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Volume 39, Number 5 · March 5, 1992

Garry Wills, H.R. Clinton's Case

'Children Under the Law' (1974) reprinted as the lead article in The Rights of Children, edited by Rochelle Beck, by Heather Bastow Weiss

'Children's Policies: Abandonment and Neglect'

'Children's Rights: A Legal Perspective' in Children's Rights: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Patricia A. Vardin, by Ilene N. Brody

'A Bridge Over the Mississippi' Memphis State University, 1990 Kansas Work Force, 1991 Keynote Address to the Second Annual Urban Education Symposium at. Keynote Address to the Conference on Adult Basic Skills and the

'The Healthy Development of Our Youth' Foundations, 1988 Keynote Address to the Atlanta Convention of Southeastern Council of

'Teacher Education: Of the People, By the People, and For the People' on Teacher Education Policies, Practices, and Research in Beyond the Looking Glass: Papers From a National Symposium

Jonathan Mirsky, Literature of the Wounded

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution edited by Feng Jicai, foreword by Robert Coles

Gabriele Annan, From the Eternal War

Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Philip Boehm

Darryl Pinckney, The Sweet Singer of Tuckahoe

My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Gerald Early

Blaga Dimitrova, The New Newspeak

Arthur Hertzberg, A Lost Chance for Peace

Henri Zerner, Mysteries of a Modern Painter

Géricault January 6, 1992 An exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, October 10, 1991 to

Géricault catalog of the exhibition by Régis Michel, by Sylvain Laveissière, by Bruno Chenique

Géricault by German Bazin

Sue M. Halpern, There's No Place Like Home

Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir by Sissela Bok

Childhood by Jan Myrdal, translated by Christine Swanson

David J. Rothman, Rationing Life

Who Lives? Who Dies? Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection by John F. Kilner

Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry

Someday by Andrew H. Malcolm

What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress by Daniel Callahan

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society by Daniel Callahan

Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth

Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State by Troyen A. Brennan

Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care by Paul T. Menzel

Murray Kempton, Bad Debts

Geoffrey O'Brien, Killing Time

West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns by Jane Tompkins

The BFI Companion to the Western edited by Edward Buscombe, forward by Richard Schickel

The Western edited by Phil Hardy

Box-Office Buckaroos: The Cowboy Hero from the Wild West Show to the Silver Screen by Robert Heide, by John Gilman

Western Films: A Complete Guide by Brian Garfield

Istvan Deak, Survivors

The Romanians: A History by Vlad Georgescu, edited by Matei Calinescu, translated by Alexandra Bley-Vroman, epilogue by Matei Calinescu, by Vladimir Tismaneanu

Jagendorf's Foundry: Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941–1944 by Siegfried Jagendorf, introduction and commentaries by Aron Hirt-Manheimer

'Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite': The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus by Edward Behr, foreword by Ryszard Kapuscinski

National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania by Katherine Verdery

The Fall of Tyrants: The Incredible Story of One Pastor's Witness, the People of Romania, and the Overthrow of Ceausescu by Laszlo Tokes, with David Porter

The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution by Andrei Codrescu

Romania: The Entangled Revolution International Studies, Praeger by Nestor Ratesh, foreword by Edward N. Luttwak

Since the Revolution: Human Rights in Romania

Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Becoming Homer

Epic Singers and Oral Tradition by Albert Bates Lord

Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet by Barry B. Powell

Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West Before 1400 B.C. by Martin Bernal

Teddy Kollek, Avishai Margalit, An Exchange on Jerusalem

Letters

Charles Larmore, Isaac Levi, et al. Jonathan Lieberson Prize
The Editors, Corrections

Contributors

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

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)

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.

Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.

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.

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)