Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 8 · April 22, 1993

Alfred Kazin, The Way We Live Now

Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes

Rudolf Peierls, The Bomb That Never Was

Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb by Thomas Powers

Charles Rosen, The Ridiculous & Sublime

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera edited by Stanley Sadie

The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum

W.S. Merwin, One of the Lives (poem)

Elena Bonner, Yeltsin and Russia: Two Views

John Gregory Dunne, The Death of a Yale Man

Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin

Jasper Griffin, Alive in Myth

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks

Roberto Calasso, From 'The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony'

Julian Barnes, The Mystery of a Masterpiece

Manet: The Execution of Maximilian, Paintings, Politics and Censorship by Juliet Wilson-Bareau, with essays by John House, by Douglas Johnson

Gabriele Annan, La Femme Savante

Rameau's Niece by Cathleen Schine

George W. Ball, The Rationalist in Power

Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara by Deborah Shapley

Harold Bloom, Operation Roth

Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth

Murray Kempton, Truth and El Salvador

William J. McGrath, Lost Illusions

The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis by Phyllis Grosskurth

The Diary of Sigmund Freud: 1929–1939, A Record of the Final Decade translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Michael Molnar

Jamey Gambrell, Art and the Great Utopia

Ilya Repin and the World of Russian Art by Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier

Street Art of the Revolution: Festivals and Celebrations in Russia 1918–33 edited by Vladimir Tolstoy, edited by Irina Bibikova, edited by Catherine Cooke

Aleksandr M. Rodchenko/ Varvara F. Stepanova: The Future Is Our Only Goal catalog of an exhibition at the Austrian Museum for Decorative Arts, edited by Peter Noever, essays by Aleksandr N. Lavrent'yev, by Angela Völker

Popova by Dmitri V. Sarabianov, by Natalia L. Adaskina, translated by Marian Schwartz

The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915–1932 catalog of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

John Barton, The Good Book and True

The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox

Geoffrey O'Brien, Horror for Pleasure

Bram Stoker's Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Nosferatu directed by F.W. Murnau

Dracula directed by George Melford

Vampyr directed by Carl Dreyer

Freaks directed by Tod Browning

The Black Cat directed by Edgar Ulmer

I Walked with a Zombie directed by Jacques Tourneur

Curse of the Demon directed by Jacques Tourneur

Horror of Dracula by Terence Fisher

Black Sunday directed by Mario Bava

The Haunted Palace directed by Roger Corman

The Fearless Vampire Killers directed by Roman Polanski

The Conqueror Worm directed by Michael Reeves

Daughters of Darkness directed by Harry Kümel

Ganja and Hess directed by Bill Gunn

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre directed by Tobe Hooper

Suspiria directed by Dario Argento

The Brood directed by David Cronenberg

Fear No Evil directed by Frank Laloggia

Dead Ringers directed by David Cronenberg

Derek Attridge, Judith Butler, Helene Cixous, et al. 'L'Affaire Derrida': Yet Another Exchange

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Letters

Jack A. Goldstone, Lawrence Stone, The 'Stress' Revolution

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Contributors

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

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.

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale. He is the author of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine and American Religious Poems: An Anthology. His new book is Fallen Angels, with illuminations by Mark Podwal. (November 2007)

Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, is a longtime human rights activist and the Chair of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (March 2001)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko's writings, Experiments for the Future, and many of the stories included in Tatyana Tolstaya's White Walls. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin's Ice has recently been published by NYRB Classics.

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

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

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.

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)

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

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