Table of Contents

Volume 32, Number 14 · September 26, 1985

Desmond Tutu, Mythology

The Political Mythology of Apartheid by Leonard Thompson

Czeslaw Milosz, Preparation (poem)

James Joll, Business as Usual

German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.

The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis by David Abraham

Brad Leithauser, Playing with Fire

Late Settings by James Merrill

M.F. Perutz, Brave New World

Solid Clues: Quantum Physics, Molecular Biology, and the Future of Science by Gerald Feinberg

D.J. Enright, Jews, Have Pity!

A Perfect Peace by Amos Oz, translated by Hillel Halkin

Women and Angels by Harold Brodkey

Avishai Margalit, Passage to Palestine

Palestinian Leadership on the West Bank by Moshe Ma'oz

1949—The First Israelis by Tom Segev

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Virtue & Terror

Edwin Denby, Poem (poem)

Gabriele Annan, Transcendental Chutzpah

The Death of My Brother Abel by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Ian Buruma, 'Rabu' Conquers All

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era Vol. I: Fiction by Donald Keene

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era Vol. II: Poetry, Drama, Criticism by Donald Keene

Denis Donoghue, American Sage

Attitudes Toward History third edition, with a new afterword by the author Kenneth Burke

Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose third edition, with a new afterword by the author Kenneth Burke

Harold Bloom, On the Heights

Selections from George Eliot's Letters edited by Gordon S. Haight

David E. Pearson, Murray Sayle, The Fate of KE007: An Exchange

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Letters

Vladimir Dedijer, Nora Beloff, Relations with Djilas
Maurice Isserman, Theodore H. Draper, Communism Re-Revisited
John S. Lew, Umberto Eco, That's Art

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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)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

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)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His forthcoming book is On Compromise and Rotten Compromises.
 (September 2009)

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. He died in 2004.

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)

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

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