Table of Contents

Volume 33, Number 19 · December 4, 1986

Diane Johnson, A House Is Not a Home

Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski

House by Tracy Kidder

Designs for Interiors: Catalog to the Exhibition by Stephen Calloway

The Englishman's Room edited by Avilde Lees-Milne, photographs by Derry Moore

Frederick C. Crews, Mr. Updike's Planet

Roger's Version by John Updike

Jefferson Morley, Prisoner of Success

Duarte: My Story by José Napoleón Duarte

John Bayley, An Excellent Man

Chekhov by Henri Troyat, translated by Michael Henry Heim

J.M. Cameron, A New New Testament

The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity by Thomas Sheehan

Kenneth S. Davis, Not So Common Man

Truman: The Rise to Power by Richard Lawrence Miller

Bess W. Truman by Margaret Truman

Truman by Roy Jenkins

Rosemary Dinnage, All in the Family

The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women by Diana E.H. Russell

The Original Sin: Incest and Its Meaning by W. Arens

Forbidden Partners: The Incest Taboo in Modern Culture by James B. Twitchell

Denis Donoghue, She's Got Rhythm

The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore edited and with an introduction by Patricia C. Willis

Margo Picken, The Betrayed People

'Funu': The Unfinished Saga of East Timor by Jose Ramos-Horta, preface by Noam Chomsky

East Timor Violations of Human Rights: Extrajudicial Executions, 'Disappearances,' Torture and Political Imprisonment, 1975–1984

Timor: A People Betrayed by James Dunn

Martin Gardner, Secrets of the Old One

Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the Test by Clifford M. Will

Bernard Knox, The Theater of Ethics

The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy by Martha C. Nussbaum

Robert Craft, From a West-East Diary

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Letters

Richard Ohmann, C. Vann Woodward, The Academy of the Sixties
Page Smith, The Academy of the Sixties
Frank J. Tipler, Martin Gardner, The FAP Flop
Peter Bokros, Sandor Szilagyi Danko, et al. Announcement

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Contributors

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

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

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

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)

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)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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