Table of Contents

Volume 41, Number 16 · October 6, 1994

Tony Judt, The Lost World of Albert Camus

Le premier homme by Albert Camus

Thomas Byrne Edsall, America's Sweetheart

The Way Things Ought To Be by Rush Limbaugh

See, I Told You So by Rush H. Limbaugh III

Rush! by Michael Arkush

The Rush Limbaugh Story: Talent on Loan from God—An Unauthorized Biography by Paul D. Colford

Edmund S. Morgan, Pioneers of Paranoia

Peter Porcupine in America: Pamphlets on Republicanism and Revolution by William Cobbett

The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, 'A Laborer,' 1747-1814 Wilentz. edited by Michael Merrill, edited by Sean Wilentz

John Bayley, Too Polish for the Poles

Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz, translated by Carolyn French, translated by Nina Karsov

Louis Menand, The Culture Wars

Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America's Future by Richard Bernstein

Joseph Kerman, Bach's Greatest Hit

Bachanalia: The Essential Listener's Guide to Bach's 'Well-Tempered Clavier' by Eric Lewin Altschuler

W.S. Merwin, Ancestral Voices (poem)

Jonathan Mirsky, The Bottom of the Well

Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism edited by Tani E. Barlow

Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State edited by Christine K. Gilmartin, edited by Gail Hershatter, edited by Lisa Rofel, edited by Tyrene White

Theodore H. Draper, Mission Impossible

America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century by Tony Smith

Daniel J. Kevles, Greens in America

The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work, with Selections from Her Writings by Paul Brooks

Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement by Robert Gottlieb

The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism by Charles T. Rubin

The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992 by Kirkpatrick Sale

Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement by Susan Zakin

A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement by Philip Shabecoff

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Jack Flam, Madonna in Distress

Jasper Griffin, The Long Latin Line

Latin Literature: A History by Gian Biagio Conte, translated by Joseph B. Solodow, by revised by Don Fowler and Glenn W. Most

James G. Blight, Peter Kornbluh, Dialogue with Castro: A Hidden History



Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

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)

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)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.

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.

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

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)


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