Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 21 & 22 · January 17, 1985

Jeri Laber, Barnett Rubin, A Dying Nation

Noel Annan, The Unmysterious East

A Passage to India a film, written and directed by David Lean

Neal Ascherson, The Alchemist

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

Bernard Lewis, How Khomeini Made It

The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution by Shaul Bakhash

Gore Vidal, Love of Flying

The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900–1950 by Joseph J. Corn

Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Charms of Certitude

How Democracies Perish by Jean-François Revel, with the assistance of Branko Lazitch, translated by William Byron

E.A.J. Honigmann, The Sweet Swan of Oxford?

The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality by Charlton Ogburn

J.H. Plumb, Spreading the News

Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis

Thomas Powers, How Nuclear War Could Start

The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces by Paul Bracken

Henri Zerner, The Passions of Géricault

Géricault: His Life and Work by Lorenz E.A. Eitner

Raymond Carr, The New New Spanish History

Fascism from Above: The Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in Spain, 1923–1930 by Shlomo Ben-Ami

La Encrucijada Vasca: Una vivisección sobre la crisis de convivencia en Euskadi by Ricardo García Damborenea

Revolution and War in Spain, 1931–1939 edited by Paul Preston

Frederick Brown, Et tu, Hugo

Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel by Victor Brombert

Edmund S. Morgan, Our Town

A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650–1750 by Darrett B., by Anita H. Rutman

A Place in Time: Explicatus by Darrett B., by Anita H. Rutman

Peter Singer, Ten Years of Animal Liberation

Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm by Orville Schell

Farm Animals: Husbandry, Behavior, and Veterinary Practice by Michael W. Fox

Of Mice, Models, and Men: A Critical Evaluation of Animal Research by Andrew N. Rowan

Victims of Science: The Use of Animals in Research by Richard D. Ryder

Man and Mouse: Animals in Medical Research by William Paton

All That Dwell Therein: Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics by Tom Regan

The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan

Animals and Why They Matter: A Journey Around the Species Barrier by Mary Midgley

Rights, Killing, and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics by R.G. Frey

Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals by R.G. Frey

Murray Kempton, Witness for Westmoreland

---

Letters

John-Paul Himka, Fascism and Fanaticism
Joseph Machlis, Istvan Deak, Fascism and Fanaticism
Michael Straight, The Spirit of Croly

---

---

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. (November 2007)

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

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.

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent books are Music of a Distant Drum and What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. (May 2002)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)

Search the Review
Advanced search

---

---