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
Letters
Vladimir Dedijer, Nora Beloff, Relations with Djilas
Maurice Isserman, Theodore H. Draper, Communism Re-Revisited
John S. Lew, Umberto Eco, That's Art
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)
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)
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. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
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)
