Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 13 · July 16, 1992

James M. McPherson, The Art of Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills

James Fenton, Cory Lives!

Ian Buruma, The Ways of Survival

Jakob Littners Aufzeichnungen aus einem Erdloch by Wolfgang Koeppen

A Feast in the Garden by George Konrád, translated by Imre Goldstein

David Brion Davis, The American Dilemma

Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker

The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present by Jacqueline Jones

John Richardson, Go Go Guggenheim

Luc Sante, The Possessed

Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line by Terry Williams

Clockers by Richard Price

C. Vann Woodward, Made in the U.S.A.

Truman by David McCullough

Francine du Plessix Gray, Splendor and Miseries

Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 by Alain Corbin, translated by Alan Sheridan

Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era by Hollis Clayson

La Vie quotidienne dans les maisons closes, 1830–1930 by Laure Adler

Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France by Charles Bernheimer

Michael Wood, Austere Fireworks

Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Federico García Lorca, edited by Christopher Maurer

Four Puppet Plays, 'Play Without a Title,' The Divan Poems and Other Poems, Prose Poems and Dramatic Pieces by Federico García Lorca, translated by Edwin Honig

Line of Light and Shadow: The Drawings of Federico García Lorca by Mario Hernández, translated by Christopher Maurer

The House of Bernarda Alba a film directed by Nuria Espert, by Stuart Burge, produced by Holmes for Channel 4

Matthew Rutenberg, The Genius of Cento

Guercino: Master Painter of the Baroque 15–May 17, 1992 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March

Guercino: Master Painter of the Baroque catalog of the exhibition by Denis Mahon, with contributions by Andrea Emiliani, by Diane De Grazia, by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer

Guercino: Drawings from Windsor Castle an exhibition at The Drawing Center, New York, June 2–August 1, 1992

Guercino: Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections catalog by David M. Stone

Guercino (1591–1661): Drawings From Dutch Collections catalog by Carel van Tuyll Van Serooskerken

Guercino: Drawings from Windsor Castle catalog of the exhibition, by Nicholas Turner

David Remnick, Dons of the Don

The Soviet Mafia by Arkady Vaksberg, translated by John Roberts, translated by Elizabeth Roberts

Robert M. Adams, Fatal Triangles

A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare by René Girard

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Letters

Radu J. Bogdan, Istvan Deak, Democracy in Romania?
Ivo Banac, Slavenka Drakulic, et al. To Protect the Kosovars
Susan C. Cook, Robert Craft, What's a Girl to Do?
William Cawthon, Andrew Hacker, Importing Slaves

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)

David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.

John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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