Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 2 · February 16, 1989

I.F. Stone, The Rights of Gorbachev

Eleanor Perenyi, Queen Bee

A Book of Bees…and How to Keep Them by Sue Hubbell

A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell

Victor F. Weisskopf, The Origin of the Universe

Jonathan Mirsky, Message from Mao

Edgar Snow: A Biography by John Maxwell Hamilton

Robert Towers, Intruders in the Dust

Paris Trout by Pete Dexter

Shine Hawk by Charlie Smith

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Getting FDR's Ear

Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal by Joseph P. Lash

Liberal: Adolf A. Berle and the Vision of an American Era by Jordan A. Schwarz

Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933–1940 by James S. Olson

Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy by George McJimsey

David Lehman, With Tenure (poem)

Sue M. Halpern, The Rise of the Homeless

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol

Clifford Geertz, A South Sea Renaissance

Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680: Vol. I, The Lands below the Winds by Anthony Reid

J.R. Hale, 1588 and All That

The Spanish Armada by Colin Martin, by Geoffrey Parker

The Armada by Garrett Mattingly

Armada: A celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588–1988 by Peter Padfield

The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 1588 by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The Enterprise of England: The Spanish Armada by Roger Whiting

Armada: 1588–1988, An International Exhibition to Commemorate the Spanish Armada: The Official Catalogue (Greenwich) edited by M.J. Rodríguez-Salgado. the staff of the National Maritime Museum

Robert M. Adams, Tin Cans in the Rockies

The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States by Leo Marx

Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916–1984 edited by Mary Street Alinder, edited by Andrea Gray Stillman

Robert Craft, Jews and Geniuses

Darryl Pinckney, Suitcase in Harlem

The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I, 1902–1941: I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad

The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. II, 1941–1967: I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad

Elhanan Motzkin, John R. Searle, Artificial Intelligence and the Chinese Room: An Exchange

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Letters

Martin Gardner, Paranormal Companionship
David Leverenz, Thomas Flanagan, Milton and the Schismatics

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Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)

Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

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.

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