Table of Contents
Volume 36, Number 7 · April 27, 1989
Murray Kempton, The Fate of Paul Robeson 
Paul Robeson by Martin Bauml Duberman
Gheorghe Apostol, Alexandru Birladeanu, Silviu Brucan, et al. Romania: Breaking the Silence
John Pope-Hennessy, The Fall of a Great Museum
Luc Sante, On the Bum
You Can't Win: The Autobiography of Jack Black foreword by William S. Burroughs
Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography as told to Dr. Ben L. Reitman, introduction by Kathy Acker, afterword by Roger A. Bruns
Richard C. Lewontin, The Science of Metamorphoses
Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology by Philip J. Pauly
Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryology by Gerald M. Edelman
Gabriele Annan, High Romance
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
John Osborne, Look Back on Burton
Richard Burton: A Life by Melvyn Bragg
Conor Cruise O'Brien, A Lost Chance to Save the Jews?
David Cannadine, The Unhappy Winner
Harold Macmillan: Vol. I, 1894-1956 by Alistair Horne
Jeri Laber, Fighting Back in Prague
Vaclav Havel, A Statement to the Court
Robert O. Paxton, The Friendly Fascist
Communism and Collaboration: Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille, 1919-1944 by Paul Jankowski
Helen Vendler, The Explorer
I. A. Richards: His Life and Work by John Paul Russo
Mary McCarthy, A Memory of James Baldwin
Robert Towers, Mystery Women
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
A Theft by Saul Bellow
The Whiteness of Bones by Susanna Moore
James Joll, No Man's Land
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets and Playwrights edited by Tim Cross
Passion and Rebellion: The Expressionist Heritage edited by Stephen Eric Bronner, edited by Douglas Kellner
Frieden für Europa: Die Politik der Deutschen Reichstagsmehrheit 1917-18 by Wilhelm Ribhegge
German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933 by Larry Eugene Jones
Gar Alperovitz, Stanley Hoffmann, 'Do Nuclear Weapons Matter?': An Exchange
Letters
Samuel J. Eldersveld, Raphael S. Ezekiel, et al. The Mircea Raceanu Case
Neal Zaslaw, Alfred Brendel, Repeat Performance
Gary Boucher, John Bayley, Russian Roulette: Bad Bet
John K. Fairbank, Jonathan Mirsky, Mao and Snow
Michael A. Ledeen, Theodore H. Draper, Truth about Ghorbanifar
Niel Glixon, Robert Craft, The Stravinsky Beat
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 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.
Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)
Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).
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).
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)
Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (March 2008)
William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)
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.
Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)
