Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 4 · March 17, 1988

J.M. Cameron, The Lie in the Soul

The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

Garry Wills, Aerie Visions

The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon by Michael S. Sherry

Martin Gardner, Bumps on the Head

Pseudo-Science and Society in Nineteenth-Century America edited by Arthur Wrobel

Isaiah Berlin, On the Pursuit of the Ideal

Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, The Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize

Philip Gossett, Let Handel Be Handel

Handel's Operas: 1704–1726 by Winton Dean, by John Merrill Knapp

Aryeh Neier, Has Arias Made a Difference?

Gabriele Annan, Going Every Sort of Hog

Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin

Maurice Keen, Spying on the Neighbors

A History of Private Life Vol. II: Revelations of the Medieval World edited by Georges Duby, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

John Gregory Dunne, 'The Check Is in the Mail'

Spiegel: The Man Behind the Pictures by Andrew Sinclair

Robert M. Adams, The Case for Dryden

John Dryden and His World by James Anderson Winn

Ian Buruma, What Keeps the Japanese Going?

Imperialist Japan: The Yen to Dominate by Michael Montgomery

Occupation by John Toland

A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945–1980 by Shunsuke Tsurumi

Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese by Donald Richie

Remaking Japan: The American Occupation As New Deal by Theodore Cohen, edited by Herbert Passin

The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children by Merry White

Josef Skvorecky, George F. Kennan, 'The Gorbachev Prospect': An Exchange

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Letters

Roger Abrahams, Paul Allison, et al. Israel
Brooks Munkelt, Charles Rosen, 'Obnoxious'
Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Toulmin, Varieties of Antifascism
Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, Joseph Brodsky, From the Akkadian

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Contributors

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

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His reconstruction of Gustavo III, the original version of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, had its première at the Göteborg Opera in Sweden this past September. (March 2003)

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)

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.

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