Table of Contents
Volume 38, Number 15 · September 26, 1991
Gabriele Annan, Cautionary Tales 
The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels by Nina Berberova, translated by Marian Schwartz
Roderick MacFarquhar, The Anatomy of Collapse
Elizabeth Hardwick, Wind from the Prairie
Carl Sandburg: A Biography by Penelope Niven
Lincoln: The Man by Edgar Lee Masters
Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America by Edgar Lee Masters
The Art of the Moving Picture by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Introduction by Stanley Kauffmann
The West-Going Heart: A Life of Vachel Lindsay by Eleanor Ruggles
Norman Mailer, The Espionage Lesson
Martin Malia, The August Revolution
John Banville, Relics
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria by William Trevor
George M. Fredrickson, African Americans & African Africans
Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare by James H. Cone
Sobukwe and Apartheid by Benjamin Pogrund
The Unbreakable Thread: Non-Racialism in South Africa by Julie Frederikse
Ian Buruma, Samurai of Swat
Slugging It Out in Japan: An American Major Leaguer in the Tokyo Outfield by Warren Cromartie, with Robert Whiting
Ronald Steel, Casualty of the Cold War
The Polk Conspiracy: Murder and Cover-up in the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk by Kati Marton
Shaul Bakhash, In Search of the Arab Soul
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
Jamey Gambrell, Seven Days That Shook the World
Jeremy Bernstein, King of the Quantum
Niels Bohr's Times, In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity by Abraham Pais
Theodore H. Draper, Presidential Wars
Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Foreign Affairs by Louis Henkin
Constitutional Diplomacy by Michael J. Glennon
Gene H. Bell-Villada, Ernst Benjamin, Barbara R. Bergmann, et al. 'Illiberal Education': An Exchange
Letters
Ruth Mellinkoff, Willibald Sauerländer, Beat the Devil
Pat Lally, Gordon A. Craig, Glasgow's Glasgow
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at
Los Alamos. His forthcoming book is about the element plutonium. (May 2006)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)
Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)
George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)
Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko's writings, Experiments for the Future, and many of the stories included in Tatyana Tolstaya's White Walls. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin's Ice has recently been published by NYRB Classics.
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book, written with Michael Schoenhals, is Mao’s Last Revolution. (June 2007)
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book
Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The
Castle in the Forest.
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)
Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)
