Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 8 · April 25, 1991

David Remnick, Chaplygin Street Blues

John Maynard Smith, Dinosaur Dilemmas

The Dinosauria edited by David B. Weishampel, edited by Peter Dodson, edited by Halszka Osmólska

Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons by Chris McGowan

Peter Partner, In Saddam's Arms

The Monument: Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq by Samir al-Khalil

Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq, 1968–89 by Amatzia Baram

Gordon A. Craig, 'Glesca Belongs to Me!'

The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman

Greyhound for Breakfast by James Kelman

A Disaffection by James Kelman

Lean Tales by James Kelman, by Agnes Owens, by Alasdair Gray

Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray

The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties by Alasdair Gray

McGrotty and Ludmilla or The Harbinger Report by Alasdair Gray

Something Leather by Alasdair Gray

1982 Janine by Alasdair Gray

Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray

The Burn by James Kelman

Noel Annan, The Art of the Matter

Learning to Look by John Pope-Hennessy

Alison Lurie, A Fine Romance

Ian Buruma, The Pax Axis

Jack Flam, Taming the Beasts

The Fauve Landscape: Matisse, Derain, Braque, and Their Circle, 1904-1908 October 4–December 30, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 19–May 5, 1991; and The Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 10–September 1, 1991 an exhibition at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,

The Fauve Landscape catalog of the exhibition by Judi Freeman, with contributions by Roger Benjamin, by James D. Herbert, by John Klein, by Alvin Martin

Peter Jenkins, The Making of Mr. Major

Robert Towers, Tripping the Not-So-Light Fantastic

The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by John Barth

Robert M. Adams, Metropolitan Opera

The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Aggressive Progressive

Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874–1952 by T.H. Watkins

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Paradise Lost

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy

Shale Dworan, Inger M. Olsen, István Deák, Who Saved Jews? An Exchange

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Contributors

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

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year's Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 2008)

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)

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)

Alison Lurie is a former professor of English at Cornell and the author of nine novels and several books of nonfiction, including The Language of Clothes. Her review in this issue is from a work in progress on the language of houses and other buildings. (December 2008)

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 2000)

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Peter Partner's books include Arab Voices and The Pope's Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)

David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

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