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 new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)
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 teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)
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.
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)
