Table of Contents

Volume 33, Number 13 · August 14, 1986

Gabriele Annan, Goodness, How Sad

Nancy Mitford: A Biography by Selina Hastings

Noblesse Oblige: An enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy edited by Nancy Mitford, introduction by Russell Lynes

The Water Beetle by Nancy Mitford

Murray Kempton, Scenes from Nicaragua

Hector Bianciotti, The Death of Borges

Shaul Bakhash, Reign of Terror

Terrorism: How the West Can Win edited by Benjamin Netanyahu

Denis Donoghue, The Young Yeats

The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats Vol. I, 1865–1895 edited by John Kelly

John Kenneth Galbraith, Truly the Last Tycoons

Ford: The Men and the Machine by Robert Lacey

John Golding, The Futurist Past

Futurismo & Futurismi October 12, 1986 catalog of an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, May 3 to, organized by Pontus Hulten

Ian Buruma, Us and Others

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower

Andrew Hacker, Women at Work

A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America by Sylvia Ann Hewlett

American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees v. State of Washington

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.

California Federal Savings and Loan v. Guerra

The Third Sex: The New Professional Woman by Patricia A. McBroom

Women in Charge: Dilemmas of Women in Authority by Aileen Jacobson

Women and Work: An Annual Review, Volume I edited by Laurie Larwood, edited by Ann H. Stromberg, edited by Barbara Gutek

Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories by Jean Reith Schroedel

Why We Lost the ERA by Jane J. Mansbridge

The Divorce Revolution by Lenore J. Weitzman

A Mother's Work by Deborah Fallows

Hard Choices: How Women Decide about Work, Career, and Motherhood by Kathleen Gerson

Edmund Wilson, Visiting Malraux and Nabokov

D.J. Enright, Special Subjects

Letter to Lord Liszt by Martin Walser, translated by Leila Vennewitz

The Parable of the Blind by Gert Hofmann, translated by Christopher Middleton

Across by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim

Victor Perera, Can Guatemala Change?

Leszek Kolakowski, Theodore H. Draper, Yalta & the Fate of Poland: An Exchange

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Letters

Walter Abish, Edward Albee, et al. Arrests in Poland
Evan J. Charkes, Darryl Pinckney, No 'Trust'

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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)

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)

John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (October 2007)

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.

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County.

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