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

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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

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Contributors

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

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)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

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. (June 2008)

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)

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