Table of Contents

Volume 41, Number 13 · July 14, 1994

Robert Conquest, Reds

Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime by Richard Pipes

Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922 by Vladimir N. Brovkin

Joan Didion, 'Something Horrible' in El Salvador

The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War by Mark Danner

Joseph Brodsky, Infinitive (poem)

Michael Wood, Agile Among the Tombs

The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino, translated by Tim Parks

Prima che tu dica 'Pronto' by Italo Calvino

Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

Louis Menand, The Quiet American

James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age by James G. Hershberg

Garry Wills, Action Painting in Venice

Tintoretto: Tutte le opere Volumes 1 and 2: Le opere sacre e profane Volume 3: I ritratti by Rodolfo Pallucchini, by Paola Rossi

Vite dei Tintoretto by Carlo Ridolfi, edited by Antonio Manno

Le Siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise, édition revue et corrigée 14, 1993 catalog of the exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, March 9-June, by Michel Laclotte

Jacopo Tintoretto: Ritratti March 25-July 10, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at the Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice,, by Paola Rossi

Capolavori della pittura veneta dal Castello di Praga 20-September 21, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno, March

Jacopo Tintoretto e i suoi incisori 15-July 10, 1994, catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, April

Tintoretto: Sacre rappresentazioni nelle chiese di Venezia 31, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at San Bartolomeo, Venice, January 15-May

Tintoretto: La Scuola Grande di San Rocco by Giandomenico Romanelli

Theodore H. Draper, Nixon Redivivus

The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House by H.R. Haldeman, introduction and afterword by Stephen E. Ambrose

Watergate by Fred Emery

Beyond Peace by Richard Nixon

The Nixon Memo by Marvin Kalb

Nixon Reconsidered by Joan Hoff

Nixon: A Life by Jonathan Aitken

Witold Rybczynski, Mysteries of the Mall

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by John Brinckerhoff Jackson

James Merrill, After Cavafy (poem)

P.N. Furbank, His Mystic Way

Amorous Initiation: A Novel of Sacred and Profane Love, An Excerpt from the Memoirs of the Chevalier Waldemar de L—— by O.V. de L. Milosz, translated by Belle N. Burke

Jonathan Raban, On the Waterfront

Alongshore by John Stilgoe

Waterfronts: Cities Reclaim Their Edge by Ann Breen, by Dick Rigby. maps by Diane Charyk Norris and Charles Norris

The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World 1750-1840 by Alain Corbin, translated by Jocelyn Phelps

Gordon A. Craig, An Inability to Mourn

The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by Ian Buruma

William Preston, On Omaha Beach

Felix G. Rohatyn, World Capital: The Need & the Risks

Veronica Geng, Testing, Testing…

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Richard C. Lewontin, Women Versus the Biologists: An Exchange

Peter D. Kramer, Sherwin B. Nuland, 'Listening to Prozac'

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Letters

Noel Annan, Istvan Deak, Nazis and Resisters

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Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Robert Conquest, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Great Terror. (March 1997)

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (November 2008)

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)

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

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.

James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)

Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

Felix Rohatyn is an investment banker and has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, and US Ambassador to France. (October 2008)

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is architecture critic for Slate. His new book on American building, Last Harvest, has just been published. (May 2007)

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.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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