Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 14 · August 15, 1991

John Bayley, Richly Flows Contingency

Flow Chart by John Ashbery

Lubos Beniak, Dana Emingerova, Vaclav Havel, 'Uncertain Strength': An Interview With Václav Havel

Patricia Storace, Seeing Double

Typical American by Gish Jen

What Was Mine by Ann Beattie

Ronald Dworkin, Liberty and Pornography

Murray Kempton, Turn of the Screw

Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton, The CIA's Master Spy Hunter by Tom Mangold

Neal Ascherson, 'How to Leave a House of Slavery'

Solidarity, Solitude by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Lillian Vallee

Between East and West: Writings from 'Kultura' edited by Robert Kostrzewa

The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by William Brand

Gore Vidal, Lincoln Up Close

Jay McInerney, Fitzgerald Revisited

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Matthew J Bruccoli

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Nationalists and Democrats

Patrice Higonnet, Scandal on the Seine

Peter Singer, On Being Silenced in Germany

Thomas R. Edwards, Adventurers

SIRO by David Ignatius

A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

Geoffrey O'Brien, The Return of Film Noir!

The Seventh Victim directed by Mark Robson

Try and Get Me directed by Cyril Endfield

The Underworld Story directed by Cyril Endfield

Panic in the Streets directed by Elia Kazan

Gun Crazy directed by Joseph H. Lewis

Caught directed by Max Ophuls

Follow Me Quietly directed by Richard Fleischer

Road House directed by Jean Negulesco

The Street With No Name directed by William Keighley

Desperate directed by Anthony Mann

Kiss Me Deadly directed by Robert Aldrich

Human Desire directed by Fritz Lang

Pickup on South Street directed by Samuel Fuller

On Dangerous Ground directed by Nicholas Ray

The Narrow Margin directed by Richard Fleischer

The Dark Mirror directed by Robert Siodmak

Michael Specter, The Case of Dr. Gallo

Virus Hunting: AIDS, Cancer, and The Human Retrovirus: A Story of Scientific Discovery by Robert Gallo

Denis Donoghue, Critics at the Top

Selected Writings 1950-1990 by Irving Howe

Versions of Pygmalion by J. Hillis Miller

The Uses of Error by Frank Kermode

Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars by Geoffrey H. Hartman

Robert Craft, A Little Mozart Tour

Mozart: 'Prodigy of Nature' an exhibition at The Pierpont Morgan Library May 8–August 4, 1991

Zaubertöne, Mozart in Wien 1781–1791 1990–September 15, 1991 an exhibition at the Künstlerhaus, Vienna December 6,

Michael Massing, Can Saddam Survive?

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Letters

Charles Fried, Ronald Dworkin, Revolution in the Court
David Hamilton, Alfred Brendel, Furtwängler's Schubert

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

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

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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."

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)

Patrice Higonnet teaches French history at Harvard. His latest book is Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution. (July 2001)

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.

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

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

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)

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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