Table of Contents
Volume 39, Number 15 · September 24, 1992
George F. Kennan, Keeping the Faith 
Summer Meditations by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson
Louis Begley, A Matter of Survival
October, Eight O'Clock by Norman Manea, translated by Cornelia Golna, by Anselm Hollo, by Mara Soceanu Vamos, by Max Bleyleben, by Marguerite Dorian, by Elliott B. Urdang
Garry Wills, The Born-Again Republicans
Hugh Honour, The Master Builder of Venice
The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino by Bruce Boucher
William Pfaff, The Shame of Bosnia
Richard Holmes, 'He Doth Not Sleep'
The New Shelley: Later Twentieth-Century Views edited by G. Kim Blank
Shelley's Poetry and Prose edited by Donald H. Reiman, edited by Sharon B. Powers
The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts Volume XI: The Geneva Notebook of Percy Bysshe Shelley transcribed and edited by Michael Erkelenz
Shelley's First Love: The Love Story of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Grove by Desmond Hawkins
Love's Children by Judith Chernaik
Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
Hilary Mantel, On the Edge
Alma by Gordon Burn
Alan Ryan, The New Inequality
The End of Equality by Mickey Kaus
Frederick C. Crews, The New Americanists
Caroline Blackwood, Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
Geoffrey O'Brien, Blazing Passions
Red Sorghum directed by Zhang Yimou (1987)
The Big Parade directed by Chen Kaige (1985)
Raise the Red Lantern directed by Zhang Yimou (1991)
Shanghai Blues directed by Tsui Hark (1984)
A Chinese Ghost Story directed by Ching Siu-ting (1987)
Boat People directed by Ann Hui (1982)
Once Upon a Time in China directed by Tsui Hark (1991)
A Terra-Cotta Warrior directed by Ching Siu-ting (1990)
A Touch of Zen directed by King Hu (1975)
Rouge directed by Stanley Kwan (1988)
A Better Tomorrow directed by John Woo (1986)
Peking Opera Blues directed by Tsui Hark (1986)
Fists of Fury directed by Lo Wei (1972)
Yellow Earth directed by Chen Kaige (1984)
Horse Thief directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang (1986)
Aileen Kelly, Revealing Bakhtin
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson, by Caryl Emerson
Geoffrey C. Ward, Outing Mrs. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 1, 1884–1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Joan Didion, Eye on the Prize
Letters
Richard Helgerson, Frank Kermode, 'Forms of Nationhood'
Deke Dusinberre, Limits of Translation
F. Sionil Jose, James Fenton, From the Coffee Shop
Philip Roth, 'Astonishing'
Contributors
Louis Begley is a novelist and retired lawyer. He has written eight novels, including Wartime Lies, About Schmidt, and Matters of Honor, which was published in 2007. He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres of France and served as the president of American pen from 1993 to 1995. He lives in New York with his wife, Anka Muhlstein, an historian of France.
Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into a rich Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. She rebelled against her background at an early age and led a hectic and bohemian life, which included marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell. In the 1970s Blackwood began to write. Among her books are several novels, including Great Granny Webster and Corrigan (both available as NYRB Classics); On the Perimeter, an account of the women's anti-nuclear protest at Greenham Common; and The Last of the Duchess, about the old age of the Duchess of Windsor.
Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (December 2008)
Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)
Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)
George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)
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)
Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (October 2008)
William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 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.
