Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 1 · February 2, 1989

Fang Lizhi, China's Despair and China's Hope

John Hollander, An Old Counting-Game (poem)

Gabriele Annan, Rules of the Game

Utz by Bruce Chatwin

Stuart Hampshire, Engaged Philosopher

Bertrand Russell: A Political Life by Alan Ryan

Gordon A. Craig, Facing Up to the Nazis

Withstanding Hitler in Germany: 1933–1945 by Michael Balfour

Die Hassell-Tagebücher 1938–1944: Aufzeichnungen vom anderen Deutschland by Ulrich von Hassell, revised and expanded from the manuscript by Klaus Peter Reiss, edited by Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen

Briefe an Freya, 1930–1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke, edited by Beate Ruhm von Oppen

Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader by Ronald Smelser

Göring: A Biography by David Irving

The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity by Charles S. Maier

Garry Wills, Dorrit Without Politics

Little Dorrit a film directed by Christine Edzard, based on the novel by Charles Dickens

Anton Shammas, The Shroud of Mahfouz

William H. Gass, Johns

Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974 Pennsylvania, (October 23, 1988–January 8, 1989) an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia,

Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974 catalog of the exhibition by Mark Rosenthal

Foirades/Fizzles: Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns University of California, Los Angeles, distributed by the University of Chicago Press by Jasper Johns, by Samuel Beckett, by Edith A. Tonelli, by John Cage, by Richard S. Field, by Andrew Bush, by Richard Shiff, by Fred Orton, by James Cuno

Stanley Hoffmann, Do Nuclear Weapons Matter?

Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years by McGeorge Bundy

Alfred Brendel, Schubert's Last Sonatas

Peter Singer, Unkind to Animals

Animal Liberators: Research and Morality by Susan Sperling

Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical and Behavioral Research Research; the Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council; and the Institute of Medicine by the Committee on the Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical

W.H.C. Frend, The Devil and the Flesh

The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown

Michael Walzer, Flight from Philosophy

The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times by Benjamin Barber

Kathleen Parthe, Sergei Kovalyov, Village Prose: An Exchange

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Letters

Victoria Abril, Nestor Almendros, et al. An Open Letter to Fidel Castro
Jan Brabec, Vaclav Havel, et al. Prisoners of Conscience
Edwin O. Guthman, Garry Wills, Civil Rights & the Kennedys
Michael Groden, John Kidd, 'Ulysses' Update
Michael J. Foster, A Second Career!
Virginia Gardner, 'Friend & Lover'

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002)

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)

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 2008)

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)

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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