Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 7 · April 20, 1995
Louis Menand, Under Western Eyes 
Our Game by John le Carré
Gordon A. Craig, No More Parades
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan
The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert
Victory Must Be Ours: Germany in the Great War, 1914–1918 by Laurence V. Moyer, Introduction by John Keegan
Jasper Griffin, Cosmic Leg-Pull
Ovid: The Poems of Exile translated with introduction, notes, and glossary by Peter Green
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses edited by Michael Hofmann, edited by James Lasdun
Gabriele Annan, Broken Blossoms
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klíma, translated by Paul Wilson
The Loves of Faustyna by Nina FitzPatrick
Jonathan D. Spence, The Underground War for Shanghai
Policing Shanghai, 1927–1937 by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
Jonathan Raban, Walden-on-Sea
Richard C. Lewontin, Sex, Lies, and Social Science
Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research by Vern L. Bullough
The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States by Edward O. Laumann, by John H. Gagnon, by Robert T. Michael, by Stuart Michaels
Sex in America: A Definitive Survey by Robert T. Michael, by John H. Gagnon, by Edward O. Laumann, by Gina Kolata
Jeri Laber, Is Cuba Really Changing?
Darryl Pinckney, Professionals
Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color—A Journey from Prison to Power by Patrice Gaines
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
In My Place by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
A Man's Life: An Autobiography by Roger Wilkins
The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperous Blacks Still Have the Blues? by Ellis Cose
Bourgeois Blues An American Memoir by Jake Lamar
Out of the Madness: From the Projects to a Life of Hope by Jerrold Ladd
Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black Success by Audrey Edwards, by Craig K. Polite
Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Beals
Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson Introduction by Sondra K. Wilson
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience by Jill Nelson
Robert M. Adams, Wonderful Town?
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas
Garry Wills, Hunt for the Last Judgment
Jonathan Miller, Going Unconscious
Murray Kempton, Home of the Brave
Breaking the Surface by Greg Louganis, by Eric Marcus
Michael Lind, On Pat Robertson His Defenders
Jacob Heilbrunn, His Anti-Semitic Sources
Letters
Chinua Achebe, G.F. Michelsen, et al. The Case of Ken Saro-Wiwa
Charles Larmore, Isaac Levi, et al. Jonathan Liberson Prize
Marcia Cavell, Frederick C. Crews, Freud & His Defenders
Howard Webb, Stephen Jay Gould, Great Sport
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
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)
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
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.
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)
Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.
Jonathan Miller has directed operas and plays throughout the world, most recently Pelléas and Mélisande at the Metropolitan Opera. His many books include The Body in Question, States of Mind, On Reflection, and Nowhere in Particular. The article that appears in this issue is based on a talk given at the New York Public Library. (May 2000)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
