Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 2 · February 18, 1988

John Gross, Star

Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

Garry Wills, Blood Sport

The Manly Art by Elliott J. Gorn

John L. Sullivan and His America by Michael T. Isenberg

On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates

Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society by Jeffrey T. Sammons

Felix G. Rohatyn, Restoring American Independence

Alison Lurie, Underground Artist

A Game of Dark

Salt River Times

While the Bell Rings

Underground Alley

A Parcel of Trees

Max's Dream

Earthfasts

Winter Quarters

John K. Fairbank, Born Too Late

The Last Emperor a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

Twilight in the Forbidden City (1973), out of print by Reginald F. Johnston. with a preface by the Emperor

From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi reprinted with new general and chapter introductions by W.J.F. Jenner, afterword by Simon Winchester

The Last Emperor by Edward Behr

From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi translated by W.J.F. Jenner

The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China translated by Kuo Ying Paul Tsai, edited, with a revised preface and epilogue, by Paul Kramer

Pu Yi: J'étais empereur de Chine: L'autobiographie du dernier empereur de Chine (1906–1967)

A Dream of Tartary: The Origins and Misfortunes of Henry Pu Yi by Henry McAleavy

Joseph Brodsky, Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky (poem)

Gordon A. Craig, The Kaiser and the Kritik

Kaiser, Hof und Staat: Wilhlem II und die deutsche Politik by John C.G. Röhl

Max Weber and German Politics: 1890–1920 by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, translated by Michael S. Steinberg

Max Weber zur Politik im Weltkrieg: Schriften und Reden, 1914–1918 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung 1, Band 15) edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Gangolf Hübner

Max Weber and his Contemporaries edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, edited by Jürgen Osterhammel

Roderick MacFarquhar, Passing the Baton in Beijing

Abraham Brumberg, Poland: The New Opposition

James Joll, Coming Up for Air

Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich by Harold B. Segel

Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope, 1870–1925 by Elaine Brody

Jonathan D. Spence, China on My Mind

China Watch by John King Fairbank

The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800–1985 by John King Fairbank

Gordon S. Wood, The Fundamentalists and the Constitution

The American Founding: Politics, Statesmanship, and the Constitution edited by Ralph A. Rossum, edited by Gary L. McDowell

The Complete Anti-Federalist edited by Herbert J. Storing

"The Constitutional Order, 1787–1987" edited by Irving Kristol, edited by Nathan Glazer

Constitutionalism and Rights edited by Gary C. Bryner, edited by Noel B. Reynolds

The Founders' Constitution edited by Philip B. Kurland, edited by Ralph Lerner

The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution edited by Leonard W. Levy, edited by Dennis J. Mahoney

The Moral Foundations of the American Republic edited by Robert H. Horwitz

Saving the Revolution: "The Federalist Papers" and The American Founding edited by Charles R. Kesler

Taking the Constitution Seriously by Walter Berns

The Thinking Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the New Republic by Ralph Lerner

Ludovic Kennedy, Anthony Scaduto, Francis Russell, The Lindbergh Case: An Exchange

Murray Kempton, A Time for Jeremiah


Letters

Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Gert Bastian, et al. Release Juris Bumeisters



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)

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 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.

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book, written with Michael Schoenhals, is Mao’s Last Revolution. (June 2007)

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)

Jonathan Spence, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 2007)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)


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