Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 13 · August 18, 1983

Neal Ascherson, Fall of an Empire

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by William R. Brand, by Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand

Zbigniew Herbert, Report from a Besieged City (poem)

Bernard Knox, The Triumph of the Italian Jews

Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974 by H. Stuart Hughes

Raymond Carr, Our Colony

Puerto Rico: A Political and Cultural History by Arturo Morales Carrión, with María Teresa Babín, by Aida R. Caro Costas, by Arturo Santana, by Luis González Vales

Jonathan Lieberson, Anatomy of an Epidemic

The AIDS Epidemic edited by Kevin M. Cahill MD.

Gay Men's Health: A Guide to the AID Syndrome and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases by Jeanne Kassler MD.

How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach by Richard Berkowitz, by Michael Callen, with editorial assistance by Richard Dworkin

Gabriele Annan, A Family and Its Fortunes

Baron James: The Rise of the French Rothschilds by Anka Muhlstein

C.M. Woodhouse, The Tragedy in Lia

Eleni by Nicholas Gage

Theodore H. Draper, Caspar W. Weinberger, Theodore H. Draper, On Nuclear War: An Exchange with the Secretary of Defense

Robert M. Adams, Joyce and Company

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch

James Merrill, Month (poem)

Rosemary Dinnage, Thoughts on Thoughts

States of Mind by Jonathan Miller

Ian Hamilton, Graves and Goddesses

Robert Graves: His Life and Work by Martin Seymour-Smith

In Broken Images: Selected Letters of Robert Graves, 1914-1946 edited by Paul O'Prey

Douglas V. Johnson, A Good Game in Europe

The Europeans by Luigi Barzini

Sanford Schwartz, The Lovers

Man's Best Friend: Photographs and Drawings by William Wegman, with an introduction by Laurence Wieder

Wegman's World by Lisa Lyons, by Kim Levin

Felix G. Rohatyn, Time for a Change

John Keegan, Storm in a Teacup

From Agadir to Armageddon: Anatomy of a Crisis by Geoffrey Barraclough

The Conquest of Morocco by Douglas Porch

John Switalski, Piotr S. Wandycz, Abraham Brumberg, Poland and the Jews: An Exchange

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Letters

Edward Bradley, Marina Brownlee, et al. The Mikhail Meilakh Case

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Contributors

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

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Zbigniew Herbert, a leading Polish poet, died in 1998. The Collected Poems: 1956–1998, edited and translated by Alissa Valles, will be published by Ecco in February. (January 2007)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)

Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)

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