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by Edward Gorey

The New York Review of Books, October 12, 1989

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      January 19, 1989 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. What Was Revolutionary About the French Revolution? by Robert Darnton, pp. 3-10
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        Best and Worst by John Bayley, pp. 11-12 - 1 Review
        Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
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        Distinguished Dissident by E.H. Gombrich, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review
        James J. Gibson and the Psychology of Perception by Edward S. Reed
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        John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union by John Niven
        Secret and Sacred by Carol Bleser and James Henry Hammond
        Origins of Southern Radicalism by Lacy K. Ford, Jr.
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        The Silver Fox by Lord Zuckerman, pp. 21-24 - 1 Review
        The Master of the Game by Strobe Talbott
      6. My House by Primo Levi, p. 25
      7. The Intimidated Press by Anthony Lewis, pp. 26-28
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        How Rembrandt Made It by David Freedberg, pp. 29-30 - 1 Review
        Rembrandt's Enterprise by Svetlana Alpers
      9. The Price China Has Paid by Liu Binyan, Nathan Gardels, and Merle Goldman, pp. 31-35
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        A Case of the American Jitters by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 36-37 - 3 Reviews
        Last Notes from Home by Frederick Exley
        A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
        Pages from a Cold Island by Frederick Exley
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        Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story by Theodore Draper, pp. 38-45 - 5 Reviews
        Men of Zeal by William S. Cohen and George J. Mitchell
        Guts and Glory by Ben Bradlee, Jr.
        The Iranian Triangle by Samuel Segev
        Perilous Statecraft by Michael A. Ledeen
        Landslide by Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus
      12. Coriolanus Without Rome by Garry Wills, pp. 46-47
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        Scapegoats by G.R. Elton, pp. 48-49 - 1 Review
        The Myth of Ritual Murder by R. Po-chia Hsia
      14. The Songlines Quartet by Bruce Chatwin, pp. 50-51
      15. A Turn in Atlanta by V.S. Naipaul, pp. 52-57
      16. Gorbachev in Armenia by Murray Kempton, p. 58
      17. The New 'Ulysses' by Philip Gaskell, Peter du Sautoy, Clive Hart, and Roma Wandmutt, ..., p. 58
      18. Letters by Natalie Z. Davis, Istvan Deak, and Carl E. Schorske, ..., pp. 59-64
      19. Cover Drawing by David Levine
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      February 2, 1989 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. China's Despair and China's Hope by Fang Lizhi, p. 3
      2. Poem by John Hollander, pp. 4-5
      3. [+]
        Rules of the Game by Gabriele Annan, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Utz by Bruce Chatwin
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        Engaged Philosopher by Stuart Hampshire, pp. 7-9 - 1 Review
        Bertrand Russell: A Political Life by Alan Ryan
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        Facing Up to the Nazis by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 10-15 - 4 Reviews
        Withstanding Hitler in Germany, 1933-45 by Michael Balfour
        Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader by Ronald Smelser
        Goring: A Biography by David Irving
        The Unmasterable Past by Charles S. Maier
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        Dorrit Without Politics by Garry Wills, pp. 16-18 - 1 Review
        Little Dorrit (1988 Film) by Christine Edzard
      7. The Shroud of Mahfouz by Anton Shammas, pp. 19-21
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        Johns by William Gass, pp. 22-27 - 1 Review
        Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974 by Mark Rosenthal and Jasper Johns
      9. [+]
        Do Nuclear Weapons Matter? by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 28-31 - 1 Review
        Danger and Survival by McGeorge Bundy
      10. Schubert's Last Sonatas by Alfred Brendel, pp. 32-35
      11. [+]
        Unkind to Animals by Peter Singer, pp. 36-38 - 1 Review
        Animal Liberators by Susan Sperling
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        The Devil and the Flesh by W.H.C. Frend, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review
        The Body and Society by Peter Brown
      13. An Open Letter to Fidel Castro by Nestor Almendros, p. 41
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        Flight from Philosophy by Michael Walzer, pp. 42-43 - 1 Review
        The Conquest of Politics by Benjamin Barber
      15. Village Prose by Kathleen Parthe and Sergei Kovalyov, p. 44
      16. Letters by Edwin O. Guthman, Garry Wills, and Barbara Sproul, ..., pp. 45-48
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
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      February 16, 1989 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. The Rights of Gorbachev by I.F. Stone, pp. 3-7
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        Queen Bee by Eleanor Perenyi, pp. 8-9 - 2 Reviews
        A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell
        A Country Year by Sue Hubbell
      3. The Origin of the Universe by Victor Weisskopf, pp. 10-14
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        Message from Mao by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        Edgar Snow: A Biography by John Maxwell Hamilton
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        Intruders in the Dust by Robert Towers, pp. 18-19 - 2 Reviews
        Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
        Shine Hawk by Charlie Smith
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        Getting FDR's Ear by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 20-22 - 4 Reviews
        Dealers and Dreamers by Joseph P. Lash
        Liberal by Jordan A. Schwarz
        Saving Capitalism by James S. Olson
        Harry Hopkins by George T. McJimsey
      7. With Tenure by David Lehman, p. 23
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        The Rise of the Homeless by Sue Halpern, pp. 24-27 - 1 Review
        Rachel and Her Children by Jonathan Kozol
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        A South Sea Renaissance by Clifford Geertz, pp. 28-29 - 1 Review
        Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680, Vol. I by Anthony Reid
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        1588 and All That by J.R. Hale, pp. 30-32 - 5 Reviews
        The Spanish Armada by Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker
        The Armada by Garrett Mattingly
        Armada by Peter Padfield
        The Spanish Armada by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
        The Enterprise of England by Roger Whiting
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        The Pilot and the Passenger by Leo Marx
        Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916-1984 by Mary Street Alinder, Andrea Gray Stillman, and Ansel Adams, ...
      12. Jews and Geniuses by Robert Craft, pp. 35-37
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        The Life of Langston Hughes: Vol. I, 1902-1941 by Arnold Rampersad
        The Life of Langston Hughes: Vol. II, 1941-1967 by Arnold Rampersad
      14. Artificial Intelligence and the Chinese Room by Elhanan Motzkin and John R. Searle, p. 44
      15. Letters by Martin Gardner, David Leverenz, and Thomas Flanagan, ..., pp. 45-48
      16. Cover Drawing by David Levine
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      March 2, 1989 Issue = 17 Articles
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        Juggler's Code by Garry Wills, p. 3 - 1 Review
        Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
      2. On Bruce Chatwin by Michael Ignatieff, pp. 4-5
      3. An Interview with Andrei Sakharov by Andrei Sakharov, pp. 6-7
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        Daughter of Destiny by Benazir Bhutto
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        Putting Asunder by Roderick Phillips
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        The Divided Liberal by Robert O. Paxton, pp. 16-18 - 2 Reviews
        Tocqueville: A Biography by Andre Jardin
        Tocqueville and the Two Democracies by Jean-Claude Lamberti
      7. All the Rage in China by Frederic Wakeman Jr.#2, pp. 19-21
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        The Sad Captain of Criticism by Denis Donoghue, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review
        Ruin the Sacred Truths by Harold Bloom
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        The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
      10. The Book Burning by Salman Rushdie, p. 26
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        Tolstoy in Embryo by Robert M. Adams, pp. 27-28 - 1 Review
        A Tinker and a Poor Man by Christopher Hill
      12. The Primal Scene of Education by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., pp. 29-34
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        The United Tates by Monroe K. Spears, pp. 35-37 - 2 Reviews
        Close Connections by Ann Waldron
        The Lytle-Tate Letters by Thomas Daniel Young, Elizabeth Sarcone, and Andrew Lytle, ...
      14. Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story by Michael A. Ledeen, Jane Mayer, and Doyle McManus, ..., pp. 38-39
      15. The War on Cocaine by Ann B. Wrobleski, Victor Mosquera Chaux, and Michael Massing, ..., p. 40
      16. Letters by Albert Goldman, Luc Sante, and Isaac Kramnick, pp. 41-44
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    5. [+]
      March 30, 1989 Issue = 15 Articles
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        The Reddening of America by Roger Shattuck, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
      2. [+]
        Do We Have What It Takes? by Andrew Hacker, pp. 6-8 - 1 Review
        More Like Us by James Fallows
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        The Dark Legacy of the Enlightenment by Garry Wills, pp. 9-11 - 2 Reviews
        The Image of the Black in Western Art, Vol. IV, Part 1 by Hugh Honour
        The Image of the Black in Western Art, Vol. IV, Part 2 by Hugh Honour
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        Inside the Whale by Neal Ascherson, pp. 12-14 - 2 Reviews
        The Essential Gesture by Nadine Gordimer and Stephen Clingman
        The Novels of Nadine Gordimer by Stephen Clingman
      5. [+]
        Dangerous Liaisons by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 15-19 - 2 Reviews
        The Deadly Embrace by Anthony Read and David Fisher
        Between Churchill and Stalin by Steven Merritt Miner
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        Software Wars by Robert M. Adams, pp. 20-21 - 1 Review
        Hence by Brad Leithauser
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        The Pizza Connection by Shana Alexander
        The Cocaine Wars by Paul Eddy, Hugo Sabogal, and Sara Walden
        Sealing the Borders by Peter Reuter, Gordon Crawford, and Jonathan Cave, ...
        Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel by Guy Gugliotta and Jeff Leen
        Desperados by Elaine Shannon
        White Rabbit by Martha A. Morrison
        The American Disease by David F. Musto
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        Confidence Boy by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 27-28 - 1 Review
        The Making of a Senator: Dan Quayle by Richard F. Fenno, Jr.
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        The Ends of Slavery by David Brion Davis, pp. 29-34 - 3 Reviews
        Stedman's Surinam by John Gabriel Stedman, Richard Price, and Sally Price, ...
        The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn
        The Arrogance of Race by George M. Fredrickson
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        The Revel's Ended by Denis Donoghue, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review
        Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess
      11. Moscow by Abraham Brumberg, pp. 37-42
      12. A Tale of Two Governments by Murray Kempton, p. 43
      13. The New 'Ulysses' by Hans Walter Gabler, Alistair McCleery, and Charles Rossman, ..., pp. 43-44
      14. Letters by Menahem Fogel, Avishai Margalit, and Samuel Z. Klausner, ..., pp. 45-48
      15. Cover Photograph by Eugene Richards
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    Issues of Apr.-Jun. 1989 = 6 Issues, 95 Articles
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      April 13, 1989 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Power of Delight by John Bayley, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz by Jerzy Ficowski and Bruno Schulz
      2. On Bruno Schulz by Witold Gombrowicz, pp. 5-7
      3. A Talk with Arafat by Robert O. Freedman, pp. 8-10
      4. [+]
        The Two French Revolutions by Norman Hampson, pp. 11-14 - 2 Reviews
        Citizens by Simon Schama
        The French Revolution by George F.E. Rude
      5. TV by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 15-20
      6. Black vs. White in Chicago by Thomas Byrne Edsall, pp. 21-23
      7. [+]
        The Upper Class and the Underworld by Noel Annan, pp. 24-29 - 3 Reviews
        Mask of Treachery by John Costello
        The Master Spy by Phillip Knightley
        The Wilson Plot by David Leigh
      8. [+]
        The Pleasures of Paine by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review
        Thomas Paine by A.J. Ayer
      9. [+]
        Some Like It Hot by E.J. Hobsbawm, pp. 32-34 - 3 Reviews
        The Swing Era by Gunther Schuller
        Early Jazz by Gunther Schuller
        Meet Me at Jim and Andy's by Gene Lees
      10. [+]
        Hermits and Fools by David Lodge, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review
        The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
      11. An Affair of the Heart by Robert Craft, pp. 37-38
      12. The Debt Addiction by Felix Rohatyn, pp. 39-42
      13. Words and Music by Virgil Thomson, p. 43
      14. The New PLO? by Scott MacLeod, pp. 44-49
      15. 'The Primal Scene of Education' by Herbert Kohl and E.D. Hirsch, Jr., pp. 50-51
      16. Letters by Berkley A. Lynch, Susan Sperling, and Peter Singer, ..., pp. 52-56
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      April 27, 1989 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Fate of Paul Robeson by Murray Kempton, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review
        Paul Robeson: A Biography by Martin Bauml Duberman
      2. Romania by William Pfaff, pp. 8-9
      3. The Fall of a Great Museum by John Pope-Hennessy, pp. 10-14
      4. [+]
        On the Bum by Luc Sante, pp. 15-17 - 2 Reviews
        You Can't Win by Jack Black
        Boxcar Bertha by Bertha Thompson and Ben L. Reitman
      5. [+]
        The Science of Metamorphoses by R.C. Lewontin, pp. 18-21 - 2 Reviews
        Controlling Life by Philip J. Pauly
        Topobiology by Gerald M. Edelman
      6. [+]
        High Romance by Gabriele Annan, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review
        Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford
      7. [+]
        Look Back on Burton by John Osborne, pp. 24-26 - 1 Review
        Richard Burton by Melvyn Bragg
      8. A Lost Chance to Save the Jews? by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 27-35
      9. [+]
        The Unhappy Winner by David Cannadine, pp. 36-38 - 1 Review
        Harold Macmillan: Vol. I, 1894-1956 by Alistair Horne
      10. Fighting Back in Prague by Jeri Laber, pp. 39-40
      11. A Statement to the Court by Vaclav Havel, p. 41
      12. [+]
        The Friendly Fascist by Robert O. Paxton, pp. 42-43 - 1 Review
        Communism and Collaboration by Paul Jankowski
      13. [+]
        The Explorer by Helen Vendler, pp. 44-47 - 1 Review
        I. A. Richards: His Life and Work by John Paul Russo
      14. A Memory of James Baldwin by Mary McCarthy, pp. 48-49
      15. [+]
        Mystery Women by Robert Towers, pp. 50-52 - 3 Reviews
        Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
        A Theft by Saul Bellow
        The Whiteness of Bones by Susanna Moore
      16. [+]
        No Man's Land by James Joll, pp. 53-56 - 4 Reviews
        The Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins
        The Lost Voices of World War I by Tim Cross
        Passion and Rebellion by Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas Kellner
        German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933 by Larry Eugene Jones
      17. 'Do Nuclear Weapons Matter?' by Gar Alperovitz and Stanley Hoffmann, p. 57
      18. Letters by Samuel J. Eldersveld, Neal Zaslaw, and Alfred Brendel, ..., pp. 58-64
    3. [+]
      May 18, 1989 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Citizen Updike by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 3-8 - 1 Review
        Self-Consciousness by John Updike
      2. [+]
        Good Night, Sweet Princes by Ian Buruma, pp. 9-12 - 2 Reviews
        Raj by Gita Mehta
        Maharaja by Andrew Robinson
      3. In Gorbachev's Courts by George P. Fletcher, pp. 13-19
      4. Giacometti's Code by Avigdor Arikha, pp. 20-24
      5. [+]
        Distrusting Economics by Alan Ryan, pp. 25-27 - 2 Reviews
        Passions Within Reason by Robert H. Frank
        Trust by Diego Gambetta
      6. [+]
        Goldwynism by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 28-33 - 11 Reviews
        Goldwyn: A Biography by A. Scott Berg
        An Empire of Their Own by Neal Gabler
        The Search for Sam Goldwyn by Carol Easton
        The Hollywood Studios by Ethan Mordden
        Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death by Robert Scheer
        Inventing the Dream by Kevin Starr
        City of Nets by Otto Friedrich
        John Ford: A Biography by Andrew Sinclair
        The Deer Park by Norman Mailer
        Hollywood Glamor Portraits by John Kobal
        The Image Makers by Paul Trent
      7. [+]
        Should Genes Be Screened? by Max F. Perutz, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review
        Proceed With Caution by Neil A. Holtzman
      8. [+]
        Czech Mates by D.J. Enright, pp. 37-38 - 4 Reviews
        I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
        My First Loves by Ivan Klima
        Catapult by Vladimir Paral
        Sins for Father Knox by Josef Skvorecky
      9. The Magic Flute by Bohumil Hrabal, p. 39
      10. [+]
        I Porni by Robert M. Adams, p. 40 - 1 Review
        I Modi: The Sixteen Pleasures by Giulio Romano
      11. The Battle Inside NATO by Simon Head, pp. 41-46
      12. [+]
        A Master of the Middle Ages by Maurice Keen, pp. 47-49 - 3 Reviews
        Medieval Civilization, 400-1500 by Jacques Le Goff
        The Medieval Imagination by Jacques Le Goff
        Your Money or Your Life by Jacques Le Goff
      13. Mozart a la Mode by Joseph Kerman, pp. 50-52
      14. Sad New El Salvador by Michael Massing, pp. 53-59
      15. 'The Two French Revolutions' by Simon Schama and Norman Hampson, p. 60
      16. Letters by M.F. Perutz, Noel Annan, and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, ..., pp. 61-64
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    4. [+]
      June 1, 1989 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Real Thing by Henry Gifford, pp. 3-6 - 3 Reviews
        On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya
        The New Soviet Fiction by Sergei Zalygin
        Balancing Acts by Helena Goscilo
      2. [+]
        The Bartered Bride by Ian Buruma, pp. 7-11 - 2 Reviews
        In Our Image by Stanley Karnow
        Ermita by F. Sionil Jose
      3. [+]
        Remembering Orson Welles by Gore Vidal, pp. 12-15 - 2 Reviews
        Citizen Welles by Frank Brady
        The Big Brass Ring by Orson Welles
      4. The Gorbachev Project by George Soros, pp. 16-18
      5. The History of Arnold Toynbee by George F. Kennan, pp. 19-22
      6. [+]
        A Deficit of Civic Courage by Benjamin M. Friedman, pp. 23-26 - 1 Review
        Report of the National Economic Commission
      7. [+]
        The Raj Quartet by Christopher Hill, pp. 27-28 - 1 Review
        The British Isles by Hugh Kearney
      8. [+]
        The Patron Saint of Neo-Pop by Robert Hughes, pp. 29-32 - 1 Review
        America by Jean Baudrillard
      9. [+]
        Winners by J.M. Cameron, p. 33 - 2 Reviews
        Grey Is the Color of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya
        Fear No Evil by Natan Sharansky
      10. [+]
        Exiles by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 34-36 - 2 Reviews
        Latecomers by Anita Brookner
        Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai
      11. [+]
        The Master of the Ordinary by Derek Walcott, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review
        Philip Larkin: Collected Poems by Anthony Thwaite and Philip Larkin
      12. 'The Scandal of Ulysses' by Alistair McCleery and John Kidd, p. 40
      13. Letters by Martin Bauml Duberman, Murray Kempton, and Abraham Brumberg, ..., pp. 41-44
      14. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    5. [+]
      June 15, 1989 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. The Springtime of Two Nations by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 3-9
      2. Why Noriega Wins by Murray Kempton, pp. 10-11
      3. [+]
        The Old Devil by Gabriele Annan, pp. 12-14 - 2 Reviews
        Difficulties with Girls by Kingsley Amis
        John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins
      4. Evangels of Abortion by Garry Wills, pp. 15-21
      5. The Rising Star of the German Right by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 22-24
      6. [+]
        Who Are There Coming to the Sacrifice? by Jasper Griffin, pp. 25-27 - 1 Review
        Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. I by Martin Bernal
      7. [+]
        What Dreams Are Made Of by Brian Farrell, pp. 28-32 - 1 Review
        The Dreaming Brain by J. Allan Hobson
      8. Cuba: The Human Rights Show by Aryeh Neier, pp. 33-35
      9. [+]
        Winston Agonistes by David Cannadine, pp. 36-42 - 3 Reviews
        The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. II by William Manchester
        Churchill's War, Vol. I by David Irving
        Winston S. Churchill, Vol. VIII by Martin Gilbert
      10. [+]
        Who Killed Carlo Tresca? by Daniel Aaron, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review
        All the Right Enemies by Dorothy Gallagher
      11. [+]
        Lament for Russia by Norman Davies, pp. 46-48 - 1 Review
        Time of Troubles by Terence Emmons and Iurii Vladimirovich Got'e
      12. The Settlers by Robert I. Friedman, pp. 49-56
      13. 'Jews and Geniuses' by Richard F. Taruskin and Robert Craft, p. 57
      14. Letters by Sanjay Amin, Colin Wilson, Martin Gardner, and Kevin Sweeney, ..., pp. 58-64
      15. Cover Photograph by Marie-Laure de Decker
    6. [+]
      June 29, 1989 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. China's Spring by Orville Schell, pp. 3-8
      2. [+]
        Los Olvidados by Bernard Knox, pp. 9-12 - 1 Review
        The Kindness of Strangers by John Boswell
      3. [+]
        Romance Incarnate by Robert B. Martin, pp. 13-14 - 1 Review
        Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality by Emily W. Sunstein
      4. [+]
        The Mississippi Horrors by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        Dark Journey by Neil R. McMillen
      5. [+]
        The Incredible Shrinking Man by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review
        The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao by Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek, and Eugene Wu, ...
      6. [+]
        The Rise and Fall of Vienna's Jews by Michael Ignatieff, pp. 21-25 - 6 Reviews
        The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph by Robert S. Wistrich
        Vienna and Its Jews by George E. Berkley
        A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670-1918 by William O. McCagg, Jr.
        The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria by Peter G.J. Pulzer
        The Viennese by Paul Hofmann
        Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938 by Steven Beller
      7. [+]
        The Liberal Goya by Robert Hughes, pp. 26-31 - 1 Review
        Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment by Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez and Eleanor A. Sayre, ...
      8. [+]
        The Strange Case of Paul de Man by Denis Donoghue, pp. 32-37 - 4 Reviews
        Wartime Journalism, 1939-1943 by Paul de Man, Werner Hamacher, Neil Hertz, and Thomas Keenan, ...
        Responses: On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism by Werner Hamacher, Neil Hertz, and Thomas Keenan
        Critical Writings, 1953-1978 by Paul de Man and Lindsay Waters
        Reading de Man Reading by Lindsay Waters and Wlad Godzich
      9. The Chinese Intellectuals and the Revolt by Perry Link, pp. 38-41
      10. [+]
        Golden Boy by James Atlas, pp. 42-46 - 2 Reviews
        Passage From Home by Isaac Rosenfeld
        Preserving the Hunger by Mark Shechner and Isaac Rosenfeld
      11. [+]
        A Gent of Dissent by Ronald Steel, pp. 47-48 - 1 Review
        The Price of Empire by J. William Fulbright and Seth P. Tillman
      12. The Great Abortion Case by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 49-52
      13. Letters by Michael Scammell, Pal Veress, and Howard Schuman, ..., pp. 53-56
      14. Cover Photograph by Abbas
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1989 = 3 Issues, 59 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 20, 1989 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Emperor's Clothes by McGeorge Bundy, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review
        Minds at War by Steven Kull
      2. Water Music by Geoffrey O'Brien, p. 7
      3. The End of the Chinese Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar, pp. 8-10
      4. [+]
        Bad Behavior by Bernard Williams, pp. 11-13 - 1 Review
        Intellectuals by Paul M. Johnson
      5. [+]
        Precious Stones by Jasper Griffin, pp. 14-15 - 2 Reviews
        Imperial Spoils by Christopher Hitchens
        The Elgins, 1766-1917 by Sydney Checkland
      6. What Khomeini Did by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 16-18
      7. One Size Fits All: A Critical Essay by David Lehman, p. 19
      8. [+]
        Democrats on the Take by Thomas Byrne Edsall, pp. 20-22 - 2 Reviews
        Fluctuating Fortunes by David Vogel
        Honest Graft by Brooks Jackson
      9. [+]
        The Real Japan by James Fallows, pp. 23-28 - 2 Reviews
        The Enigma of Japanese Power by Karel van Wolferen
        Trading Places by Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.
      10. The Curse of the Man Who Could See the Little Fish at the Bottom of the Ocean by Simon Leys, p. 29
      11. [+]
        The Raw and the Cooked by Robert Towers, pp. 30-31 - 2 Reviews
        Dead Languages by David Shields
        A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
      12. Letters from the Other China by Fang Lizhi and Orville Schell, pp. 32-33
      13. Cruel and Usual Punishment by Jeri Laber, pp. 34-35
      14. [+]
        Artemisia's Revenge? by Francis Haskell, pp. 36-38 - 2 Reviews
        Artemisia Gentileschi by Mary D. Garrard
        Pietro Testa, 1612-1650 by Elizabeth Cropper
      15. [+]
        The Parting of the Twains by Frederick Crews, pp. 39-43 - 2 Reviews
        Dark Twins by Susan Gillman
        Mark Twain and Science by Sherwood Cummings
      16. Letters by George Stevens, Jr., John Gregory Dunne, and Maurice Halperin, ..., pp. 44-48
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      August 17, 1989 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. [+]
        Guest of the Age by Ronald Steel, pp. 3-4 - 3 Reviews
        Sketches from a Life by George F. Kennan
        George Kennan and the Dilemmas of U.S. Foreign Policy by David Allan Mayers
        Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy by Anders Stephanson
      2. Pro-Life Pro by Philip Roth, p. 5
      3. [+]
        Living with Trollope by John Bayley, pp. 6-7 - 3 Reviews
        The Chronicler of Barsetshire by R.H. Super
        Trollope by Stephen Wall
        He Knew She Was Right by Jane Nardin
      4. Naming the Animals by Anthony Hecht, p. 8
      5. Revolution in Hungary in Poland by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 9-14
      6. [+]
        Microscopy by Brad Leithauser, p. 15 - 1 Review
        The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
      7. [+]
        The Real Leonardo by Charles Hope, pp. 16-18 - 2 Reviews
        Leonardo on Painting by Martin Kemp, Margaret Walker, and Leonardo da Vinci, ...
        Michelangelo and His Drawings by Michael Hirst
      8. The Threat to Gorbachev by Peter Reddaway, pp. 19-24
      9. A Speech to the People's Congress by Andrei Sakharov, p. 25
      10. [+]
        Four Prized Poets by Helen Vendler, pp. 26-30 - 4 Reviews
        Blackbird Bye Bye by April Bernard
        The Night Parade by Edward Hirsch
        Acrimony by Michael Hofmann
        The Daylight Moon by Les A. Murray
      11. [+]
        The Grand Decider by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 31-36 - 8 Reviews
        The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
        A Country Made by War by Geoffrey Perret
        The Wages of War by Richard Severo and Lewis Milford
        Technology and War by Martin van Creveld
        Of Arms and Men by Robert L. O'Connell
        The Price of Admiralty by John Keegan
        War: Ends and Means by Paul Seabury and Angelo Codevilla
        The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution by Robert Jervis
      12. Jerusalem by Amos Elon, pp. 37-39
      13. [+]
        Spook of Spooks by Thomas Powers, p. 40 - 1 Review
        Deception by Edward Jay Epstein
      14. Romania by William Pfaff, p. 41
      15. Isaiah Berlin at Eighty by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 42-45
      16. [+]
        Dithering in Nicaragua by James Chace, pp. 46-51 - 4 Reviews
        Condemned to Repetition by Robert A. Pastor
        Somoza Falling by Anthony Lake
        War and Peace in Central America by Frank McNeil
        Agony in the Garden by Edward R.F. Sheehan
      17. [+]
        Sad Young Men by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 52-53 - 3 Reviews
        Moon Palace by Paul Auster
        Closer by Dennis Cooper
        Boomerang by Barry Hannah
      18. Revelations of the North Trial by Theodore Draper, pp. 54-59
      19. Letters by Larry McMurtry, Karen Kennerly, and Edward Witten, ..., pp. 60-64
      20. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      September 28, 1989 Issue = 22 Articles
      1. [+]
        Oh What a Lovely War! by Noel Annan, pp. 3-8 - 3 Reviews
        Wartime by Paul Fussell
        Living Through the Blitz by Tom Harrisson
        The Battle of Britain by Richard Hough and Denis Richards
      2. [+]
        Betrayal by Victor Erofeev, pp. 9-12 - 1 Review
        The Russia House by John le Carre
      3. [+]
        About the European House by Neal Ascherson, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review
        Europe, Europe by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
      4. The Faces of Joseph Campbell by Brendan Gill, pp. 16-19
      5. [+]
        Fleeting Impressionism by Jack Flam, pp. 20-25 - 1 Review
        Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society by Robert L. Herbert
      6. [+]
        Converging on Peace? by Lord Zuckerman, pp. 26-31 - 1 Review
        World at Peace
      7. Why China's Rulers Fear Democracy by John K. Fairbank, pp. 32-33
      8. [+]
        A Poet and Her Myths by A. Alvarez, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review
        Bitter Fame by Anne Stevenson
      9. [+]
        The Pizza Is Burning! by Murray Kempton, pp. 37-38 - 2 Reviews
        Do the Right Thing (1989 Film) by Spike Lee
        Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee and Lisa Jones
      10. [+]
        Haggling Presences by Denis Donoghue, pp. 39-43 - 5 Reviews
        For Every Sin by Aharon Appelfeld
        The Immortal Bartfuss by Aron Appelfeld
        Five Seasons by A.B. Yehoshua
        His Daughter by Yoram Kaniuk
        See Under: Love by David Grossman
      11. [+]
        Shakespeare's Double Vision by E.A.J. Honigmann, pp. 44-46 - 1 Review
        Shakespeare: The Four Romances by Robert M. Adams
      12. The Future of Abortion by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 47-51
      13. [+]
        The Not-So-Spiritual East by James Sterba, pp. 52-54 - 1 Review
        God's Dust by Ian Buruma
      14. How Free Is the Soviet Press? by Michael Massing, pp. 55-58
      15. The Gap Between the Writer and the Reader by Nadine Gordimer, pp. 59-61
      16. On George Ortiz by Bruce Chatwin, p. 62
      17. [+]
        The Incomprehensible Holocaust by Istvan Deak, pp. 63-71 - 16 Reviews
        Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? by Arno J. Mayer
        The Krakow Ghetto and the Plaszow Camp Remembered by Malvina Graf
        Some Dare to Dream by Frieda Frome
        Double Identity by Zofia S. Kubar
        Life With a Star by Jiri Weil
        From That Place and Time by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
        The Jews and the Poles in World War II by Stefan Korbonski
        And I Am Afraid of My Dreams by Wanda Potawska
        Doctor #117641: A Holocaust Memoir by Louis J. Micheels
        Eva's Story by Eva Schloss and Evelyn Julia Kent
        Unbroken by Len Crome
        Lodz Ghetto by Alan Adelson, Robert Lapides, and Marek Web
        Soldiers of Evil by Tom Segev
        The Holocaust in History by Michael R. Marrus
        Unanswered Questions by Francois Furet
        Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman
      18. A Letter to the Polish Electorate by Lech Walesa, p. 72
      19. An Exchange on the Deficit by Robert Eisner and Benjamin Friedman, p. 73
      20. An Exchange on Mark Twain by Garry Wills, Wendy Lesser, Susan Gillman, and Frederick Crews, ..., p. 74
      21. Letters by Roger Scruton, Bernard Williams, and Martin Bernal, ..., pp. 75-80
      22. Cover Drawing by David Levine
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1989 = 6 Issues, 95 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 12, 1989 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        White Magic by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review
        Persuasions of the Witch's Craft by T.M. Luhrmann
      2. [+]
        Chaste Lovers by Gabriele Annan, pp. 8-10 - 1 Review
        Count d'Orgel's Ball by Raymond Radiguet
      3. [+]
        Making Way for Hitler by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 11-16 - 3 Reviews
        How War Came by Donald Cameron Watt
        Chamberlain and Roosevelt by William R. Rock
        Icebreaker by Viktor Suvorov
      4. After the Massacres by Simon Leys, pp. 17-18
      5. Digging in a Footlocker by Walter McDonald, p. 19
      6. [+]
        Trickster Tales by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 20-24 - 7 Reviews
        The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed
        The Terrible Threes by Ishmael Reed
        The Free-Lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed
        Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
        The Last Days of Louisiana Red by Ishmael Reed
        New and Collected Poems by Ishmael Reed
        Writin' Is Fightin' by Ishmael Reed
      7. [+]
        In Bed with Social Science by Diane Johnson, pp. 25-27 - 1 Review
        Sex and Morality in the U.S. by Albert D. Klassen, Colin J. Williams, and Eugene E. Levitt, ...
      8. [+]
        The Prophet by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 28-33 - 1 Review
        Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life by William H. McNeill
      9. [+]
        Mr. Memory by Garry Wills, p. 34 - 1 Review
        The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow
      10. How to Kill Arms Control by Lord Zuckerman, pp. 35-39
      11. Caesar at the Bastille by Jan Kott, pp. 40-42
      12. [+]
        How the North Nearly Lost by James M. McPherson, pp. 43-45 - 4 Reviews
        Two Great Rebel Armies by Richard M. McMurry
        Stonewall Jackson by John Bowers
        The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan by Stephen W. Sears and George B. McClellan
        Fighting for the Confederacy by Gary W. Gallagher and Edward Porter Alexander #2, ...
      13. [+]
        Her Majesty's Secret by Peter Jenkins, pp. 46-48 - 1 Review
        The Enchanted Glass by Tom Nairn
      14. [+]
        Outside Baseball by Wilfrid Sheed, pp. 49-53 - 7 Reviews
        Summer of '49 by David Halberstam
        The Progress of the Seasons by George V. Higgins
        Necessities by Phillip M. Hoose
        Blackball Stars by John B. Holway
        Crash: The Life and Times of Dick Allen by Dick Allen and Tim Whitaker
        The Story of My Life by Hank Greenberg and Ira Berkow
        Out of the Blue by Orel Hershiser and Jerry B. Jenkins
      15. Should World Psychiatry Readmit the Soviets? by Peter Reddaway, pp. 54-57
      16. [+]
        Who Killed George Polk? by C.M. Woodhouse, pp. 58-62 - 1 Review
        The Salonika Bay Murder by Edmund Keeley
      17. [+]
        Affirmative Action by Andrew Hacker, pp. 63-68 - 7 Reviews
        Eliminating Racism by Phyllis A. Katz and Dalmas A. Taylor
        Choosing a College by Thomas Sowell
        The Case Against the SAT by James Crouse and Dale Trusheim
        Blacks in College by Jacqueline Fleming
        A Common Destiny by Gerald David Jaynes and Robin M. Williams, Jr., ...
        Visions of a Better Way by Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
        Minorities in Higher Education by Reginald Wilson and Deborah J. Carter
      18. Letters by Charles L. Griswold, Jr., Denis Donoghue, and Donald Neff, ..., pp. 69-72
      19. Cover Drawing detail by Edward Gorey
    2. [+]
      October 26, 1989 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        Whistling in the Pentagon by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 3-6 - 2 Reviews
        The Pentagonists by A. Ernest Fitzgerald
        New Weapons, Old Politics by Thomas L. McNaugher
      2. [+]
        Balancing Act by Robert Adams, p. 7 - 1 Review
        A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
      3. [+]
        The Secret Agent by Robert I. Friedman, pp. 8-12 - 1 Review
        Territory of Lies by Wolf Blitzer
      4. [+]
        The Narcissistic South by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 13-17 - 1 Review
        The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Charles Reagan Wilson, William R. Ferris, and Anna J. Abadie, ...
      5. [+]
        Being and Dying by William Gass, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review
        The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kis
      6. [+]
        Up from Beethoven by Philip Gossett, pp. 21-26 - 1 Review
        Nineteenth-Century Music by Carl Dahlhaus
      7. [+]
        Stories from the Ice Age by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 27-30 - 4 Reviews
        Spring Bamboo by Jeanne Tai
        I Myself Am a Woman by Ling Ding, Tani E. Barlow, and Gary J. Bjorge
        Lapse of Time by Wang Anyi
        Baotown by Wang Anyi
      8. [+]
        From Hirohito to Heimat by Ian Buruma, pp. 31-45 - 7 Reviews
        In the Name of Humanity by Alain Finkielkraut
        Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988 Film) by Marcel Ophuls
        From Hitler to Heimat by Anton Kaes
        In Hitler's Shadow by Richard J. Evans
        What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? by Sabine Reichel
        The Other Nuremberg by Arnold C. Brackman
        Hirohito: Behind the Myth by Edward Behr
      9. [+]
        A Front-Line Classicist by Jasper Griffin, pp. 46-47 - 1 Review
        Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard Knox
      10. [+]
        Can South Africa Change? by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 48-55 - 7 Reviews
        In the Name of Apartheid by Martin Meredith
        South Africa by Shaun Johnson
        Inside Apartheid by Janet Levine
        Democratic Liberalism in South Africa by Jeffrey Butler, Richard Elphick, and David Welsh, ...
        After Apartheid by Frances Kendall and Leon Louw
        Uprooting Poverty by Francis Wilson #2 and Mamphela Ramphele
        Can South Africa Survive? by John D. Brewer
      11. [+]
        Success Story by Lionel Gossman, pp. 56-59 - 1 Review
        The Triumph of Liberalism by Gordon A. Craig
      12. Love in the Lower Depths by Garry Wills, pp. 60-66
      13. Basic Englishing by Elizabeth Hardwick, p. 67
      14. Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson, Olwyn Hughes, and A. Alvarez, p. 68
      15. Letters by Ronald Bayer, H. Daniel, Jacques Kornberg, and Sheldon Avery, ..., pp. 68-72
      16. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      November 9, 1989 Issue = 12 Articles
      1. [+]
        Juggler by Robert Adams, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
      2. Vengeance in China by Merle Goldman, pp. 5-9
      3. [+]
        Prince of Poets by Julian Barnes, pp. 10-14 - 1 Review
        Selected Letters of Stephane Mallarme by Rosemary Lloyd and Stephane Mallarme
      4. [+]
        Behind Closed Doors by Keith Thomas, pp. 15-19 - 1 Review
        A History of Private Life, Vol. III by Roger Chartier
      5. Hero of the Wilderness by Bill McKibben, pp. 20-25
      6. [+]
        Struggle Over the Puritans by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 26-34 - 3 Reviews
        The Puritan Ordeal by Andrew Delbanco
        To Live Ancient Lives by Theodore Dwight Bozeman
        Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment by David D. Hall
      7. [+]
        Good Housekeeping by Witold Rybczynski, pp. 35-37 - 1 Review
        Culture and Comfort by Katherine C. Grier
      8. Israel by Avishai Margalit, pp. 38-44
      9. [+]
        Putting Pound Together by Harry Levin, pp. 45-47 - 6 Reviews
        A Serious Character by Humphrey Carpenter
        Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano by John Tytell
        The American Ezra Pound by Wendy Stallard Flory
        The Genealogy of Demons by Robert Casillo
        Pound/The Little Review by Ezra Pound, Thomas L. Scott, and Melvin J. Friedman, ...
        Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens by Omar Pound, Robert Spoo, and Ezra Pound
      10. The WASP Ascendancy by Joseph Alsop and Adam Platt, pp. 48-56
      11. An Exchange on Joseph Campbell by Joan Konner, Huston Smith, Roy Finch, and Carol Wallace Orr, ..., pp. 57-60
      12. Gabriel Austin;Gordon Tullock;Andrew Hacker;Ian Hancock, pp. 61-64
    4. [+]
      November 23, 1989 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Power of Impotence by Garry Wills, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        A First-Class Temperament by Geoffrey C. Ward
      2. [+]
        Pipe Dreams by Robert Craft, pp. 6-12 - 3 Reviews
        An Invisible Spectator by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno
        Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue by Paul Bowles
        A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles
      3. [+]
        The Perfect In-and-Outer by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 13-17 - 1 Review
        From Hiroshima to Glasnost by Paul H. Nitze, Steven L. Rearden, and Ann M. Smith, ...
      4. [+]
        England, Whose England? by Hilary Mantel, pp. 18-20 - 2 Reviews
        A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble
        Nice Work by David Lodge
      5. [+]
        A Family Romance by Alan Ryan, pp. 21-25 - 1 Review
        The Godwins and the Shelleys by William St. Clair
      6. What Future for American Jews? by Arthur Hertzberg, pp. 26-31
      7. [+]
        Lyrical Dreiser by Andrew Delbanco, pp. 32-37 - 1 Review
        Theodore Dreiser by Richard Lehan and Theodore Dreiser
      8. [+]
        Art and Anarchy by James Joll, pp. 38-41 - 2 Reviews
        Felix Feneon by Joan Ungersma Halperin
        Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siecle France by Richard D. Sonn
      9. [+]
        Petit Maitre by John Gross, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review
        Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956 by Rupert Hart-Davis and Max Beerbohm
      10. Henry Adam's Gothic by Alfred Kazin, pp. 45-46
      11. [+]
        An Unlikely Demon by Hugo Young, pp. 47-48 - 1 Review
        Harold Macmillan: Vol. II, 1957-1986 by Alistair Horne
      12. A Dictionary for Deconstructors by Alison Lurie, pp. 49-50
      13. [+]
        Is Britain 'Befouled'? by M.F. Perutz, pp. 51-57 - 1 Review
        Mother Country by Marilynne Robinson
      14. The Boat People in Peril by William Shawcross, p. 58
      15. Dina Shalit;Robert I. Friedman;Robert Herbert;Jack Flam;Leo Ou-fan Lee;Benjamin Lee, pp. 59-64
    5. [+]
      December 7, 1989 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        On the High Wire by Gabriele Annan, pp. 3-5 - 3 Reviews
        The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
        A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
        An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
      2. The Common House of Europe by Fritz Stern, pp. 6-10
      3. [+]
        Machine Dreams by David Joravsky, pp. 11-15 - 3 Reviews
        The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, Vol. I by Reese V. Jenkins and Thomas A. Edison
        The Evolution of Technology by George Basalla
        American Genesis by Thomas P. Hughes
      4. [+]
        Me, Myself, and I by E.A.J. Honigmann, pp. 16-18 - 2 Reviews
        Studies in Autobiography by James Olney
        Fabricating Lives by Herbert Leibowitz
      5. [+]
        Just Say Noh by Ian Buruma, pp. 19-20 - 1 Review
        The Japan That Can Say No by Shintaro Ishihara and Morita Akio
      6. [+]
        The Master at Home by John Bayley, pp. 21-23 - 3 Reviews
        A Ring of Conspirators by Miranda Seymour
        Thinking in Henry James by Sharon Cameron
        The Pop World of Henry James by Adeline R. Tintner
      7. The Trial that Shook Cuba by Julia Preston, pp. 24-31
      8. [+]
        All This and Heaven, Too by Maurice Keen, pp. 32-35 - 2 Reviews
        Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179 by Sabina Flanagan
        Three Medieval Views of Women by Gloria K. Fiero, Wendy Pfeffer, and Mathe Allain, ...
      9. [+]
        Recoiling from Reason by Martha Nussbaum, pp. 36-41 - 1 Review
        Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre
      10. [+]
        The Art of M.F.K. Fisher by Patricia Storace, pp. 42-45 - 8 Reviews
        Here Let Us Feast by M.F.K. Fisher
        Among Friends by M.F.K. Fisher
        The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher
        Serve It Forth by M.F.K. Fisher
        Consider the Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher
        How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
        The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher
        Sister Age by M.F.K. Fisher
      11. [+]
        You Can Go Home Again by Robert Towers, pp. 46-47 - 2 Reviews
        Affliction by Russell Banks
        Mile Zero by Thomas Sanchez
      12. The Ages of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 48-51
      13. Another of the FBI's Dirty Secrets by Murray Kempton, p. 52
      14. Affirmative Action by Andrew Hacker, Jerome Karabel, and Michael Haas, p. 52
      15. Letters by Juan E. Mendez, Olwyn Hughes, and A. Alvarez, pp. 53-56
      16. Cover Photograph by Bleibtreu
    6. [+]
      December 21, 1989 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Life at Court by Joan Didion, pp. 3-10 - 6 Reviews
        What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan
        Jean Howard's Hollywood by James Watters and Jean Howard
        My Turn by Nancy Reagan and William Novak
        At Reagan's Side by Helene von Damm
        Behind the Scenes by Michael K. Deaver and Mickey Herskowitz
        Speaking My Mind by Ronald Reagan
      2. [+]
        God and the Devil by John Bayley, pp. 11-13 - 1 Review
        August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
      3. The German Revolution by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 14-19
      4. [+]
        The Phallic Pulpit by Garry Wills, pp. 20-26 - 3 Reviews
        Fall from Grace by Michael d'Antonio
        Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory by Randall Balmer
        Forgiven by Charles E. Shepard
      5. [+]
        Shaw and Super-Shaw by John Gross, pp. 27-31 - 1 Review
        Bernard Shaw, Vol II by Michael Holroyd
      6. [+]
        Paradise Lost by Daniel J. Kevles, pp. 32-38 - 2 Reviews
        The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
        Global Warming by Stephen H. Schneider
      7. [+]
        The Company of Owls by Robert O. Paxton, pp. 39-40 - 2 Reviews
        North American Owls by Paul A. Johnsgard
        Owls of the Northern Hemisphere by Karel H. Voous
      8. [+]
        Written on Water by John Weightman, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review
        The Walnut Trees of Altenburg by Andre Malraux
      9. Keeping the Faith by Fang Lizhi, pp. 43-44
      10. [+]
        The Strangeness of Wordsworth by M.H. Abrams, pp. 45-50 - 1 Review
        William Wordsworth by Stephen Gill
      11. [+]
        Upward in Slavery by Michael P. Johnson, pp. 51-55 - 2 Reviews
        Without Consent or Contract by Robert William Fogel
        Without Consent or Contract: Evidence and Methods by Ralph A. Galantine, Robert W. Fogel, and Robert William Fogel, ...
      12. [+]
        The Case of the Dizzy Detective by Anthony Hecht, pp. 56-59 - 1 Review
        The Poet Auden by A.L. Rowse
      13. [+]
        The Good Doctor by Rosemary Kempton, pp. 60-61 - 1 Review
        Human Nature by D.W. Winnicott
      14. Mad about Guns by Murray Kempton, p. 62
      15. 'The Incomprehensible Holocaust' by Alan Adelson, George Diestel, and John-Paul Himka, ..., pp. 62-64
      16. Soviet Psychiatry by Alfred M. Freedman, Abraham L. Halpern, and Peter Reddaway, ..., p. 65
      17. Letters by Immanuel Wallerstein, Radu J. Bogdan, and Avraham Weiss, ..., pp. 66-72
[+]
Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 201 Issues, 3,320 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1990 = 21 Issues, 345 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1991 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1992 = 20 Issues, 317 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1993 = 20 Issues, 329 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1994 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1995 = 20 Issues, 326 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1996 = 20 Issues, 335 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1997 = 20 Issues, 328 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1998 = 20 Issues, 344 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 20 Issues, 366 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2000s = 6 Years, 66 Issues, 1,270 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2000 = 20 Issues, 380 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 2005 = 1 Issue, 17 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 166 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles