Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 15 · October 12, 1989

Rosemary Dinnage, White Magic

Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England by T.M. Luhrmann

Gabriele Annan, Chaste Lovers

Count d'Orgel's Ball by Raymond Radiguet, translated by Annapaola Cancogni, foreword by Jean Cocteau

Gordon A. Craig, Making Way for Hitler

How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939 by Donald Cameron Watt

Chamberlain and Roosevelt: British Foreign Policy and the United States, 1937–1940 by William R. Rock

Der Eisbrecher: Hitler in Stalins Kalkül by Viktor Suworow

Simon Leys, After the Massacres

Walter McDonald, Digging in a Footlocker (poem)

Darryl Pinckney, Trickster Tales

The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed

The Terrible Threes by Ishmael Reed

The Free-Lance Pallbearers: An Irreverent Novel by Ishmael Reed

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

Writin' Is Fightin': Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper by Ishmael Reed

New and Collected Poems by Ishmael Reed

The Last Days of Louisiana Red by Ishmael Reed

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed

Diane Johnson, In Bed with Social Science

Sex and Morality in the U.S.: An Empirical Enquiry under the Auspices of the Kinsey Institute by Albert D. Klassen, by Colin J. Williams, by Eugene E. Levitt, edited by Hubert J. O'Gorman

Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Prophet

Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life by William H. McNeill

Garry Wills, Mr. Memory

The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow

Lord Zuckerman, How to Kill Arms Control

Jan Kott, Caesar at the Bastille

James M. McPherson, How the North Nearly Lost

Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History by Richard M. McMurry

Stonewall Jackson: Portrait of a Soldier by John Bowers

The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860–1865 edited by Stephen W. Sears

Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander edited by Gary W. Gallagher

Peter Jenkins, Her Majesty's Secret

The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy by Tom Nairn

Wilfrid Sheed, Outside Baseball

Summer of '49 by David Halberstam

Crash: The Life and Times of Dick Allen by Dick Allen, by Tim Whitaker

Out of the Blue by Orel Hershiser, with Jerry B. Jenkins

The Story of My Life by Hank Greenberg, edited and with an introduction by Ira Berkow

Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers by John B. Holway

The Progress of the Seasons: Forty Years of Baseball in Our Town by George V. Higgins

Necessities: Racial Barriers in American Sports by Philip M. Hoose

Peter B. Reddaway, Should World Psychiatry Readmit the Soviets?

C.M. Woodhouse, Who Killed George Polk?

The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair by Edmund Keeley

Andrew Hacker, Affirmative Action: The New Look

Eliminating Racism: Profiles in Controversy edited by Phyllis A. Katz, edited by Dalmas A. Taylor

Freshman Admissions at Berkeley: A Policy for the 1990s and Beyond Division, Academic Senate, University of California a Report by the Committee on Admissions and Enrollment, Berkeley, by Jerome Karabel chairman

Choosing a College: A Guide for Parents and Students by Thomas Sowell

The Case Against the SAT by James Crouse, by Dale Trusheim

Blacks in College: A Comparative Study of Students' Success in Black and in White Institutions by Jacqueline Fleming

A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society edited by Gerald David Jaynes, edited by Robin M. Williams Jr.

Visions of a Better Way: A Black Appraisal of Public Schooling by the Committee on Policy for Racial Justice, prepared by Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, preface by John Hope Franklin

Minorities in Higher Education edited by Reginald Wilson, edited by Deborah J. Carter


Letters

Lawrence Besserman, Amos Elon, Jerusalem
Charles L. Griswold, Denis Donoghue, Deconstruction, the Nazis, & Paul De Man
Donald Neff, Jerusalem
Jonathan D. Spence, China Witness, 1989



Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

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)

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.


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