Table of Contents

Volume 32, Number 12 · July 18, 1985

Neal Ascherson, The Fire This Time

Waiting: The Whites of South Africa by Vincent Crapanzano

Freedom Rising by James North

The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist by Breyten Breytenbach

Al Alvarez, Noble Poet

Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, translated by John Carpenter, by Bogdana Carpenter

Barbarian in the Garden by Zbigniew Herbert, translated by Michael March, by Jaroslaw Anders

Selected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, translated by Czeslaw Milosz, by Peter Dale Scott

Lord Zuckerman, Strategy or Romance?

Counsels of War by Gregg Herken

John Updike, The Artist and His Audience

Ian Buruma, O So Uchi!

Pictures from the Water Trade: Adventures of a Westerner in Japan by John David Morley

Robert M. Adams, The Story Isn't Over

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda Bogin

The Magic Kingdom by Stanley Elkin

Robert Winter, A Musicological Offering

Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology by Joseph Kerman

Eleanor Perenyi, The Good Witch of the West

Letters by Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell

One Thing Leading to Another, and Other Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner, selected and edited by Susanna Pinney

Scenes of Childhood by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner

For Sylvia: An Honest Account by Valentine Ackland

Lolly Willowes, or the Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner, introduction by Anita Miller

Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Indications (poem)

Natalie Zemon Davis, Happy Endings

The Birth of Purgatory by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Michael Wood, Ah, the Fredonna Tree

A Certain Lucas by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa

Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden by Heberto Padilla, translated by Andrew Hurley

A House in the Country by José Donoso, translated by David Pritchard, by Suzanne Jill Levine

B.A. Farrell, Snails on the Couch

Brain and Psyche: The Biology of the Unconscious by Jonathan Winson

Mind, Brain, Body: Toward a Convergence of Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology by Morton F. Reiser

Josh Rubins, Having It All

Love Always by Ann Beattie

April Bernard, Against Biography (poem)

Adam Michnik, Letter from the Gdansk Prison

Oliver Clubb, Murray Sayle, KE007: An Exchange

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Letters

Karl Beckson, Daniel Albright, Naming the Dying Lady
Norman Kelvin, Tim Hilton, Liking Mrs. Morris

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Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)

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 2008)

April Bernard has published a novel and three collections of poetry, most recently Swan Electric. (November 2006)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Natalie Zemon Davis is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton and Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author most recently of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds. (May 2008)

Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. (September 2008)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Robert Winter holds the Presidential Chair in Music and Interactive Arts at UCLA. His two new interactive DVDs, Dvorák in America (with Joseph Horowitz) and Performing the Bartók Quartets (with the Emerson Quartet), will appear in early 2004. (October 2003)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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