Table of Contents
Volume 39, Number 12 · June 25, 1992
P.N. Furbank, A Double Life 
Chamfort by Claude Arnaud, translated by Deke Dusinberre, foreword by Joseph Epstein
Vaclav Havel, A Dream for Czechoslovakia
John Bayley, Irishness
Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney
The Rough Field by John Montague
Mount Eagle by John Montague
Gorse Fires by Michael Longley
Sarah Kerr, Fujimori's Plot: An Interview with Gustavo Gorriti
Edmund S. Morgan, The Second American Revolution
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
Felix G. Rohatyn, What the Government Should Do
Garry Wills, The Rescuer
Robert Towers, House of Cards
The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
Richard J. Bernstein, French Collaborators: The New Debate
Frank Kermode, The High Cost of New History
Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England by Richard Helgerson
Elena Bonner, My Secret Past: The KGB File
Murray Kempton, The Democratic Vista
Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy by William Greider
Louis Menand, The Real John Dewey
John Dewey and American Democracy by Robert B. Westbrook
Kerry Fried, Child's Play
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Amico Bignami, M.F. Perutz, The Mystery of Malaria: An Exchange
Letters
James J. Leff, An Open Letter to the Vice-President
Charlton Ogburn, E.A.J. Honigmann, 'The Second-Best Bed'
Harry G. Parke, Bernard Lewis, Khomeini's Forerunners
Joseph Russo, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Homer's Literacy
Keith Montgomery, Daniel J. Kevles, The Sticking Gas
Contributors
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Richard J. Bernstein, formerly Time magazine’s correspondent in China and a correspondent in France and Germany for The New York Times, is the author of Ultimate Journey. (October 2007)
Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, is a longtime human rights activist and the Chair of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (March 2001)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
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)
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.
Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)
Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.
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. (June 2008)
Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)
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.
