Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 14 · September 28, 1989

Noel Annan, Oh What a Lovely War!

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell

Living Through the Blitz by Tom Harrisson

The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II by Richard Hough, by Denis Richards

Viktor Erofeyev, Betrayal

The Russia House by John le Carré

Neal Ascherson, About the European House

Europe, Europe: Forays into a Continent by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Martin Chalmers

Brendan Gill, The Faces of Joseph Campbell

Jack Flam, Fleeting Impressionism

Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society by Robert L. Herbert

Lord Zuckerman, Converging on Peace?

A World at Peace: Common Security in the Twenty-first Century by the Palme Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues

John K. Fairbank, Why China's Rulers Fear Democracy

Al Alvarez, A Poet and Her Myths

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson

Murray Kempton, The Pizza Is Burning!

Do the Right Thing a movie by Spike Lee

Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint by Spike Lee, with Lisa Jones

Denis Donoghue, Haggling Presences

For Every Sin by Aharon Appelfeld, Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green

His Daughter by Yoram Kaniuk, Translated from the Hebrew by Seymour Simckes

See Under: Love by David Grossman, Translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg

Five Seasons by A.B. Yehoshua, Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin

The Immortal Bartfuss by Aharon Appelfeld, Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green

E.A.J. Honigmann, Shakespeare's Double Vision

Shakespeare: The Four Romances by Robert M. Adams

Ronald Dworkin, The Future of Abortion

James Sterba, The Not-So-Spiritual East

God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey by Ian Buruma

Michael Massing, How Free Is the Soviet Press?

Nadine Gordimer, The Gap Between the Writer and the Reader

Bruce Chatwin, On George Ortiz

Istvan Deak, The Incomprehensible Holocaust

Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The "Final Solution" in History by Arno J. Mayer

The Kraków Ghetto and the Plaszów Camp Remembered by Malvina Graf, foreword and notes by George M. Kren

Some Dare to Dream: Frieda Frome's Escape From Lithuania by Frieda Frome, foreword by Robert Abzug

Double Identity: A Memoir by Zofia S. Kubar

Life With a Star by Jirí Weil, translated by Ruzena Kovarikova, by Roslyn Schloss, preface by Philip Roth

From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938–1947 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz

The Jews and the Poles in World War II by Stefan Korbonski

And I Am Afraid of My Dreams by Wanda Póltawska, translated by Mary Craig

Doctor #117641: A Holocaust Memoir by Louis J. Micheels M.D., foreword by Albert J. Solnit M.D.

Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss, with Evelyn Julia Kent

Unbroken: Resistance and Survival in the Concentration Camps by Len Crome

Lódz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege compiled and edited by Alan Adelson, by Robert Lapides, with annotations and bibliographical notes by Marek Web

Soldiers of Evil: The Commandants of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman

The Holocaust in History by Michael R. Marrus

Unanswered Questions: Nazi Germany and the Genocide of the Jews edited by François Furet

Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman

Lech Walesa, A Letter to the Polish Electorate

Robert Eisner, Benjamin M. Friedman, The Deficit: An Exchange

Susan Gillman, Wendy Lesser, Garry Wills, et al. An Exchange on Mark Twain

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Letters

Martin Bernal, Jasper Griffin, 'Black Athena'
Daniel Bell, Denis Donoghue, The Higher Criticism
Roger Scruton, Bernard Williams, Amazement
Douglas J. Stewart, Jasper Griffin, 'Black Athena'
James Lord, 'Giacometti's Code'
Susan Sterett, Jeremy Waldron, et al. Justice, East and West
Thomas W. Perry, Derek Walcott, Reading Larkin

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Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Istvan Deak has written books on Weimar Germany’s left-wing intellectuals, the 1848 revolution in Hungary, the Habsburg army officer corps, and Europe during World War II. (March 2007)

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."

Viktor Erofeyev is the author of Russian Beauty, a novel, and the editor of The Penguin Book of New Russian Writing. He lives in Moscow. (March 2001)

Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)

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.

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

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