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
Letters
Dina Shalit, Robert I. Friedman, West Bank Story
Robert L. Herbert, Jack Flam, Impressionism
Leo Ou-fan Lee, Benjamin Lee, Tiananmen Archives
Contributors
Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)
Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is Melville: His World and Work. (April 2008)
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 will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)
Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)
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 the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)
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 intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)
William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)
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.
