Contents

May 30, 1991 • Volume 38, Number 10
  • Gabriele Annan

    Selective Affinities e-edition

    Immortality by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi

  • J.M. Cameron

    On Graham Greene e-edition

  • Geoffrey O’Brien

    The Ghost Opera e-edition

    History of the American Cinema, Vol. 1: The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 by Charles Harpole general editor, by Charles Musser

    History of the American Cinema, Vol. 2: The Transformation of Cinema: 1907–1915 by Charles Harpole general editor, by Eileen Bowser

    History of the American Cinema, Vol. 3: An Evening’s Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915–1928 by Charles Harpole general editor, by Richard Koszarski

    Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime—Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era by Kevin Brownlow

    Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative edited by Thomas Elsaesser, edited by Adam Barker

    Life to Those Shadows by Noël Burch, translated and edited by Ben Brewster

    The Missing Reel: The Untold Story of the Lost Inventor of Moving Pictures by Christopher Rawlence

    Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film by Miriam Hansen

  • Adam Michnik

    Poland and the Jews e-edition

  • Ian Buruma

    The ‘We’ Generation e-edition

    Our Age: Portrait of a Generation by Noel Annan

  • Andrew Whitley

    Kuwait: The Last Forty-Eight Hours e-edition

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    The Myth of Mao’s China e-edition

    China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality by Steven W. Mosher

  • Malcolm Bradbury

    Nothing But a Writer’ e-edition

    Ford Madox Ford by Alan Judd

    Violet by Barbara Belford

    An Immodest Violet: The Life of Violet Hunt by Joan Hardwick

  • James Fallows

    Is Japan the Enemy? e-edition

    The Coming War with Japan by George Friedman, by Meredith LeBard

    Japan Versus the West: Image and Reality by Endymion Wilkinson

    The Rise of Modern Japan by W.G. Beasley

    Japan’s Administrative Elite by B.C. Koh

    Japan’s Expanding Role and Influence in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for US Interests and Policy by Richard P. Cronin

    Deepening Economic Linkages in the Pacific Basin Region: Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology by Masaharu Hanazaki

    White Paper on International Trade, 1990 by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo

    Arming Our Allies: Cooperation and Competition in Defense Technology by the US Office of Technology Assessment

    Thoughts on US-Japan Security and Economic Linkages in East Asia by Michael W. Chinworth

    Kokusanka: FSX and Japan’s Search for Autonomous Defense Production by Michael J. Green

  • John Banville

    Slouching Toward Bethlehem e-edition

    Selected Poems by Derek Mahon

    Madoc: A Mystery by Paul Muldoon

  • Willibald Sauerländer

    Mysteries of a Masterpiece e-edition

    The Isenheim Altarpiece: God’s Medicine and the Painter’s Vision by Andrée Hayum

    The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Grünewald’s Altarpiece I/University of California Press by Ruth Mellinkoff

  • Lord Zuckerman

    Apes R Not Us e-edition

    Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall

    Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons by Shirley C. Strum, foreword by George B. Schaller

    How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species by Dorothy L. Cheney, by Robert M. Seyfarth

    Language and Species by Derek Bickerton

    Uniquely Human: The Evolution of Speech, Thought, and Selfless Behavior by Philip Lieberman

LETTERS

Contributors

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, Eclipse, The Sea (winner of the Man Booker Prize), and Ancient Light. As Benjamin Black he has written six crime novels, including Vengeance.

James Joll (1936–2011) was a British historian. His books include The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870.

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His recent works include Early Autumn and The Fall of the House of Walworth. His new book Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002–2012 will be published in 2013.


Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His latest book, Manet malt Monet: Ein Sommer in Argenteuil (Manet Paints Monet: A Summer in Argenteuil), has just been published. David Dollenmayer is Emeritus Professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is currently working on a translation of Martin Walser’s novel A Gushing Fountain.
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Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.

Lord Zuckerman (1904–1993) was a British zoologist and military strategist. Having advised the Allies on bombing strategy during World War II, he spent much of his later life campaigning for nuclear non-proliferation. Zuckerman was knighted in 1956 and made a life peer in 1971.