Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 15 · October 3, 1996

Michael Ignatieff, Whispers from the Abyss

The Mandelstam and "Der Nister" Files: An Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records by Peter B. Maggs

Arrested Voices: Resurrecting the Disappeared Writers of the Soviet Regime by Vitaly Shentalinsky, translated by John Crowfoot, Introduction by Robert Conquest

Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s edited by Véronique Garros, by Natalia Korenevskaya, by Thomas Lahusen, translated by Carol A. Flath

Patricia Storace, Marble Girls of Athens

J.M. Coetzee, Only in Amerika

The Bride of Texas by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Káca Polácková Henley

Headed for the Blues: A Memoir by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Káca Polácková Henley

Garry Wills, A Tale of Two Cities

Joseph Kerman, The Beethoven Takeover

Beethoven Hero by Scott Burnham

Isaiah Berlin, On Political Judgment

Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexico: Murder Without Justice

Deposition of Raúl Salinas de Gortari published in Epoca

Lessons of the Mexican Peso Crisis Foreign Relations, John C. Whitehead, Chairman, Marie-Josée Kravis, Project Director. Report of an Independent Task Force sponsored by the Council on

Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity by Andres Oppenheimer

The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the United States by Jorge G. Castañeda

John Gross, Marked Man

The Statement by Brian Moore

Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs edited by Richard J. Golsan

Frederick C. Crews, The Consolation of Theosophy II

The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology; The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement by Richard Noll

Remembering Anna O.: A Century of Mystification by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, translated by Kirby Olson, in collaboration with Xavier Callahan

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America by Peter Washington

Caroline Fraser, Mortal Longings

The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter by Honor Moore

James Fenton, Degas in the Evening

Degas as a Collector exhibition at the National Gallery, London, through August 26, 1996.. Catalog of the exhibition, by Ann Dumas

Degas: Beyond Impressionism The Art Institute of Chicago, September 30, 1996-January 5, 1997. exhibition at the National Gallery, London, through August 26, 1996;. Catalog of the exhibition, by Richard Kendall

Murray Kempton, Me, the People

Nina Byers, Michael Holquist, George Levine, et al. Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange

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Letters

Avner Gidron, The Plight of Algerian Journalists
Adrian Piper, Roger Shattuck, Dickinson's Charm
Shimon Redlich, Robert Conquest, Stalin's Anti-Semitism
Tony Judt, It's Luxembourg!
Carl G. Wagner, Andrew Hacker, Asians at UCLA

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Contributors

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel is Diary of a Bad Year. (November 2008)

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

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

Caroline Fraser is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. (December 2004)

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)

Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (December 2008)

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

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.

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).

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

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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