Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 14 · September 27, 1984

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Holding Up the Empire

Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba, 1507–1582 by William S. Maltby

Richelieu and Olivares by J.H. Elliott

Robert Craft, Lives of the Poets

Auden in Love by Dorothy J. Farnan

James Fallows, A Parable of Automation

Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation by David F. Noble

Computerized Manufacturing Automation: Employment, Education, and the Workplace US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment

Human Resource Implications of Robotics by H. Allan Hunt, by Timothy L. Hunt

Gabriele Annan, Rilke in Life and Death

Rilke: A Life by Wolfgang Leppmann, translated in collaboration with the author by Russell M. Stockman

The Sacred Threshold: A Life of Rainer Maria Rilke by J.F. Hendry

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell

Bernard Knox, Visions of the Grand Prize

Paris–Rome–Athens: Travels in Greece by French Architects in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts 1797–1863 by Philippe Grunchec

Le Grand Prix de Peinture: Les concours des Prix de Rome de 1797 à 1863 the US by the National Academy of Design) by Philippe Grunchec

Lester C. Thurow, Losing the Economic Race

Can America Compete? by Robert Z. Lawrence

The DRI Report on US Manufacturing Industries by Otto Eckstein, by Christopher Caton, by Roger Brinner, by Peter Duprey

Martin Gilbert, The Darkest Deception

The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941–1944 edited by Lucjan Dobroszycki, translated by Richard Lourie, by Joachim Neugroschel. others

Jerome S. Bruner, Hole in the World

A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks

George Woodcock, On Being 'Inadmissible'

Peter Nabokov, Return to the Native

Indian Country by Peter Matthiessen

Bernard Avishai, Jordan: Looking for an Opening

D.J. Enright, Home from Home

The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson

Stanley Hoffmann, Mitterrand vs. France?

Jonathan D. Spence, Our Mission in China

The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914 by Michael H. Hunt

The Missionary Mind and American East Asia Policy, 1911–1915 by James Reed

The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China by Jane Hunter

Nayan Chanda, Ben Kiernan, William Shawcross, An Exchange on Cambodia

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Letters

Rudolf Flesch, Flunking the Schools
John Van Doren, Flunking the Schools
George Burnet, Flunking the Schools
Louis Goldman, Flunking the Schools
Ronald Gross, Flunking the Schools
T.R. Fyvel, Orwell's America
Annette Y. Kirk, Andrew Hacker, Flunking the Schools

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Contributors

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

Jerome Bruner is University Professor at New York University. His newest book, Making Stories, appeared in the spring. (September 2003)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

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

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

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.

Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)

Lester Thurow is Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and the former Dean of the Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Zero-Sum Society, Head to Head, and The Future of Capitalism. (February 1998)

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