Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 10 · May 30, 1991

Gabriele Annan, Selective Affinities

Immortality by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi

J.M. Cameron, On Graham Greene

Geoffrey O'Brien, The Ghost Opera

History of the American Cinema, Vol. 1: The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 by Charles Harpole general editor, by Charles Musser

History of the American Cinema, Vol. 2: The Transformation of Cinema: 1907–1915 by Charles Harpole general editor, by Eileen Bowser

History of the American Cinema, Vol. 3: An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915–1928 by Charles Harpole general editor, by Richard Koszarski

The Missing Reel: The Untold Story of the Lost Inventor of Moving Pictures by Christopher Rawlence

Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film by Miriam Hansen

Life to Those Shadows by Noël Burch, translated and edited by Ben Brewster

Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative edited by Thomas Elsaesser, edited by Adam Barker

Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime—Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era by Kevin Brownlow

Adam Michnik, Poland and the Jews

Ian Buruma, The 'We' Generation

Our Age: Portrait of a Generation by Noel Annan

Andrew Whitley, Kuwait: The Last Forty-Eight Hours

Jonathan Mirsky, The Myth of Mao's China

China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality by Steven W. Mosher

Malcolm Bradbury, 'Nothing But a Writer'

Ford Madox Ford by Alan Judd

Violet by Barbara Belford

An Immodest Violet: The Life of Violet Hunt by Joan Hardwick

James Fallows, Is Japan the Enemy?

The Coming War with Japan by George Friedman, by Meredith LeBard

Japan's Expanding Role and Influence in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for US Interests and Policy by Richard P. Cronin

White Paper on International Trade, 1990 by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo

Thoughts on US-Japan Security and Economic Linkages in East Asia by Michael W. Chinworth

Kokusanka: FSX and Japan's Search for Autonomous Defense Production by Michael J. Green

Arming Our Allies: Cooperation and Competition in Defense Technology by the US Office of Technology Assessment

Deepening Economic Linkages in the Pacific Basin Region: Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology by Masaharu Hanazaki

Japan's Administrative Elite by B.C. Koh

Japan Versus the West: Image and Reality by Endymion Wilkinson

The Rise of Modern Japan by W.G. Beasley

John Banville, Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Selected Poems by Derek Mahon

Madoc: A Mystery by Paul Muldoon

Willibald Sauerländer, Mysteries of a Masterpiece

The Isenheim Altarpiece: God's Medicine and the Painter's Vision by Andrée Hayum

The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Grünewald's Altarpiece I/University of California Press by Ruth Mellinkoff

Lord Zuckerman, Apes R Not Us

Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall

Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons by Shirley C. Strum, foreword by George B. Schaller

How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species by Dorothy L. Cheney, by Robert M. Seyfarth

Language and Species by Derek Bickerton

Uniquely Human: The Evolution of Speech, Thought, and Selfless Behavior by Philip Lieberman


Letters

Eric Bentley, James Joll, Lulu
Richard Sennett, Robert M. Adams, et al. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life?



Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. (September 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)

Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His most recent books are Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments and Essai sur les Visages des Bustes de Houdon. (June 2007)


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