Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 11 · June 29, 1989

Orville Schell, China's Spring

Bernard Knox, Los Olvidados

The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance by John Boswell

Robert Bernard Martin, Romance Incarnate

Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality by Emily W. Sunstein

C. Vann Woodward, The Mississippi Horrors

Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow by Neil R. McMillen

Jonathan Mirsky, The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, by Timothy Cheek, by Eugene Wu, with contributions by Merle Goldman, by Benjamin Schwartz

Michael Ignatieff, The Rise and Fall of Vienna's Jews

The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph by Robert S. Wistrich

Vienna and Its Jews: The Tragedy of Success, 1880s–1980s by George E. Berkley

A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670–1918 by William O. McCagg Jr.

Judentum in Wien: Sammlung Max Berger November 12, 1987–June 5, 1988 catalog of the exhibition at the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien,

Vienna and the Jews, 1867–1938: A Cultural History by Steven Beller

The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight and Exile by Paul Hofmann

The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria (revised edition) Peter Pulzer

Robert Hughes, The Liberal Goya

Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment 9–July 16, 1989). an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (May

Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment catalog of the exhibition by Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, by Eleanor A. Sayre

Denis Donoghue, The Strange Case of Paul de Man

Wartime Journalism: 1939–1943 by Paul de Man, edited by Werner Hamacher, by Neil Hertz, by Thomas Keenan

Responses: On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism edited by Werner Hamacher, edited by Neil Hertz, edited by Thomas Keenan

Critical Writings: 1953–1978 by Paul de Man, edited and with an introduction by Lindsay Waters

Reading de Man Reading edited by Lindsay Waters, edited by Wlad Godzich

Perry Link, The Chinese Intellectuals and the Revolt

James Atlas, Golden Boy

Passage From Home by Isaac Rosenfeld, with a new foreword by Mark Shechner

Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader edited and introduced by Mark Shechner, foreword by Saul Bellow

Ronald Steel, A Gent of Dissent

The Price of Empire by J. William Fulbright, with Seth P. Tillman

Ronald Dworkin, The Great Abortion Case


Letters

Howard Schuman, A Question of Racism
Gary Sanders, Libros RevoluciÓN Bookstore
Michael Scammell, Langston Hughes in the USSR
Pal Veress, 'Razing Romania'



Contributors

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)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn’t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

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)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Perry Link is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (April 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He reported from Vietnam in 1965 and 1967. (November 2008)

Orville Schell is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City. (August 2008)

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)


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