Table of Contents

Volume 41, Number 20 · December 1, 1994

Michael Meyer, Giving the Devil His Due

Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama by John Fuegi

Bertolt Brecht: Journals, 1934–1955 translated by Hugh Rorrison, edited by John Willett

After Brecht by Janelle Reinelt

Thomas Powers, The Spook of Spooks

Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles by Peter Grose

Michael Wood, Free of the Bad Old World

None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer

Rereading Nadine Gordimer by Kathrin Wagner

Charles Lane, The Tainted Sources of 'The Bell Curve'

Gabriele Annan, Enigma Variation

The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom, translated by Ina Rilke

Timothy Garton Ash, Kohl's Germany: The Beginning of the End?

Ingrid D. Rowland, Character Witnesses

The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance edited by Stephen K. Scher, photography by John Bigelow Taylor

Bernard Knox, In Another Country

Fallen Sparrows: The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War by Michael Jackson

The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade by Peter N. Carroll

Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel by Milton Wolff

Remembering Spain: Hemingway's Civil War Eulogy and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade edited by Cary Nelson, essays by Milton Wolff, by Cary Nelson. includes a tape of Hemingway's recording of the eulogy

Prisoners of the Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1938 by Carl Geiser, preface by Robert G. Colodny

Alfred Kazin, Her Holiness

John Weightman, Multicultural Mandarin

A.O. Barnabooth, His Diary by Valery Larbaud, translated by Gilbert Cannan, Introduction by Alan Jenkins

Childish Things by Valery Larbaud, translated by Catherine Wald

Lettres à Adrienne Monnier et à Sylvia Beach, 1919–1933 by Valery Larbaud

Joseph Frank, Subversive Activities

On Psychological Prose by Lydia Ginzburg, translated and edited by Judson Rosengrant

James Fenton, The Disease of All Diseases

Frederick C. Crews, The Revenge of the Repressed: Part II

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

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

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

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

Stephan Lesher, C. Vann Woodward, 'Wallace Redeemed?': An Exchange


Letters

Susan Zakin, Daniel J. Kevles, Earth First!
James T. Lemon, Gordon S. Wood, Not a Liberal
Barbara Thiering, Geza Vermes, The Pesher Technique
Marshall Olds, Tidying Up?
Tony Smith, America's Mission
Charles Rosen, Only One Song



Contributors

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

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

James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)

Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Stanford. He is the author of Dostoyevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881. (June 2008)

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. (August 2007)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

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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