Table of Contents

Volume 32, Number 21 & 22 · January 16, 1986

E.J. Hobsbawm, 'Playing for Ourselves'

Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie as told to Albert Murray

The World of Count Basie by Stanley Dance

Theodore H. Draper, Neoconservative History

Jean Starobinski, Burying the Dead

The Architecture of Death: The Transformation of the Cemetery in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Richard A. Etlin

Philip Larkin, James Merrill, Two Poems (poem)

John Bayley, On Philip Larkin

Stanley Hoffmann, Fog Over the Summit

Murray Kempton, 'I Am a Pencil'

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (November 7, 1985 - January 26, 1986)

Ian Buruma, Who Can Redeem Mother Filipinas?

Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines by David Haward Bain

Revolution in the Philippines: The United States in a Hall of Cracked Mirrors by Fred Poole, by Max Vanzi

The Philippines After Marcos edited by R. J. May, edited by Francisco Nemenzo

J.M. Coetzee, The Taming of D. H. Lawrence

Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess

D. H. Lawrence: Life into Art by Keith Sagar

Class, Politics and the Individual: A Study of the Major Works of D. H. Lawrence by Peter Scheckner

D. H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration edited by Peter Balbert, edited by Phillip L. Marcus

The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence, edited by Andrew Robertson

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence, edited by John Worthen

Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays by D. H. Lawrence, edited by Bruce Steele

Letters, Volume III by D. H. Lawrence, edited by James T. Boulton, by Andrew Robertson

Yehoshua Porath, Mrs. Peters's Palestine

From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab–Jewish Conflict Over Palestine by Joan Peters

Maurice Keen, The Knight of Knights

William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry by Georges Duby, translated by Richard Howard

Jonathan D. Spence, Turbulent Empire

The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-Century Ch'ing China by Madeleine Zelin

From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China Harvard University Press by Benjamin A. Elman

The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China by Philip C. C. Huang

Jonathan Lieberson, The Reality of AIDS

A Strange Virus of Unknown Origin by Dr. Jacques Liebowitch, translated from French by Richard Howard, with an introduction by Dr. Robert Gallo

Medical, Social, and Political Aspects of the AIDS Crisis: A Bibliography compiled by D.W. McLeod, by Alan V. Miller

Review of the Public Health Service's Response to AIDS: A Technical Memorandum, February 1985 Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment

AIDS in the Mind of America by Dennis Altman

AIDS: The Emerging Ethical Dilemmas Hastings Center Report

The Question of AIDS by Richard Liebmann-Smith

Understanding AIDS: A Comprehensive Guide edited by Victor Gong, foreword by F. Mervyn Silverman


Letters

David Slawson, Roger Draper, Robots & Workers



Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

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)

J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

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)

Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)

Jean Starobinski is Professor Emeritus of French literature at the University of Geneva. Blessings in Disguise and Largesse are among his works in English. A translation of his recent Action et réaction is to appear later this year. (May 2003)


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