Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 11 · June 11, 1992

David Gilmour, Homage to Catalonia

Barcelona by Robert Hughes

Barcelonas by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, translated by Andy Robinson

Theodore H. Draper, Who Killed Soviet Communism?

The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons by Mikhail Gorbachev

'Gorbachev's Endgame' by Jerry F. Hough

'Liberalization and Democratization in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe'

Michael Meyer, Broken Glass

Strindberg's Letters Vol. I: 1862–1892 Vol. II: 1892–1912 selected, edited, and translated by Michael Robinson

Avishai Margalit, The General's Main Chance

Hilary Mantel, Blood Ties

Ever After by Graham Swift

Jorge Luis Borges, For a Version of the I Ching (poem)

Neal Ascherson, Africa's Lost History

The African Experience: Major Themes in African History from Earliest Times to the Present by Roland Oliver

The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 by Thomas Pakenham

Joseph Brodsky, In the Light of Venice

Eric L. McKitrick, The Great White Hope

Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union by Robert V. Remini

Gordon A. Craig, The Master Builder

Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man 31–October 27, 1991 An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, July

Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Michael Snodin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel by Helmut Börsch-Supan

Collection of Architectural Designs, including designs which have been executed and objects whose execution was intended by Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Reise nach England, Schottland und Paris im Jahre 1826 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, edited with an introduction and notes by Gottfried Riemann, an essay by David Bindmann

Michael Massing, What Ever Happened to the 'War on Drugs'?

The Search for Rational Drug Control by Franklin E. Zimring, by Gordon Hawkins

Pipe Dream Blues: Racism and the War on Drugs by Clarence Lusane, with Dennis Desmond

Cocaine Changes: The Experience of Using and Quitting by Dan Waldorf, by Craig Reinarman, by Sheigla Murphy

Dead on Delivery: Inside the Drug Wars, Straight from the Street by Robert M. Stutman, by Richard Esposito

Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results by Mark A. R. Kleiman

Lawrence Stone, The Revolution Over the Revolution

The Causes of the English Civil War by Conrad Russell

Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World by Jack A. Goldstone

Tim Rutten, A New Kind of Riot

Ronald Dworkin, The Coming Battles over Free Speech

Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis

Robert Geddes, Craig Whitaker, Jason Epstein, 'How New York Fell': An Exchange

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Letters

Carlos A. Camargo, Jeri Laber, Witch Hunt in Prague
Pavel Bratinka, Vladimir Dlouhy, et al. Witch Hunt in Prague

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

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)

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)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)

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