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November 7, 1991 • Volume 38, Number 18

  • Alan Ryan

    Do-Gooders e-edition

    Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb

  • John Bayley

    In Which We Serve e-edition

    Master and Commander

    Post Captain

    HMS Surprise

    The Mauritius Command

    Desolation Island

    The Fortune of War

    The Surgeon’s Mate

    The Ionian Mission

    Treason’s Harbour

    The Far Side of the World

    The Reverse of the Medal

    The Letter of Marque

    The Thirteen-Gun Salute

    The Nutmeg of Consolation

  • James M. McPherson

    How Noble Was Robert E. Lee? e-edition

    Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History by Alan T. Nolan

    Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861–1868 by Brooks D. Simpson

    The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans by Charles Royster

  • Scott MacLeod

    Inside the PLO e-edition

  • Jack Flam

    The Enigma of Georges Seurat e-edition

    Seurat: 1859–1891 24, 1991–January 12, 1992 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York September

    Seurat: 1859–1891 catalog of the exhibition by Robert L. Herbert, with contributions by Françoise Cachin, by Anne Distel, by Susan Alyson Stein, by Gary Tinterow

    Seurat by Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, translated by Jean-Marie Clarke

    Seurat at Gravelines: The Last Landscapes by Ellen Wardwell Lee

    Paul Signac and Color in Neo-Impressionism, including the first English edition of ‘From Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism’ by Paul Signac by Floyd Ratliff, Signac text translated by Willa Silverman

  • E.A.J. Honigmann

    The Second-Best Bed e-edition

  • Gordon A. Craig

    The Big Apfel e-edition

    German Encounters with Modernity: Novels of Imperial Berlin by Katherine Roper

    Berlin: Culture and Metropolis edited by Charles W. Haxthausen, edited by Heidrun Suhr

    Berlin: The Politics of Order, 1737–1989 by Alan Balfour

    Battleground Berlin: Diaries, 1945–1948 by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, translated by Anna Boerresen

    Berlin Before the Wall: A Foreign Student’s Diary with Sketches by Hsi-Huey Liang

    Up Against It: Photographs of the Berlin Wall by Leland Rice

    Berlin Journal, 1989–1990 by Robert Darnton

    After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin by John Borneman

  • Anthony Quinton

    Idealists Against the Jews e-edition

    Revolutionary Antisemitism In Germany From Kant to Wagner by Paul Lawrence Rose

  • Ronald Dworkin

    Justice for Clarence Thomas e-edition

  • James Fallows

    The Romance with Mexico e-edition

    The New North American Order: A Win-Win Strategy for US-Mexico Trade by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., by Robert B. Cohen, with Peter A. Morici, by Alan Tonelson

    The Low-Wage Challenge to Global Growth: The Labor Cost-Productivity Imbalance in Newly Industrialized Countries by Walter Russell Mead

    US Jobs and the Mexico Trade Proposal by Jeff Faux, by William Spriggs

    Fast Track, Fast Shuffle: The Economic Consequences of the Administration’s Proposed Trade Agreement with Mexico by Jeff Faux, by Richard Rothstein

    The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy after the Cold War by Robert Kuttner

  • Robert O. Paxton

    Tricks of Memory e-edition

    The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944 by Henry Rousso, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

  • Murray Kempton

    The Back of the Bus e-edition

  • Peter B. Reddaway

    The End of the Empire e-edition

    The Awakening of the Soviet Union by Geoffrey Hosking

    The USSR’s Emerging Multiparty System by Vera Tolz, foreword by S. Frederick Starr

    Glasnost in Jeopardy: Human Rights in the USSR by Helsinki Watch/Human Rights Watch

    Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin by Dusko Doder, by Louise Branson

    Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and His Failure by Robert G. Kaiser

    The Second Russian Revolution Channel by Brian Lapping Associates a documentary series made for BBC Television and the Discovery, produced by Norma Percy

    Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform by Anders Aslund

    What Went Wrong with Perestroika. by Marshall I. Goldman

    Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era by Stephen Kotkin

    Comrade Lawyer: Inside Soviet Justice in an Era of Reform by Robert Rand

    Gorbachev, Glasnost & the Gospel by Michael Bourdeaux

    Inside the KGB: My Life in Soviet Espionage by Vladimir Kuzichkin, translated by Thomas B. Beattie

    ‘Gorbachev’s Endgame’ by Jerry F. Hough

LETTERS

Contributors

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His collected essays, The Making of Modern Liberalism, will be published in July and his two-volume work On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present will be published later this year. (June 2012)

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and, most recently, Justice for Hedgehogs. His forthcoming book, Religion Without God, is based on his 2011 Einstein Lectures. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact.”

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)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (April 2009)

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

David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent. His mother was a Londoner, his father, who worked as a printer’s overseer, came from an old Welsh family, and Jones was to say that “from about the age of six, I felt I belonged to my father’s people and their land, though brought up entirely in an English atmosphere.” At six, too, Jones discovered his passion for drawing, which he knew was the “one thing he could do.” He attended art school for some years, but in 1915 he was sent with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers to fight in France, where he was in the battles of the Somme and Ypres. Jones converted to Roman Catholicism in 1921, and in 1922 began a long association with the artist, designer, and writer Eric Gill. In Parenthesis, based on Jones’s experiences in World War I, was published in 1937, followed in 1952 by another, even more unclassifiable but indubitably major work, The Anathémata. The Sleeping Lord, fragments from an unfinished larger composition about the crucifixion, appeared in the last year of his life. David Jones’s drawings and paintings can be found in the collections of the Tate Museum, the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, and the National Museum of Wales.

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)

Anthony Quinton is the former president of Trinity College, Oxford, former chairman of the British Library, and the author of Hume. (June 2001)

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 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.

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.

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian of China. Until 1998 he was East Asia editor of The Times of London. (June 2012)