Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 18 · November 5, 1992

John Terborgh, A Matter of Life and Death

The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson

Thomas Byrne Edsall, Clinton's Revolution

David Remnick, Invitation to a Beheading

Stalin: Triumph & Tragedy by Dmitri Volkogonov, edited and translated by Harold Shukman

John Bayley, Answers Without Questions

Mr. Mani by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Hillel Halkin

Katerina by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green

István Deák, Holocaust Heroes

Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism by Alexander Stille

The Italian Refuge: Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust edited by Ivo Herzer

All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941–1943 by Jonathan Steinberg

Norway's Response to the Holocaust: A Historical Perspective by Samuel Abrahamsen

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

'My Brother's Keeper?': Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust edited by Antony Polonsky

The Survival of Love: Memoirs of a Resistance Officer by Józef Garlinski

The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs during World War II by Vladimir Dedijer, translated by Harvey L. Kendall

Jack Flam, Passions of Matisse

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective 1992–January 12, 1993 an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York September 24,

Collecting Matisse by Albert Kostenevich, by Natalia Semenova

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective catalog of the exhibition by John Elderfield

John Weightman, How Wise Was Montaigne?

Michel de Montaigne: The Essays translated and edited by M.A. Screech

Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the 'Essays' by M.A. Screech

Garry Wills, Father Knows Best

Stephen Jay Gould, Dreams That Money Can Buy

The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story by Peter Lefcourt

The Cleveland Indian: The Legend of King Saturday by Luke Salisbury

The Diamond Revolution: The Prospects for Baseball After the Collapse of Its Ruling Class by Neil J. Sullivan

Lost Ballparks: A Celebration of Baseball's Legendary Fields by Lawrence S. Ritter

Baseball: The Perfect Game Photographs by Danielle Weil, Introduction by David Halberstam, text by Peter Richmond

The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History Chartwell Books, 110 Enterprise Avenue, Secaucus, New Yersey, 07094; Amereon Ltd., P.O. Box 1200, Mattituck, New York, 11952.) by Phil Dixon, by Patrick J. Hannigan

The Brooklyn Dodgers by Peter C. Bjarkman

Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime by Andrew Zimbalist

Box Socials by W.P. Kinsella

Denis Donoghue, Book of Books Books

The World of Biblical Literature by Robert Alter

Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text by Burton L. Visotzky

The Voice of Jacob: On the Composition of Genesis by Leslie Brisman

The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature by Ricardo J. Quinones

Jonathan Mirsky, Squaring the Chinese Circle

Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture by Jonathan D. Spence

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 15, The People's Republic Part 2: Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution 1966–1982 edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, edited by John K. Fairbank

Stanley Hoffmann, Bush Abroad

Marching in Place by Michael Duffy, by Dan Goodgame

The Ruses for War: American Intervention Since World War II by John Quigley

The Shape of the New Europe edited by Gregory F. Treverton

Guardians of the Gulf: A History of America's Expanding Role in the Persian Gulf by Michael A. Palmer

The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose by Robert W. Tucker, by David C. Hendrickson

The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis by Elaine Sciolino

Lines in the Sand by Deborah Amos

Mr. Bush's War: Adventures in the Politics of Illusion by Stephen R. Graubard

George Bush's War by Jean Edward Smith

Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics by Eric Alterman

The Commanders by Bob Woodward

It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, by Peter Petrie

Illusions of Triumph by Mohamed Heikal

Desert Shield to Desert Storm: The Second Gulf War by Dilip Hiro

Triumph Without Victory: The History of the Persian Gulf War US News and World Report

On Strategy II: A Critical Analysis of the Gulf War by Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr.

Storm over Iraq by Richard P. Hallion

Needless Deaths in the Gulf: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War

Ethics and the Gulf War by Kenneth L. Vaux

Just War and the Gulf War by James Turner Johnson, by George Weigel

But Was It Just? Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War by Jean Bethke Elshtain, by Stanley Hauerwas, by Sari Nusseibeh, by Michael Walzer, by George Weigel

Against the Fires of Hell: The Environmental Disaster of the Gulf War by T.M. Hawley

The Fire This Time by Ramsey Clark

Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky

The Gulf War and the New World Order edited by Haim Bresheeth, edited by Nira Yuval-Davis

War and the Media by Philip M. Taylor

Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War by John R. MacArthur

The Media and the Gulf War: The Press and Democracy in Wartime edited by Hedrick Smith

A Search for Enemies by Ted Galen Carpenter

Designing Defense for a New World Order by Earl Ravenal

Defense for a New Era: Lessons of the Persian Gulf War by Les Aspin, by William Dickinson. the House Armed Services Committee

Audrey Lau, Charles S. Nicoll, Sharon M. Russell, et al. 'Animal Liberation': An Exchange

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Letters

John Calder, 'Ill Seen Ill Said'
Tracy Quan, Francine du Plessix Gray, 'Sex Work'?
Everett C. Frost, John Banville, 'Ill Seen Ill Said'

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

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

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He reported from Vietnam in 1965 and 1967. (November 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 Terborgh is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke. His latest book is Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature. (November 2007)

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 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.

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