Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 11 · June 28, 1990

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Peace Dividend

John Updike, 'A Sort of Intimate Whirlwind'

The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum May 18 to July 30, 1990

The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Wynne Easton

Garry Wills, Mario Cuomo's Trouble with Abortion

Ian Buruma, Tokyo Boogie-Woogie

Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake by Edward Seidensticker

Alan Brinkley, The Best Years of Their Lives

In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 by Joshua B. Freeman

Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 by Gary Gerstle

Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s by Bruce Nelson

Thomas R. Edwards, Underground Man

Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren, Introduction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., interview with the author by H.E.F. Donohue

The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren, Introduction by Tom Corson, Afterword by Studs Terkel

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren, introduction by James R. Giles

Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side by Bettina Drew

Nelson Algren's Chicago photographs by Art Shay

Confronting the Horror: The Novels of Nelson Algren by James R. Giles

A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren, foreword by Russell Banks

Gordon A. Craig, The Way to the Wall

German History, 1770-1866 (The Oxford History of Modern Europe), by James J. Sheehan

Bismarck, The White Revolutionary, Vol. I, 1815-1871, Vol. II, 1871-1898 by Lothar Gall, translated by J.A. Underwood

Bürgertum in Deutschland by Lothar Gall

Die Deutschen in ihrem Jahrhundert 1890-1990 by Christian Graf von Krockow

Letters to Freya, 1939-1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke, edited and translated by Beate Ruhm von Oppen

Paul Kennedy, Fin-de-Siècle America

The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s by Henry R. Nau

Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America by John Chancellor

America's Economic Resurgence: A Bold New Strategy by Richard Rosecrance

John Kenneth Galbraith, Viva Mencken!

The Diary of H.L. Mencken edited by Charles A. Fecher

Michael Scammell, Yugoslavia: the Awakening

Stephen Toulmin, A Question of Character

Schrödinger: Life and Thought by Walter Moore

Abraham Brumberg, The Turning Point?

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Letters

Lester G. Crocker, Conor Cruise O'Brien, A Matter of Intent
William E. Krisel, Michael M. Thomas, It Isn't Junk
Michael Rosenthal, Ian Buruma, A Bad Scout?
Edward Field, Lord Zuckerman, How We Bombed
D.L. Ouron, Robert M. Adams, Tripping
Judith Freeman, Diane Johnson, Back to Mormonism
S.J. Stearns, Noel Annan, Was Leonard Woolf a Marxian?

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year's Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 2008)

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, is the author and editor of fifteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. His latest book is The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. (November 2006)

Michael Scammell is Professor of Writing and Translation at Columbia. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, and has just completed a biography of Arthur Koestler. (November 2005)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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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