Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 15 · October 11, 1990

Stephen Jay Gould, The Virtues of Nakedness

Baseball: The People's Game by Harold Seymour

Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball by George F. Will

When the Cheering Stops: Former Major Leaguers Talk about Their Game and Their Lives by Lee Heiman, by Dave Weiner, by Bill Gutman

Simon Leys, The Art of Interpreting Nonexistent Inscriptions Written in Invisible Ink on a Blank Page

The Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921–1985: A Self Portrait by Laszlo Ladany, foreword by Robert Elegant

Julian Barnes, Night for Day

François Truffaut: Correspondence, 1945–1984 edited by Gilles Jacob, edited by Claude de Givray, translated by Gilbert Adair, foreword by Jean-Luc Godard

Robert M. Adams, Liberators

The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman

Collected Novellas (Leaf Storm, Nobody Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold) by Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman

The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane

In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane

Albert O. Hirschman, Good News Is Not Bad News

Robert Hughes, The Art of Frank Auerbach

Joan Acocella, Dancing for Balanchine

Holding On to the Air: An Autobiography by Suzanne Farrell, with Toni Bentley

David Brion Davis, Slaves in Islam

Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry by Bernard Lewis

Elena Bonner, The Shame of Armenia

Robert I. Friedman, Making Way for the Messiah

Robert L. Heilbroner, Three Faces of Capitalism

Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

Jeri Laber, Stalin's Dumping Ground

Isaiah Berlin, Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism: II

Quintin Hoare, Michael Scammell, 'The New Yugoslavia': An Exchange

John M. Barry, Mary Connell, Nicholas Lemann, The Fall of Jim Wright: An Exchange

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Letters

Joseph S. Nye, Paul Kennedy, Is the US Declining?
Richard F. Taruskin, Charles Rosen, The Shock of the Old
Ronald Steel, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Pacem in Terris

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Contributors

Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.

Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.

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.

Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, is a longtime human rights activist and the Chair of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (March 2001)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn’t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

Simon Leys is the author of a dozen books, mostly on Chinese art, culture, and politics. His latest work is The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story. (December 2007)

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