Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 8 · April 23, 1992

Ian Buruma, It Can't Happen Here

Rising Sun by Michael Crichton

Jeri Laber, Witch Hunt in Prague

John Bayley, Fighting for the Crown

Wise Children by Angela Carter

Love by Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter

The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman by Angela Carter

Come Unto These Yellow Sands by Angela Carter

The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book edited by Angela Carter

The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography by Angela Carter

James Fallows, What Can Save the Economy?

Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America by Lester Thurow

A Call to Economic Arms: Forging a New American Mandate by Paul E. Tsongas

A Plan for America's Future by Bill Clinton

State of the Union Address and 'Highlights of the President's Growth Agenda' by George Bush

Robert O. Paxton, De Gaulle and His Myth

De Gaulle: Vol. I, The Rebel: 1890-1944 by Jean Lacouture, translated by Patrick O'Brian

De Gaulle: Vol. II, The Ruler: 1945-1970 by Jean Lacouture, translated by Alan Sheridan

Robert Hughes, Art, Morals, and Politics

Jamey Gambrell, Kasha on the Brain

Andrew Hacker, The New Civil War

Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass by Christopher Jencks

Racism and Justice: The Case for Affirmative Action by Gertrude Ezorsky

The Black Elite: Facing the Color Line in the Twilight of the Twentieth Century by Lois Benjamin

Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession by Studs Terkel

Amos Elon, In a Former Country

Garry Wills, Homer Alive

Kings: An Account of Books 1 and 2 of Homer's 'Iliad' by Christopher Logue

Rudolf Peierls, The Uncertain Scientist

Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg by David C. Cassidy

Edmund S. Morgan, The Fiction of 'The People'

We the People: Vol. I, Foundations by Bruce Ackerman

John Gregory Dunne, Your Time is My Time

To the End of Time: The Seduction and Conquest of a Media Empire by Richard M. Clurman

Murray Kempton, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

American Dream a film directed by Barbara Kopple. distributed by Prestige/Miramax

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Letters

Brian Boyd, Robert M. Adams, Reading Nabokov
Thomas P. Slaughter, David Brion Davis, Wounds
Suzanne Gordon, Diane Johnson, Do Women Care More?
Leon Wieseltier, Marie Syrkin Fellowship

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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 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 2008)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko's writings, Experiments for the Future, and many of the stories included in Tatyana Tolstaya's White Walls. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin's Ice has recently been published by NYRB Classics.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn’t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

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.

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. He is also a Regional Editor of North American Birds magazine. (November 2008)

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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