Table of Contents
Volume 39, Number 7 · April 9, 1992
Gordon A. Craig, Above the Abyss 
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
Václav 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 the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 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 launched the trade paperback format in the US in 1952 as a young editor at Doubleday. In 1963 he was a founder of The New York Review and in 1979 cofounder with the late Edmund Wilson of the Library of America. In 2007 he cofounded On Demand Books. Among his many awards are the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books. (March 2010)
Václav 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. He also wrote Chaos and Violence.
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 Life. (December 2009)
