Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 8 · May 18, 1989

Elizabeth Hardwick, Citizen Updike

Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike

Ian Buruma, Good Night, Sweet Princes

Raj: A Novel by Gita Mehta

Maharaja: The Spectacular Heritage of Princely India by Andrew Robinson, photographs by Sumio Uchiyama

Gail Pressberg, Israel and the Occupied Territories: An Urgent Appeal By the Icrc

George P. Fletcher, In Gorbachev's Courts

Avigdor Arikha, Giacometti's Code

Alan Ryan, Distrusting Economics

Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions by Robert H. Frank

Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations edited by Diego Gambetta

John Gregory Dunne, Goldwynism

Goldwyn: A Biography by A. Scott Berg

The Search for Sam Goldwyn: A Biography by Carol Easton

Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power by Robert Scheer

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's by Otto Friedrich

The Deer Park by Norman Mailer

The Image Makers: Sixty Years of Hollywood Glamour text by Paul Trent, designed by Richard Lawton

Hollywood Glamor Portraits: 145 Photos of Stars, 1926-1949 edited by John Kobal

John Ford by Andrew Sinclair

Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era by Kevin Starr

The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies by Ethan Mordden

An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler

M.F. Perutz, Should Genes Be Screened?

Proceed With Caution: Predicting Genetic Risks in the Recombinant DNA Era by Neil A. Holtzman

D.J. Enright, Czech Mates

I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Paul Wilson

My First Loves by Ivan Klíma, translated by Ewald Osers

Catapult: A Timetable of Rail, Sea, and Air Ways to Paradise by Vladimír Páral, translated and with an introduction by William Harkins

Sins for Father Knox by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Kaca Polackova Henley

Bohumil Hrabal, The Magic Flute

Robert M. Adams, I Porni

I modi: The Sixteen Pleasures: An Erotic Album of the Italian Renaissance by Giulio Romano, by Marcantonio Raimondi, by Pietro Aretino, by Count Jean-Frédéric-Maximilien de Waldeck, edited, translated, and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner

Simon Head, The Battle Inside NATO

Maurice Keen, A Master of the Middle Ages

Medieval Civilization: 400-1500 by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Julia Barrow

The Medieval Imagination by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Your Money or Your Life by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Patricia Ranum

Joseph Kerman, Mozart à la Mode

Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, and No. 21 in C, K. 467 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner with Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, and English Baroque Soloists,

Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 22 in E flat, K. 482, and No. 23 in A, K. 488 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner with Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, and English Baroque Soloists,

Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 25 in C, K. 503, and No. 26 in D, K. 537 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner with Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, and English Baroque Soloists,

Mozart and Schnabel, Vol. II, Piano Concerto No. 20 with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind

Mozart and Schnabel, Vol. II, Piano Concerto No. 21 with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Mozart and Schnabel, Vol. II, Sonata No. 12 in F, K. 332 with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 26 in D, K. 537, and Rondos, K. 382 and 386 with Murray Perahia, piano and, the English Chamber Orchestra.

Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 23 in A, K. 488, and No. 27 in B flat, K. 595 with Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano and, the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Michael Massing, Sad New El Salvador

Simon Schama, Norman Hampson, 'The Two French Revolutions': An Exchange

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Letters

David Brion Davis, It Wasn't Peter Salem
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, J.R. Hale, 1588 and All That
Shloime Perel, Robert Craft, Einstein & the Jews
M.F. Perutz, Noel Annan, Moscow & Harold Wilson

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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)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

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)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Simon Head is a Senior Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford. His most recent book is The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age. (August 2007)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)

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