Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 17 · November 10, 1988

Robert M. Adams, The Beast in the Jungle

Eliot's New Life by Lyndall Gordon

The Letters of T.S. Eliot Vol. I, 1898–1922 edited by Valerie Eliot

Garry Wills, The Kennedys in the King Years

Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963 by Taylor Branch

Robert Kennedy In His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years edited by Edwin O. Guthman, edited by Jeffrey Shulman

Shaul Bakhash, The Flying Dutchman

The Shah's Last Ride: The Fate of an Ally by William Shawcross

Vickie Karp, Getting Dressed in the Dark (poem)

Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Members Only

Priapea: Poems for a Phallic God translated and edited by W.H. Parker

Jonathan Lieberson, Bombing in Bayreuth

Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner, directed by Harry Kupfer, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, designed by Hans Schavernoch. Bayreuth Festival, 1988

John K. Fairbank, Roots of Revolution

Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family by Frank Ching

Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang, translated by Martha Avery

David Joravsky, Glasnost Theater

Tak pobedim! (shest' p'es o Lenine) (That's How We'll Win! [Six Plays About Lenin]) by M.F. Shatrov

'Brestskii mir' (The Brest Peace) by M.F. Shatrov

'Diktatura sovesti' (The Dictatorship of the Conscience) by M.F. Shatrov

'Dal'she…Dal'she…Dal'she!' (Further…Further…Further!) by M.F. Shatrov

Robert Towers, Roughing It

Tracks by Louise Erdrich

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

Carl E. Schorske, Survivor of a Lost World

A European Past: Memoirs, 1905–1945 by Felix Gilbert

Ian Buruma, Playing for Keeps

Silviu Brucan, Peter B. Reddaway, An Exchange on Perestroika

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Letters

Edward Abbey, Bill McKibben, Beyond Ecology
Jeri Laber, Appointment in Prague
Nicholas Palmer, Sidney Hook, The Rights of the Old
Peter D. Lax, Dmitri Nabokov, Nabokov and Jolán Földes
Ivan Strand, Denis Donoghue, The Suburban Prejudice
Gordon Tullock, Francis Russell, Did Nixon Beat Kennedy?

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Contributors

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

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)

Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)

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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