Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 9 · May 16, 1991

Edward Mortimer, Iraq: The Road Not Taken

Garry Wills, The Angels and Devils of Dickens

Dickens by Peter Ackroyd

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin

Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens 'Angelfish' Correspondence, 1905–1910 edited by John Cooley

Dickens and the 1830s by Kathryn Chittick

Victorian Subjects by J. Hillis Miller

David Brion Davis, The White World of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely

Robert M. Adams, The Reality Game

Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth

Frederic Wakeman, That Old Chinese Black Magic

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 by Philip A. Kuhn

John Gregory Dunne, A Star is Born

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips

How Green Was My Valley: The Screenplay for the Darryl F. Zanuck Film Production Directed by John Ford by Philip Dunne

Daniel J. Kevles, 'The Final Secret of the Universe'?

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe by Dennis Overbye

The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe by Eric J. Lerner

Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists by Alan Lightman, by Roberta Brawer

John Pope-Hennessy, How to Read a Fresco

The Place of Narrative: Mural Decoration in Italian Churches, 431–1600 by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

Jamey Gambrell, Living in a Russian Novel

Robert Darnton, The Good Old Days

Richard West, Graham Greene and 'The Quiet American'

Aryeh Neier, David J. Rothman, India's Awful Prisons

Jasper Griffin, Decadence Revisited

Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age by Peter Green

The Hellenistic Aesthetic by Barbara Hughes Fowler

Hellenistic Poetry: An Anthology selected and translated by Barbara Hughes Fowler

Hellenism in Late Antiquity by G.W. Bowersock

Greek Sculpture by Andrew Stewart

Gerald Graff, John R. Searle, 'The Storm Over the University': A Further Exchange

Jagdish Bhagwati, James Fallows, 'Agents of Influence': An Exchange

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Letters

Chris Goddard, The Iraq Nightmare
Jeanne D'Andrea, John Golding, Cataloguing Malevich
Jane W. Stedman, Lord Zuckerman, Phony Ancestors
Benjamin DeMott, Andrew Hacker, Class Acts
John Patrick Diggins, C. Vann Woodward, Religion and American Historians

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Contributors

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko's writings, Experiments for the Future, and many of the stories included in Tatyana Tolstaya's White Walls. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin's Ice has recently been published by NYRB Classics.

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.

Edward Mortimer was until 2006 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. (April 2008)

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.

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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