Table of Contents
Volume 37, Number 8 · May 17, 1990
David Remnick, The Communist Party Cut-Up 
Against the Grain: An Autobiography by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Michael Glenny
John Bayley, The Real Thing
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
Eric L. McKitrick, Reconstructing Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson: A Biography by Hans L. Trefousse
Jack Flam, Monet's Way
Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings 29; The Art Institute of Chicago, May 19–August 12, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 7–December 9 An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 7–April
Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings catalog of the exhibition by Paul Hayes Tucker
Impressions of Giverny: Monet's World by Charles Weckler
Monet's Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet by Claire Joyes
Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters edited by Richard Kendall
Elena Bonner, On Gorbachev
John Ashbery, On the Empress's Mind (poem)
Nicholas Lemann, The Fall of Jim Wright
The Ambition and the Power by John M. Barry
Reflections of a Public Man by Jim Wright
To Kill a King: The True Story of the Political Murder of Speaker Jim Wright, the Most Powerful Man in Congress by George Mair
Robert Craft, The Top of the World
David Brion Davis, The Rebel
The Future of the Past by C. Vann Woodward
Jeri Laber, The Bulgarian Difference
Blaga Dimitrova, Interior
Robert Towers, Short Satisfactions
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
Men Under Water by Ralph Lombreglia
Family Sins and Other Stories by William Trevor
Stuart Hampshire, Spinoza and the Happy Few
Spinoza and Other Heretics Vol. I: The Marrano of Reason Vol. II: The Adventures of Immanence by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Murray Kempton, On Sarah Vaughan
Michael Massing, New Trouble in Panama
Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States and Made Millions in Drugs and Arms by John Dinges
Divorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affair with Noriega by Frederick Kempe
Lawrence J. Block, David B. Rivkin, Theodore H. Draper, 'The Constitution in Danger': An Exchange
Letters
Guri Lie Zeckendorf, Trygve Lie & the War
Robert Scholes, Robert M. Adams, Protocols of Reading
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.
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, is a longtime human rights activist and the Chair of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (March 2001)
Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)
David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)
Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
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.
Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)
Nicholas Lemann is the national correspondent for The Atlantic. (June 1998)
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)
David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.
