Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 19 · December 6, 1990

Gordon A. Craig, Witness

Before the Storm: Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia by Marion Countess Dönhoff, translated by Jean Steinberg, foreword by George F. Kennan

Weit ist der Weg nach Osten: Berichte und Betrachtungen aus funf Jahrzehnten by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff

Foe into Friend: The Makers of the New Germany from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Schmidt by Marion Dönhoff, translated by Gabriele Annan

Preussen—Mass und Masslosigkeit by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff

George W. Ball, The Gulf Crisis

Octavio Paz, The Power of Ancient Mexican Art

John Banville, In Violent Times

Amongst Women by John McGahern

Lies of Silence by Brian Moore

The Innocent by Ian McEwan

Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Uses of Fakery

Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship by Anthony Grafton

Noel Annan, The Death of 'Society'

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine

John R. Searle, The Storm Over the University

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education by Roger Kimball

The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education edited by Timothy Fuller

The Politics of Liberal Education Winter 1990, Vol. 89, No. 1). edited by Darryl L. Gless, edited by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Robert Bernard Martin, The Tragi-Comedy of S. T. Coleridge

Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes

E.J. Hobsbawm, Escaped Slaves of the Forest

Alabi's World by Richard Price

George P. Fletcher, The Day Budapest Shut Down

Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Life Styles of the Rich and Famous

Caligula: The Corruption of Power by Anthony A. Barrett

Claudius by Barbara Levick

Anita Desai, Jews, Indians, and Imperialists

India's Bene Israel: A Comprehensive Inquiry and Sourcebook by Shirley Berry Isenberg

Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial Era by Joan G. Roland

Eric L. McKitrick, Did Jefferson Blunder?

Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson by Robert W. Tucker, by David C. Hendrickson

Aileen Kelly, Brave New Worlds

Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution by Richard Stites

Revolution and Culture: The Bogdanov-Lenin Controversy by Zenovia A. Sochor

Robert M. Adams, Was Cratylus Kidding?

The Names of Comedy by Anne Barton

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Letters

Oliver Sacks, Neurology and the Soul
Albert Boime, Richard Dorment, 'The Art of Exclusion'
Richard C. Lewontin, M.F. Perutz, 'Darwin and Marx'

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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.

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Anita Desai's most recent novel is The Zigzag Way. (July 2007)

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)

Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)

Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City, and his extraordinarily busy and fruitful life took him from civil-war Spain to surrealist Paris, from US universities to the Mexican embassy in New Delhi, where he served for six years as ambassador before resigning in protest after his government's suppression of student demonstrations at the 1968 Olympic Games. A great poet, Paz was also the author of many essays and a study of Mexican identity, The Labyrinth of Solitude, as well as the founder and editor of two important journals, Plural and Vuelta. Octavio Paz received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction and Freedom and Neurobiology. (November 2006)

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