Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 12 · July 20, 1989

McGeorge Bundy, The Emperor's Clothes

Minds at War: Nuclear Reality and the Inner Conflicts of Defense Policymakers by Steven Kull

Geoffrey O'Brien, Water Music (poem)

Roderick MacFarquhar, The End of the Chinese Revolution

Bernard Williams, Bad Behavior

Intellectuals by Paul Johnson

Jasper Griffin, Precious Stones

Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles by Christopher Hitchens, with essays by Robert Browning, by Graham Binns

The Elgins, 1766–1917: A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and Their Wives by Sydney Checkland

Shaul Bakhash, What Khomeini Did

David Lehman, One Size Fits All: a Critical Essay (poem)

Thomas Byrne Edsall, Democrats on the Take

Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America by David Vogel

Honest Graft: Big Money and the American Political Process by Brooks Jackson

James Fallows, The Real Japan

The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation by Karel van Wolferen

Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.

Simon Leys, The Curse of the Man Who Could See the Little Fish at the Bottom of the Ocean

Robert Towers, The Raw and the Cooked

Dead Languages by David Shields

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Fang Lizhi, Letters from the Other China

Jeri Laber, Cruel and Usual Punishment

Francis Haskell, Artemisia's Revenge?

Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art by Mary D. Garrard

Pietro Testa, 1612–1650: Prints and Drawings (November–December 1988) by Elizabeth Cropper catalog of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with essays by Charles Dempsey, by Francesco Solinas, by Anna Nicolò, by Francesca Consagra

Frederick C. Crews, The Parting of the Twains

Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America by Susan Gillman

Mark Twain and Science: Adventures of a Mind by Sherwood Cummings

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Letters

William E. Harkins, D.J. Enright, Sex & Czechs
Maurice Halperin, Aryeh Neier, Cuba's Prisoners
George Stevens, John Gregory Dunne, Shooting the Legend
Enid Balint, The Freud-Ferenczi Letters

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Contributors

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

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

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

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)

Simon Leys is the author of a dozen books, mostly on Chinese art, culture, and politics. His latest work is The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story. (December 2007)

Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book, written with Michael Schoenhals, is Mao’s Last Revolution. (June 2007)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (October 2008)

Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 2000)

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