Table of Contents
Volume 38, Number 7 · April 11, 1991
Tatyana Tolstaya, In Cannibalistic Times 
The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest
John Ashbery, Erebus (poem)
Oliver Sacks, The 'Dark, Paradoxical Gift'
Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John M. Hull
Samir al-Khalil, Iraq and Its Future
V.S. Naipaul, A Handful of Dust: Return to Guiana
J.H. Elliott, Two Worlds and Two Wives
Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance: A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy by Alexandra Parma Cook, by Noble David Cook
James Joll, Revolt in Munich!
The Munich Secession: Art and Artists in Turn-of-the-Century Munich by Maria Makela
Diary of an Erotic Life by Frank Wedekind, translated by W.E. Yuill, edited by Gerhard Hay
The Blaue Reiter Almanac edited by Wassily Kandinsky, by Franz Marc (new edition), edited with an introduction by Klaus Lankheit
Franz Marc by Mark Rosenthal
The Blue Rider in the Lenbachhaus, Munich by Armin Zweite
Franz Marc: Postcards to Prince Jussuf by Peter-Klaus Schuster
Bill McKibben, The Mountain Hedonist
The Practice of the Wild
The Real Work: Interviews and Talks edited by Scott McLean
Passage Through India
He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth
Myths and Texts
Axe Handles
Earth House Hold
The Old Ways
Turtle Island
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
Xan Smiley, Mystery Man
The Man Who Changed The World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev by Gail Sheehy
The New Russians by Hedrick Smith
Louis Menand, Man of the People
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch
John Bayley, Did It Flow?
Hourglass by Danilo Kiš, translated by Ralph Manheim
Mendelssohn Is On The Roof by Jirí Weil, translated by Marie Winn
The Miracle Game by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson
Jeremy Bernstein, The Charms of a Physicist
The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist by Victor Weisskopf
David Bromwich, Master of Regret
Hazlitt: A Life, From Winterslow to Frith Street by Stanley Jones
Arthur Kempton, Native Sons
The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring by Terry Williams
Raw Recruits by Alexander Wolff, by Armen Keteyian
The Source: The Rap Music Decade, 1980–1990 edited by Jonathan Shecter, edited by David Mays
Letters
Neal Ascherson, Anthony Barnett, et al. The Plight of Kosovo
B.H. Friedman, Charles Hope, Reading the 'Tempest'
Lionel Joyce, What Rasputin Said
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)
Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at
Los Alamos. His forthcoming book is about the element plutonium. (May 2006)
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale. He is the author of Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic and editor of a selection of Edmund Burke’s speeches, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform. (April 2008)
J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)
Arthur Kempton, the author of Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, is a fellow at the Institute for African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (March 2006)
Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.
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.
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.
Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.
