Table of Contents
Volume 37, Number 10 · June 14, 1990
Richard C. Lewontin, Fallen Angels 
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
James Joll, Stompin' with the Savoy
Italy and its Monarchy by Denis Mack Smith
Leonard Thompson, South Africa: The Fire This Time?
The Mind of South Africa by Allister Sparks
Janet Adam Smith, Life After Squirrel Nutkin
Beatrix Potter's Letters selected by Judy Taylor
The Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881–1897 transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder, foreword by Judy Taylor
Timothy Garton Ash, Ten Thoughts on the New Europe
Viktor Erofeyev, Neither Salvation nor Sausage
Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia (Russia in 1839) by the Marquis de Custine, foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin, introduction by George F. Kennan
Murray Kempton, Lost in the Cosmic
In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal by Richard Nixon
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Lost History of the Lost Library
The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World by Luciano Canfora, translated by Martin Ryle
Bill McKibben, Prophet in Kentucky
What Are People For?
Standing By Words
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
Home Economics
A Place on Earth: Revision
Remembering
Recollected Essays, 1965–1980
A Continuous Harmony
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership
Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship edited by Wendell Berry, edited by Wes Jackson, edited by Bruce Colman
Collected Poems, 1957–1982
The Hidden Wound
Janet Malcolm, The Trial of Alyosha
Letters to Olga June 1979–September 1982 by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson
Vaclav Havel, Reflections on a Paradoxical Life
Theodore H. Draper, How Not to Deal with the Iran-Contra Crimes
Garry Wills, Henry Adams as Holy Fool
Keith Thomas, The Brilliant Misfit
Lewis Namier by Linda Colley
Amartya Sen, Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment
Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, The Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize
Christopher Hill, Touché!
The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy by V.G. Kiernan
Theodore W. Kheel, Brian Urquhart, Discontents at the UN: An Exchange
John R. Searle, John Maynard Smith, 'The Emperor's New Mind': An Exchange
Letters
Robin Blackburn, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Refighting the Revolution
Olga Havel, Czechoslovak Society for the Handicapped
David Baltimore, Xu Bangtai, et al. Human Rights in China
David Brion Davis, Woodward's Itinerary
Douglas Crase, C. Vann Woodward, Emerson and Racism
Conor Daly, An Armenian Leader in Prison
Contributors
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)
Viktor Erofeyev is the author of Russian Beauty, a novel, and the editor of The Penguin Book of New Russian Writing. He lives in Moscow. (March 2001)
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)
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.
Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).
Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)
Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.
Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His most recent book is Rationality and Freedom. (December 2004)
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)
Leonard Thompson is Charles J. Stillé Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His books include The Political Mythology of Apartheid and A History of South Africa. (May 1998)
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.
