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March 5, 1992 • Volume 39, Number 5

  • Garry Wills

    H.R. Clinton’s Case e-edition

    ‘Children Under the Law’ (1974) reprinted as the lead article in The Rights of Children, edited by Rochelle Beck, by Heather Bastow Weiss

    ‘Children’s Policies: Abandonment and Neglect’

    ‘Children’s Rights: A Legal Perspective’ in Children's Rights: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Patricia A. Vardin, by Ilene N. Brody

    ‘Teacher Education: Of the People, By the People, and For the People’ on Teacher Education Policies, Practices, and Research in Beyond the Looking Glass: Papers From a National Symposium

    ‘The Healthy Development of Our Youth’ Foundations, 1988 Keynote Address to the Atlanta Convention of Southeastern Council of

    ‘A Bridge Over the Mississippi’ Memphis State University, 1990 Kansas Work Force, 1991 Keynote Address to the Second Annual Urban Education Symposium at. Keynote Address to the Conference on Adult Basic Skills and the

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    Literature of the Wounded e-edition

    Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

    Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution edited by Feng Jicai, foreword by Robert Coles

  • Gabriele Annan

    From the Eternal War e-edition

    Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Philip Boehm

  • Darryl Pinckney

    The Sweet Singer of Tuckahoe e-edition

    My Soul’s High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Gerald Early

  • Blaga Dimitrova

    The New Newspeak e-edition

  • Arthur Hertzberg

    A Lost Chance for Peace e-edition

  • Henri Zerner

    Mysteries of a Modern Painter e-edition

    Géricault January 6, 1992 An exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, October 10, 1991 to

    Géricault catalog of the exhibition by Régis Michel, by Sylvain Laveissière, by Bruno Chenique

    Géricault by German Bazin

  • Sue Halpern

    There’s No Place Like Home e-edition

    Alva Myrdal: A Daughter’s Memoir by Sissela Bok

    Childhood by Jan Myrdal, translated by Christine Swanson

  • David J. Rothman

    Rationing Life e-edition

    Who Lives? Who Dies? Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection by John F. Kilner

    Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care by Paul T. Menzel

    What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress by Daniel Callahan

    Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society by Daniel Callahan

    Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State by Troyen A. Brennan

    Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth

    Someday by Andrew H. Malcolm

    Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry

  • Murray Kempton

    Bad Debts e-edition

  • Geoffrey O’Brien

    Killing Time e-edition

    West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns by Jane Tompkins

    Western Films: A Complete Guide by Brian Garfield

    Box-Office Buckaroos: The Cowboy Hero from the Wild West Show to the Silver Screen by Robert Heide, by John Gilman

    The BFI Companion to the Western edited by Edward Buscombe, forward by Richard Schickel

    The Western edited by Phil Hardy

  • István Deák

    Survivors e-edition

    The Romanians: A History by Vlad Georgescu, edited by Matei Calinescu, translated by Alexandra Bley-Vroman, epilogue by Matei Calinescu, by Vladimir Tismaneanu

    Jagendorf’s Foundry: Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941–-1944 by Siegfried Jagendorf, introduction and commentaries by Aron Hirt-Manheimer

    ‘Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite’: The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus by Edward Behr, foreword by Ryszard Kapuscinski

    National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu’s Romania by Katherine Verdery

    The Fall of Tyrants: The Incredible Story of One Pastor’s Witness, the People of Romania, and the Overthrow of Ceausescu by Laszlo Tokes, with David Porter

    The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile’s Story of Return and Revolution by Andrei Codrescu

    Romania: The Entangled Revolution International Studies, Praeger by Nestor Ratesh, foreword by Edward N. Luttwak

    Since the Revolution: Human Rights in Romania

  • Hugh Lloyd-Jones

    Becoming Homer e-edition

    Epic Singers and Oral Tradition by Albert Bates Lord

    Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet by Barry B. Powell

    Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West Before 1400 B.C. by Martin Bernal

  • Teddy Kollek,
    Avishai Margalit

    An Exchange on Jerusalem

LETTERS

Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Sue Halpern is the editor of NYRB Lit and scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home, will be published in May.
 (March 2013)

Arthur Hertzberg (1921–2006) was a Conservative rabbi, scholar and activist. His books include The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism and The Zionist Idea.

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.

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the winner of the 2012 Philosophical Book Award (Hannover) for his most recent book, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises.

Sidney Morgenbesser (1921–2004) was a philosopher. Educated at CUNY, The Jewish Theological Seminary and The University of Pennsylvania, Morgenbesser taught at Columbia, where he was named John Dewey Professor of Philosophy.

Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)

Jonathan Mirsky is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London. (June 2013)

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.


Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

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.

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His study of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. His latest book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, was published in February 2013.

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l’histoire de l’art: Figures d’une discipline.

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Jan Gross and Tony Judt, of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.