Table of Contents

Volume 42, Number 11 · June 22, 1995

Alfred Kazin, A Jew on Horseback

1920 Diary by Isaac Babel, edited and with an introduction and notes by Carol J. Avins, translated by H. T. Willetts

Collected Stories by Isaac Babel, translated by David McDuff

Robert Stone, The Loser's Loser

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer

Patricia Storace, Hilarion to Echo (poem)

Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism

Rosemary Dinnage, The Wild Man

The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. by Alfred Habegger

Louis Fisher, The 'Contract with America': What It Really Means

David Lodge, The Lives of Graham Greene

Graham Greene: The Man Within by Michael Shelden

Graham Greene: The Enemy Within by Michael Shelden

Graham Greene: Three Lives by Anthony Mockler

The Graham Greene Film Reader: Reviews, Essays, Interviews & Film Stories edited by David Parkinson

Graham Greene: Friend and Brother by Leopoldo Duran, translated by Euan Cameron

The Life of Graham Greene Volume II, 1939–1955 by Norman Sherry

Pico Iyer, The Empire Strikes Back

Reef by Romesh Gunesekera

C. Vann Woodward, We Unhappy Few

The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

The Literary Percys: Family History, Gender, and the Southern Imagination by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Václav Havel, The Responsibility of Intellectuals

Peter Partner, The Rebirth of Beirut

April Bernard, Un-Efican Activities

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey

Noel Annan, Under the Victorian Bed

The Making of Victorian Sexuality by Michael Mason

Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld by Theo Aronson

Jonathan Mirsky, Jumping Into the Sea

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power by Nicholas D. Kristof, by Sheryl WuDunn

Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China's Future by Orville Schell

Averil Cameron, Before the Fall

Egypt in Late Antiquity by Roger S. Bagnall

The Roman Near East, 31 BC–AD 337 by Fergus Millar

John Golding, Mysteries of Mondrian

Piet Mondrian: 1872–1944 Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 11–September 4, 1995; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 1, 1995–January 23, 1996 an exhibition at the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; The National

Piet Mondrian catalog of the exhibition by Yve-Alain Bois, by Joop Joosten, by Angelica Zander Rudenstine, by Hans Janssen

Piet Mondrian: The Amsterdam Years by Robert Welsh, by Boudewijn Bakker, by Marty Bax

Mondrian by John Milner

Mondrian: The Art of Destruction by Carel Blotkamp

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Letters

Abraham Brumberg, Czeslaw Milosz, Enigma
Norman Davies, Correction
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Roses for Henry James

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

April Bernard has published a novel and three collections of poetry, most recently Swan Electric. (November 2006)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the author of numerous novels and collections of essays, including The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and most recently, Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism.

John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)

Václav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement "Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard," is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)

Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published in paperback in March. (November 2009)

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

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Jonathan Mirsky is a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs. In 2002 he was the first I.F. Stone Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Journalism School.
 (August 2009)

Peter Partner's books include Arab Voices and The Pope's Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)

Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. He is the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. He has also written short stories, essays, and screenplays, and published a short story collection, Bear and His Daughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and in Key West, Florida.

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece, and Sugar Cane, a children's book. She lives in New York.

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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