Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 20 · December 5, 1991

Gabriele Annan, The Melancholy Prince

The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa by David Gilmour

C. Vann Woodward, The Return of LBJ

Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960 by Robert Dallek

The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years by Joseph A. Califano Jr.

Ian Stewart, In The Jungle of the Infinite

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel

James Merrill, Snow Jobs (poem)

Nadine Gordimer, The Empire of Joseph Roth

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, translated by Eva Tucker, translated by Geoffrey Dunlop

Hotel Savoy, including 'Fallmerayer the Stationmaster' and 'The Bust of the Emperor' by Joseph Roth, translated by John Hoare

'The Spider's Web' and 'Zipper and his Father' by Joseph Roth, translated by John Hoare

Flight Without End by Joseph Roth, translated by David LeVay

'The Legend of the Holy Drinker' and 'Right and Left' by Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann

The Silent Prophet by Joseph Roth, translated by David Le Vay

The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth, translated by John Hoare

Robert M. Solow, How to Stop Hunger

Hunger and Public Action by Jean Drèze, by Amartya Sen

John Bayley, Getting to Know You

Talking It Over by Julian Barnes

William J. McGrath, How Jewish Was Freud?

Freud and Moses: The Long Journey Home by Emanuel Rice

Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Ian Buruma, Against the Japanese Grain

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: A Portrait of Japan at Century's End by Norma Field

Bernard Lewis, In Search of Islam's Past

Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry, Revised Edition by R. Stephen Humphreys

Wilfrid Sheed, Armageddon Now?

Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer

Vaclav Havel, On Home

Derek Jarrett, Twin Peaks

The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age by Joseph M. Levine

John Weightman, Sex and the Devil

South: A Play by Julian Green

The Distant Lands by Julian Green, translated by Barbara Beaumont

Paris by Julian Green, translated by J. A. Underwood

Adrienne Mesurat by Julian Green, translated by Henry Longan Stuart, revised by Marilyn Gaddis Rose

Roger Chartier, Patrice Higonnet, The New Bibliothèque: An Exchange

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Letters

Joanna Clark, Alfred Kazin, Reading Henry Roth
Marie-Claire Bergere, Jonathan D. Spence, Golden Age
Richard T. Davies, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Error Felix

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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

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)

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)

Derek Jarrett is Editor of the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Memoirs. His edition of The Memoirs of the Reign of George III will be published later this year. (March 1999)

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent books are Music of a Distant Drum and What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. (May 2002)

James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (November 2007)

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

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)

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