Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 12 · July 19, 1990

Garry Wills, The Politics of Grievance

The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath by Kevin Phillips

David Holloway, The Catastrophe and After

The Legacy of Chernobyl by Zhores A. Medvedev

Adam Michnik, The Two Faces of Europe

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Reunion in Budapest

Bibliotheca Corviniana: 1490–1990 April 6–October 6, 1990 An Exhibition at The National Széchényi Library, Budapest

Bibliotheca Corviniana: 1490–1990 catalog of the exhibition by Csaba Csapodi, by Klára Csapodi-Gárdonyi

Donald Windham, The Real Camino

Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948–1982

Costly Performances: Tennessee Williams: The Last Stage by Bruce Smith

Sidney Jones, War and Human Rights in Cambodia

John Bayley, In God's Playground

Lucifer Unemployed by Aleksander Wat, translated by Lillian Vallee, foreword by Czeslaw Milosz

Killing the Second Dog by Marek Hlasko, translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz

Missing Pieces by Stanislaw Benski, translated by Walter Arndt

Bohin Manor by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Richard Lourie

Rondo by Kazimierz Brandys, translated by Jaroslaw Anders

The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski, translated by Klara Glowczewska

Peter Partner, In a Fratricidal Country

Tribes with Flags: A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East by Charles Glass

Charles Hope, Rediscovering the Bellinis

The Genius of Jacopo Bellini: The Complete Paintings and Drawings by Colin Eisler

Giovanni Bellini by Rona Goffen

Conor Cruise O'Brien, A Tale of Two Nations

Ulster: Conflict and Consent by Tom Wilson

Michael Scammell, The New Yugoslavia

Human Rights in Yugoslavia edited by Oskar Gruenwald, edited by Karen Rosenblum-Cale

Yugoslavia: Prisoners of Conscience

Ian Buruma, Workers & Warriors

The Fugitive by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels

The Great World by David Malouf

Charles Rosen, The Shock of the Old

Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium edited by Nicholas Kenyon

Murray Kempton, The Darkening Light

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Letters

Brenda Maddox, Janet Malcolm, Nothing But the Truth?
H.C. Merillat, 'The Constitution in Danger'
Leo Steinberg, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, What Did Cato Mean?

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 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.

Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. (September 2008)

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Peter Partner's books include Arab Voices and The Pope's Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

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)

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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