Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 13 · August 18, 1988

Garry Wills, 'New Votuhs'

The Best Congress Money Can Buy by Philip M. Stern

Why Americans Don't Vote by Frances Fox Piven, by Richard A. Cloward

Character: America's Search for Leadership by Gail Sheehy

Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights by Abigail M. Thernstrom

Robert Towers, From the Grassy Knoll

Libra by Don DeLillo

Stephen Jay Gould, The Streak of Streaks

Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41 by Michael Seidel

Elizabeth Hardwick, Church Going

Jonathan Edwards by Perry Miller

Free Love and Heavenly Sinners: The Story of the Great Henry Ward Beecher Scandal by Robert Shaplen

Fathers of the Victorians by Ford K. Brown

Redemptorama by Carol Flake

Robert M. Adams, The Ideal Woman

Jane Austen: Her Life by Park Honan

William J. McGrath, Oedipus at Berggasse 19

Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay

A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis by Peter Gay

Gabriele Annan, The Promised Land

Confessions of a Good Arab by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Dalya Bilu

Black Box by Amos Oz, translated, in collaboration with the author, by Nicholas De Lange

Twilight by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel

Darryl Pinckney, The Honorary Negro

Letters of Carl Van Vechten selected and edited by Bruce Kellner

The Tattooed Countess: A Romantic Novel with a Happy Ending by Carl Van Vechten

Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman

Parties by Carl Van Vechten

Peter B. Reddaway, Resisting Gorbachev

Bill McKibben, The Desert Anarchist

The Best of Edward Abbey edited by Edward Abbey

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey

Beyond the Wall by Edward Abbey

Down the River by Edward Abbey

The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

Istvan Deak, Hungary: The New Twist

Hungary and the Soviet Bloc by Charles Gati

Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948–1954 by George H. Hodos

János Kádár: Selected Speeches and Interviews with an introductory biography by L. Gyurkó

1956: Counter-Revolution in Hungary: Words and Weapons by János Berecz, translated by István Butykay, translation revised by Charles Coutts

Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956 by Reg Gadney, introduction by George Mikes

The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism by Miklós Haraszti, translated by Katalin Landesmann, by Stephen Landesmann, with the help of Steve Wasserman, foreword by George Konrád

Joseph Kerman, The Residue of Genius

1791: Mozart's Last Year by H.C. Robbins Landon

Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores by Alan Tyson

Murray Kempton, The Moscow Convention

Stanley Hoffmann, The Big Muddle in France

Diane Johnson, John F. Murray, AIDS Without End

Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic by James D. Watkins chairman. submitted to the President of the United States, June 24, 1988

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts

Robert M. Adams, Robert Craft, Jon N. Elzey, et al. 'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange

Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Gore Vidal, Vidal's 'Lincoln': An Exchange

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Letters

Arthur Hertzberg, An Open Letter to Elie Wiesel
Christopher Carduff, Charlotte Mew
Kenneth J. Arrow, Gerald B. Bubis, et al. Israel and the Palestinians
Pierre Broue, Theodore H. Draper, More Eitingon Mystery

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Contributors

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

Istvan Deak has written books on Weimar Germany’s left-wing intellectuals, the 1848 revolution in Hungary, the Habsburg army officer corps, and Europe during World War II. (March 2007)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

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)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 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.

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.

John F. Murray is the author of Intensive Care: A Doctor’s Journal. (February 2008)

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

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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