Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 21 & 22 · January 19, 1984

Stephen Toulmin, Fall of a Genius

Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

Gore Vidal, Return to 'The Golden Bowl'

Amnesty International, John G. Healey, Syria: The Amnesty Report

John Leonard, The Shaman and the Schlemiel

The Stories of Bernard Malamud by Bernard Malamud

John K. Fairbank, Utopian Fevers

The Origins of the Cultural Revolution Vol 2: The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 by Roderick MacFarquhar

One Billion: A China Chronicle by Jay Mathews, by Linda Mathews

Mark Girouard, Space Explorer

Architectural Monographs: John Soane with contributions by Sir John Summerson, by David Watkin, by G.-Tilman Mellinghoff

John Soane: The Making of an Architect by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

John Bayley, Poems with a Heroine

Poems by Anna Akhmatova, selected and translated by Lyn Coffin, introduction by Joseph Brodsky

Akhmatova's Petersburg by Sharon Leiter

James Merrill, Casual Wear (poem)

Harold Bloom, Apocalypse Then

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Vol. I: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments edited by James H. Charlesworth

Associated Press, Reagan and the Apocalypse

Sara Laschever, Her Way

A Private View by Irene Mayer Selznick

Irvin Ehrenpreis, Three-Part Inventions

The World, the Text, and the Critic by Edward W. Said

George M. Fredrickson, Class Act

Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, by Eugene D. Genovese

Theodore H. Draper, Nuclear Temptations

Murray Kempton, The Kennedy Brothers

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Letters

William J. Broad, Nicholas Wade, Fraud and Science
Herbert R Kohl, Marshall Frady, 'Let the Trumpet Sound'
John Keegan, 'Personal History'
Paul Feyerabend, David Joravsky, Fraud and Science
Josef Skvorecky, Good Rule
Diane Wolkstein, Sumerian Goddess
Melvin R. Levin, Ending Unemployment?

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale. He is the author of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine and American Religious Poems: An Anthology. His new book is Fallen Angels, with illuminations by Mark Podwal. (November 2007)

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)

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

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)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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