Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 3 · March 2, 1989

Garry Wills, Juggler's Code

Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow

Michael Ignatieff, On Bruce Chatwin

Jean-Pierre Barou, An Interview with Andrei Sakharov

Ian Buruma, The Double Life of Benazir Bhutto

Daughter of the East by Benazir Bhutto

Lawrence Stone, The Road to Polygamy

Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society by Roderick Phillips

Robert O. Paxton, The Divided Liberal

Tocqueville: A Biography by André Jardin, translated by Lydia Davis, with Robert Hemenway

Tocqueville and the Two Democracies by Jean-Claude Lamberti, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Frederic Wakeman, All the Rage in China

He shang [River Dirge] A six-part film for television directed by Xia Jun

He shang lun [About 'River Dirge'] Compiled by Cui Wenhua

Denis Donoghue, The Sad Captain of Criticism

Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present by Harold Bloom

D.J. Enright, So, and Not So

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie, The Book Burning

Robert M. Adams, Tolstoy in Embryo

A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628–1688 by Christopher Hill

E.D. Hirsch, The Primal Scene of Education

Monroe K. Spears, The United Tates

Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance by Ann Waldron

The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate edited by Thomas Daniel Young, edited by Elizabeth Sarcone

Michael A. Ledeen, Jane Mayer, Doyle McManus, et al. 'Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story': An Exchange

Victor Mosquera Chaux, Ann B. Wrobleski, Michael Massing, 'The War on Cocaine': An Exchange

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Letters

Albert Goldman, Luc Sante, 'The Lives of John Lennon'

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Contributors

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)

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)

D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

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)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. He is also a Regional Editor of North American Birds magazine. (November 2008)

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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