Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 5 · March 7, 1991

Bernard Knox, Achilles in the Caribbean

Omeros by Derek Walcott

Scott MacLeod, In the Wake of 'Desert Storm'

John Updike, Innerlichkeit and Eigentümlichkeit

The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the USSR 23–March 31, 1991 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York January

The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the USSR (paper, distributed by Abrams) catalog of the exhibition by Robert Rosenblum, by Boris I. Asvarishch, edited by Sabine Rewald

Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape by Joseph Leo Koerner

John Bayley, Pasternak's Great Fairy Tale

Timothy Garton Ash, The Gulf in Europe

John Ashbery, A Sedentary Existence (poem)

Vaclav Havel, The New Year in Prague

Michael Wood, No Sorrow Left Unturned

The Palace of the White Skunks by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Andrew Hurley

Old Rosa by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Ann Tashi Slater, by Andrew Hurley

Kenneth Maxwell, The Tragedy of the Amazon

The Last Rain Forests: A World Conservation Atlas edited by Mark Collins, foreword by David Attenborough

The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by Susanna Hecht, by Alexander Cockburn

World Resources, 1990–1991: A Guide to the Global Environment a Report by the World Resources Institute

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide by Louise H. Emmons, illustrated by François Feer

Government Policies and Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Region by Dennis J. Mahar

The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rain Forest by Adrian Cowell

Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest edited by Anthony B. Anderson

Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush by David Cleary

Developing Amazonia: Deforestation and Social Conflict in Brazil's Carajás Programme by Anthony L. Hall

Keith Thomas, Divorce à la Mode

Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987 by Lawrence Stone

Brian Urquhart, Learning from the Gulf

David Cannadine, Three Who Made a Revolution

Andrew Hacker, Class Dismissed

The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Class by Benjamin DeMott

Money Income and Poverty Status in the United States 1989: Advance Data from the March 1990 Current Population Survey, Bureau of the Census

Frederick C. Crews, The Strange Fate of William Faulkner

The Portable Faulkner edited by Malcolm Cowley

Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism by Lawrence H. Schwartz

William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country by Cleanth Brooks

On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner by Cleanth Brooks

Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha by Daniel Hoffman

Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner by John T. Irwin

Faulkner's Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities by John N. Duvall

Reading Faulkner by Wesley Morris, by Barbara AlversonWtwith Morris

Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting by Richard C. Moreland

The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels from 'The Sound and the Fury' to 'Light in August' by André Bleikasten

John Quigley, Arthur Hertzberg, Israel and the Palestinians: An Exchange

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Letters

Jonathan Barnes, Isaiah Berlin, et al. The Detention of Sari Nussiebeh
Jim Sleeper, Joan Didion, 'Sentimental Journeys'
Luciano Canfora, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, The Vanished Library

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Contributors

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

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)

Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Kenneth Maxwell is Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, will be published this month. (July 2003)

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (March 2008)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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