Table of Contents

Volume 42, Number 7 · April 20, 1995

Louis Menand, Under Western Eyes

Our Game by John le Carré

Gordon A. Craig, No More Parades

On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan

The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert

Victory Must Be Ours: Germany in the Great War, 1914–1918 by Laurence V. Moyer, Introduction by John Keegan

Jasper Griffin, Cosmic Leg-Pull

Ovid: The Poems of Exile translated with introduction, notes, and glossary by Peter Green

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses edited by Michael Hofmann, edited by James Lasdun

Gabriele Annan, Broken Blossoms

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klíma, translated by Paul Wilson

The Loves of Faustyna by Nina FitzPatrick

Jonathan D. Spence, The Underground War for Shanghai

Policing Shanghai, 1927–1937 by Frederic Wakeman Jr.

Jonathan Raban, Walden-on-Sea

Richard C. Lewontin, Sex, Lies, and Social Science

Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research by Vern L. Bullough

The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States by Edward O. Laumann, by John H. Gagnon, by Robert T. Michael, by Stuart Michaels

Sex in America: A Definitive Survey by Robert T. Michael, by John H. Gagnon, by Edward O. Laumann, by Gina Kolata

Jeri Laber, Is Cuba Really Changing?

Darryl Pinckney, Professionals

Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color—A Journey from Prison to Power by Patrice Gaines

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

In My Place by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

A Man's Life: An Autobiography by Roger Wilkins

The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperous Blacks Still Have the Blues? by Ellis Cose

Bourgeois Blues An American Memoir by Jake Lamar

Out of the Madness: From the Projects to a Life of Hope by Jerrold Ladd

Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black Success by Audrey Edwards, by Craig K. Polite

Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Beals

Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson Introduction by Sondra K. Wilson

Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience by Jill Nelson

Robert M. Adams, Wonderful Town?

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas

Garry Wills, Hunt for the Last Judgment

Jonathan Miller, Going Unconscious

Murray Kempton, Home of the Brave

Breaking the Surface by Greg Louganis, by Eric Marcus

Michael Lind, On Pat Robertson His Defenders

Jacob Heilbrunn, His Anti-Semitic Sources


Letters

Chinua Achebe, G.F. Michelsen, et al. The Case of Ken Saro-Wiwa
Charles Larmore, Isaac Levi, et al. Jonathan Liberson Prize
Marcia Cavell, Frederick C. Crews, Freud & His Defenders
Howard Webb, Stephen Jay Gould, Great Sport



Contributors

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

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)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and Public Orator at Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (December 2007)

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.

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)

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

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.

Jonathan Miller has directed operas and plays throughout the world, most recently Pelléas and Mélisande at the Metropolitan Opera. His many books include The Body in Question, States of Mind, On Reflection, and Nowhere in Particular. The article that appears in this issue is based on a talk given at the New York Public Library. (May 2000)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

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.

Jonathan Spence, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 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.


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