Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 6 · March 28, 1991

Jack Flam, Invader

A Life of Picasso Volume 1: 1881–1906 by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully

Ian Buruma, After the Fall

The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

Garry Wills, A Tale of Three Cities

The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann

Michael Massing, The Way to War

Alfred Brendel, On Wilhelm Furtwängler

'Leonore' Overture No. 3 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 60 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony No. 9 in D Minor ('Choral'), Op. 125 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 composed by Franz Schubert, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Tristan und Isolde composed by Richard Wagner, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Opera Chorus

Symphony No. 9 in C ('The Great'), D. 9444 composed by Franz Schubert, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K 550, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

James Fenton, Keeping Up with Salman Rushdie

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Diane Johnson, The Best of Times

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Roger Penrose, The Biggest Enigma

Quantum Profiles by Jeremy Bernstein

Kenneth Maxwell, The Mystery of Chico Mendes

Into the Amazon: The Struggle for the Rain Forest by Augusta Dwyer

The World Is Burning by Alex Shoumatoff

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

Rural Violence in Brazil: February 1991 An Americas Watch Report

O Empate contra Chico Mendes by Márcio Souza

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

Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in His Own Words additional material by Tony Gross

The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest by Andrew Revkin

Helen Vendler, Breath of Art

The Dead Girl by Melanie Thernstrom

Anne Barton, Perils of Historicism

Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture by Stephen J. Greenblatt

James M. McPherson, Generals in Politics

Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West by Steven E. Woodworth

Abandoned by Lincoln: A Military Biography of General John Pope by Wallace J. Schutz, by Walter N. Trenerry

Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon by Christopher Phillips

Jeri Laber, The Baltic Revolt

Yuri Afanasyev, Bella Akhmadulina, I. Andreeva, et al. An Appeal for Democracy in the Baltic Republics

David M. Perlmutter, The Language of the Deaf

Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks

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Letters

Peter B. Nowell, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Revising Josephus
Richard Stith, Ronald Dworkin, 'The Right to Death'

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Contributors

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)

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)

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)

Viktor Erofeyev is the author of Russian Beauty, a novel, and the editor of The Penguin Book of New Russian Writing. He lives in Moscow. (March 2001)

James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)

Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)

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)

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

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

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)

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)

Helen Vendler's new book, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form, was published last autumn. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (March 2008)

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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