Table of Contents

Volume 33, Number 8 · May 8, 1986

J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for Mandela

Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement by Mary Benson, foreword by Bishop Desmond M. Tutu

Part of My Soul Went With Him by Winnie Mandela, edited by Anne Benjamin, adapted by Mary Benson

Winnie Mandela by Nancy Harrison

Dispensations: The Future of South Africa as South Africans See It by Richard John Neuhaus

Richard Murphy, Sri Lanka (poem)

Robert M. Adams, Right Man, Wrong Job

Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini's Visit to France by Paul Fréart de Chantelou, edited with an introduction by Anthony Blunt, annotated by George C. Bauer, translated by Margery Corbett

Bernini in France: An Episode in Seventeenth-Century History by Cecil Gould

Thomas R. Edwards, Boom at the Top

The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum

The Sisters by Robert Littell

Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith

The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley

Rosemary Dinnage, Psycho-Mom

Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work by Phyllis Grosskurth

Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924–1925 edited by Perry Meisel, edited by Walter Kendrick

Shaul Bakhash, A Big Bungle

All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran by Gary Sick

The Pride and the Fall: Iran 1974–1979 by Anthony Parsons

Martin Gardner, WAP, SAP, PAP, & FAP

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow, by Frank J. Tipler, with a foreword by John A. Wheeler

Scott MacLeod, How Assad Has Won

Josh Rubins, Puffs

Holy Smoke by G. Cabrera Infante

J.M. Cameron, The Good Life

Frank and Maisie: A Memoir with Parents by Wilfrid Sheed

Michael P. Johnson, The Stagnant South

Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War by Gavin Wright

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Blood on the Border

Nothing Happens in Carmincross by Benedict Kiely

Murray Kempton, Hood's Progress!

Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi

Helen Vendler, The Medley Is the Message

The Rustle of Language by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard

The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard

Enrique Sotelo Borgen, Marvin Jose Corrales Monjarrez, Robert S. Leiken, The Nicaraguan Tangle: An Exchange

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Letters

Jerzy Turowicz, Timothy Garton Ash, 'Shoah' and Poland

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Contributors

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

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)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

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.

Richard Murphy's most recent books are Collected Poems and The Kick: A Life Among Writers. (February 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)

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

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