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Volume 33, Number 20 · December 18, 1986

Jeri Laber, Afghanistan's Other War

Mark Girouard, City Lights

The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna by Donald J. Olsen

J.M. Coetzee, On the Edge of Revelation

Five Women by Robert Musil, translated by Eithne Wilkins, by Ernst Kaiser, preface by Frank Kermode

James Merrill, Japan: Prose of Departure

Adam Gopnik, The Genius of George Herriman

Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman by Patrick McDonnell, by Karen O'Connell, by Georgia Riley de Havenon

Robert Towers, The Wild Blue Yonder

Diary of a Yuppie by Louis Auchincloss

Pubis Angelical by Manuel Puig, translated by Elena Brunet

Paper Doll by Jim Shepard

James Fallows, The Americans in Space

The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall

Report to the President by the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

The Aerospace Plane: Technological Feasibility and Policy Implications Massachusetts Institute of Technology Report No.15 by Stephen W. Korthals-Altes

Martha C. Nussbaum, Sex in the Head

Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic by Roger Scruton

Albert O. Hirschman, Out of Phase Again

Thomas R. Edwards, Gulp!

It by Stephen King

Whirlwind by James Clavell

Selden Rodman, A Long Way from Poland

Poland's Caribbean Tragedy: A Study of Polish Legions in the Haitian War of Independence, 1802–1803 Press by Jan Pachonski, by Reuel K. Wilson

W.G. Runciman, Are Tyrants Necessary?

At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression, and the State by Eli Sagan

Roger Shattuck, Catching Up with the Avant-garde

Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830–1930 by Jerrold Seigel

Pleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in Turn-of-the-Century France by Charles Rearick

France: Fin de Siècle by Eugen Weber

Theory of the Avant-Garde by Peter Bürger, translated by Michael Shaw, foreword by Jochen Schulte-Sasse

Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries: The Literary Avante-Garde from Rimbaud through Postmodernism by Charles Russell

The Culture of Time and Space: 1880–1918 by Stephen Kern

The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought by Sanford Schwartz

Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development by Ricardo J. Quinones

Stephen Spender, On Fame and the Writer

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Letters

Josua Bruyn, Joseph W. Alsop, The Faker's Art
Eleanor Cook, Gore Vidal, A Mind So Fine
Sherman E. Lee, The Faker's Art
Marc Leepson, John Gregory Dunne, Harvard & Vietnam
Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Free the Jazz Section

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Contributors

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 new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (August 2009)

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)

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

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)

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

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