Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 13 · July 18, 1991

Ari Shavit, On Gaza Beach

Diane Johnson, Dreams of E.A. Poe

Julia Preston, Looking Back at the Revolution

Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer

Inside Central America: Its People, Politics, and History by Clifford Krauss

Denis Donoghue, The Flight of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life by Robert Bernard Martin

Garry Wills, Keeper of the Seal

Counsel to the President: A Memoir by Clark Clifford, with Richard Holbrooke

Ronald Dworkin, The Reagan Revolution and the Supreme Court

Order and Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution—A Firsthand Account by Charles Fried

Martin Malia, A New Russian Revolution?

C. Vann Woodward, Freedom & the Universities

Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D'Souza

Raymond Carr, Breaking Up with Castro

Self-Portrait of the Other: A Memoir by Heberto Padilla

Heberto Padilla, Puerta De Golpe, Cuba (poem)

Jonathan D. Spence, China on the Verge

To the People: James Yen and Village China by Charles W. Hayford

Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s by David Strand

The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie, 1911–1937 l'homme by Marie-Claire Bergère, translated by Janet Lloyd

The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919–1937 by We-hsin Yeh

Bandits in Republican China by Phil Billingsley

Murray Kempton, The Wake of the Storm


Letters

Felice D. Gaer, Scott Horton, Armenia: A Report from the Border
Elena Bonner, Yuri Orlov, Armenia: An Open Letter
Carlo Ginzburg, Robert Bartlett, The Witches' Sabbath
Luciano Canfora, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 'The Vanished Library'



Contributors

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech. (November 2009)

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.

Martin Malia is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of Russia Under Western Eyes, from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum. (November 2001)

Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. (December 2009)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)


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