Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 4 · March 16, 1989

John Bayley, God's Greene

The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene

Graham Greene by Neil McEwan

A Reader's Guide to Graham Greene by Paul O'Prey

Murray Kempton, The GOP Blues

Jasper Griffin, Greeks, Romans, Jews & Others

Corruption and the Decline of Rome by Ramsay MacMullen

The Jews in the Greek Age by Elias J. Bickerman

Greeks, Romans and Barbarians: Spheres of Interaction by Barry Cunliffe

Darryl Pinckney, The Last New Negro

John K. Fairbank, Keeping up with the New China

Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform by Orville Schell

Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience edited by Geremie Barmé, edited by John Minford

Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd

Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China by Colin Thubron

Istvan Deak, Fun City

Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture by John Lukacs

Martin Gardner, Beauty in Numbers

Mathematics: The New Golden Age by Keith Devlin

Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone

Michael Kazin, Sticking It Out

The Long-Distance Runner: An Autobiography by Michael Harrington

Christopher Benfey, The Courage of Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane: Prose and Poetry edited by J.C. Levenson

The Correspondence of Stephen Crane edited by Stanley Wertheim, edited by Paul Sorrentino

Robert M. Adams, Alibi Alley

Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France by Natalie Zemon Davis

Paul Kennedy, Can the US Remain Number One?

The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905 by Aaron L. Friedberg

The Future of American Strategy by David C. Hendrickson

Thinking About America: The United States in the 1990s edited by Annelise Anderson, edited by Dennis L. Bark

Preventing World War III: A Realistic Grand Strategy by David M. Abshire

Walter Frisch, Alfred Brendel, 'Schubert's Last Sonatas': An Exchange

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Letters

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Eqbal Ahmad, et al. 'The Satanic Verses'
Ann Morrissett Davidon, Victor F. Weisskopf, Something from Nothing
Pratapaditya Pal, Ian Buruma, In Fancy Uniform
Lilya Finkel, Fyodor Finkel, The Fate of the Shatskiis
Arthur Goldhammer, John Weightman, The Soul of Translation
Nicholas Humphrey, Another Russian Exile
I.W. Gittleman, The First Persecution
Richard F. Gombrich, The Death of English
Paul Roazen, Erikson's Second Thoughts
Mary Ann Caws, Automatic Writing Is Born

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His book A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade was published in April. (June 2008)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

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.

Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, is the author and editor of fifteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. His latest book is The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. (November 2006)

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

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