Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 19 · December 7, 1989

Gabriele Annan, On the High Wire

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

Fritz Stern, The Common House of Europe

Christa Wolf, A Speech in East Berlin

David Joravsky, Machine Dreams

The Papers of Thomas A. Edison Volume 1: The Making of an Inventor, February 1847–June 1873 edited by Reese V. Jenkins. others

The Evolution of Technology by George Basalla

American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870–1970 by Thomas P. Hughes

E.A.J. Honigmann, Me, Myself, and I

Studies in Autobiography edited by James Olney

Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography by Herbert Leibowitz

Ian Buruma, Just Say Noh

The Japan That Can Say 'No': The Card for a New US–Japan Relationship by Morita Akio, by Ishihara Shintaro

John Bayley, The Master at Home

A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and His Literary Circle, 1895–1915 by Miranda Seymour

Thinking in Henry James by Sharon Cameron

The Pop World of Henry James: From Fairy Tales to Science Fiction by Adeline R. Tintner

Julia Preston, The Trial that Shook Cuba

Maurice Keen, All This and Heaven, Too

Hildegard of Bingen, 1098–1179: A Visionary Life by Sabina Flanagan

Three Medieval Views of Women translated and edited by Gloria K. Fiero, by Wendy Pfeffer, by Mathé Allain

Martha C. Nussbaum, Recoiling from Reason

Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre

Patricia Storace, The Art of M. F. K. Fisher

Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets by M.F.K. Fisher

Among Friends by M.F.K. Fisher

The Art of Eating: How to Cook a Wolf, Consider the Oyster, Serve it Forth, The Gastronomical Me, An Alphabet for Gourmets by M.F.K. Fisher

Serve It Forth by M.F.K. Fisher

Consider the Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher

How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher

The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher

Sister Age by M.F.K. Fisher

Robert Towers, You Can Go Home Again

Affliction by Russell Banks

Mile Zero by Thomas Sanchez

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Ages of Jackson

Michael Haas, Jerome Karabel, Andrew Hacker, Affirmative Action: An Exchange

Murray Kempton, Another Dirty Secret

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Letters

Olwyn Hughes, Al Alvarez, Sylvia Plath's Biographers
Juan E. Mendez, The Case of Elizardo Sanchez

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Contributors

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

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

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.

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.

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