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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

Václav 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

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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

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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 books include Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name and (as editor with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
 (December 2009)

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)

Václav 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. He also wrote Chaos and Violence.

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

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