Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 21 & 22 · January 21, 1988

George F. Kennan, The Gorbachev Prospect

Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World by Mikhail Gorbachev

Darryl Pinckney, On James Baldwin (1924–1987)

Jonathan Brown, High Point in Low Countries

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama

Joseph Brodsky, The Condition We Call Exile

Joseph Brodsky, Acceptance Speech

Stanley Hoffmann, Coming Down from the Summit

Robert Towers, All-American Novels

Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann

That Night by Alice McDermott

Cigarettes by Harry Mathews

Elizabeth Hardwick, Mrs. Wharton in New York

Edith Wharton: Novels (The House of Mirth, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence)

The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton

Old New York: False Dawn (The 'Forties), The Old Maid (The 'Fifties), The Spark (The 'Sixties), New Year's Day (The 'Seventies) by Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Portrait of Edith Wharton by Percy Lubbock

Edith Wharton: A Biography by R.W.B. Lewis

"Bunner Sisters" in Madame de Treymes and Others by Edith Wharton

Jonathan Lieberson, Nixon in Brooklyn

Nixon in China an opera, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 4-17, 1987

I.F. Stone, Was There a Witch Hunt in Ancient Athens?

John K. Fairbank, The Chinese Behemoth

The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China by Frederic Wakeman Jr.

The Chinese Emperor by Jean Lévi, translated by Barbara Bray

Bernard Lewis, Islamic Revolution

Jane Burnett, James Chace, Nicaragua: An Exchange

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Letters

Philip Siegelman, A Failure of Glasnost?
Kathleen Tynan, John Osborne, 'The Life of Kenneth Tynan'
Patricia Blake, Elaine Feinstein, Andrei Voznesensky
Adolph G. Rosengarten, Brian Urquhart, Market Garden
Arthur Goldhammer, Starobinski in Translation

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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)

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.

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

George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent books are Music of a Distant Drum and What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. (May 2002)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.

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