Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 12 · July 19, 1984

Murray Kempton, A Hard Case

Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo: The Campaign for Governor

Harold Bloom, The Central Man

Lincoln: A Novel by Gore Vidal

Neal Ascherson, In Hell

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941–1943 translated by Arno Pomerans, with an introduction by J.G. Gaarlandt

The Murders at Bullenhuser Damm: The SS Doctor and the Children by Günther Schwarberg, translated by Erna Baber Rosenfeld, by Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Julian Symons, The End of the Tether

Intimate Memoirs, including Marie-Jo's Book by Georges Simenon, translated by Harold J. Salemson

Milan Kundera, The Novel and Europe

Aileen Kelly, Heroines

The Princess of Siberia: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles by Christine Sutherland

John Richardson, The Catch in the Late Picasso

Picasso: The Last Years, 1963–1973 Gallery of New York University, January 23 to March 9, 1984 an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, sponsored by the Grey Art

Picasso: The Last Years, 1963–1973 by Gert Schiff

Robert M. Adams, Winter's Tales

Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories by Saul Bellow

J.H. Elliott, Mastering the Signs

The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Richard Howard

Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism by Geoffrey W. Conrad, by Arthur A. Demarest

Denis Donoghue, The Return of the Native

An American Procession by Alfred Kazin

Noel Annan, Portrait of a Genius as a Young Man

John Maynard Keynes: 'New Wisdom for a New Age' by John Kenneth Galbraith, by Roy Jenkins, by Richard Wainwright, edited by Andrew Duff

John Maynard Keynes Vol. I: Hopes Betrayed, 1883–1920 by Robert Skidelsky

John Maynard Keynes: A Personal Biography of the Man Who Revolutionized Capitalism and the Way We Live by Charles H. Hession

Lydia Lopokova edited by Milo Keynes

Millicent Bell, Notes of a Friend and Brother

Henry James Letters Volume 4: 1895–1916 edited by Leon Edel

Stephen A. Marglin, The Wealth of Nations

Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and International Relations by Ian M.D. Little

Howard Moss, Balanchine after Balanchine

Liebeslieder Walzer choreography by George Balanchine. for the New York City Ballet, music by Johannes Brahms, staged by Karin von Aroldingen. at The New York State Theater

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Letters

Ruth F. Boorstin, Keith Thomas, 'Moveable Feasts'
William S. Burroughs, Dead Roads
Janet Malcolm, Oversight

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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.
(July 2009)

Millicent Bell is Professor of English Emerita at Boston University. She is the author of Meaning in Henry James and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. (May 1998)

Harold Bloom's forthcoming books are Living Labyrinth: Literature and Influence and Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems. He teaches at Yale. (December 2009)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He has just published a new volume of essays, Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800. (August 2009)

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

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 Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)

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