Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 4 · March 15, 1990

Quentin Bell, Who's Afraid for Virginia Woolf?

Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work by Louise DeSalvo

Brad Leithauser, Any Place You Want

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

Brian Urquhart, The United Nations & Its Discontents

Ian Buruma, Boys Will Be Boys

The Boy-Man: The Life of Lord Baden-Powell by Tim Jeal

John Maynard Smith, What Can't the Computer Do?

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose

John Bayley, The Fire Next Time

The Fur Hat by Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Susan Brownsberger

Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays by Valentin Rasputin, selected, translated, and with an introduction by Gerald Mikkelson, by Margaret Winchell

Diane Johnson, The Lost World of the Mormons

The Chinchilla Farm by Judith Freeman

Windows on the Sea and Other Stories by Linda Sillitoe

Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders by Linda Sillitoe, by Allen Roberts

'Doc': The Rape of the Town of Lovell by Jack Olsen

The Mormon Murders: A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death by Steven Naifeh, by Gregory White Smith

Roger Shattuck, Mascot of Modern Music

Erik Satie by Alan M. Gillmor

Satie Seen Through His Letters by Ornella Volta, translated by Michael Bullock

Edward R.F. Sheehan, The Open Border

C. Vann Woodward, The Inner Civil War

Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes by Lewis P. Simpson

The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South by Drew Gilpin Faust

Matthew Rutenberg, Canaletto in New York

Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768 by W.G. Constable, revised by J.G. Links

Canaletto by Katharine Baetjer, by J.G. Links

Gordon A. Craig, Tribune of the Republic

A Present of Things Past: Selected Essays by Theodore Draper

Lawrence Stone, England's Financial Revolution

The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783 by John Brewer

Eric Alterman, Julia Preston, The Case of the Cessna 310: An Exchange

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Letters

Louis S. Auchincloss, Ralph Ellison, et al. Celebrating Mencken
Calvin Goldscheider, Arthur Hertzberg, The Jews in America
David Aylward, Virgil Finlay Drew It
Mark Duffield, Richard Gray, et al. In Sudanese Jails

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Contributors

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 latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)

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)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 2000)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

Edward R. F. Sheehan is a former US diplomat in the Middle East, a novelist (Cardinal Galsworthy), and the author of The Arabs, the Israelis, and Kissinger. He is a former Fellow of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. (April 2004)

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (March 2008)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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