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Our Age, by Noel Annan

by Ian Buruma

The New York Review of Books, May 30, 1991, pp. 13-16

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      15. 'The Piltdown Mystery' by Frank Spencer and Lord Zuckerman, p. 58
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        Dead Certainties by Simon Schama
      4. [+]
        History Novel by Robert Towers, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review
        Mao II by Don DeLillo
      5. Israel's Great White Hope by Avishai Margalit, pp. 19-25
      6. [+]
        Hard Times by Janet Adam Smith, pp. 26-30 - 2 Reviews
        The Diaries of Hans Christian Andersen by Patricia L. Conroy, Sven H. Rossel, and Hans Christian Andersen, ...
        The Kiss of the Snow Queen by Wolfgang Lederer
      7. [+]
        Foul Ball by George F. Will, pp. 31-34 - 1 Review
        Collision at Home Plate by James Reston, Jr.
      8. [+]
        The Triumph of Abram Tertz by Joseph Frank, pp. 35-43 - 2 Reviews
        Goodnight! by Abram Tertz
        Soviet Civilization by Andrei Sinyavsky
      9. [+]
        Underachiever by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 44-47 - 1 Review
        Consequences by John G. Tower
      10. The Nuclear Threat by Hans A. Bethe, Kurt Gottfried, and Robert S. McNamara, ..., pp. 48-50
      11. [+]
        The Cabinet of Doctor Keats by Richard Holmes, pp. 51-52 - 1 Review
        Romantic Medicine and John Keats by Hermione de Almeida
      12. Russia After Perestroika by Abraham Brumberg, pp. 53-59
      13. The Nazis and the Atom Bomb by Paul Lawrence Rose, Robert H. March, and Thomas Powers, ..., pp. 60-61
      14. The High Cost of Victory by Murray Kempton, p. 62
      15. Letters by J.J. Fraxedas, Lisa Appignanesi, and John Forrester, ..., pp. 63-68
      16. Cover Photograph by Eric Miller
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1991 = 3 Issues, 49 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 18, 1991 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. On Gaza Beach by Ari Shavit, pp. 3-6
      2. Dreams of E.A. Poe by Diane Johnson, pp. 7-10
      3. [+]
        Looking Back at the Revolution by Julia Preston, pp. 11-13 - 2 Reviews
        Blood of Brothers by Stephen Kinzer
        Inside Central America by Clifford Krauss
      4. [+]
        The Flight of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Denis Donoghue, pp. 14-18 - 1 Review
        Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life by Robert Bernard Martin
      5. [+]
        Keeper of the Seal by Garry Wills, pp. 19-22 - 1 Review
        Counsel to the President by Clark Clifford and Richard Holbrooke
      6. [+]
        The Reagan Revolution and the Supreme Court by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 23-28 - 1 Review
        Order and Law by Charles Fried
      7. A New Russian Revolution? by Martin Malia, pp. 29-31
      8. [+]
        Freedom & the Universities by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 32-37 - 1 Review
        Illiberal Education by Dinesh D'Souza
      9. [+]
        Breaking Up with Castro by Raymond Carr, p. 38 - 1 Review
        Self-Portrait of the Other by Heberto Padilla
      10. Puerta de Golpe, Cuba by Heberto Padilla, p. 39
      11. [+]
        China on the Verge by Jonathan D. Spence, pp. 40-44 - 5 Reviews
        To the People by Charles W. Hayford
        Rickshaw Beijing by David Strand
        The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisi,e 1911-1937 by Marie-Claire Bergere
        The Alienated Academy by Wen-Hsin Yeh
        Bandits in Republican China by Phil Billingsley
      12. The Wake of the Storm by Murray Kempton, p. 45
      13. Letters by Elena Bonner, Yuri Orlov, Felice D. Gaer, and Scott Horton, ..., pp. 45-48
      14. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      August 15, 1991 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        Richly Flows Contingency by John Bayley, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        Flow Chart by John Ashbery
      2. 'Uncertain Strength' by Vaclav Havel, pp. 6-8
      3. [+]
        Seeing Double by Patricia Storace, pp. 9-11 - 2 Reviews
        Typical American by Gish Jen
        What Was Mine by Ann Beattie
      4. Liberty and Pornography by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 12-15
      5. [+]
        Turn of the Screw by Murray Kempton, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Cold Warrior by Tom Mangold
      6. [+]
        'How to Leave a House of Slavery' by Neal Ascherson, pp. 17-20 - 3 Reviews
        Solidarity, Solitude by Adam Zagajewski
        Between East and West by Robert Kostrzewa
        The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
      7. Lincoln Up Close by Gore Vidal, pp. 21-22
      8. [+]
        Fitzgerald Revisited by Jay McInerney, pp. 23-28 - 1 Review
        The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Matthew J. Bruccoli and F. Scott Fitzgerald
      9. Nationalists and Democrats by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 29-31
      10. Scandal on the Seine by Patrice Higonnet, pp. 32-35
      11. On Being Silenced in Germany by Peter Singer, pp. 36-42
      12. [+]
        Adventurers by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 43-44 - 2 Reviews
        SIRO by David Ignatius
        A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
      13. [+]
        The Return of Film Noir! by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 45-48 - 16 Reviews
        The Seventh Victim (1943 Film) by Mark Robson
        The Dark Mirror (1946 Film) by Robert Siodmak
        Desperate (1947 Film) by Anthony Mann
        The Street with No Name (1948 Film) by William Keighley
        Road House (1948 Film) by Jean Negulesco
        Follow Me Quietly (1949 Film) by Richard Fleischer
        Caught (1949 Film) by Max Ophuls
        Gun Crazy (1949 Film) by Joseph H. Lewis
        Panic in the Streets (1950 Film) by Elia Kazan
        Underworld Story (1950 Film) by Cyril Endfield
        Try and Get Me (1951 Film) by Cyril Endfield
        The Narrow Margin (1952 Film) by Richard Fleischer
        On Dangerous Ground (1952 Film) by Nicholas Ray
        Pickup on South Street (1953 Film) by Samuel Fuller
        Human Desire (1954 Film) by Fritz Lang
        Kiss Me Deadly (1955 Film) by Robert Aldrich
      14. [+]
        The Case of Dr. Gallo by Michael Specter, pp. 49-52 - 1 Review
        Virus Hunting by Robert Gallo, M.D.
      15. [+]
        Critics at the Top by Denis Donoghue, pp. 53-56 - 4 Reviews
        Selected Writings, 1950-1990 by Irving Howe
        Minor Prophecies by Geoffrey Hartman
        The Uses of Error by Frank Kermode
        Versions of Pygmalion by J. Hillis Miller
      16. A Little Mozart Tour by Robert Craft, pp. 57-58
      17. Can Saddam Survive? by Michael Massing, pp. 59-64
      18. Letters by Charles Fried, Ronald Dworkin, and David Hamilton, ..., pp. 65-68
      19. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      September 26, 1991 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        Cautionary Tales by Gabriele Annan, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels by Nina Berberova
      2. The Anatomy of Collapse by Roderick MacFarquhar, pp. 5-8
      3. [+]
        Wind from the Prairie by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 9-16 - 5 Reviews
        Carl Sandburg: A Biography by Penelope Niven
        Vachel Lindsay by Edgar Lee Masters
        Lincoln, the Man by Edgar Lee Masters
        The West-Going Heart by Eleanor Ruggles
        The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay
      4. The Espionage Lesson by Norman Mailer, pp. 17-21
      5. The August Revolution by Martin Malia, pp. 22-28
      6. [+]
        Relics by John Banville, pp. 29-30 - 1 Review
        Two Lives by William Trevor
      7. [+]
        African Americans & African Africans by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 31-39 - 3 Reviews
        Martin and Malcolm and America by James H. Cone
        The Unbreakable Thread by Julie Frederikse
        How Can Man Die Better... by Benjamin Pogrund
      8. [+]
        Samurai of Sweat by Ian Buruma, pp. 40-42 - 1 Review
        Slugging It Out in Japan by Warren Cromartie and Robert Whiting
      9. [+]
        Casualty of the Cold War by Ronald Steel, pp. 43-49 - 1 Review
        The Polk Conspiracy by Kati Marton
      10. [+]
        In Search of the Arab Soul by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 50-55 - 1 Review
        A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
      11. Seven Days That Shook the World by Jamey Gambrell, pp. 56-60
      12. [+]
        King of the Quantum by Jeremy Bernstein, pp. 61-63 - 1 Review
        Niels Bohr's Times by Abraham Pais
      13. [+]
        Presidential Wars by Theodore Draper, pp. 64-73 - 2 Reviews
        Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Foreign Affairs by Louis Henkin
        Constitutional Diplomacy by Michael J. Glennon
      14. 'Illiberal Education' by John Hope Franklin, George M. Fredrickson, and Jon Weiner, ..., pp. 74-76
      15. Letters by Ruth Mellinkoff, Willibald Sauerlander, and Pat Lally, ..., pp. 77-80
      16. Cover Drawing by David Levine
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1991 = 6 Issues, 95 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 10, 1991 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        What the Jameses knew by Stuart Hampshire, pp. 3-6 - 4 Reviews
        The Jameses: A Family Narrative by R.W.B. Lewis
        Henry James and Revision by Philip Horne
        Meaning in Henry James by Millicent Bell
        The Sweetest Impression of Life by James W. Tuttleton and Agostino Lombardo
      2. [+]
        On Sakharov's Memoirs by Elena Bonner, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Memoirs by Andrei D. Sakharov
      3. Two Poems from Tristia by Osip Mandelstam, pp. 8-9
      4. The World After Columbus by J.H. Elliott, pp. 10-14
      5. The Art of 'Call It Sleep' by Alfred Kazin, pp. 15-18
      6. [+]
        When It's Rational to be Irrational by Alan Ryan, pp. 19-22 - 3 Reviews
        The Cement of Society by Jon Elster
        Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster
        Solomonic Judgements by Jon Elster
      7. [+]
        Law & Disorder in Los Angeles by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 23-28 - 1 Review
        Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department by Warren Christopher
      8. [+]
        Darwinian Psychobiography by Frank J. Sulloway, pp. 29-32 - 1 Review
        Charles Darwin: A New Life by John Bowlby
      9. [+]
        Good Intentions by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 33-34 - 2 Reviews
        Mating by Norman Rush
        Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
      10. [+]
        The South Against Itself by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, pp. 35-39 - 1 Review
        The Road to Disunion, Vol. I by William W. Freehling
      11. [+]
        Down & Out in Paris & London by A. Alvarez, pp. 40-43 - 1 Review
        Jean Rhys: Life and Work by Carole Angier
      12. [+]
        Reconsidering Vietnam by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 44-51 - 9 Reviews
        Vietnam
        The Vietnam Reader by Walter Capps
        The Dynamics of Defeat by Eric M. Bergerud
        Strange Ground by Harry Maurer
        The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 by Marilyn Blatt Young
        War by Other Means by Carlyle A. Thayer
        Vietnam at War by Phillip B. Davidson
        Romancing Vietnam by Justin Wintle
        Remembering Heaven's Face by John Balaban
      13. 'The Best Man' by Murray Kempton, p. 52
      14. Apes and Us by H.S. Terrace, Philip Lieberman, and Vernon Reynolds, ..., p. 53
      15. Letters by Endymion Wilkinson, James Fallows, and Howard M. Ziff, ..., pp. 54-56
    2. [+]
      October 24, 1991 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        Closing the Goethe Gap by Richard Holmes, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Vol. I by Nicholas Boyle
      2. Lifting the Silent Depression by Robert Heilbroner, pp. 6-9
      3. [+]
        Venice Out of Season by Richard Dorment, pp. 10-13 - 2 Reviews
        The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent by Hugh Honour and John Fleming
        James Abbott McNeill Whistler by Gordon H. Fleming
      4. [+]
        Playing the Racial Card by Andrew Hacker, pp. 14-18 - 4 Reviews
        Chain Reaction by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall
        The Urban Underclass by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson
        Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby by Stephen L. Carter
        The Disuniting of America by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
      5. Let the East Europeans In! by Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Mertes, and Dominique Moisi, ..., p. 19
      6. [+]
        The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Michael Wood, pp. 20-22 - 2 Reviews
        The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
        The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago
      7. Showdown by Arthur Hertzberg, pp. 23-24
      8. [+]
        The New Psychology of Women by Phyllis Grosskurth, pp. 25-32 - 9 Reviews
        Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900 by Hannah S. Decker
        Freud on Women by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
        The Reproduction of Mothering by Nancy Chodorow
        In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan
        Making Connections by Carol Gilligan, Nona P. Lyons, and Trudy J. Hanmer, ...
        Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory by Nancy Chodorow
        Thinking Fragments by Jane Flax
        The Bonds of Love by Jessica Benjamin
        The Spectral Mother by Madelon Sprengnether
      9. [+]
        An Enlightened Revolution? by Robert Darnton, pp. 33-36 - 2 Reviews
        The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution by Roger Chartier
        Inventing the French Revolution by Keith Michael Baker
      10. [+]
        Believe It or Not by Robert Towers, pp. 37-46 - 1 Review
        The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard
      11. [+]
        The H and Q of Baseball by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 47-51 - 4 Reviews
        A Whole Different Ball Game by Marvin Miller
        Ted Williams by Dick Johnson and Glenn Stout
        My Favorite Summer, 1956 by Mickey Mantle and Phil Pepe
        The Home Run Heard 'Round the World by Ray Robinson
      12. [+]
        From Rebel to Bureaucrat by Irving Howe, pp. 52-55 - 1 Review
        Labor Will Rule by Steven Fraser
      13. [+]
        Bali H'ai by Robert Craft, pp. 56-59 - 2 Reviews
        Colin McPhee by Carol J. Oja
        A House in Bali by Colin McPhee
      14. Slovenia and Its Poet by Michael Scammell, p. 60
      15. Four Poems by Edvard Kochek, p. 61
      16. [+]
        Law and Disorder in LA by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 62-70 - 1 Review
        Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department by Warren Christopher
      17. Keeping the East Europeans Out by William Pfaff, p. 71
      18. Letters by Barbara H. Chasin, Richard W. Franke, and Amartya Sen, ..., pp. 72-76
      19. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      November 7, 1991 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        Do-Gooders by Alan Ryan, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review
        Poverty and Compassion by Gertrude Himmelfarb
      2. [+]
        In Which We Serve by John Bayley, pp. 7-9 - 14 Reviews
        Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
        Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
        HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
        The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
        Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian
        The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian
        The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian
        The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian
        Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian
        The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian
        The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brian
        The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian
        The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
        The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
      3. [+]
        How Noble Was Robert E. Lee? by James McPherson, pp. 10-14 - 3 Reviews
        Lee Considered by Alan T. Nolan
        Let Us Have Peace by Brooks D. Simpson
        The Destructive War by Charles Royster
      4. Inside the PLO by Scott MacLeod, pp. 15-19
      5. [+]
        The Enigma of Georges Seurat by Jack Flam, pp. 20-26 - 4 Reviews
        Georges Seurat: 1859-1891 by Robert L. Herbert and Georges Seurat
        Seurat by Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat
        Seurat at Gravelines by Ellen Wardwell Lee
        Paul Signac and Color in Neo-Impressionism by Floyd Ratliff
      6. The Second-Best Bed by E.A.J. Honigmann, pp. 27-30
      7. [+]
        The Big Apfel by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 31-37 - 8 Reviews
        German Encounters with Modernity by Katherine Roper
        Berlin: Culture and Metropolis by Charles W. Haxthausen and Suhr Heidrum
        Berlin: The Politics of Order, 1737-1989 by Alan Balfour
        Battleground Berlin by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
        Berlin Before the Wall by Hsi-Huey Liang
        Up Against It by Leland Rice
        Berlin Journal, 1989-1990 by Robert Darnton
        After the Wall by John Borneman
      8. [+]
        Idealists Against the Jews by Anthony Quinton, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany from Kant to Wagner by Paul Lawrence Rose
      9. Justice for Clarence Thomas by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 41-45
      10. [+]
        The Romance with Mexico by James Fallows, pp. 46-50 - 5 Reviews
        The New North American Order by Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr., Robert B. Cohen, and Peter A. Morici, ...
        Low-Wage Challenge to Global Growth by Walter Russell Mead
        U.S. Jobs and the Mexico Trade Proposal by Jeff Faux and William Spriggs
        Fast Track, Fast Shuffle by Jeff Faux and Richard Rothstein
        The End of Laissez-Faire by Robert Kuttner
      11. [+]
        Tricks of Memory by Robert O. Paxton, p. 51 - 1 Review
        The Vichy Syndrome by Henry Rousso
      12. The Back of the Bus by Murray Kempton, p. 52
      13. [+]
        The End of the Empire by Peter Reddaway, pp. 53-59 - 11 Reviews
        The Awakening of the Soviet Union by Geoffrey Hosking
        The USSR's Emerging Multiparty System by Vera Tolz
        Glasnost in Jeopardy
        Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson
        Why Gorbachev Happened by Robert G. Kaiser
        Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform by Anders Aslund
        What Went Wrong with Perestroika by Marshall I. Goldman
        Steeltown, USSR by Stephen Kotkin
        Comrade Lawyer by Robert Rand
        Gorbachev, Glasnost and the Gospel by Michael Bourdeaux
        Inside the KGB by Vladimir Kuzichkin
      14. Letters by James C. Thomson, Jr., Jonathan Mirsky, and Marvin M. Miller, ..., pp. 60-64
      15. Cover drawings by Georges Seurat and David Levine
    4. [+]
      November 21, 1991 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        A Good Minestrone by Robert M. Adams, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey
      2. The New Domestic Order? by Felix Rohatyn, pp. 6-11
      3. [+]
        Man of the Year by Garry Wills, pp. 12-18 - 12 Reviews
        Circa 1492 by Jay A. Levenson
        The Worlds of Christopher Columbus by William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips, ...
        Renaissance Characters by Eugenio Garin
        In Search of Columbus by David P. Henige
        The Libro de Las Profecias of Christopher Columbus by Delno C. West and August Kling
        Columbus by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
        Inventing the Flat Earth by Jeffrey Burton Russell
        1492~~Fourteen Ninety-Two by Jacques Attali
        Out of Italy by Fernand Braudel
        Marvelous Possessions by Stephen Greenblatt
        Columbus: The Great Adventure by Paolo Emilio Taviani
        Why Mona Lisa Smiles by Paul Barolsky
      4. Two Concepts of Nationalism by Isaiah Berlin and Nathan Gardels, pp. 19-22
      5. An Appeal from Croatia by Andrej Smrekart and Stane Bernik, p. 23
      6. [+]
        Folie a Trois by Noel Annan, pp. 24-26 - 1 Review
        Politics, Religion and Love by Naomi B. Levine
      7. [+]
        Winners by John Banville, pp. 27-29 - 3 Reviews
        Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
        Playing the Game by Ian Buruma
        Asya by Michael Ignatieff
      8. In the New Republics by Michael Ignatieff, pp. 30-32
      9. Instruction by Tomas Venclova, p. 33
      10. [+]
        Through the Keyhole by David Cannadine, pp. 34-38 - 1 Review
        A History of Private Life, Vol. IV by Michelle Perrot
      11. [+]
        The Politics of Deconstruction by Louis Menand, pp. 39-44 - 1 Review
        Signs of the Times by David Lehman
      12. [+]
        Creations of the Dark by Lord Zuckerman, pp. 45-49 - 3 Reviews
        Circular Evidence by Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews
        Crop Circles by Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews
        The Crop Circle Enigma by Ralph Noyes
      13. [+]
        Mapping the Air by Helen Vendler, pp. 50-55 - 2 Reviews
        An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich
        Region of Unlikeness by Jorie Graham
      14. 'Presidential Wars' by David B. Rivkin, J.r, Lee A. Casey, and Theodore Draper, ..., p. 56
      15. Letters by Hilary Masters, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Irving Howe, ..., pp. 57-60
    5. [+]
      December 5, 1991 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Melancholy Prince by Gabriele Annan, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        The Last Leopard by David Gilmour
      2. [+]
        The Return of LBJ by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 6-11 - 2 Reviews
        Lone Star Rising by Robert Dallek
        The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
      3. [+]
        In the Jungle of the Infinite by Ian Stewart, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review
        The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
      4. Snow Jobs by James Merrill, p. 15
      5. [+]
        The Empire of Joseph Roth by Nadine Gordimer, pp. 16-21 - 7 Reviews
        The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
        Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth
        The Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father by Joseph Roth
        The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth
        Flight Without End by Joseph Roth
        The Silent Prophet by Joseph Roth
        Right and Left and the Legend of the Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
      6. [+]
        How to Stop Hunger by Robert M. Solow, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review
        Hunger and Public Action by Jean Dreze and Amartya K. Sen
      7. [+]
        Getting to Know You by John Bayley, pp. 25-26 - 1 Review
        Talking It Over by Julian Barnes
      8. [+]
        How Jewish Was Freud? by William McGrath, pp. 27-31 - 2 Reviews
        Freud and Moses by Emanuel Rice
        Freud's Moses by Yosef Yerushalmi
      9. [+]
        Against the Japanese Grain by Ian Buruma, pp. 32-36 - 1 Review
        In the Realm of a Dying Emperor by Norma Field
      10. [+]
        In Search of Islam's Past by Bernard Lewis, pp. 37-40 - 1 Review
        Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry by R. Stephen Humphreys
      11. [+]
        Armageddon Now? by Wilfrid Sheed, pp. 41-48 - 1 Review
        Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer
      12. Home by Vaclav Havel, p. 49
      13. [+]
        Twin Peaks by Derek Jarrett, pp. 50-52 - 1 Review
        The Battle of the Books by Joseph M. Levine
      14. [+]
        Sex and the Devil by John Weightman, pp. 53-55 - 4 Reviews
        South by Julian Green
        The Distant Lands by Julian Green
        Paris by Julian Green
        Adrienne Mesurat by Julian Green
      15. The New Bibliotheque by Roger Chartier and Patrice Higonnet, p. 56
      16. Letters by Joanna Clark, Alfred Kazin, and Marie-Claire Bergere, ..., pp. 57-60
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    6. [+]
      December 19, 1991 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        Was Giordano Bruno a Mole? by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-8 - 1 Review
        Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy
      2. [+]
        Ghosts of Pearl Harbor by Ian Buruma, pp. 9-14 - 5 Reviews
        Visions of Infamy by William H. Honan
        Pearl Harbor Ghosts by Thurston Clarke
        A Time for War by Robert Smith Thompson
        An Enemy Among Friends by Kiyoaki Murata
        Betrayal at Pearl Harbor by James Rusbridger and Eric Nave
      3. [+]
        Lautrec's Bitter Theater by Richard Dorment, pp. 15-19 - 4 Reviews
        The Letters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Herbert D. Schimmel and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ...
        Toulouse-Lautrec by Richard Thomson
        Toulouse-Lautrec by Gale B. Murray
        The Nightlife of Paris by Patrick O'Connor
      4. [+]
        A Two-State Solution? by Lee H. Hamilton, pp. 20-23 - 1 Review
        No Trumpets, No Drums by Mark A. Heller and Sari Nusseibeh
      5. [+]
        Look Away, Dixie Land by Patricia Storace, pp. 24-37 - 2 Reviews
        Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell by Darden Asbury Pyron
        Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley
      6. [+]
        The Betrayal of the Contras by Michael Massing, pp. 38-45 - 1 Review
        Commandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels by Sam Dillon
      7. [+]
        The Umbrella, the Night World, and the Lonely Moon by Milan Kundera, pp. 46-50 - 4 Reviews
        Chronique des Sept Miseres by Patrick Chamoiseau
        Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau
        Eros Dans un Train Chinois by Rene Depestre
        Hadriana dans Tous Mes Reves by Rene Depestre
      8. [+]
        Radical, Conventional Mozart by Charles Rosen, pp. 51-58 - 3 Reviews
        Mozart Speaks by Robert L. Marshall
        Autonomy and Mercy by Ivan Nagel
        Mozart's Operas by Daniel Heartz
      9. [+]
        The Floating Operetta by Robert M. Adams, pp. 59-60 - 1 Review
        Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert Pirsig
      10. The Myth of Jerusalem by Avishai Margalit, pp. 61-66
      11. [+]
        Women in Retreat by Benedetta Craveri, pp. 67-71 - 1 Review
        Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King
      12. [+]
        Dead Souls by David Remnick, pp. 72-81 - 12 Reviews
        Katyn by Allen Paul
        The August Coup by Mikhail Gorbachev
        Gorbachev by Gerd Ruge
        Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin by Yegor K. Ligachev
        The Future Belongs to Freedom by Eduard Shevardnadze
        I Hope by Raisa Gorbachev
        Raisa by Urda Jurgens
        The Second Russian Revolution by Angus Roxburgh
        For a New Russia by Anatoly Sobchak
        Khrushchev on Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev
        Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament by Nikita S. Khrushchev, Edward Crankshaw, and Strobe Talbott, ...
        Moscow Circles by Benedict Erofeev
      13. Letters by E.P. Thompson, David Cannadine, and Noam Chomsky, ..., pp. 82-84
      14. Cover Drawing by David Levine
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
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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
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles