Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 6 · March 25, 1993

Jeri Laber, Bosnia: Questions About Rape

David Lodge, Writer's-Writer's Writer

Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green edited by Matthew Yorke

Robert M. Solow, Dr. Rivlin's Diagnosis & Mr. Clinton's Remedy

Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States and the Federal Government by Alice M. Rivlin

James Fenton, Some Mistakes People Make About Poetry

Ian Buruma, Americainerie

Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952 by Kyoko Hirano

A Map of the East Photographs by Leo Rubinfien

Re-Made In Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society edited by Joseph J. Tobin

How to Work for a Japanese Boss by Jina Bacarr

Bernard Lewis, The Enemies of God

David Remnick, The Counterrevolutionary

Sto Sorok Besed s Molotovym (One Hundred Forty Talks with Molotov) by Feliks Chuyev

Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin: The Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev by Yegor Ligachev, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, by Michele A. Berdy, by Dobrochna Dyrcz-Freeman

George M. Fredrickson, The Old New Order

The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers

Robert Towers, Out of the Blue

The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court by Peter Taylor

Denis Donoghue, Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered

Illustration by J. Hillis Miller

Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines by J. Hillis Miller

The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy by Frederick Crews

Double Agent: The Critic and Society by Morris Dickstein

Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism by Giles Gunn

Anthony Quinton, A Master Materialist

La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment by Kathleen Wellman

Murray Kempton, The Uses of Adversity

Daumier Drawings 26-May 2 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February

Daumier Drawings by Colta Ives, by Margret Stuffmann, by Martin Sonnabend

Jonathan Mirsky, The Party's Secrets

Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu by Vera Schwarcz

A Chinese Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Chinese Dissident by Anne F. Thurston

Chinese Village, Socialist State by Edward Friedman, by Paul G. Pickowicz, by Mark Selden, with Kay Ann Johnson

Charles Hope, Wall Power

Arts of Power: Three Halls of State in Italy, 1300–1600 by Randolph Starn, by Loren Partridge

Painting, Power and Patronage: The Rise of the Professional Artist in Renaissance Italy by Bram Kempers, translated by Beverly Jackson

Jacques Derrida, Didier Eribon, Richard Wolin, et al. 'L'Affaire Derrida': Another Exchange


Letters

Blanche Wiesen Cook, Geoffrey C. Ward, 'Outing Mrs. Roosevelt'
Manuela Dobos, Elinor Fuchs, et al. Peace in Bosnia



Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year's Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 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)

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

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent books are Music of a Distant Drum and What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. (May 2002)

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He reported from Vietnam in 1965 and 1967. (November 2008)

Anthony Quinton is the former president of Trinity College, Oxford, former chairman of the British Library, and the author of Hume. (June 2001)

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.

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (November 2008)


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