Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 7 · April 26, 1990

Neal Ascherson, The Trial of Lithuania

Garry Wills, Monstre Désacré

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

Derek Jarrett, Guilt-Edged Insecurity

Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795 edited by Marlies K. Danziger, edited by Frank Brady

Boswell's London Journal, 1762–1763 by James Boswell

Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764 by James Boswell

Boswell in Holland, 1763–1764 by James Boswell

Boswell for the Defence, 1769–1774 by James Boswell

Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774–1776 by James Boswell

Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778–1782 by James Boswell

Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785–1789 by James Boswell

Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795 by James Boswell

Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782–1785 by James Boswell

Boswell in Extremes, 1776–1778 by James Boswell

Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1773 by James Boswell

Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766–1769 by James Boswell

Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765–1766 by James Boswell

Timothy Garton Ash, East Germany: The Solution

Louis S. Auchincloss, The Way We Live Now?

Hanover Place by Michael M. Thomas

A Tenured Professor by John Kenneth Galbraith

Jonathan Mirsky, In A Cruel Country

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic by Bette Bao Lord

'Tell the World': What Happened in China and Why by Liu Binyan, with Ruan Ming, by Xu Gang, translated by Helen L. Epstein

A Higher Kind of Loyalty: A Memoir by China's Foremost Journalist by Liu Binyan

Natalie Zemon Davis, A Modern Hero

Marc Bloch: A Life in History by Carole Fink

Hilary Mantel, Crime and Puzzlement

Devices and Desires by P.D. James

Avishai Margalit, High Noon at the Likud Corral

Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon by Ariel Sharon, by David Chanoff

Sharon: An Israeli Caesar by Uzi Benziman

Janet Adam Smith, Unchildish Activities

Don't Tell the Grown-ups: Subversive Children's Literature by Alison Lurie

Robert M. Adams, Tripping Over the Future

The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798–1984 by Don Gifford

Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by O.B. Hardison Jr.

Frederick C. Crews, The Power of Flannery O'Connor

Collected Works by Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald

The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor by Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.

The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists by Ralph C. Wood

Flannery O'Connor: The Imagination of Extremity by Frederick Asals

Vaclav Havel, Richard von Weizsaecker, The Return of Germany

Shirley Hazzard, Brian Urquhart, 'The UN and Its Discontents': An Exchange

Murray Kempton, Soviet Lawyers in New York

David M. Halperin, Jasper Griffin, Greek Love: An Exchange

J. Bradford Robinson, Philip Gossett, The Music of Carl Dahlhaus: An Exchange

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Letters

John Ranlett, Peter Singer, Preserving the Landscape
Jon Wynne-Tyson, Agonized Wail

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

Natalie Zemon Davis is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton and Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author most recently of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds. (May 2008)

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)

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)

Derek Jarrett is Editor of the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Memoirs. His edition of The Memoirs of the Reign of George III will be published later this year. (March 1999)

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.

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)

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

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.

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