Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 12 · June 27, 1991

Anita Desai, India: The Seed of Destruction

Michael Massing, Sitting on Top of the News

The Commanders by Bob Woodward

Gordon S. Wood, Novel History

Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations) by Simon Schama

Robert Towers, History Novel

Mao II by Don DeLillo

Avishai Margalit, The Great White Hope

Janet Adam Smith, Hard Times

The Diaries of Hans Christian Andersen selected and translated by Patricia L. Conroy, by Sven H. Rossel

The Kiss of the Snow Queen: Hans Christian Andersen and Man's Redemption by Woman by Wolfgang Lederer

George F. Will, Foul Ball

Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti by James Reston Jr.

Joseph Frank, The Triumph of Abram Tertz

Goodnight! A Novel by Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky), translated and with an introduction by Richard Lourie

Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History by Andrei Sinyavsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull, with the assistance of Nikolai Formozov

'Opavshie Listya' V.V. Rozanova by Andrei Sinyavsky

Ivan le Simple: Paganisme, magie et religion du peuple russe by André Siniavski, translated by Antonina Robichou-Stretz

Dans I'ombre de Gogol by Abram Tertz (André Siniavski), translated by Georges Nivat

Promenades avec Pouchkine by Abram Tertz (André Siniavski), translated by Louis Martinez

Andre-la-Poisse (Kroshka Tsores) by Abram Tertz (André Siniavski), translated by Louis Martinez

Nicholas Lemann, Underachiever

Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir by John G. Tower

Hans A. Bethe, Kurt Gottfried, Robert S. McNamara, The Nuclear Threat: A Proposal

Richard Holmes, The Cabinet of Doctor Keats

Romantic Medicine and John Keats by Hermione de Almeida

Abraham Brumberg, Russia After Perestroika

Lee Ambrose, Robert H. March, Thomas Powers, et al. The Nazis and the Atom Bomb: An Exchange

Murray Kempton, The High Cost of Victory

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Letters

Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester, et al. Schadenfreud
J.J. Fraxedas, Arenas's Last Words
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, The Editors, 'The Place of Narrative'
Nicholas Lemann, Andrew Hacker, Downward Mobility

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Contributors

Hans A. Bethe is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Cornell University. During the construction of the first atomic bomb he was head of the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos and he has worked on arms control for the last forty years. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967. (November 2000)

Anita Desai's most recent novel is The Zigzag Way. (July 2007)

Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Stanford. He is the author of Dostoyevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881. (June 2008)

Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

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.

Nicholas Lemann is the national correspondent for The Atlantic. (June 1998)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)

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

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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