Table of Contents
Volume 36, Number 21 · January 18, 1990
J.M. Cameron, Poet of the Great Massacre 
Poems of Paul Celan translated and with an introduction by Michael Hamburger
Vaclav Havel, Words on Words
John Weightman, A La Recherche…de Proust
Marcel Proust: Selected Letters Volume Two, 1904–1909 edited by Philip Kolb, translated and with an introduction by Terence Kilmartin
Marcel Proust: A Biography by George D. Painter
John Ashbery, From Estuaries, from Casinos (poem)
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Ultimate Scandal
Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans by Stephen Pizzo, by Mary Fricker, by Paul Muolo
Other People's Money: The Inside Story of the S&L Mess by Paul Zane Pilzer, with Robert Dietz
The Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandal by James Ring Adams
Stanley Hoffmann, A Plan for The New Europe
Garry Wills, Shylock Without Usury
Shylock Reconsidered: Jews, Moneylending, and Medieval Society by Joseph Shatzmiller
The Merchant of Venice a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Peter Hall
God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England by Norman Jones
Stephen Jay Gould, Down on the Farm
From Foraging to Agriculture: The Levant at the End of the Ice Age by Donald O. Henry
Gordon A. Craig, A New, New Reich?
A History of West Germany Volume 1: From Shadow to Substance, 1945–1963; Volume 2: Democracy and Its Discontents, 1963–1988 by Dennis L. Bark, by David R. Gress
The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty edited by Peter H. Merkl
Germany, America, Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy by Wolfram F. Hanrieder
Die Erinnerungen by Franz Josef Strauss
Men and Powers: A Political Retrospective by Helmut Schmidt, translated by Ruth Hein
La Nation orpheline: Les Allemagnes en Europe by Anne-Marie Le Gloannec
The Germans: Rich, Bothered and Divided the fall) by David Marsh
A German Identity, 1770–1990 by Harold James
Stuart Hampshire, Love Story
Ackerley: The Life of J.R. Ackerley by Peter Parker
Murray Kempton, Keeping Up With the News
Phyllis Grosskurth, Freud's Favorite Paranoiac
Schreber: Father and Son by Han Israëls
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Roman Grand Guignol
Lucan's 'Civil War' translated into English verse by P.F. Widdows
Timothy Garton Ash, The Revolution of the Magic Lantern
J. Kevin Branigan, David J. Brenner, Jay M. Gould, et al. Nuclear Pollution: An Exchange
Letters
Isaac Levi, Sidney Morgenbesser, Jonathan Lieberson Prize
Frances McCullough, Sylvia Plath's Journals
Irving Howe, Simon Leys, Changing Communism
Alan G. Thomas, John Bayley, Henry James Mix-Up
Contributors
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
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)
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)
Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)
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.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
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.
