Table of Contents
Volume 31, Number 15 · October 11, 1984
Robert S. Leiken, Inside the Revolution
Family Portrait with Fidel: A Memoir by Carlos Franqui, translated by Alfred MacAdam
Joan Didion, Discovery 
Finding the Center: Two Narratives by V.S. Naipaul
Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement by Graham Greene
Aileen Kelly, The Path of a Prophet
Solzhenitsyn: A Biography by Michael Scammell
Gordon S. Wood, Politics Without Party
Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789–1829 by Ralph Ketcham
James Merrill, Popular Demand (poem)
Murray Kempton, A Hard Act to Follow
Harold Bloom, Inescapable Poe
Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales edited by Patrick F. Quinn
Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews edited by G.R. Thompson
Gabriele Annan, International Episodes
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
J.M. Cameron, Meeting the Lord in the Air
The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America by Richard John Neuhaus
Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology by Harvey Cox
John Russell, Super Trouper
Duse: A Biography by William Weaver
Robert L. Herbert, Monet's Turf
Monet by Robert Gordon, by Andrew Forge
Louis S. Auchincloss, The Waste Land Without Pound
Marcus Cunliffe, Gorgeous George
George Washington: A Biography by John R. Alden
Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment by Garry Wills
C.M. Woodhouse, The Grab for Greece
The Prelude to the Truman Doctrine: British Policy in Greece 1944-1947 by G.M. Alexander
Israel Rosenfield, Seeing Through the Brain
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr
Letters
Arnold Dolin, Paul Jarrico, et al. 'Hollywood Reds'
James Gutmann, In Praise of Folly
Mary Kelley, Diane Johnson, 'Literary Domestics'
Elizabeth Hardwick, Richard Howard, et al. The Case of Alexandr Bogoslovski
John Treherne, Galapagos Affair, cont'd
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
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)
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)
Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”
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.
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)
Israel Rosenfield's most recent book is Freud's Megalomania. A revised and expanded edition of his book Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness has just been published in France. (May 2006)
John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)
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)
