Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 1 · February 1, 1990

Roger Penrose, Matter Over Mind

Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec

Julia Preston, The Battle for San Salvador

John Updike, Rereading 'Indian Summer'

Anne Barton, Inventing Shakespeare

Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present by Gary Taylor

Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare's Tragedies by Barbara Everett

Shakespearean Constitutions: Politics, Theatre, Criticism, 1730–1830 by Jonathan Bate

Myriad-Minded Shakespeare: Essays, Chiefly on the Tragedies and Problem Comedies by E.A.J. Honigmann

Edmund S. Morgan, Mothers of Us All

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer

Gabriele Annan, Look At Me

Memoirs of a Public Baby by Philip O'Connor, introduction by Stephen Spender

Jonathan Mirsky, The Empire Strikes Back

Tiananmen: The Rape of Peking by Michael Fathers, by Andrew Higgins

Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June by Harrison E. Salisbury

Beijing Spring photographs by David Turnley, by Peter Turnley, text by Melinda Liu

June Four: A Chronicle of the Chinese Democratic Uprising by the photographers and reporters of the Ming Pao News, translated by Zi Jin, by Qin Zhou

Massacre in Beijing: The Events of 3–4 June, 1989 and Their Aftermath the Ad Hoc Study Group on Human Rights in China a report prepared by the International League for Human Rights and

Tiananmen Square by Scott Simmie, by Bob Nixon

Martin Filler, House Hunting

The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski

Pavel Campeanu, The Revolt of the Romanians

Aryeh Neier, What Should Be Done about the Guilty?

Robert M. Adams, From Abailard to Les Zutistes

A New History of French Literature edited by Denis Hollier

The Oxford Companion to French Literature by Sir Paul Harvey, by J.E. Heseltine

Gore Vidal, Maugham's Half & Half

Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham by Robert Calder

A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham

Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham

Maurice Hatton, Istvan Deak, 'The Incomprehensible Holocaust': An Exchange

Murray Kempton, Our Man in Panama

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Letters

Wolf Blitzer, Robert I. Friedman, 'Territory of Lies'

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Contributors

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

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)

Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.

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.

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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