Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 7 · April 8, 1993

Liu Binyan, An Unnatural Disaster

Lishi de yibufen (A Part of History) by Zheng Yi

Hongse Jinianbei (Red Memorial) by Zheng Yi

Gabriele Annan, Electra from Beverly Hills

Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva

John Gross, Trollope's Comédie Humaine

Anthony Trollope by Victoria Glendinning

Alan Ryan, Foucault's Life and Hard Times

The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert, translated by Linda Coverdale

Michel Foucault by Didier Eribon, translated by Betsy Wing

Shaul Bakhash, Secrets of the Shah's Court

The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1969-1977 by Asadollah Alam, introduced and edited by Alinaghi Alikhani, translated by Alinaghi Alikhani, by Nicholas Vincent

John Banville, Big News from Small Worlds

The Collected Stories by John McGahern

Ulverton by Adam Thorpe

Diane Johnson, Star

Screening History by Gore Vidal

M.I.A. or Mythmaking In America by H. Bruce Franklin

Live From Golgotha by Gore Vidal

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca—Bogart, Bergman, and World War II by Aljean Harmetz

Amartya Sen, The Threats to Secular India

Rosemary Dinnage, The Scream Behind the Pattern

Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art by Maurice Tuchman, by Carol S. Eliel

Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli by Walter Morgenthaler, translated by Aaron H. Esman

Kenneth Koch, One Train May Hide Another (poem)

Noel Annan, How Wrong Was Churchill?

Churchill: Strategy and History by Tuvia Ben-Moshe

Bound in Duty: The Memoirs of a German Officer, 1932-45 by Alexander Stahlberg, translated by Patricia Campbell

Oliver Sacks, Making up the Mind

Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald M. Edelman

Ernst Nolte, Thomas Sheehan, Heidegger and Nazism: An Exchange

Rita Klimova, Theodore H. Draper, 'The End of Czechoslovakia': An Exchange

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Letters

Barbara Fulford, A Cruel Custom in Somalia
Patrick Joyce, David Cannadine, 'Cutting Classes'
Antonia Fraser, Guy Fawkes in America
Edmund Keeley, Clinton & Rushdie
Jeffrey Friedman, Ronald Dworkin, Not on the Right

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Liu Binyan, one of China's leading writers, is currently a Director of the Princeton China Initiative in Princeton, New Jersey. His most recent book in English is A Higher Kind of Loyalty: A Memoir. (October 1998)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which was published in paperback last September. (May 2009)

Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)

Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His most recent book is Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. (March 2009)

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