Table of Contents

Volume 41, Number 12 · June 23, 1994

Tatyana Tolstaya, Boris the First

The Struggle for Russia by Boris N. Yeltsin, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick

George F. Kennan, In Defense of Oppenheimer

Luc Sante, The Cabinet of Dr. Sartorius

The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow

Timothy Garton Ash, Journey to the Post-Communist East

John Updike, Beyond the Picturesque

American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915 10–July 24, 1994 an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May

American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915 catalog of the exhibition by H. Barbara Weinberg et al.

American Impressionism and Realism: Drawings, Prints, and Photographs 3–July 24, 1994 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May

Jonathan D. Spence, Remembrance of Ming's Past

The Plum in the Golden Vase: or, Chin P'ing Mei Vol. I, The Gathering by an unknown author, translated by David Tod Roy

Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works by John Knoblock

Alastair Reid, Urn Burial

Edmund S. Morgan, Hostages to Fortune

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Demos

Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer

Ernst Gombrich, Keeping Up with Leonardo

Inventing Leonardo by A. Richard Turner

Robert I. Friedman, The Brooklyn Avengers

Jeri Laber, The Hidden War in Turkey

Robert O. Paxton, Radicals

The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution by Zeev Sternhell, with Mario Sznajder, and Maia Asheri, translated by David Maisel

Charles Rosen, Music à la Mode

Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process by Lewis Lockwood

Haydn and the Classical Variation by Elaine R. Sisman

Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony and the Idea of the Classical Style by James Webster

Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality by Susan McClary

Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception edited by Richard Leppert and Susan McClary

Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship edited by Ruth A. Solie

Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas

Maurice Isserman, Paul Lyons, Theodore H. Draper, The Old Left: An Exchange

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Letters

Yael Tamir, Tony Judt, 'Liberal Nationalism'
King-fai Tam, Robert Stone, Chinese Made Simple

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Contributors

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (November 2008)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

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)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. He is also a Regional Editor of North American Birds magazine. (November 2008)

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

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

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)

Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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