Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 17 · October 22, 1992

Julian Barnes, 'The Proudest and Most Arrogant Man in France'

Letters of Gustave Courbet edited and translated by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu

Garry Wills, A Doll's House?

James Fenton, Cut-Throat Christ Or the New Ballad of the Dosi (poem)

Jonathan D. Spence, The Other China

A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947 by Lai Tse-han, by Ramon H. Myers, by Wei Wou

A Farewell: A Collection of Short Stories by Bo Yang, translated by Robert Reynolds

Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization by Robert Wade

Taiwan: Beyond the Economic Miracle edited by Denis Fred Simon, edited by Michael Y.M. Kau

The Protestant Community on Modern Taiwan: Mission, Seminary, and Church by Murray A. Rubinstein

The Great Transition: Political and Social Change in the Republic of China by Hung-mao Tien

P.N. Furbank, Looking for Napoleon

The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys, translated by Patricia Clancy. the author

The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. by Brian O'Doherty

Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy produced and edited by Proctor Patterson Jones

The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena by Julia Blackburn

David J. Rothman, Sheila M. Rothman, A Death in Zimbabwe

Sean Wilentz, A Triumph of the Gilded Age

The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel by Paul Krause

'The River Ran Red': Homestead 1892 edited by David P. Demarest Jr.

Jasper Griffin, The Love that Dared to Speak its Name

Bisexuality in the Ancient World by Eva Cantarella, translated by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin

Charles Rosen, The Mad Poets

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 1, 'Adelphi' and Letters 1750–1781, edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 2, Letters 1782–1786 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 4, Letters 1792–1799 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 4, Miscellaneous Poems, English and Latin edited by Karina Williamson

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 3, A Translation of the Psalms of David edited by Marcus Walsh

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 2, Religious Poetry edited by Marcus Walsh, edited by Karina Williamson

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 1, Jubilate Agno edited by Karina Williamson

William Cowper: Selected Letters edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 5, Prose 1756–c. 1799 and Cumulative Index edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 3, Letters 1787–1791 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

Istvan Deak, Witnesses to Evil

In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen by Nechama Tec

Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933–1945 by Raul Hilberg

A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis edited by Michael Berenbaum

Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust edited by Richard C. Lukas

Robert Darnton, Reading a Riot

The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution by Arlette Farge, by Jacques Revel, translated by Claudia Miéville

Cass R. Sunstein, How Independent is the Court?

Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson by William H. Rehnquist

The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? by Gerald N. Rosenberg

Robert Craft, Great Dane

Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally, afterword by Eric O. Johannesson

Abraham Brumberg, Not So Free At Last

Arcadi Nebolsine, SAVE 'NOVY MIR'

Abraham Brumberg, Whose Crimea?

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Rasool Nafisi, Bernard Lewis, Tolerance Among Muslims, Christians, & Jews: An Exchange


Letters

Gordon Tullock, Noel Annan, An Unadmirable Admiral



Contributors

Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

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

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.

Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School, Columbia University. Their books written together include The Willowbrook Wars: A Decade of Struggle for Social Justice (1984) and The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement (2003).

Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)

Sean Wilentz is Professor of History and Director of the Program in American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author, with Paul E. Johnson, of The Kingdom of Matthias. (November 1997)

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.


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