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April 12, 1984 • Volume 31, Number 6

  • Charles Rycroft

    A Case of Hysteria e-edition

    The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  • V.S. Pritchett

    The Solace of Intrigue e-edition

    Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

    Time After Time by Molly Keane

  • James Fallows

    The Reagan Variety Show e-edition

    The Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington by Paul Craig Roberts

    Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond by Herbert Stein

    The Barbaric Counter-Revolution: Cause and Cure by W. W. Rostow

  • Robert M. Adams

    The Joy and Malice of It All e-edition

    Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by John Payne, revised and annotated by Charles S. Singleton

  • Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

    I’m the Greatest! e-edition

    Mayor by Edward I. Koch, with William Rauch

  • Charles Rosen

    The New Sound of Liszt e-edition

    Franz Liszt: Volume 1, The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 by Alan Walker

  • Richard C. Lewontin

    A Simple Problem Science Can’t Solve e-edition

    Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition by Vivian Gornick

  • Diane Johnson

    Darn that Darning e-edition

    Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America 1830–1870 by Karen Halttunen

    The Light of the Home: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America by Harvey Green

    Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary Kelley

    Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose

  • Natalya Viktorovna Helle,
    Vladimir Tolz

    The Sakharovs in Gorky e-edition

  • Joseph Frank

    The Master Linguist e-edition

    Dialogues by Roman Jakobson, by Krystyna Pomorska

  • Irvin Ehrenpreis

    Unheard Melodies e-edition

    The Odes of John Keats by Helen Vendler

  • Andrew Hacker

    The Schools Flunk Out e-edition

    A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future by John I. Goodlad

    Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School by Theodore R. Sizer

    High School: A Report on Secondary Education in America by Ernest L. Boyer

    High School Achievement: Public, Catholic, and Private Schools Compared by James S. Coleman, by Thomas Hoffer, by Sally Kilgore

    A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform National Commission on Excellence in Education

    Action for Excellence Task Force on Education for Economic Growth

    Making the Grade Education Policy, background paper by Task Force on Federal Elementary and Secondary Paul E. Peterson

    Educating Americans for the 21st Century Mathematics, Science and Technology National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in

LETTERS

Contributors

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)

Diane Johnson’s most recent novel is Lulu in Marrakech. (March 2012)

Martin Malia is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of Russia Under Western Eyes, from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum. (November 2001)

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).

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States. (November 2011)

Andrew Hacker teaches at Queens College. His books include Money: Who Has How Much and Why, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, and, most recently, Higher Education, written with Claudia Dreifus. (February 2012)

Charles Rycroft is a psychoanalyst practicing in London. His books include A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Anxiety and Neurosis, The Innocence of Dreams, and Psychoanalysis and Beyond. (May 1997)

Charles Rosen’s recording The Romantic Generation, which contains a performance of Franz Liszt’s Reminiscences of Don Juan, was recently reissued. (February 2012)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)