Table of Contents

Volume 33, Number 17 · November 6, 1986

George F. Kennan, In the American Mirror

The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Gore Vidal, Lessons of the Master

Henry James: Literary Criticism Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers

Henry James: Literary Criticism French Writers, Other European Writers, The Prefaces to the New York Edition

Zbigniew Herbert, Transformations of Livy (poem)

John Maynard Smith, Natural Selection of Culture?

Culture and the Evolutionary Process by Robert Boyd, by Peter J. Richerson

Ian Buruma, Saint Cory and the Yellow Revolution

The Snap Revolution by James Fenton

People Power: An Eyewitness History edited by Monina Allarey Mercado

Crisis in the Philippines: The Marcos Era and Beyond edited by John Bresnan

Bayon Ko!

Alan Pryce-Jones, Insulin & Innocence

Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case by Alan M. Dershowitz

Avigdor Arikha, 'Pintor Real'

Velázquez: Painter and Courtier by Jonathan Brown

Maurice Grosser, Visiting Gertrude and Alice

Ronald Steel, Looking Backward

Thinking in Time:The Uses of History for Decision-Makers by Richard E. Neustadt, by Ernest R. May

Neal Ascherson, The Last Idol

Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend by Philip Warner

The Kitchener Enigma by Trevor Royle

D.J. Enright, Master of Horror

Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist—Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna by Edward Timms

In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader edited by Harry Zohn, with translations by Joseph Fabry, by Max Knight, by Karl F. Ross, by Harry Zohn

Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms by Karl Kraus, edited and translated by Harry Zohn

Robert M. Adams, New Bards for Old

On Shakespeare by Northrop Frye

Shakespeare and the Question of Theory edited by Patricia Parker, edited by Geoffrey Hartman

Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets by Joel Fineman

New Readings vs. Old Plays: Recent Trends in the Reinterpretation of English Renaissance Drama by Richard Levin

The Devil's Party: Critical Counter-interpretations of Shakespearian Drama by Harriett Hawkins

Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays by Paul N. Siegel

William Shakespeare by Terry Eagleton

That Shakespeherian Rag by Terence Hawkes

Such is My Love: A Study of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Joseph Pequigney

Charles Rosen, Now, Voyager

Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760–1840 by Barbara Maria Stafford

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Letters

Roger Dickinson, Roger Draper, Unfriendly Persuasion
Dexter Masters, Unfriendly Persuasion
Ann Close, Helen Vendler, It Wasn't Knopf
Peter Baker, Perse Defended

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (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)

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)

Zbigniew Herbert, a leading Polish poet, died in 1998. The Collected Poems: 1956–1998, edited and translated by Alissa Valles, will be published by Ecco in February. (January 2007)

George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 2000)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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