Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 19 · November 18, 1993

Vaclav Havel, How Europe Could Fail

Charles Hope, Restoration or Ruination?

Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business and the Scandal by James Beck, with Michael Daley

Robert Block, Killers

Helen Vendler, The White Goddess!

First Awakenings: The Early Poems of Laura Riding edited by Elizabeth Friedmann, by Alan J. Clark, by Robert Nye

The Word 'Woman' and Other Related Writings by Laura (Riding) Jackson, edited by Elizabeth Friedmann, edited by Alan J. Clark

In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding by Deborah Baker

Four Unposted Letters to Catherine by Laura Riding, afterword by Elizabeth Friedmann, by Alan J. Clark

Ian Buruma, Soul Food

The Phantom Empire by Geoffrey O'Brien

Alastair Reid, Troublemaker

Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Dolores M. Koch

The Ill-fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando translated by Andrew Hurley

The Doorman translated by Dolores M. Koch

Old Rosa and The Brightest Star translated by Ann Tashi Slater, translated by Andrew Hurley

Graveyard of the Angels translated by Alfred MacAdam

El Central translated by Anthony Kerrigan

Singing From The Well translated by Andrew Hurley

Farewell to the Sea translated by Andrew Hurley

The Palace of the White Skunks translated by Andrew Hurley

Mark Danner, The Prophet

Aristide: An Autobiography by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, with Christophe Wargny, translated by Linda M. Maloney

In the Parish of the Poor:Writings From Haiti by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, translated and edited by Amy Wilentz

Robert Craft, Love in a Cold Climate

'To My Best Friend': Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck (1876–1878) translated by Galina von Meck, edited by Edward Garden, by Nigel Gotteri, Introduction by Edward Garden

Tchaikovsky: The Final Years (1885–1893) by David Brown

Michael Meyer, Danger: Thin Ice

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg, translated by Tiina Nunnally

Bernard Knox, The Greek Way

Shame and Necessity by Bernard Williams

P.N. Furbank, Leave it to Chance

Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance: The Novel and the Culture of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century France by Thomas M. Kavanagh

W.V. Harris, Old Wives' Tales

Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance by John M. Riddle

Demography and Roman Society by Tim G. Parkin

Frederick C. Crews, The Unknown Freud

Freud's Russia: National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis by James L. Rice

Father Knows Best: The Use and Abuse of Power in Freud's Case of 'Dora' by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, by James C. Coyne

Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud by Allen Esterson

A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr

Veronica Geng, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Short Cuts directed by Robert Altman, screenplay by Robert Altman, by Frank Barhydt, based on the writings of Raymond Carver

Short Cuts: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver


Letters

James C. O'Flaherty, Isaiah Berlin, 'The Magus of the North'
Brian R. Sullivan, Adrian Lyttelton, The 'Other Woman'



Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)

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

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Alastair Reid received the PEN Kolovakos Award for Translation in 2001, along with Gregory Rabassa. (January 2004)

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)


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