Contents

March 28, 1991 • Volume 38, Number 6
  • Jack Flam

    Invader e-edition

    A Life of Picasso Volume 1: 1881–1906 by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully

  • Ian Buruma

    After the Fall e-edition

    The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

  • Garry Wills

    A Tale of Three Cities e-edition

    The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann

  • Michael Massing

    The Way to War e-edition

  • Alfred Brendel

    On Wilhelm Furtwängler e-edition

    Leonore’ Overture No. 3 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

    Symphony No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 60 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

    Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (‘Choral’), Op. 125 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K 550, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

    Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 composed by Franz Schubert, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

    Symphony No. 9 in C (‘The Great’), D. 9444 composed by Franz Schubert, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

    Tristan und Isolde composed by Richard Wagner, conducted by Furtwängler Wilhelm. by Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Opera Chorus

  • James Fenton

    Keeping Up with Salman Rushdie

    Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

  • Diane Johnson

    The Best of Times e-edition

    Possession by A.S. Byatt

  • Roger Penrose

    The Biggest Enigma e-edition

    Quantum Profiles by Jeremy Bernstein

  • Kenneth Maxwell

    The Mystery of Chico Mendes e-edition

    Into the Amazon: The Struggle for the Rain Forest by Augusta Dwyer

    The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest by Andrew Revkin

    Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in His Own Words additional material by Tony Gross

    The World Is Burning by Alex Shoumatoff

    The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by Susanna Hecht, by Alexander Cockburn

    The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rainforest by Adrian Cowell

    O Empate contra Chico Mendes by Márcio Souza

    Rural Violence in Brazil: February 1991 An Americas Watch Report

  • Helen Vendler

    Breath of Art e-edition

    The Dead Girl by Melanie Thernstrom

  • Anne Barton

    Perils of Historicism e-edition

    Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture by Stephen J. Greenblatt

  • James M. McPherson

    Generals in Politics e-edition

    Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West by Steven E. Woodworth

    Abandoned by Lincoln: A Military Biography of General John Pope by Wallace J. Schutz, by Walter N. Trenerry

    Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon by Christopher Phillips

  • Jeri Laber

    The Baltic Revolt e-edition

  • I. Andreeva,
    Yuri Afanasyev,
    Andrei Bitov, et al.

    An Appeal for Democracy in the Baltic Republics e-edition

  • David M. Perlmutter

    The Language of the Deaf e-edition

    Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks

LETTERS

Contributors

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

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

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)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom’s Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact.”

Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the Department of English at Harvard. Her most recent book, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, was published last year.
 (November 2011)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. The article in the Review‘s November 24, 2011 issue is drawn from his new book, Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater (Viking).

Kenneth Maxwell is Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, will be published this month. (July 2003)

James M. McPherson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Among his other books are For Cause and Comrades, Drawn with the Sword, What They Fought For, Gettysburg, and Fields of Fury. A professor at Princeton University, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey.