Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 18 · November 23, 1989

Garry Wills, The Power of Impotence

A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward

Robert Lowell, Mary Mc Carthy (1912–1989) (poem)

Robert Craft, Pipe Dreams

An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno

Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes From the Non-Christian World by Paul Bowles

A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles

Stanley Hoffmann, The Perfect In-and-Outer

From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision, A Memoir by Paul H. Nitze, with Ann M. Smith, by Steven L. Rearden

Hilary Mantel, England, Whose England?

A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble

Nice Work by David Lodge

Alan Ryan, A Family Romance

The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family by William St. Clair

Arthur Hertzberg, What Future for American Jews?

Andrew Delbanco, Lyrical Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men edited by Richard Lehan

James Joll, Art and Anarchy

Félix Fénéon: Aesthete and Anarchist in Fin-de-Siècle Paris by Joan Ungersma Halperin, foreward by Germaine Brée

Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France by Richard D. Sonn

John Gross, Petit Maître

Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892–1956 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis

Alfred Kazin, American Gothic

Hugo Young, An Unlikely Demon

Harold Macmillan: Volume II, 1957–1986 by Alistair Horne

Alison Lurie, A Dictionary for Deconstructors

M.F. Perutz, Is Britain 'Befouled'?

Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution by Marilynne Robinson

William Shawcross, The Boat People in Peril

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Letters

Dina Shalit, Robert I. Friedman, West Bank Story
Robert L. Herbert, Jack Flam, Impressionism
Leo Ou-fan Lee, Benjamin Lee, Tiananmen Archives

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Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Andrew Delbanco is Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. He is working on a book about college education. (November 2009)

John Gross's most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which was published in paperback last September. (May 2009)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. He also wrote Chaos and Violence.

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Robert Lowell died in 1977. His Collected Poems was published this summer. The letters in this issue will be included in The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, to be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. (November 2003)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 2009)

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)

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

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