Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 20 · December 2, 1993

J.M. Coetzee, Resisters

In No Uncertain Terms: A South African Memoir by Helen Suzman, foreword by Nelson Mandela

Return to Paradise by Breyten Breytenbach

Alan Ryan, Yes, Minister

The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher

Alice Truax, The Wild Child

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

John Ashbery, Weather and Turtles (poem)

Peter B. Reddaway, On the Eve

Figures in a Red Landscape by Pilar Bonet, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, by Susan Ashe

The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by John B. Dunlop

The Morphology of Russian Mentality: A Philosophical Inquiry into Conservatism and Pragmatism by Vladimir A. Zviglyanich

The Struggle for Russia: Power and Change in the Democratic Revolution by Ruslan Khasbulatov, edited by Richard Sakwa

Geoffrey O'Brien, The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street

City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara by Brad Gooch

Diane Johnson, Supergirls

Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates

Edmund S. Morgan, Power to the People?

The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification edited by Bernard Bailyn

Louis Menand, An American Prodigy

Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life by Joseph Brent

Jack Flam, The Agonies of Success

Mark Rothko: A Biography by James E.B. Breslin

Benedetta Craveri, The Lost Art

Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime by Erica Harth

Watteau's Painted Conversations: Art, Literature, and Talk in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France by Mary Vidal

Mark Danner, The Fall of 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

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Contributors

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel is Diary of a Bad Year. (November 2008)

Benedetta Craveri is a professor of French literature at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, and the Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. She regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books and to the cultural pages of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Her books include Madame du Deffand and Her World and La Vie privée du Maréchal de Richelieu, and Amanti e regine: Il potere delle donne. She is married to a French diplomat.

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.

Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)

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

Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

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. (October 2008)

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

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