Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 5 · March 29, 1990

Michael M. Thomas, Greed

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough, by John Helyar

True Greed: What Really Happened in the Battle for RJR Nabisco by Hope Lampert

Jasper Griffin, Love and Sex in Greece

One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love by David M. Halperin

The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece by John J. Winkler

Theodore H. Draper, Did Noriega Declare War?

Gabriele Annan, Great-Uncle

Shira by S. Y. Agnon, translated by Zeva Shapiro

James Merrill, Home Fires (poem)

Vaclav Havel, The Future of Central Europe

Louis S. Auchincloss, Babylon Revisited

Hollywood by Gore Vidal

Lawrence Freedman, Parade's End

E.A.J. Honigmann, The Dream of the Globe

Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe by Andrew Gurr, by John Orrell, foreword by Sam Wanamaker

Martin Malia, A Manifesto for Soviet Democracy

All-Union Conference of Party Clubs and Party Organizations, A Declaration of the Democratic Platform Group

Noel Annan, The Best of Bloomsbury

Letters of Leonard Woolf edited by Frederic Spotts

Sue M. Halpern, The Fight Over Teen-age Abortion

Lord Zuckerman, The Doctrine of Destruction

Master of Air Power: General Carl A. Spaatz by David R. Mets

The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944–1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway by Alfred C. Mierzejewski

Robert I. Friedman, The Palestinian Refugees

Jens Lund, Istvan Deak, The Legend of King Christian: An Exchange

Murray Kempton, Beyond Belligerence

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Letters

Ivo Banac, Daniel Chirot, et al. Fired in Belgrade
Lynne Lawner, John Updike, 'Indian Summer'
P.F. Widdows, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Lucan & 'Amours De Voyage'

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Contributors

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

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)

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)

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.

Martin Malia is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of Russia Under Western Eyes, from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum. (November 2001)

James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)

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