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Volume 38, Number 17 · October 24, 1991

Richard Holmes, Closing the Goethe Gap

Goethe: The Poet and the Age Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749–1790) by Nicholas Boyle

Robert L. Heilbroner, Lifting the Silent Depression

Richard Dorment, Venice Out of Season

The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler and Sargent by Hugh Honour, by John Fleming

James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life by Gordon Flemíng

Andrew Hacker, Playing the Racial Card

Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes On American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall, with Mary D. Edsall

The Urban Underclass edited by Christopher Jencks, edited by Paul E. Peterson

Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby by Stephen L. Carter

The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Mertes, Dominique Moisi, Let the East Europeans In!

Michael Wood, The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Alfred Mac Adam

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero

Roderick MacFarquhar, John King Fairbank (1907–1991)

Arthur Hertzberg, Showdown

Phyllis Grosskurth, The New Psychology of Women

Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900 by Hannah S. Decker

Freud on Women: A Reader edited by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan

Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory by Nancy J. Chodorow

The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination by Jessica Benjamin

The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis by Madelon Sprengnether

Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West by Jane Flax

Making Connections: The Relational Worlds of Adolescent Girls at Emma Willard School edited by Carol Gilligan, edited by Nona P. Lyons, edited by Trudy J. Hanmer

The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender by Nancy Chodorow

Robert Darnton, An Enlightened Revolution?

The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution by Roger Chartier, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane

Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century by Keith Michael Baker

Robert Towers, Believe It or Not

The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard

Stephen Jay Gould, The H and Q of Baseball

A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseball by Marvin Miller

Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures edited by Dick Johnson, text by Glenn Stout

The Home Run Heard 'Round the World: The Dramatic Story of the 1951 Giants–Dodgers Pennant Race by Ray Robinson

My Favorite Summer 1956 by Mickey Mantle, by Phil Pepe

Irving Howe, From Rebel to Bureaucrat

Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor by Steven Fraser

Robert Craft, Bali H'ai

Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds by Carol J. Oja

A House in Bali by Colin McPhee

Michael Scammell, Slovenia and Its Poet

Edvard Kocbek, Four Poems by Edvard Kocbek (poem)

John Gregory Dunne, Law and Disorder in LA: Part Two

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

William Pfaff, Keeping the East Europeans Out

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Letters

Barbara H. Chasin, Richard W. Franke, et al. The Kerala Difference
Lawrence Goodwyn, Timothy Garton Ash, Solidarity's Sources
John N. Duvall, Frederick C. Crews, Faulkner's Strange Fate
Ulrich Steinvorth, Peter Singer, Academic Freedom in Germany
Brooks D. Simpson, Recognition

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Contributors

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

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

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)

William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)

Michael Scammell is Professor of Writing and Translation at Columbia. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, and has just completed a biography of Arthur Koestler. (November 2005)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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