Table of Contents
Volume 38, Number 16 · October 10, 1991
Stuart Hampshire, What the Jameses Knew 
The Jameses: A Family Narrative by R.W.B. Lewis
Henry James and Revision by Philip Horne
Meaning in Henry James by Millicent Bell
The Sweetest Impression of Life: The James Family and Italy edited by James W. Tuttleton, edited by Agostino Lombardo
Elena Bonner, On Sakharov's Memoirs
Osip Mandelstam, Two Poems by Osip Mandelstam (poem)
J.H. Elliott, The World After Columbus
Alfred Kazin, The Art of 'Call It Sleep'
Alan Ryan, When It's Rational to be Irrational
The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order by Jon Elster
Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster
Solomonic Judgments: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality by Jon Elster
John Gregory Dunne, Law & Disorder in Los Angeles
Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department by the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department
'Daryl Gates: A Portrait of Frustration' by Bella Stumbo
Frank J. Sulloway, Darwinian Psychobiography
Charles Darwin: A New Life by John Bowlby
Thomas R. Edwards, Good Intentions
Mating by Norman Rush
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The South Against Itself
The Road to Disunion: Vol. I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776–1854 by William W. Freehling
Al Alvarez, Down & Out in Paris & London
Jean Rhys: Life and Work by Carole Angier
Jonathan Mirsky, Reconsidering Vietnam
Vietnam: Citizens Detained for Peaceful Expression
A Vietnam Reader by Walter Capps
The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province by Eric M. Bergerud
Strange Ground: An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam, 1945–1975 by Harry Maurer
The Vietnam Wars: 1945–1990 by Marilyn B. Young
War by Other Means: National Liberation and Revolution in Viet-Nam 1954–60 by Carlyle A. Thayer
Vietnam at War: The History: 1946–1975 by Phillip B. Davidson
Romancing Vietnam: Inside the Boat Country by Justin Wintle
Remembering Heaven's Face: A Moral Witness in Vietnam by John Balaban
Murray Kempton, 'The Best Man'
Philip Lieberman, Vernon Reynolds, H.S. Terrace, et al. Apes and Us: An Exchange
Letters
Endymion Wilkinson, James Fallows, 'Japan Vs. the West'
Howard M. Ziff, Denis Donoghue, That Old Middle Style
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)
Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, is a longtime human rights activist and the Chair of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (March 2001)
John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)
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)
J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)
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.
Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) was born and raised in St. Petersburg, where he attended the prestigious Tenishev School, before studying at the universities of St. Petersburg and Heidelberg and at the Sorbonne. Mandelstam first published his poems in Apollyon, an avant-garde magazine, in 1910, then banded together with Anna Akhmatova and Nicholas Gumilev to form the Acmeist group, which advocated an aesthetic of exact description and chiseled form, as suggested by the title of Mandelstam's first book, Stone (1913). During the Russian Revolution, Mandelstam left Leningrad for the Crimea and Georgia, and he settled in Moscow in 1922, where his second collection of poems, Tristia, appeared. Unpopular with the Soviet authorities, Mandelstam found it increasingly difficult to publish his poetry, though an edition of collected poems did come out in 1928. In 1934, after reading an epigram denouncing Stalin to friends, Mandelstam was arrested and sent into exile. He wrote furiously during these years, and his wife, Nadezhda, memorized his work in case his notebooks were destroyed or lost. (Nadezhda Mandelstam's extraordinary memoirs of life with her husband, Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, published in the 1970s, later helped to bring Mandelstam a worldwide audience.)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)
Frank J. Sulloway is Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author most recently of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. (November 2006)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent books are The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War and the forthcoming Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition. (October 2002)
