Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 7 · April 9, 1992

Gordon A. Craig, Above the Abyss

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock

Vaclav Havel, Paradise Lost

Peter Singer, Bandit and Friends

Beyond Beef:The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Industry by Jeremy Rifkin

Taking Stock: Animal Farming and the Environment by Alan B. Durning, by Holly B. Brough

Bandit: Dossier of a Dangerous Dog by Vicki Hearne

Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights by Keith Tester

Against Liberation: Putting Animals in Perspective by Michael P.T. Leahy

John Bayley, Innocents at Home

Paradise News by David Lodge

The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald

Ian Buruma, Outsiders

Julia Reed, His Brilliant Career

Denis Donoghue, Mister Myth

Words With Power: Being a Second Study of 'The Bible and Literature' by Northrop Frye

Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974–1988 by Northrop Frye, edited by Robert D. Denham

Reading the World: Selected Writings, 1935–1976 by Northrop Frye, edited by Robert D. Denham

The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion by Northrop Frye

Hugh Honour, The Wonders of Angkor Wat: A Diary

Robert Towers, Secret Histories

Vox by Nicholson Baker

A Case of Curiosities by Allen Kurzweil

Stanley Hoffmann, Delusions of World Order

Brian Urquhart, A Double Standard

Robert Craft, Lagoon Tunes

Five Centuries of Music in Venice by H.C. Robbins Landon, by John Julius Norwich

Jason Epstein, The Tragical History of New York

Murray Kempton, Another Case of Multiculturalism

Elliott A. Cohen, David H. Finnie, Theodore H. Draper, 'The Gulf War Reconsidered'

Leo Treitler, Charles Rosen, 'Radical, Conventional Mozart': An Exchange

Eric M. Bergerud, Stephen Denney, David Slawson, et al. Return to Vietnam: An Exchange


Letters

James Rusbridger, Ian Buruma, White Noise
Norman Fruman, David Lodge, The Fiction of Fact
Jeffrey Hart, The Buchanan Canon
Charlton Ogburn, E.A.J. Honigmann, Shakespeare & Co.
Eugene J. Fisher, Garry Wills, The Buchanan Canon
M. Gopnik, Lord Zuckerman, Talking Genes



Contributors

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 latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)

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

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 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)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)

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.

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (March 2008)


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