Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 6 · April 9, 1987

John Bayley, Country Life

The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul

Patricia Storace, Southern Hospitality (poem)

Aryeh Neier, The Contra Contradiction

Gabriele Annan, Living Through the War

Berlin Diaries: 1940–1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov

Jasper Griffin, The Father of It All

The History by Herodotus, translated by David Grene

Martin Gardner, Isness Is Her Business

Out on a Limb by Shirley MacLaine

Ramtha edited by Steven Lee Weinberg

Dancing in the Light by Shirley MacLaine

'Out on a Limb' an ABC TV miniseries written by Colin Higgins, by Shirley MacLaine

Robert Craft, The Maestro on the Market

Understanding Toscanini: How He Became an American Culture-God and Helped Create a New Audience for Old Music by Joseph Horowitz

D.J. Enright, Charmed Particles

Sphinx by D.M. Thomas

Palais-Royal by Richard Sennett

J.H. Elliott, Concerto Barocco

Culture of the Baroque: Analysis of a Historical Structure by José Antonio Maravall, translated by Terry Cochran

Louis S. Auchincloss, The Eye of the Master

The Museum World of Henry James by Adeline R. Tintner

John Hollander, By the Sound (poem)

Jonathan Glover, Am I My Brain?

The View from Nowhere by Thomas Nagel

Lord Zuckerman, Reagan's Highest Folly

Weapons in Space edited by Franklin A. Long, edited by Donald Hafner, edited by Jeffrey Boutwell

Space Weapons and International Security edited by Bhupendra Jasani for SIPRI

Empty Promise: The Growing Case Against Star Wars edited by John Tirman. under the auspices of The Union of Concerned Scientists

Abraham Brumberg, Norman Davies, Poles and Jews: An Exchange

Murray Kempton, The Contract for 'Baby M'

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Letters

Bernard Bailyn, T.H. Breen, Now, Voyager
William E. Smith, Ronald Dworkin, Time's Rewrite

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Contributors

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

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)

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 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)

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)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 2008)

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.

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.

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