Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 15 · October 13, 1988

Timothy Garton Ash, The Opposition

Garry Wills, Jesus in the Mean Streets

The Last Temptation of Christ a film directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Paul Schrader

Andrew Hacker, Getting Rough on the Poor

The Family Security Act of 1988 ("The Moynihan Bill") Report of the Committee on Finance, US Senate

Creating the Future: The Massachusetts Comeback and Its Promise for America by Michael S. Dukakis, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Challenge To Leadership: Economic and Social Issues for the Next Decade edited by Isabel V. Sawhill

Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family by David T. Ellwood

Laboratories of Democracy by David Osborne

Remaking the Welfare State: Retrenchment and Social Policy in America and Europe edited by Michael K. Brown

The New Consensus on Family and Welfare edited by Michael Novak et al.

Philip Gossett, Operamania

A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera by Peter Conrad

M.F. Perutz, Two Roads to Stockholm

Free Radical: Albert Szent-Györgyi and the Battle over Vitamin C by Ralph W. Moss

In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work by Rita Levi-Montalcini, translated by Luigi Attardi

Thomas R. Edwards, Vita Nuova

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography by Philip Roth

Benjamin M. Friedman, The Campaign's Hidden Issue

Michael Wood, The Genius of San Jerónimo

A Sor Juana Anthology translated by Alan S. Trueblood, foreword by Octavio Paz

Sor Juana: or, The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden

Darra Goldstein, Viktor Sosnora, An Interview with Viktor Sosnora

Viktor Sosnora, Three Poems by Viktor Sosnora (poem)

William H. Gass, Portrait of the Artist

Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim

E.A.J. Honigmann, The Triumph of Will

Young Shakespeare by Russell Fraser

Arthur Hertzberg, The Turning Point?

Debra Evenson, Jeri Laber, Aryeh Neier, 'In Cuban Prisons': Another Exchange

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Letters

Samir Abdalla, Chava Alberstein, et al. A Plan for Peace
Hugh Thomas, Valentine Lawford's Views

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Contributors

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (March 2008)

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)

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)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

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.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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