Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 11 · June 10, 1993

Brian Urquhart, For a UN Volunteer Military Force

Julian Barnes, Unlikely Friendship

Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence translated by Francis Steegmuller, translated by Barbara Bray

Amos Elon, The Jews' Jews

Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel by David Grossman, translated by Haim Watzman

Adam Michnik, An Embarrassing Anniversary

Charles Hope, Tempest over Titian

Le Siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, March 9–June 14, 1993

Le Siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise catalog of the exhibition by Michel Laclotte. others

Ronald Dworkin, Feminism and Abortion

Anne Barton, Byron Lives!

Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. VII edited by Jerome J. McGann

The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. I, Poems, 1807–1818 edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann

The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. II, 'Don Juan,' Cantos I–V Manuscript edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann

The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. III, Poems, 1819–1822 edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann

The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. IV, Miscellaneous Poems edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann

The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. V, 'Don Juan,' Cantos VI–VII Manuscript edited and transcribed by Andrew Nicholson

The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. VI, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Critical Composite Edition edited by David V. Erdman, edited by David Worrall

The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. VII, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III edited by T.A.J. Burnett

Byron's Heroines by Caroline Franklin

Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society by Jerome Christensen

David Holloway, The Politics of Catastrophe

Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege by Murray Feshbach, by Alfred Friendly Jr.

No Breathing Room: The Aftermath of Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev, translated by Evelyn Rossiter, Introduction by David R. Marples

Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl by Piers Paul Read

The Truth About Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev, translated by Evelyn Rossiter, foreword by Andrei Sakharov

Joseph Horowitz, Professor Lenny

Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic beginning August 25 by the Smithsonian Institution via mail order West, Suite 1Y, New York, NY 10023) written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein, produced by Roger Englander. A series of 25 Sony Classical video cassettes to be released. also available from the Leonard Bernstein Society (25 Central Park

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard Society) by Leonard Bernstein. a series of six video cassettes

Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts Newly revised and expanded edition, edited by Jack Gottlieb

The Infinite Variety of Music by Leonard Bernstein

Alice Truax, Martyrs on the Block

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

E.A.J. Honigmann, Playing the Unplayable

Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy by John Gross

The Masks of Hamlet by Marvin Rosenberg

Garry Wills, The City-Planner Pope

Roma Sisto Quinto: arte, architetture e città fra rinascemento e barocco edited by Mario Bevilacqua et al.

I pittori di Sisto V by Alessandro Zuccari

Sisto V: Architetture per la città edited by Maria Piera Sette, edited by Simona Benedetti

Le arti nelle Marche al tempo di Sisto V edited by Paolo Dal Poggetto

La pianta di Roma al tempo di Sisto V (1585–1590) edited by Gianfranco Spagnesi et al.

Theodore H. Draper, Iran-Contra: The Mystery Solved

Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State by George P. Shultz

Fourth Interim Report to Congress by Lawrence E. Walsh. Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters

With Reagan: The Inside Story by Edwin Meese III

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Letters

Barry Millington, Charles Rosen, Wagner's Anti-Semitism
Fred Davis, Aileen Kelly, Bakhtin the 'Outsider'
Paul D'Amato, Free Choi Il-Bung!
Peggy K. Liss, 'The Buried Mirror'
Kirkpatrick Sale, Kenneth Maxwell, 'The Buried Mirror'

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Contributors

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.

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

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

Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. (September 2008)

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)

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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