Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 18 · November 24, 1988

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Keeping Up with the Shaws

Bernard Shaw: Volume I, 1856–1898, The Search for Love by Michael Holroyd

Gordon A. Craig, The Other Russian Army

Die Geschichte der Wlassow-Armee by Joachim Hoffmann

General Wlassow: Russen und Deutsche zwischen Hitler und Stalin by Sergej Fröhlich, revised and edited by Edel von Freier

Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Émigré Theories by Catherine Andreyev

John Kenneth Galbraith, From Stupidity to Cupidity

The Predators' Ball: The Junk-Bond Raiders and the Man Who Staked Them by Connie Bruck

Securities and Exchange Commission v. Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated, Drexel Burnham Lambert Group Incorporated, Michael Milken, Lowell Milken, Cary Maultasch, Pamela Monzert, Victor Posner, Steven Posner and Pennsylvania Engineering Corporation Securities and Exchange Commission, Litigation Release No. 11859, September 7, 1988 United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Michael Ignatieff, Freud's Cordelia

Anna Freud: A Biography by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

My Three Mothers and Other Passions by Sophie Freud

Avishai Margalit, The Kitsch of Israel

Janet Adam Smith, Not So Grimm

Dear Mili: An Old Tale by Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim, pictures by Maurice Sendak

Murray Kempton, Heart of Darkness

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

John Bayley, Mr. Know-all

Tolstoy by A. N. Wilson

Tolstoy: The Ultimate Reconciliation by Martine de Courcel, translated by Peter Levi

Alison Lurie, The Frog Prince

Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor

Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor

Happy to Be Here by Garrison Keillor

A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book by Marcia Pankake, by Jon Pankake, with a foreword by Garrison Keillor

Derek Walcott, Magic Industry

To Urania by Joseph Brodsky

Richard Wollheim, Poussin in Texas

Poussin, The Early Years in Rome: The Origins of French Classicism September 24–November 27, 1988. an exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas,, Catalog of the exhibition by Konrad Oberhuber, foreword by Edmund P. Pillsbury

Keith Thomas, Just Say Yes

Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America by Edmund S. Morgan

Geza Jeszenszky, Maria M. Kovacs, Istvan Deak, 'Hungary's New Twist': An Exchange

George Jochnowitz, Alvin Z. Rubinstein, Jerome M. Segal, et al. 'The Morning After': An Exchange


Letters

Lou Ferleger, Robert Paquette, et al. 'Roll, Jordan, Roll'
Karen Kennerly, Arthur Miller, et al. In Korean Jails
Sidney Hook, I.F. Stone's Socrates
H.S. Thayer, M.F. Burnyeat, I.F. Stone's Socrates
David Bain, Martha C. Nussbaum, Pyrrho's Sister
William R. Emerson, Garry Wills, Aeromance
John Tytell, Denis Donoghue, Judging Pound



Contributors

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

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

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.

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His most recent book is Selected Poems. (May 2008)


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