: Human Rights and Dissent in Canada by Thomas R. Berger

Portrait of Canada by June Callwood

Edmund S. Morgan, Witch Hunting

Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England by John Putnam Demos

S.S. Prawer, The Making of Canetti

The Torch in My Ear by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Ian Hamilton, Robert Lowell: Life Studies


Letters

Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense Weinberger's Letter of August 23
Carlos Ripoll, Seweryn Bialer, et al. Cuba and the Us
Kassahun Checole, Cuba and the Us



Contributors

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (December 2008)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

Felix Rohatyn is an investment banker and has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, and US Ambassador to France. (October 2008)


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