Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 1 · February 2, 1984

Nadine Gordimer, The Idea of Gardening

The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee

Richard Dowden, In the Terror of Tehran

V.S. Pritchett, Dostoevsky and His Double

Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859 by Joseph Frank

E.A.J. Honigmann, The New Lear

The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare's Two Versions of 'King Lear' edited by Gary Taylor, edited by Michael Warren

John Thompson, Ending on Paumanok (poem)

David Cannadine, The Victorian Sex Wars

The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud Vol. 1: Education of the Senses by Peter Gay

Luc Sante, Trouble in Paradise

The Galapagos Affair by John Treherne

Gordon S. Wood, The Revenge of Aaron Burr

Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr edited by Mary-Jo Kline, with Joanne Wood Ryan

Mark A. Uhlig, The Coming Struggle for Power

Natalie Zemon Davis, Revolution and Revelation

The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420 by Georges Duby, translated by Eleanor Levieux, by Barbara Thompson

The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined by Georges Duby, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

George W. Ball, Sovietizing US Policy

Nuclear War, Nuclear Peace by Leon Wieseltier

Christopher Lasch, The Great American Variety Show

America's Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and Fulfillment in the Sixties and Seventies by Peter Clecak

Murray Kempton, Mrs. Velasquez and the Politicians

Robert Darnton, The Meaning of Mother Goose

Louis H. Mackey, John R. Searle, An Exchange on Deconstruction

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Letters

John Bernard Myers, Art Biz
Ronald Segal, Ruth First Memorial
George Jochnowitz, Bernard Knox, Judeo-Italian
Abigail Israel, Bunuel's Voice
Darcy O'Brien, Art Biz

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Contributors

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Natalie Zemon Davis is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton and Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author most recently of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds. (May 2008)

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.

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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