Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 9 · May 31, 1990

Tatyana Tolstaya, Notes from Underground

Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope by Francine du Plessix Gray

Gabriele Annan, Theme and Variations

Deception by Philip Roth

John Golding, Two Who Made a Revolution

Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism 24, 1989, to January 6, 1990 an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City September

Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism catalog of the exhibition, by William Rubin

Tad Szulc, Can Castro Last?

John K. Fairbank, From the Ming to Deng Xiaoping

The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence

Helen Vendler, Feminism and Literature

Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change by Rita Felski

Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader edited by Karen V. Hansen, edited by Ilene J. Philipson

Feminism/Postmodernism edited and with an introduction by Linda J. Nicholson

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology edited by Roger Lonsdale

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia

No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century Vol. I, The War of the Words Vol. II, Sexchanges by Sandra Gilbert, by Susan Gubar

Hamlet's Mother and Other Women by Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century edited by Katharina M. Wilson, edited by Frank J. Warnke

Henry Gifford, Indomitable Pasternak

Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography Volume I, 1890–1928 by Christopher Barnes

Boris Pasternak by Peter Levi

Boris Pasternak: The Tragic Years, 1930–60 by Evgeny Pasternak, translated by Michael Duncan, the poetry of Pasternak translated by Anne Pasternak Slater, by Craig Raine

Boris Pasternak: The Poet and His Politics by Lazar Fleishman

Robert Craft, Making Hay with Huxley

Huxley in Hollywood by David King Dunaway

Ann Hulbert, Only Disconnect

Picturing Will by Ann Beattie

Vaclav Havel, History of a Public Enemy

Theodore H. Draper, Was There a Missing Witness?

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Letters

Richard C. Lewontin, John Maynard Smith, Are We Robots?

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Contributors

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

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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)

John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 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)

Ann Hulbert is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford. She is currently at work on a book about twentieth-century American child-rearing experts. (June 1998)

Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.

Helen Vendler’s recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published in 2009. (November 2008)

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