Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 16 · October 25, 1990

George Plimpton, New Bird in Birdland

A Parrot Without A Name: The Search for the Last Unknown Birds on Earth by Don Stap

Daniel J. Kevles, Begetting Big Science

Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I by J.L. Heilbron, by Robert W. Seidel

Garry Wills, Long-Distance Runner

Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

Ian Buruma, The Devils of Hiroshima

Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars by George L. Mosse

The Bomb by Makoto Oda

The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat by Robert Jay Lifton, by Eric Markusen

Jasper Griffin, Ancient Kids

Children and Childhood in Classical Athens by Mark Golden

Adults and Children in the Roman Empire by Thomas Wiedemann

Lawrence Sager, Back to Bork

The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law by Robert H. Bork

Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America by Ethan Bronner

The People Rising: The Campaign Against the Bork Nomination by Michael Pertschuk, by Wendy Schaetzel

John Weightman, L'Homme Révolté

The Conspiracy by Paul Nizan, translated by Quintin Hoare, with afterword by Jean-Paul Sartre

Arthur Hertzberg, The Impasse Over Israel

Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice by John Quigley

The False Prophet: Rabbi Meir Kahane—From FBI Informant to Knesset Member by Robert I. Friedman

Israel, Palestinians and the Intifada: Creating Facts on the West Bank by Geoffrey Aronson

Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder by Janet Wallach, by John Wallach

Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond by David McDowall

John Banville, Portrait of the Critic as a Young Man

Warrenpoint by Denis Donoghue

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Rush to Capitalism

Michael Massing, The New Game in Guatemala

E.A.J. Honigmann, Do-It-Yourself Lear

The Complete King Lear, 1608–1623 (1623), 149 by William Shakespeare, prepared by Michael Warren

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

Bettina Drew, Art Shay, Studs Terkel, et al. Nelson Algren: An Exchange

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Letters

Roland F. Perkins, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Lucan's Civil War
Rakiya Omaar, A Malawi Poet under Arrest
William M. Calder, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Lucan's Civil War
David Schulenberg, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Lucan's Civil War
Harrison E. Salisbury, Jonathan Mirsky, The Lost Weekend
Jose L. Campos, Lucan's Civil War
Maurice Halperin, 'Can Castro Last?'
Harry G. Parke, Richard C. Lewontin, Science and Anti-Semitism
Willem Samuels, Ian Buruma, The Indonesian Way
Norman Davies, God's Playground

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Contributors

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

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.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and Public Orator at Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (December 2007)

Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

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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