Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 14 · September 29, 1988

Jasper Griffin, Playing to Win

The Archaeology of the Olympics: The Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity edited by Wendy J. Raschke

Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport by David Sansone

Neal Ascherson, A Polish Hero

The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak by Betty Jean Lifton

King Matt the First by Janusz Korczak, translated by Richard Lourie, introduction by Bruno Bettelheim

Helen Vendler, New York Pastoral

Selected Poems by James Schuyler

Irving Howe, Notes from Jerusalem

Joseph Brodsky, Exeter Revisited (poem)

Ronald Steel, The Strange Case of William Bullitt

So Close to Greatness: A Biography of William C. Bullitt by Will Brownell, by Richard N. Billings

David Lodge, Outrageous Things

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Hugh Honour, The Battle Over Post-Modern Buildings

Committed to Classicism: The Building of Downing College Cambridge by Cinzia Maria Sicca, with contributions by Charles Harpum, by Edward Powell, photography, design, and production by Tim Rawle

Quinlan Terry: The Revival of Architecture by Clive Aslet

Classical Architecture: The Poetics of Order by Alexander Tzonis, by Liane Lefaivre

The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post-Modern by J. Mordaunt Crook

Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture by Charles Jencks

John Bayley, Death and the Dichter

Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil, translated by Peter Wortsman

Robert Musil by Lowell A. Bangerter

Five Women by Robert Musil, translated by Eithne Wilkins, by Ernst Kaiser

David Denby, Odd Man In

A Life by Elia Kazan

The Time Is Ripe: The 1940 Journal of Clifford Odets with an introduction by William Gibson

Anton Shammas, The Morning After

Timothy Garton Ash, The Empire in Decay

Eleanor Perenyi, Call of the Wild

My Weeds: A Gardener's Botany by Sara B. Stein, illustrations by Ippy Patterson

Noel Annan, Gentlemen vs. Players

The Pride and the Fall: The Dream and Illusion of Britain as a Great Nation by Correlli Barnett

Israel Rosenfield, Mind-Reading

The Oxford Companion to the Mind edited by Richard L. Gregory, with the assistance of O.L. Zangwill

Brad Leithauser, A Master's Legacy

Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino, translated by Patrick Creagh

Debra Evenson, Aryeh Neier, 'In Cuban Prisons': An Exchange

Hans Walter Gabler, John O'Hanlon, Thomas F. Staley, et al. The Continuing Scandal of 'Ulysses': An Exchange

Thomas Sowell, T.M. Scanlon, 'Down from Liberalism': An Exchange

Murray Kempton, The Dukakis Truce

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Letters

David Stoll, Evangelists in Nicaragua

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

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)

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)

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.

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Israel Rosenfield's most recent book is Freud's Megalomania. (June 2008)

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

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