Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 11 · June 25, 1987

Adrian Lyttelton, Murder in Rome

The Moro Affair and The Mystery of Majorana by Leonardo Sciascia, translated by Sacha Rabinovitch

John Wain, A World's Beginning

Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic by Richard Perceval Graves

Elizabeth Hardwick, The Fictions of America

Joseph Brodsky, The Bust of Tiberius (poem)

Stephen Jay Gould, Animals and Us

In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human–Animal Relationships by James Serpell

Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name by Vicki Hearne

Muir Among the Animals: The Wildlife Writings of John Muir edited by Lisa Mighetto

The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior by Jane Goodall

Ernst Gombrich, Back from Oblivion

Past and Present in Art and Taste: Selected Essays by Francis Haskell

Rosemary Dinnage, Joys of Desolation

Stevie: A Biography of Stevie Smith by Jack Barbera, by William McBrien

Peter G. Peterson, Gorbachev's Bottom Line

J.M. Cameron, Looking for Lucifer

The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church by Malachi Martin

Joan Didion, Miami: Exiles

Gordon A. Craig, A Swiss Passion

Green Henry by Gottfried Keller, translated by A.M. Holt

Yasser Arafat, Scott MacLeod, An Interview with Arafat-Part II

Robert Towers, Danger Zones

The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy

The Rug Merchant by Phillip Lopate

Cynthia Brown, Aryeh Neier, Pinochet's Way

Denis Donoghue, Whose Trope Is It Anyway?

The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections by Richard Poirier

Ronald Radosh, Bernard Knox, 'The Spanish Tragedy': An Exchange

Murray Kempton, Down a Sinkhole

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Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)

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)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

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.

Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)

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)

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