Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 18 · November 22, 1990

John Barton, It's A Girl!

The Book of J translated by David Rosenberg, interpreted by Harold Bloom

Garry Wills, Goodbye, Columbus

The Harp and the Shadow by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Thomas Christensen, by Carol Christensen

The Dogs of Paradise by Abel Posse, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy by Kirkpatrick Sale

Timothy Garton Ash, Germany Unbound

Diane Johnson, Tell, Don't Show

Walter Winchell: A Novel by Michael Herr

The Screenplay: A Blend of Film Form and Content by Margaret Mehring

Wildlife by Richard Ford

Andrew Hacker, Trans-National America

Going to School: The African-American Experience edited by Kofi Lomotey

Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America by Richard D. Alba

The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by Jim Sleeper

Forked Tongue: The Politics of Bilingual Education by Rosalie Pedalino Porter

A Curriculum of Inclusion: Report of the Commissioner's Task Force on Minorities

From Gatekeeper to Gateway: Transforming Testing in America

Campus Ethnoviolence and the Policy Options by Howard J. Ehrlich

The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture by Lawrence H. Fuchs

Elizabeth Hardwick, On Washington Square

Darryl Pinckney, Keeping the Faith

Tearing Down the Color Bar: A Documentary History of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by Joseph F. Wilson

A. Philip Randolph: Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula F. Pfeffer

Alfred Brendel, The Pianist and the Program

Maurice Keen, Sex and Power in the Middle Ages

Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe by James A. Brundage

Joan of Arc and Richard III: Sex, Saints, and Government in the Middle Ages by Charles T. Wood

The Medieval Idea of Marriage by Christopher N.L. Brooke

Derek Jarrett, Rogue Genius

Henry Fielding: A Life by Martin C. Battestin, with Ruthe R. Battestin

New Essays by Henry Fielding: His Contributions to the Craftsman (1734–1739) and Other Early Journalism by Martin C. Battestin

Oliver Sacks, Neurology and the Soul

Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology by Frederick C. Bartlett

Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection by Gerald M. Edelman

The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman

The Mystery of the Mind by Wilder Penfield

The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain by Israel Rosenfield, Introduction by Oliver Sacks

La Conscience: Une Biologie du Moi Knopf in 1991 by Israel Rosenfield

'A Critique of Artificial Intelligence' by Israel Rosenfield. in The Enchanted Loom, edited by Pietro Corsi

Man on his Nature by Sir Charles Sherrington

The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Sir Charles Sherrington

Migraine by Oliver Sacks

Awakenings revised edition, by Oliver Sacks

A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks

Rona Goffen, Pia DeSantis Pell, David Rosand, et al. 'Rediscovering the Bellinis': An Exchange

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Letters

William E. Colby, Jonathan Mirsky, Heroin, Laos, & the CIA
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Shaul Bakhash, Asad and Black September
Douglas V. Johnson, Stephen C. Pelletiere, et al. Iraq's Chemical Warfare

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Contributors

Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002)

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. (August 2007)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (October 2007)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Derek Jarrett is Editor of the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Memoirs. His edition of The Memoirs of the Reign of George III will be published later this year. (March 1999)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.

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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