Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 21 · December 17, 1992

Tatyana Tolstaya, The Golden Age

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky, translated by Marian Schwartz

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Family Albums by Prince Michael of Greece

Boris Pasternak, Spring Rainstorm (poem)

George W. Ball, Present After the Creation

Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953–71 by Douglas Brinkley

Alison Lurie, Undiscovered Country

Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson, translated by Elizabeth Portch

Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Warburton

Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson, translated by Elizabeth Portch

Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Warburton

Roderick MacFarquhar, Deng's Last Campaign

John Bayley, Time of Indifference

The Porcupine by Julian Barnes

Alan Lightman, The One and Only

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick

Gordon A. Craig, Good Germans

Fatherland by Robert Harris

German Resistance Against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad, 1938–1945 by Klemens von Klemperer

A Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz by Giles MacDonogh

For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler by Victoria Barnett

Contending with Hitler: Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich edited by David Clay Large

Alfred Kazin, The Middle Way

Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike

Garry Wills, Athena's Magic

The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, The Fifth Century BC November 22, 1992–February 7, 1993; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York March 11–May 23, 1993 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, The Fifth Century BC catalog of the exhibition, edited by Diana Buitron-Oliver

The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes catalog of the exhibition, edited by Richard F. Townsend

Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual by Christopher A. Faraone

The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes 1992–January 3, 1993 an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago October 10,

David Cannadine, Cutting Classes

Class Formation and Urban-Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750–1850 by Theodore Koditschek

Class, Sect and Party: The Making of the British Middle Class, Leeds 1820–1850 by R.J. Morris

Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, 1840–1914 by Patrick Joyce

The Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain, 1880–1950 by Ross McKibbin

Joseph Connors, Playing the Palace

Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces: Use and the Art of the Plan by Patricia Waddy

Images of Nepotism: The Painted Ceilings of Palazzo Barberini by John Beldon Scott

Benedetta Craveri, Conqueror of Paris

A Woman, a Man, and Two Kingdoms: The Story of Madame d'Epinay and the Abbæ Galiani by Francis Steegmuller

Ferdinando Galiani, Louise d'Epinay Correspondance Vol. I (1769–1770) by (The Correspondance will comprise five volumes to appear annually.), edited by Georges Dulac, by Daniel Maggetti

Eagle in a Gauze Cage: Louise d'Epinay, femme de lettres by Ruth Plaut Weinreb

Paul Wilson, Czechoslovakia: The Pain of Divorce

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Letters

Nigel Nicolson, Robert Craft, 'Love in a Cold Climate'
John Hohnsbeen, No Joke
Lance Selfa, Free Speech in Greece
S. Jay Levy, Robert L. Heilbroner, 'Contained Depression'

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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)

Joseph Connors, the Director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, writes on Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. He was formerly Director of the American Academy in Rome and professor of art history at Columbia.

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Benedetta Craveri is a professor of French literature at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, and the Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. She regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books and to the cultural pages of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Her books include Madame du Deffand and Her World, La Vie privée du Maréchal de Richelieu, and Amanti e regine: Il potere delle donne. She is married to a French diplomat.

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Alan Lightman, a physicist, teaches at MIT. His latest book is The Diagnosis. (May 2002)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book, written with Michael Schoenhals, is Mao’s Last Revolution. (June 2007)

Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the poet and author of Doctor Zhivago, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958.

Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.

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

Paul Wilson is a writer based in Toronto and the translator of several books, plays, and essays by Václav Havel. (May 2007)

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