Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 15 · October 8, 1987

Rosemary Dinnage, Fanning the Gemlike Flame

Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend by Ernest Samuels, with the collaboration of Jayne Newcomer Samuels

Arnaldo Momigliano, Independent People

A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson

Stanley Hoffmann, The 'War for Washington'

The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

The Lobby: Jewish Political Power and American Foreign Policy by Edward Tivnan

Italo Calvino, How They Got Galileo

Galileo: Heretic (Galileo Eretico) by Pietro Redondi

John Pope-Hennessy, Storm Over the Sistine Ceiling

The Sistine Chapel: The Art, the History, and the Restoration text by Carlo Pietrangeli, by André Chastel, by John Shearman, by John O'Malley, by S. J., by Pierluigi de Vecchi, by Michael Hirst, by Fabrizio Mancinelli, by Gianluigi Colalucci, by Franco Bernabei

John Bayley, Poet of the Air

Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, her World and her Poetry by Simon Karlinsky

A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva by Elaine Feinstein

Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva translated by Elaine Feinstein

James Chace, The End of the Affair?

M.F. Perutz, Department of Defense

The Thorn in the Starfish: How the Human Immune System Works by Robert S. Desowitz

Gordon A. Craig, After the Reich

Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History by Fritz Stern

The Two Germanies since 1945 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.

A Voice From Germany speeches by Richard von Weizsäcker, translated by Karin von Abrams

Die Abschiedsrede [The Farewell Speech] by Willy Brandt

Maurice Keen, Crash Diets

Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum

Robert Towers, Breaking the Spell

Three Continents by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Talkative Man by R.K. Narayan

Theodore H. Draper, The Rise of the American Junta

M.B.E. Smith, Ronald Dworkin, 'The Bork Nomination': An Exchange

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Letters

Christopher R. Kerr, Hemingway Books Available
Lawrence Heyl, Francis Russell, It Rhymes with Fitz
Michael Reck, Another Bust
Richard C. Wade, Francis Russell, JFK's Triumph

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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)

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was an Italian writer and novelist. His works include The Road to San Giovanni, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, and Mr. Palomar.

James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)

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)

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

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

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