Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 3 · January 30, 1992

Robert M. Adams, The Wizard of Lake Cayuga

Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years by Brian Boyd

David Brion Davis, Life and Death in Slavery

Celia: A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin

Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North by Thomas P. Slaughter

Stuart Hampshire, The Tory Anarchist

Orwell: The Authorized Biography by Michael Shelden

V.S. Naipaul, Argentina: Living With Cruelty

Murray Kempton, The Charms of Terror

The Inner Circle a film by Andrei Konchalovsky

The Inner Circle: An Inside View of Soviet Life Under Stalin by Andrei Konchalovsky, by Alexander Lipkov, translated and edited by Jamey Gambrell

Garry Wills, Why Cuomo Said No

Abraham Brumberg, The Road to Minsk

Francis Haskell, Only Collect

Le Géant, La Licorne et La Tulipe: Collections françaises au XVII siècle by Antoine Schnapper

The Return of Cultural Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield

The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? edited by Phyllis Mauch Messenger

Pricing the Priceless: Art, Artists, and Collectors by William D. Grampp

Les Frères Goncourt: collectionneurs de dessins by Elizabeth Launay

Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500–1800 by Krzysztof Pomian

J.P. Morgan: The Financier as Collector by Louis Auchincloss

Misha Glenny, The Massacre of Yugoslavia

Richard West, Royal Family Thais

Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj, translated by Tulachandra

A Child of the Northeast by Kampoon Boontawee, translated by Susan Fulop Kepner

Letters from Thailand by Botan, translated by Susan Fulop Kepner

Kukrit Pramoj: His Wit and Wisdom edited by Steve Van Beek

Theodore H. Draper, The True History of the Gulf War

From Shield to Storm: High-Tech Weapons, Military Strategy, and Coalition Warfare in the Persian Gulf by James F. Dunnigan, by Austin Bay

In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf by Roger Cohen, by Claudio Gatti

Desert Victory: The War for Kuwait by Norman Friedman

The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis by Elaine Sciolino

Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War

On the Basra Road by Stephen Sackur

George Bush's War by Jean Edward Smith

The Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf by John J. Fialka

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Letters

Erna Otten, Oliver Sacks, Phantom Limbs
Charles Rosen, Friendly Corrections
Charles Nissim-Sabat, Andrew Hacker, Closing the Gap

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Contributors

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

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)

Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

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.

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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