Table of Contents

Volume 37, Number 20 · December 20, 1990

Garry Wills, Mr. Magoo Remembers

An American Life by Ronald Reagan

Geoffrey O'Brien, The Sturges Style

Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges adapted and edited by Sandy Sturges

Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges by James Curtis

Madcap: The Life of Preston Sturges by Donald Spoto

Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges edited and with an introduction by Brian Henderson

Preston Sturges, FROM 'THE LADY EVE'

Samba Ka, Roger Shattuck, Born Again African

Black, French, and African: A Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor by Janet G. Vaillant

Œuvre poétique by Léopold Sédar Senghor

Ce que je crois by Léopold Sédar Senghor

Gabriele Annan, Sociable Murder

Symposium by Muriel Spark

Witold Rybczynski, Getting Away from It All

The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses by James S. Ackerman

The American Country House by Roger W. Moss

The Architect and the American Country House, 1890–1940 by Mark Alan Hewitt, architectural photographs by Richard Cheek

The American Country House by Clive Aslet

Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes by Allan D. Wallis

Benjamin M. Friedman, Reagan Lives!

Ian Buruma, There's No Place Like Heimat

Vom Glück und Unglück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem Letzten Kriege by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Patterns of Childhood by Christa Wolf, translated by Ursule Molinaro, by Hedwig Rappolt

The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf, translated by Christopher Middleton

No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck

Was bleibt (extracts entitled "What Remains" were published in English translation in Granta 33) by Christa Wolf

Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck

The Fourth Dimension: Interviews with Christa Wolf translated by Hilary Pilkington, Introduction by Karin McPherson

Bernard Lewis, At Stake in the Gulf

Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf by Judith Miller, by Laurie Mylroie

Adam Michnik, My Vote Against Walesa

Alison Lurie, The Cabinet of Dr. Seuss

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

McElligot's Pool

Bartholomew and the Oobleck

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

Horton Hears a Who

If I Ran the Circus

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

The Lorax

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

You're Only Old Once!

The Butter Battle Book

I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!

The Cat in the Hat

On Beyond Zebra!

If I Ran the Zoo

Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose

Horton Hatches the Egg

Jonathan Mirsky, Lost Horizons

The Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape by Peter Bishop

A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State by Melvyn C. Goldstein

My Tibet Dalai Lama, photographs and introduction by Galen Rowell

Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama

Amartya Sen, More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing

Janet Adam Smith, Rackhamland

Arthur Rackham: A Biography by James Hamilton

V.S. Naipaul, The Shadow of the Guru

John K. Fairbank, History on the Wing

Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service edited by John S. Service

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Letters

John Gregory Dunne, Diane Johnson, 'Grand Hotel'
Henry C. Pinkham, Robert M. Adams, What De Gaulle Really Said
Samson B. Knoll, Isaiah Berlin, No Conservative

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Contributors

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

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (March 2008)

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent books are Music of a Distant Drum and What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. (May 2002)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. (September 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is architecture critic for Slate. His new book on American building, Last Harvest, has just been published. (May 2007)

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His most recent book is Rationality and Freedom. (December 2004)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

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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