Table of Contents

Volume 41, Number 19 · November 17, 1994

Robert M. Adams, Bloom's All-Time Greatest Hits

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom

Alan Ryan, Apocalypse Now?

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein, by Charles Murray

Gabriele Annan, The Blood of the Poor

The Silent Angel by Heinrich Böll, translated by Breon Mitchell

Raymond Carr, A Seemingly Ordinary Man

Franco by Paul Preston

Geoffrey O'Brien, A Kinder, Gentler Perversity

Ed Wood directed by Tim Burton. Touchstone Pictures

Night of the Ghouls

Glen or Glenda (I Changed My Sex)

Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora directed by Ted Newsom

Bride of the Monster

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Jail Bait

The Violent Years

Jonathan Mirsky, Unmasking the Monster

The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician, Dr. Li Zhisui translated by Tai Hung-chao, with the editorial assistance of Anne F. Thurston, foreword by Andrew J. Nathan

Sarah Kerr, The Mystery of Mexican Politics

John Bayley, Doubles

The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee

Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews by J. M. Coetzee, edited by David Attwell

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear, by Larissa Volokhonsky

Gordon A. Craig, Loot

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas

The Spoils of World War II: The American Military's Role in the Stealing of Europe's Treasures by Kenneth D. Alford

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Adam Krzeminski, Back to the Future

Jack Flam, The New Painting

Origins of Impressionism 27, 1994-January 8, 1995 an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September

Origins of Impressionism catalog of the exhibition by Gary Tinterow, by Henri Loyrette

Murray Kempton, Downhill Part of the Way

Frederick C. Crews, The Revenge of the Repressed

Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found by Lenore Terr

The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham

Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (3rd edition) by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters

Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives by Mark Pendergrast

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Letters

Claudio Veliz, J.H. Elliott, The 'Gothic Fox'
David Lowenthal, Jamestown/Jonestown
Sherwin B. Nuland, 'An Austrian Jew'
Alan Gribben, Louis Menand, Culture Wars
The Editors, Correction

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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

Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)

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)

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

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)

Ryszard Kapuscinski lives in Warsaw. The essay in this issue appears in The Shadow of the Sun, which is being published this month by Knopf. (April 2001)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)

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

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)

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