Table of Contents
Volume 35, Number 19 · December 8, 1988
C. Vann Woodward, Slaves and Mistresses 
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Bill McKibben, Is the World Getting Hotter?
The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States: Draft Report to Congress Printing Office in two volumes edited by Joel B. Smith, edited by Dennis A. Tirpak
State of the World 1988: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society by Lester R. Brown, by William U. Chandler, by Alan Durning, by Christopher Flavin, by Lori Heise, by Jodi Jacobson, by Sandra Postel, by Cynthia Pollock Shea, by Linda Starke, by Edward C. Wolf
A Matter of Degrees: The Potential for Controlling the Greenhouse Effect by Irving M. Mintzer
The End by Larry Ephron
Ian Buruma, The Last Laugh
Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India 1921–1952 by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Peter Jenkins, Not-so Free Speech in Britain
Charles Rosen, Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter
J.M. Cameron, Prophet of Lubyanka
My Century: The Odyssey of a Polish Intellectual by Aleksander Wat, edited and translated by Richard Lourie, with a foreword by Czeslaw Milosz
Aleksander Wat, Proust in Lubyanka
Denis Donoghue, Play It Again, Sam
Waiting for Godot a play by Samuel Beckett, directed by Mike Nichols
Peter Partner, Lost Worlds
Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment by Eugene Victor Walter
The Architecture of Exile by Stanley Tigerman
The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World by Joseph Rykwert
Alexander Podrabinek, Peter B. Reddaway, Soviet Psychiatry: A Message from Moscow
John Weightman, Confessions of a Polymorph
The Wind Spirit an autobiography by Michel Tournier, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Phyllis Grosskurth, The Lovable Analyst
The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi edited by Judith Dupont, translated by Michael Balint, by Nicola Zarday Jackson
Francis Haskell, Thanks for the Memory
Les lieux de mémoire edited by Pierre Nora
Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe: Art and Ideology in Orléanist France, 1830–1848 by Michael Marrinan
Julian Moynahan, Waiting for God in Inglenook
Wheat That Springeth Green by J.F. Powers
Charles Rossman, The New 'Ulysses': The Hidden Controversy
Murray Kempton, The Morning After
Letters
Andrew R. Moss, Diane Johnson, et al. 'Aids Without End'
Joseph M. Colacino, 'Aids Without End'
Carlos Ripoll, Raymond Carr, Marx & Martí
Thomas Suddes, C. Vann Woodward, The First Jewish Senator
Michael Groden, John Kidd, More on the New 'Ulysses'
Jennifer Crewe, It's Available
Contributors
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.
Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)
Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)
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.
Bill McKibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
Julian Moynahan is Professor of English Emeritus at Rutgers University. His most recent book is Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture. (May 2000)
Peter Partner's books include Arab Voices and The Pope's Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)
Charles Rosen's latest book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (March 2009)
Aleksander Wat (1900-1967), the nom de plume of Aleksander Chwat, was born in Warsaw, the descendant of an old and distinguished Jewish family which counted among its members the great sixteenth-century cabalist Isaac Luria. He attended Warsaw University, where he studied philosophy, psychology, and logic, and formed strong ties with the literary avant-garde, publishing a first book of poems, Me from One Side and Me from the Other Side of My Pug Iron Stove, in 1920 and, some years later, a collection of stories entitled Lucifer Unemployed. Wat edited a variety of influential journals and helped to disseminate the work of Mayakovsky and the futurists in Poland, before forming an allegiance with the Communist Party and confining his writing to journalism. In 1939 he fled east before the advancing German army and was separated from his wife and young son. The family reunited in Lwów, then under Soviet control, where Wat found work on a newspaper, only to be placed under arrest. Imprisoned in the Soviet Union for the better part of two years, during which time he converted from Judaism to Christianity, Wat again rejoined his family, who had been exiled to Kazakhstan, in 1942. They returned after the war to Poland, where Wat began to write poetry again while serving as editor of the state publishing house. In 1963, he left his native country for France. Wat was invited in 1964 to the University of California, Berkeley, where he taped a series of conversations about his life and times with his countryman the poet Czeslaw Milosz. Edited by Milosz, these were published posthumously as My Century.
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)
