Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 14 · September 27, 1990

Janet Adam Smith, Poohdom

A.A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh by Ann Thwaite

Edward Mortimer, The Thief of Baghdad

Saddam Hussein: A Biography by Fuad Matar

Iraqi Power and US Security in the Middle East by Stephen C. Pelletiere, by Douglas V. Johnson II, by Leif R. Rosenberger

Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq by Samir al-Khalil

Human Rights in Iraq Middle East Watch

Murray Kempton, Seize the Day

Gabriele Annan, At the Bottom of the Pond

An Autumn Story by Tommaso Landolfi, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Vaclav Havel, On Kafka

George M. Fredrickson, The Making of Mandela

A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson

Apartheid's Rebels: Inside South Africa's Hidden War by Stephen M. Davis

South Africa Belongs to Us: A History of the ANC by Francis Meli

The Struggle: A History of the African National Congress by Heidi Holland

Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela by Fatima Meer

Fang Lizhi, The Chinese Amnesia

Gordon S. Wood, Americans and Revolutionaries

Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations by David Brion Davis

John Maynard Smith, Triumphs of Colonialism

The Ants by Bert Hölldobler, by Edward O. Wilson

Peter G. Peterson, The Price of Gluttony

Robert Craft, The Comedian Of Horror

Gathering Evidence: A Memoir by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock

Histrionics: Three Plays by Thomas Bernhard. (A Party for Boris; Ritter, Dene, Voss; Histrionics), translated by Peter Jansen, by Kenneth Northcutt

The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Sophie Wilkins

Correction by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Sophie Wilkins

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McClintock

Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Ewald Osers

Concrete by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock

Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston

The President and Eve of Retirement by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Gitta Honegger

Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock

Shaul Bakhash, The Survivor

Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Seale

Richard Dorment, Painting the Unpaintable

Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710–1940 by Guy C. McElroy, with an essay by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century by Albert Boime

Isaiah Berlin, Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism

Timothy Garton Ash, The Chequers Affair

Tage Kaarsted, Leonard Mendes Nathan, James B. Sitrick, et al. Legends of King Christian: Another Exchange

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Letters

David Aaron, Isaiah Berlin, et al. An Open Letter on Anti-Armenian Pogroms in the Soviet Union
Luciano Canfora, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, The Vanished Library
Bernard Lewis, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, The Vanished Library

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Contributors

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

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

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

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

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. (November 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)

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.

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 2000)

Edward Mortimer was until 2006 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. (April 2008)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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