Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 14 · September 24, 1987

Gabriele Annan, Changeling

Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr

Prick Up Your Ears a film directed by Stephen Frears, screenplay by Alan Bennett

The Orton Diaries edited by John Lahr

Head to Toe by Joe Orton

Lewis Thomas, What Doctors Don't Know

Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School by Melvin Konner MD.

Shaul Bakhash, The Riddle of Terrorism

The Age of Terrorism by Walter Laqueur

The World Held Hostage: The War Waged by International Terrorism by Desmond McForan

The Financing of Terror by James Adams

Alchemists of Revolution: Terrorism in the Modern World by Richard E. Rubenstein

Bruce Chatwin, In Natasha's Trunk

The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff

Aileen Kelly, Leonard Schapiro's Russia

Russian Studies by Leonard Schapiro, edited by Ellen Dahrendorf, introduction by Harry Willetts

C. Vann Woodward, Gilding Lincoln's Lily

Freedom by William Safire

Brian Urquhart, The Last Disaster of the War

Richard Poirier, American Emperors

Empire by Gore Vidal

Monroe K. Spears, Big Bad Wolfe?

The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe edited by Francis E. Skipp, foreword by James Dickey

Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald

David Malouf, Moshe and His Brothers

The Family Mashber a novel by Der Nister (The Hidden One"), Translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf

Charles Hope, Sight Gags

The Arcimboldo Effect: Transformations of the Face from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century An exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice (February–May, 1987)

The Arcimboldo Effect: Transformations of the Face from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century by Pontus Hulten et al.

D.J. Enright, Doomsday Book

The Rat by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim

Murray Kempton, The Price of Peace

Noel Annan, Betrayal

Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer by Peter Wright

The Secrets of the Service by Anthony Glees

Anthony Murry, Ronald Dworkin, 'Reckless Disregard': An Exchange

Lynne Lawner, Charles Hope, 'Renaissance Beauties': An Exchange


Letters

Roger E. Alcaly, Felix G. Rohatyn, Junk-Bond Finance
Martin Gilbert, Timothy Garton Ash, Churchill's Papers
Thomas Kinsella, Denis Donoghue, New Oxford Irish
Laura (Riding) Jackson, John Wain, Taking His Measure
Edward I. Lending, Not a Witness



Contributors

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

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

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)

Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

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.

David Malouf is a novelist and poet. His novel The Great World was awarded both the Commonwealth Prize and Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He has received the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (March 2008)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)


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