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

Václav 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 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 Bernstein is a former Time correspondent in China and a correspondent in France and Germany for The New York Times. His most recent book is The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters. (November 2009)

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)

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)

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 latest book, ConcerningE.M. Forster, will be published in December.
 (October 2009)

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (December 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. (October 2008)

Felix Rohatyn is an investment banker and has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, and US Ambassador to France. (October 2008)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.


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