Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 11 · June 13, 1991

Garry Wills, The Man Who Wasn't There

President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime by Lou Cannon

A Very Thin Line: the Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper

William Trevor, Child of the Century

Complete Collected Stories by V.S. Pritchett

Stephen Jay Gould, The Birth of the Two-Sex World

Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur

Janet Malcolm, A Matter of Life and Death

Wartime Lies by Louis Begley

Philippa Foot, Nietzsche's Immoralism

Michael Massing, The Salvation of Panama?

Panama: The Whole Story by Kevin Buckley

Hugh Honour, From Here to Eternity

America's Rome Vol. I: Classical Rome Vol. II: Catholic and Contemporary Rome by William L. Vance

John Bayley, A New Dostoevsky?

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear, by Larissa Volokhonsky

Robert Bartlett, Witch Hunting

Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

Douglas V. Johnson, French Cuffs

Fragile Glory: A Portrait of France and the French by Richard Bernstein

Beyond the Tunnel of History by Jacques Darras, with Daniel Snowman

'La France en Politique 1990'

La Vengeance des Nations by Alain Minc

Maurice Keen, The Birth of Childhood

Childhood in the Middle Ages by Shulamith Shahar

Small Worlds: The Village Community in Early Medieval Brittany by Wendy Davies

Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Gies, by Joseph Gies

Timothy Garton Ash, Poland After Solidarity

The Roots of Solidarity: A Political Sociology of Poland's Working-Class Democratization by Roman Laba

Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland by Lawrence Goodwyn

Rok 1989: Bronislaw Geremek Opowiada, Jacek Zakowski Pyta (The Year 1989: Bronislaw Geremek Relates, Jacek Zakowski Asks)

Droga Do Wolnosci: 1985–1990, Decydujace Lata (The Path to Freedom: 1985–1990, the Decisive Years) by Lech Walesa

Wódz (The Chief) by Jaroslaw Kurski

Murray Kempton, Good Housekeeping

John Coates, Martin Richardson, Michael M. Thomas, 'The Greatest American Shambles': An Exchange

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Letters

Philip Roth, Robert M. Adams, Herman Roth
Claire Tomalin, Garry Wills, Dickens's Girls
Walt Stromer, Oliver Sacks, On Being Blind
Roger D. Stone, Kenneth Maxwell, Fate of the Amazon
Lynne Lawner, Pen Translation Committee

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Contributors

Robert Bartlett is Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is the author of The Making of Europe, which won the Wolfson Prize for History in 1993, and, most recently, The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory and Colonialism in the Middle Ages. (June 2005)

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (November 2008)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.

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

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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