Table of Contents

Volume 29, Number 20 · December 16, 1982

James Fallows, For Old Times' Sake

Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President by Jimmy Carter

Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency by Hamilton Jordan

John Gross, Buddies

Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: A Correspondence edited by Mary Hyde

Phyllis Grosskurth, The Shrink Princess

Marie Bonaparte: A Life by Celia Bertin

Joseph Brodsky, Epitaph for a Tyrant (poem)

Lord Zuckerman, Nuclear Sense and Nonsense

The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age by George F. Kennan

With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War by Robert Scheer

Stuart Hampshire, In Flaubert's Laboratory

The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1857-1880 selected, edited, and translated by Francis Steegmuller

Lawrence Stone, Madness

Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries by D.P. Walker

Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century edited by Charles Webster

Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era edited by Andrew Scull

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England by Michael MacDonald

V.S. Naipaul, A Note on a Borrowing by Conrad

Robert Towers, American Graffiti

The Woods by David Plante

Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason

A Midnight Clear by William Wharton

Amartya Sen, How Is India Doing?

Josh Rubins, Variety Shows

George Mills by Stanley Elkin

The Names by Don DeLillo

Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Ancient Biggies

Who Was Who in the Roman World: 753 BC-AD 476 edited by Diana Bowder

Who Was Who in the Greek World: 776 BC-30 BC edited by Diana Bowder

Peter G. Peterson, The Salvation of Social Security

John Patrick Diggins, Jackson Lears, Cushing Strout, et al. Writing History: An Exchange

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Letters

Joseph R. Conlin, John Gregory Dunne, La's Vital Fluid
Michael Kazin, John Gregory Dunne, La's Vital Fluid
Ishmael Reed, The Editors, et al. Complaint
Tony Smith, John Keegan, The Old Imperialism
Jane Caplan, Norman Stone, Dissent on Broszat

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Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

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

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)

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.

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His most recent book is Rationality and Freedom. (December 2004)

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