Table of Contents
Volume 35, Number 16 · October 27, 1988
George F. Kennan, The Buried Past 
Memoirs 1989) by Andrei Gromyko
Charles Rosen, Inventor of Modern Opera
Oeuvres by Caron de Beaumarchais
James Merrill, November Ode (poem)
John Osborne, The Pearl Fisher
The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate
Joan Didion, Insider Baseball
Stephen Jay Gould, Mighty Manchester
Infinite in All Directions by Freeman J. Dyson
Wilfrid Sheed, The Exile
In Search of J.D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton
James Fallows, Rich Kids
Old Money: The Mythology of America's Upper Class by Nelson Aldrich
Timothy Garton Ash, Reform or Revolution?
Ronald Dworkin, The New England
Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era by Peter Jenkins
Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Lost Moments of History
Frederick C. Crews, Whose American Renaissance?
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman by F.O. Matthiessen
The American Renaissance Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1982-83 edited by Walter Benn Michaels, edited by Donald E. Pease
The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature by Russell J. Reising
Ideology and Classic American Literature edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, edited by Myra Jehlen
Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context by Donald E. Pease
Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 by Jane Tompkins
Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds
Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel by Philip Fisher
Gore Vidal, Every Eckermann His Own Man
Selections from the first two issues of The New York Review of Books with an introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
Robert Darnton, A Star Is Born
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction by Jean Starobinski, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, with an introduction by Robert J. Morrissey
Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors
Murray Kempton, The Sad Degas
Degas (September 27, 1988–January 8, 1989) An exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Letters
Hugh Kenner, A. Walton Litz, et al. 'The Scandal of Ulysses'
Contributors
Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)
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)
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)
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.
George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)
James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)
Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)
