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        The Vanished Library by Luciano Canfora
      9. [+]
        Prophet in Kentucky by Bill McKibben, pp. 30-34 - 13 Reviews
        What Are People for? by Wendell Berry
        The Collected Poems, 1957-1982 by Wendell Berry
        The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
        Meeting the Expectations of the Land by Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, and Bruce Colman
        Standing by Words by Wendell Berry
        The Wild Birds by Wendell Berry
        The Unsettling of American by Wendell Berry
        The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry
        Home Economics by Wendell Berry
        A Continuous Harmony by Wendell Berry
        Recollected Essays, 1965-1980 by Wendell Berry
        Remembering by Wendell Berry
        A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry
      10. [+]
        The Trial of Alyosha by Janet Malcolm, pp. 35-37 - 1 Review
        Letters to Olga by Vaclav Havel
      11. Reflections on a Paradoxical Life by Vaclav Havel, p. 38
      12. How Not to Deal with Iran-Contra by Theodore Draper, pp. 39-44
      13. Henry Adams as Holy Fool by Garry Wills, p. 45
      14. [+]
        The Brilliant Misfit by Keith Thomas, pp. 46-48 - 1 Review
        Lewis Namier by Linda Colley
      15. Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment by Amartya Sen, pp. 49-54
      16. [+]
        Touche by Christopher Hill, pp. 55-56 - 1 Review
        The Duel in European History by V.G. Kiernan
      17. Discontents at the UN by Theodore W. Kheel and Brian Urquhart, p. 57
      18. 'The Emperor's New Mind' by John R. Searle and John Maynard Smith, pp. 58-59
      19. Letters by Xiaorong Li, Olga Havel, Robin Blackburn, and Conor Cruise O'Brien, ..., pp. 60-64
      20. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    6. [+]
      June 28, 1990 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. The Peace Dividend by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, pp. 3-5
      2. [+]
        'A Sort of Intimate Whirlwind' by John Updike, pp. 6-8 - 1 Review
        The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard by Elizabeth Wynne Easton
      3. Mario Cuomo's Trouble with Abortion by Garry Wills, pp. 9-13
      4. [+]
        Tokyo Boogie-Woogie by Ian Buruma, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        Tokyo Rising by Edward G. Seidensticker
      5. [+]
        The Best Years of Their Lives by Alan Brinkley, pp. 16-21 - 3 Reviews
        In Transit by Joshua B. Freeman
        Working-Class Americanism by Gary Gerstle
        Workers on the Waterfront by Bruce Nelson
      6. [+]
        Underground Man by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 22-24 - 7 Reviews
        Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren
        The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren
        The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
        A Walk On the Wild Side by Nelson Algren
        Nelson Algren by Bettina Drew
        Confronting the Horror by James R. Giles
        Nelson Algren's Chicago by Art Shay
      7. [+]
        The Way to the Wall by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 25-30 - 4 Reviews
        German History, 1770-1866 by James J. Sheehan
        Bismarck, The White Revolutionary: Vol. I, 1815-1871 by Lothar Gall
        Bismarck, The White Revolutionary: Vol. II, 1871-1898 by Lothar Gall
        Letters to Freya, 1939-1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke and Beate Ruhm von Oppen, ...
      8. [+]
        Fin-de-Siecle America by Paul Kennedy, pp. 31-40 - 4 Reviews
        The Myth of America's Decline by Henry R. Nau
        America's Economic Resurgence by Richard Rosecrance
        Peril and Promise by John Chancellor
        Bound to Lead by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
      9. [+]
        Viva Mencken! by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 41 - 1 Review
        The Diary of H.L. Mencken by Charles A. Fecher and H.L. Mencken
      10. Yugoslavia by Michael Scammell, pp. 42-47
      11. [+]
        A Question of Character by Stephen Toulmin, pp. 48-51 - 1 Review
        Schrodinger: Life and Thought by Walter Moore
      12. The Turning Point? by Abraham Brumberg, pp. 52-59
      13. Letters by William E. Krisel, Michael M. Thomas, and Lester G. Crocker, ..., pp. 60-64
      14. Cover Drawing by David Levine
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1990 = 3 Issues, 55 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 19, 1990 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Politics of Grievance by Garry Wills, p. 3 - 1 Review
        The Politics of Rich and Poor by Kevin P. Phillips
      2. [+]
        The Catastrophe and After by David Holloway, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        The Legacy of Chernobyl by Zhores A. Medvedev
      3. The Two Faces of Europe by Adam Michnik, p. 7
      4. Reunion in Budapest by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-11
      5. [+]
        The Real Camino by Donald Windham, pp. 12-14 - 2 Reviews
        Five O'Clock Angel by Maria St. Just and Tennessee Williams
        Costly Performances by Bruce Smith
      6. War and Human Rights in Cambodia by Sidney Jones, pp. 15-22
      7. [+]
        In God's Playground by John Bayley, pp. 23-24 - 6 Reviews
        Lucifer Unemployed by Aleksander Wat
        Killing the Second Dog by Marek Hlasko
        Missing Pieces by Stanislaw Benski
        Bohin Manor by Tadeusz Konwicki
        Rondo by Kazimierz Brandys
        The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
      8. [+]
        In a Fratricidal Country by Peter Pattner, pp. 25-27 - 1 Review
        Tribes with Flags by Charles Glass
      9. [+]
        Rediscovering the Bellinis by Charles Hope, pp. 28-32 - 2 Reviews
        The Genius of Jacopo Bellini by Colin T. Eisler
        Giovanni Bellini by Rona Goffen
      10. [+]
        A Tale of Two Nations by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 33-36 - 1 Review
        Ulster: Conflict and Consent by Tom Wilson
      11. [+]
        The New Yugoslavia by Michael Scammell, pp. 37-42 - 2 Reviews
        Human Rights in Yugoslavia by Oskar Gruenwald and Karen Rosenblum-Cale
        Yugoslavia: Prisoners of Conscience
      12. [+]
        Workers & Warriors by Ian Buruma, pp. 43-45 - 2 Reviews
        The Fugitive by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
        The Great World by David Malouf
      13. [+]
        The Shock of the Old by Charles Rosen, pp. 46-51 - 1 Review
        Authenticity and Early Music by Nicholas Kenyon
      14. The Darkening Light by Murray Kempton, p. 52
      15. Letters by Leo Steinberg, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, and H.C. Merillat, ..., pp. 53-56
      16. Cover Photograph by Joseph de Rienzo
    2. [+]
      August 16, 1990 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Struggle for Light by David Remnick, pp. 3-6 - 3 Reviews
        Memoirs by Andrei D. Sakharov
        From Gorky to Moscow and Beyond by Andrei Sakharov
        Alarm and Hope by Andrei D. Sakharov, Efrem Yankelevich, and Alfred Friendly, Jr., ...
      2. Watching the Congress by Elena Bonner, p. 7
      3. Titian and the Perils of International Exhibition by Francis Haskell, pp. 8-11
      4. [+]
        High on Science by M.F. Perutz, pp. 12-15 - 3 Reviews
        A Very Decided Preference by Jean S. Medawar
        The Threat and the Glory by Peter Medawar and David Pyke
        Peter Brian Medawar by N.A. Mitchison
      5. The Passion of Graham Greene by John Updike, pp. 16-17
      6. Beirut by Jean Said Makdisi, pp. 18-20
      7. [+]
        Invisible Cities by Murray Kempton, p. 21 - 1 Review
        Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde by Catherine Cooke
      8. [+]
        A Home Is Not A House by Patricia Storace, pp. 22-24 - 3 Reviews
        Family Pictures by Sue Miller
        Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
        To the Birdhouse by Cathleen Schine
      9. [+]
        The New Canadas by J.M. Cameron, pp. 25-26 - 2 Reviews
        Continental Divide by Seymour Martin Lipset
        North American Cultures by Seymour Martin Lipset
      10. Dangers of Democracy by Gavriil Popov, p. 27
      11. The Voice from Paxos by Jonathan Aaron, p. 28
      12. [+]
        The War That Will Not End by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 29-36 - 7 Reviews
        Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam by Morley Safer
        Lost Victory by William Colby and James McCargar
        Slow Burn by Orrin DeForest and David Chanoff
        The Limits of Air Power by Mark Clodfelter
        As I Saw It by Dean Rusk and Richard Rusk
        Tears Before the Rain by Larry Engelmann
        Hearts of Sorrow by James M. Freeman
      13. [+]
        Wonder Woman by Geoffrey C. Ward, pp. 37-40 - 1 Review
        American Cassandra by Peter Kurth
      14. [+]
        The Theater of Cruelty by Josef Skvorecky, pp. 41-44 - 1 Review
        Report on the Murder of the General Secretary by Karel Kaplan
      15. [+]
        Inconclusive Evidence by Robert Towers, pp. 45-46 - 3 Reviews
        The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow
        The Music Room by Dennis McFarland
        In a Father's Place by Christopher Tilghman
      16. [+]
        Unwarlike Warriors by R.J.W. Evans, pp. 47-50 - 1 Review
        Beyond Nationalism by Istvan Deak
      17. Eastern Europe by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 51-57
      18. 'Feminism in Danger' by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, and Camille Paglia, ..., p. 58
      19. 'The Constitution in Danger' by William M. Goldsmith, Lawrence Block, and David Rivkin, Jr., ..., pp. 59-60
      20. Letters by Nora Beloff and Michael Scammell, pp. 61-64
      21. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      September 27, 1990 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Poohdom by Janet Adam Smith, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review
        A.A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh by Ann Thwaite
      2. [+]
        The Thief of Baghdad by Edward Mortimer, pp. 7-15 - 4 Reviews
        Saddam Hussein by Fuad Matar
        Republic of Fear by Samir al-Khalil
        Iraqi Power and U.S. Security in the Middle East by Stephen C. Pelletiere and Douglas V. Johnson II, ...
        Human Rights in Iraq by Middle East Watch
      3. Seize the Day by Murray Kempton, p. 16
      4. [+]
        At the Bottom of the Pond by Gabriele Annan, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review
        An Autumn Story by Tommaso Landolfi
      5. On Kafka by Vaclav Havel, p. 19
      6. [+]
        The Making of Mandela by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 20-29 - 5 Reviews
        A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson
        The Struggle by Heidi Holland
        South Africa Belongs To Us by Francis Meli
        Apartheid's Rebels by Stephen M. Davis
        Higher Than Hope by Fatima Meer
      7. The Chinese Amnesia by Fang Lizhi, pp. 30-31
      8. [+]
        Americans and Revolutionaries by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 32-35 - 1 Review
        Revolutions by David Brion Davis
      9. [+]
        Triumphs of Colonialism by John Maynard Smith, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review
        The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
      10. The Price of Gluttony by Peter G. Peterson, pp. 38-39
      11. [+]
        The Comedian of Horror by Robert Craft, pp. 40-48 - 10 Reviews
        Gathering Evidence by Thomas Bernhard
        Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
        Histrionics by Thomas Bernhard
        The President and Eve of Retirement by Thomas Bernhard
        The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard
        Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard
        Correction by Thomas Bernhard
        Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
        Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
        Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
      12. [+]
        The Survivor by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 49-53 - 1 Review
        Asad of Syria by Patrick Seale
      13. [+]
        Painting the Unpaintable by Richard Dorment, pp. 54-56 - 2 Reviews
        Facing History by Guy C. McElroy
        The Art of Exclusion by Albert Boime
      14. Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism by Isaiah Berlin, pp. 57-64
      15. The Chequers Affair by Timothy Garton Ash, p. 65
      16. King Christian & the Jews by Leonard Mendes Nathan, James B. Sitrick, and Tage Kaarsted, ..., pp. 66-67
      17. Letters by David Aaron, Luciano Canfora, Bernard Lewis, and Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ..., pp. 68-72
      18. Cover Drawing by David Levine
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1990 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 11, 1990 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Virtues of Nakedness by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 3-7 - 3 Reviews
        Baseball: The People's Game by Harold Seymour
        Men at Work by George F. Will
        When the Cheering Stops by Lee Heiman, Dave Weiner, and Bill Gutman
      2. [+]
        The Art of Interpreting Nonexistent Inscriptions Written in Invisible Ink on a Blank Page by Simon Leys, pp. 8-13 - 1 Review
        The Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985 by Laszlo Ladany
      3. [+]
        Night for Day by Julian Barnes, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review
        Francois Truffaut by Gilles Jacob and Claude de Givray
      4. [+]
        Liberators by Robert M. Adams, pp. 17-19 - 5 Reviews
        The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
        Collected Novellas by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
        Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
        In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa
        The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
      5. Good News Is Not Bad News by Albert O. Hirschman, pp. 20-22
      6. The Art of Frank Auerbach by Robert Hughes, pp. 23-28
      7. [+]
        Dancing for Balanchine by Joan Acocella, pp. 29-34 - 1 Review
        Holding On to the air by Suzanne Farrell and Toni Bentley
      8. [+]
        Slaves in Islam by David Brion Davis, pp. 35-38 - 1 Review
        Race and Slavery in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
      9. The Shame of Armenia by Elena Bonner, pp. 39-40
      10. Making Way for the Messiah by Robert I. Friedman, pp. 41-47
      11. [+]
        Three Faces of Capitalism by Robert Heilbroner, pp. 48-49 - 1 Review
        Scale and Scope by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
      12. Stalin's Dumping Ground by Jeri Laber, pp. 50-53
      13. Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism: II by Isaiah Berlin, pp. 54-58
      14. 'The New Yugoslavia' by Quintin Hoare and Michael Scammell, p. 59
      15. The Fall of Jim Wright by John M. Barry, Mary Connell, and Nicholas Lemann, ..., p. 60
      16. Letters by Richard Taruskin, Charles Rosen, and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., ..., pp. 61-64
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      October 25, 1990 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        New Bird in Birdland by George Plimpton, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        A Parrot Without a Name by Don Stap
      2. [+]
        Begetting Big Science by Daniel J. Kevles, pp. 6-10 - 1 Review
        Lawrence and His Laboratory by J.L. Heilbron and Robert W. Seidel
      3. [+]
        Long-Distance Runner by Garry Wills, pp. 11-14 - 1 Review
        Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
      4. [+]
        The Devils of Hiroshima by Ian Buruma, pp. 15-19 - 3 Reviews
        Fallen Soldiers by George L. Mosse
        The Bomb by Makoto Oda
        The Genocidal Mentality by Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Markusen
      5. [+]
        Ancient Kids by Jasper Griffin, pp. 20-22 - 2 Reviews
        Children and Childhood in Classical Athens by Mark Golden
        Adults and Children in the Roman Empire by Thomas Wiedemann
      6. [+]
        Back to Bork by Lawrence Sager, pp. 23-28 - 3 Reviews
        The Tempting of America by Robert H. Bork
        Battle for Justice by Ethan Bronner
        The People Rising by Michael Pertschuk and Wendy Schaetzel
      7. [+]
        L'Homme Revolte by John Weightman, pp. 29-40 - 1 Review
        The Conspiracy by Paul Nizan
      8. [+]
        The Impasse Over Israel by Arthur Hertzberg, pp. 41-47 - 5 Reviews
        Palestine and Israel by John Quigley
        Israel, Palestinians and the Intifada by Geoffrey Aronson
        Arafat by Janet Wallach and John Wallach
        Palestine and Israel by David McDowall
        The False Prophet by Robert I. Friedman
      9. [+]
        Portrait of the Critic as a Young Man by John Banville, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review
        Warrenpoint by Denis Donoghue
      10. The Rush to Capitalism by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 51-52
      11. The New Game in Guatemala by Michael Massing, pp. 53-57
      12. [+]
        Do-It-Yourself Lear by E.A.J. Honigmann, pp. 58-60 - 1 Review
        The Complete King Lear, 1608-1623 by Michael Warren and William Shakespeare
      13. Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism: III by Isaiah Berlin, pp. 61-65
      14. Nelson Algren by Bruce A. Tour, Bettina Drew, Art Shay, and Studs Terkel, ..., p. 66
      15. Letters by Rakiya Omaar, Roland F. Perkins, and Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ..., pp. 67-72
      16. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      November 8, 1990 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        V.S.P. by John Bayley, pp. 3-4 - 3 Reviews
        A Careless Widow, and Other Stories by V.S. Pritchett
        At Home and Abroad by V.S. Pritchett
        Lasting Impressions by V.S. Pritchett
      2. How AIDS Came to Romania by David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman, pp. 5-7
      3. [+]
        Love and Death in South Africa by Gabriele Annan, pp. 8-11 - 2 Reviews
        Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee
        My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer
      4. [+]
        A Phony Ancestor by Lord Zuckerman, pp. 12-16 - 2 Reviews
        Piltdown by Frank Spencer
        The Piltdown Papers, 1908-1955 by Frank Spencer
      5. [+]
        Better Than Nature by John Updike, pp. 17-18 - 2 Reviews
        Albert Pinkham Ryder by Elizabeth Broun
        Albert Pinkham Ryder by William Innes Homer and Lloyd Goodrich
      6. [+]
        A Lab of One's Own by Clifford Geertz, pp. 19-23 - 3 Reviews
        Feminism and Science by Nancy Tuana
        The Mind Has No Sex? by Londa Schiebinger
        Primate Visions by Donna Haraway
      7. [+]
        The Real Thing by David Denby, pp. 24-28 - 16 Reviews
        The Titicut Follies (1967 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        High School (1968 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Law and Order (1969 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Hospital (1970 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Basic Training (1971 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Welfare (1975 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Meat (1976 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Canal Zone (1977 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Model (1980 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        The Store (1983 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Blind (1986 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Deaf (1986 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Near Death (1989 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Central Park (1990 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Adjustment and Work (1987 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
        Multi-Handicapped (1987 Film) by Frederick Wiseman
      8. [+]
        Civil Warriors by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 29-32 - 2 Reviews
        Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters by Mary D. McFeely, William S. McFeely, and Ulysses S. Grant, ...
        The Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman by Charles Royster and William Tecumseh Sherman
      9. [+]
        The Great Japanese Misunderstanding by James Fallows, pp. 33-39 - 2 Reviews
        Agents of Influence by Pat Choate
        The Japanese Power Game by William J. Holstein
      10. The Fall and Rise of New York City by Felix Rohatyn, pp. 40-44
      11. [+]
        Republican and Galilean by Bernard Williams, pp. 45-48 - 1 Review
        Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor
      12. How Saddam Is Dividing the Arab World by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 49-51
      13. [+]
        Heroism in Hell by Istvan Deak, pp. 52-57 - 1 Review
        Surviving the Holocaust by Avraham Tory
      14. Early Music by Malcolm Bilson and Charles Rosen, pp. 58-60
      15. Letters by Orrin DeForest, Jonathan Mirsky, and Edward Albee, ..., pp. 61-64
      16. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    4. [+]
      November 22, 1990 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        It's A Girl! by John Barton, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        The Book of J by Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg
      2. [+]
        Goodbye, Columbus by Garry Wills, pp. 6-10 - 3 Reviews
        The Harp and the Shadow by Alejo Carpentier
        The Dogs of Paradise by Abel Posse
        The Conquest of Paradise by Kirkpatrick Sale
      3. Germany Unbound by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 11-15
      4. [+]
        Tell, Don't Show by Diane Johnson, pp. 16-18 - 3 Reviews
        Walter Winchell by Michael Herr
        Wildlife by Richard Ford
        The Screenplay by Margaret Mehring
      5. [+]
        Trans-National America by Andrew Hacker, pp. 19-24 - 8 Reviews
        Going to School by Kofi Lomotey
        Ethnic Identity by Richard D. Alba
        The Closest of Strangers by Jim Sleeper
        Forked Tongue by Rosalie Porter
        A Curriculum of Inclusion
        From Gatekeeper to Gateway
        Campus Ethnoviolence and the Policy Options by Howard J. Ehrlich
        The American Kaleidoscope by Lawrence H. Fuchs
      6. On Washington Square by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 25-28
      7. [+]
        Keeping the Faith by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 29-34 - 2 Reviews
        Tearing Down the Color Bar by Joseph F. Wilson
        A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula F. Pfeffer
      8. The Pianist and the Program by Alfred Brendel, pp. 35-36
      9. [+]
        Sex and Power in the Middle Ages by Maurice Keen, pp. 37-39 - 3 Reviews
        Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe by James A. Brundage
        The Medieval Idea of Marriage by Christopher N.L. Brooke
        Joan of Arc and Richard III by Charles T. Wood
      10. [+]
        Rogue Genius by Derek Jarrett, pp. 40-43 - 2 Reviews
        Henry Fielding: A Life by Martin C. Battestin and Ruthe R. Battestin
        New Essays by Fielding by Henry Fielding and Martin C. Battestin
      11. [+]
        Neurology and the Soul by Oliver Sacks, pp. 44-49 - 12 Reviews
        Remembering by Frederic C. Bartlett
        Neural Darwinism by Gerald M. Edelman
        The Remembered Present by Gerald M. Edelman
        The Mystery of the Mind by Wilder Penfield
        The Invention of Memory by Israel Rosenfield
        Man on His Nature by Charles Sherrington
        The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles S. Sherrington
        Migraine by Oliver Sacks
        Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
        A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
        The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
        Seeing Voices by Oliver W. Sacks
      12. 'Rediscovering the Bellinis' by Rona Goffen, Pai DeSantis Pell, and David Rosand, ..., pp. 50-51
      13. Letters by William E. Colby, Jonathan Mirsky, and Stephen C. Pelletiere, ..., pp. 52-56
      14. Cover Drawing by Eric Edelman
    5. [+]
      December 6, 1990 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Witness by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 3-7 - 2 Reviews
        Before the Storm by Marion Grafin Donhoff
        Foe Into Friend by Marion Grafin Donhoff
      2. The Gulf Crisis by George W. Ball, pp. 8-17
      3. The Power of Ancient Mexican Art by Octavio Paz, pp. 18-21
      4. [+]
        In Violent Times by John Banville, pp. 22-25 - 3 Reviews
        Amongst Women by John McGahern
        Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
        The Innocent by Ian McEwan
      5. [+]
        The Uses of Fakery by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 26-28 - 1 Review
        Forgers and Critics by Anthony Grafton
      6. [+]
        The Death of 'Society' by Noel Annan, pp. 29-33 - 1 Review
        The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine
      7. [+]
        The Storm Over the University by John Searle, pp. 34-42 - 3 Reviews
        Tenured Radicals by Roger Kimball
        The Politics of Liberal Education by Darryl L. Gless and Barbara Herrnstein Smith
        The Voice of Liberal Learning by Michael Oakeshott and Timothy Fuller
      8. [+]
        The Tragi-Comedy of S.T. Coleridge by Robert Bernard Martin, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review
        Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes
      9. [+]
        Escaped Slaves of the Forest by E.J. Hobsbawm, pp. 46-47 - 1 Review
        Alabi's World by Richard Price
      10. The Day Budapest Shut Down by George Fletcher, p. 48
      11. [+]
        Life Styles of the Rich and Famous by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, pp. 49-52 - 2 Reviews
        Caligula: The Corruption of Power by Anthony A. Barrett
        Claudius by Barbara Levick
      12. [+]
        Jews, Indians, and Imperialists by Anita Desai, pp. 53-56 - 2 Reviews
        India's Bene Israel by Shirley Berry Isenberg
        Jews in British India by Joan G. Roland
      13. [+]
        Did Jefferson Blunder? by Eric L. McKitrick, pp. 57-59 - 1 Review
        Empire of Liberty by Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson
      14. [+]
        Brave New Worlds by Aileen Kelly, pp. 60-66 - 2 Reviews
        Revolutionary Dreams by Richard Stites
        Revolution and Culture by Zenovia A. Sochor
      15. [+]
        Was Cratylus Kidding? by Robert M. Adams, p. 67 - 1 Review
        The Names of Comedy by Anne Barton
      16. Letters by Oliver Sacks, Albert Boime, Richard Dorment, and R.C. Lewontin, ..., pp. 68-72
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    6. [+]
      December 20, 1990 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Mr. Magoo Remembers by Garry Wills, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        An American Life by Ronald Reagan
      2. [+]
        The Sturgess Style by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 6-10 - 4 Reviews
        Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges by Sandy Sturges and Preston Sturges
        Between Flops by James Curtis
        Madcap: The Life of Preston Sturges by Donald Spoto
        Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges by Brian Henderson and Preston Sturges
      3. [+]
        Born Again African by Roger Shattuck and Samba Ka, pp. 11-21 - 3 Reviews
        Black, French, and African by Janet G. Vaillant
        Oeuvre Poetique by Leopold Sedar Senghor
        Ce Que Je Crois by Leopold Sedar Senghor
      4. [+]
        Sociable Murder by Gabriele Annan, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review
        Symposium by Muriel Spark
      5. [+]
        Getting Away from It All by Witold Rybczynski, pp. 24-28 - 5 Reviews
        The Villa by James S. Ackerman
        The Architect and the American Country House, 1890-1940 by Mark Alan Hewitt
        The American Country House by Roger W. Moss
        The American Country House by Clive Aslet
        Wheel Estate by Allan D. Wallis
      6. Reagan Lives! by Benjamin M. Friedman, pp. 29-33
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        There's No Place Like Heimat by Ian Buruma, pp. 34-43 - 6 Reviews
        Patterns of Childhood by Christa Wolf
        The Quest for Christa T by Christa Wolf
        No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf
        What Remains, and Other Stories by Christa Wolf
        Cassandra by Christa Wolf
        The Fourth Dimension by Christa Wolf
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        At Stake in the Gulf by Bernard Lewis, pp. 44-46 - 1 Review
        Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf by Judith Miller and Laurie Mylroie
      9. My Vote Against Walesa by Adam Michnik, pp. 47-49
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        And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss
        Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
        McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss
        Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss
        Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose by Dr. Seuss
        Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
        If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss
        Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss
        On Beyond Zebra! by Dr. Seuss
        If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Seuss
        The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
        One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
        I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! by Dr. Seuss
        The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
        The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
        You're Only Old Once! by Dr. Seuss
        Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
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        The Myth of Shangri-La by Peter Bishop
        Freedom in Exile by Dalai Lama
        A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951 by Melvyn C. Goldstein and Geler Rimpoche
        My Tibet by Dalai Lama
      12. More than 100 Million Women Are Missing by Amartya Sen, pp. 61-66
      13. [+]
        Rackhamland by Janet Adam Smith, pp. 67-68 - 1 Review
        Arthur Rackham by James Hamilton
      14. The Shadow of the Guru by V.S. Naipaul, pp. 69-76
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        History on the Wing by John K. Fairbank, p. 77 - 1 Review
        Golden Inches by John S. Service and Grace Service
      16. Letters by Samson B. Knoll, Isaiah Berlin, and John Gregory Dunne, ..., pp. 78-80
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
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