Table of Contents
Volume 35, Number 20 · December 22, 1988
Gabriele Annan, Roughing It
High Albania by Edith Durham
The Passionate Nomad: The Diary of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt
My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel
I.F. Stone, Another Betrayal by Psychiatry? 
Scot Shane, The Russians Have a Word for Dressing Up Reality
V.S. Naipaul, Rednecks
Patricia Storace, Movie (poem)
Joan Didion, Thomas Byrne Edsall, Benjamin M. Friedman, et al. The Election and the Future: A Symposium
Henry Gifford, An Artist's Artist
Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free by V.S. Pritchett
Andrei D. Sakharov, On Gorbachev: A Talk with Andrei Sakharov
Luc Sante, Beatlephobia
The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman
The Lennon Companion: Twenty-five Years of Comment edited by Elizabeth Thomson, edited by David Gutman
Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary by Tim Riley
Yesterday: The Unauthorized Biography of Paul McCartney by Chet Flippo
John Lennon, My Brother by Julia Baird, by Geoffrey Giuliano, foreword by Paul McCartney
Imagine: John Lennon a film directed by Andrew Solt
Imagine: John Lennon written and edited by Andrew Solt, by Sam Egan, foreword by Yoko Ono, preface by David L. Wolper
Timothy Garton Ash, The Prague Advertisement
Mary McCarthy, Looking Back on 'Locos'
Charles Hope, The Eyewitness Style
Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio by Patricia Fortini Brown
Denis Donoghue, The Poet in Limbo
Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale by Edward Butscher
James Joll, City Lights
Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830–1848 by Lloyd S. Kramer
Restoration and Reaction, 1815–1848 by André Jardin, by André-Jean Tudesq, translated by Elborg Forster
Ian Buruma, Art of Cruelty
Hell Screen, Cogwheels, A Fool's Life by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Takashi Kojima, by Cid Corman, by Will Petersen, with a foreword by Jorge Luis Borges, an introduction by Kazuya Sakai
Childhood Years: A Memoir by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, translated by Paul McCarthy
Ira Gruber, In the Dawn's Early Light
The First Salute by Barbara W. Tuchman
Robert M. Adams, The Defoe File
The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe by P.N. Furbank, by W.R. Owens
Michael Massing, The War on Cocaine
Letters
Gabriel Moked, Anton Shammas, Jews and Israelis
Gilbert M. Johnson, White Racism, Black Crime
Heinz H. Spiess, Andrew Hacker, White Racism, Black Crime
Edward Field, Alfred Chester's Revival
Robert Craft, The Motives of T.S. Eliot
Roger Zetter, Journal of Refugee Studies
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
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)
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 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)
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)
Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)
Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)
Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
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)
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.
Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.
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.
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)
