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Genet: A Biography, by Edmund White

by Tony Judt

The New York Review of Books, October 21, 1993, pp. 8-14

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        The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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        Playing the Unplayable by E.A.J. Honigmann, pp. 46-49 - 2 Reviews
        Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy by John Gross
        The Masks of Hamlet by Marvin Rosenberg
      12. The City-Planner Pope by Garry Wills, pp. 50-52
      13. [+]
        Iran-Contra by Theodore Draper, pp. 53-58 - 2 Reviews
        Turmoil and Triumph by George P. Shultz
        With Reagan: The Inside Story by Edwin Meese III
      14. Letters by Barry Willington, Charles Rosen, Fred Davis, and Aileen Kelly, ..., pp. 59-64
      15. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    6. [+]
      June 24, 1993 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Cautionary Tales by Alan Ryan, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs
      2. [+]
        Dream Work by Denis Donoghue, pp. 5-11 - 1 Review
        All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
      3. [+]
        Unjust Desserts by Jonathan Spence, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        The Story of Qiu Ju (1993 Film) by Yimou Zhang
      4. [+]
        The New Nuclear Menance by Lord Zuckerman, pp. 14-19 - 1 Review
        A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World by Joseph Rotblat, Jack Steinberger, and Bhalchandra Udgaonkar, ...
      5. [+]
        Night Mail by John Bayley, pp. 20-22 - 1 Review
        Against Forgetting by Carolyn Forche
      6. War in the Garden by James Fenton, pp. 23-26
      7. [+]
        The Anarch at Twilight by Ian Buruma, pp. 27-31 - 2 Reviews
        Aladdin's Problem by Ernst Junger
        A Dangerous Encounter by Ernst Junger
      8. [+]
        Made in America by Sarah Kerr, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        Latinos: A Biography of the People by Earl Shorris
      9. Poetry About Quantity by Jorge Luis Borges, p. 35
      10. [+]
        The Rediscovery of America by J.H. Elliott, pp. 36-40 - 7 Reviews
        Beyond 1492 by James Axtell
        American Holocaust by David E. Stannard
        1492 and All That~~Fourteen Ninety-Two and All That by Robert Royal
        European Encounters with the New World by Anthony Pagden
        The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber
        The Middle Ground by Richard White
        The Nahuas After the Conquest by James Lockhart
      11. [+]
        The Skull Beneath the Skin by Gabriele Annan, p. 41 - 1 Review
        Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
      12. [+]
        Flowers of Florence by John Pope-Hennessy, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review
        The Portrayal of Love by Charles Dempsey
      13. [+]
        Ancient Hearts on Fire by Jasper Griffin, pp. 45-48 - 2 Reviews
        In and Out of the Mind by Ruth Padel
        Classical and Modern Interactions by Karl Galinsky
      14. [+]
        A Family's Fortune by Murray Kempton, pp. 49-50 - 1 Review
        Undue Influence by David Margolick
      15. [+]
        Is Anti-Semitism Dying Out? by Arthur Hertzberg, pp. 51-57 - 5 Reviews
        Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred by Robert S. Wistrich
        The History of Anti-Semitism by Leon Poliakov
        What do We Know About Black Anti-Semitism? by Jennifer L. Golub
        Attitudes Towards Jews in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia by Renae Cohen and Jennifer L. Golub
        Attitudes Toward Jews in the Soviet Union by Lev Gudkov
      16. A UN Volunteer Military Force by Lee Hamilton, Gareth Evans, and Field-Marshal Lord Carver, ..., pp. 58-59
      17. Letters by Jerrold L. Schecter, Thomas Powers, and Bram Kempers, ..., pp. 60-64
      18. Cover drawing detail by H.W. Wesso
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1993 = 3 Issues, 61 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 15, 1993 Issue = 22 Articles
      1. The Balkan Crisis by George F. Kennan, pp. 3-8
      2. [+]
        Lyrical Historian by Blair Worden, pp. 9-12 - 2 Reviews
        G. M. Trevelyan: A Life In History by David Cannadine
        Return to Essentials by Geoffrey R. Elton
      3. [+]
        The Mystery of Cities by Witold Rybczynski, pp. 13-16 - 3 Reviews
        The City Shaped by Spiro Kostof
        The City Assembled by Spiro Kostof
        Cities without Suburbs by David Rusk
      4. The Complacent Democracies by William Pfaff, p. 17
      5. [+]
        Mussolini's Femme Fatale by Adrian Lyttelton, pp. 18-22 - 1 Review
        Il Duce's Other Woman by Philip V. Cannistraro and Brian R. Sullivan
      6. [+]
        Living in the Shadows by John Banville, pp. 23-24 - 1 Review
        Judge on Trial by Ivan Klima
      7. Art & the Apocalypse by Francis Haskell, pp. 25-29
      8. [+]
        Delusions of the Drug Cops by Michael Massing, pp. 30-33 - 1 Review
        Swordfish by David McClintick
      9. [+]
        Haunted Islands by Edmund Keeley, pp. 34-35 - 1 Review
        Demons and the Devil by Charles Stewart
      10. [+]
        Tales from the Narmada Woods by Gabriele Annan, p. 36 - 1 Review
        A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
      11. [+]
        The Clinton Budget by Benjamin M. Friedman, pp. 37-41 - 1 Review
        A Vision of Change for America by President Bill Clinton
      12. The Dictatorship Returns by Jeri Laber, pp. 42-44
      13. [+]
        Partisan for Life by T.M. Scanlon, pp. 45-51 - 1 Review
        Life's Dominion by Ronald Dworkin
      14. A UN Volunteer Force: The Prospects by Robert Oakley, p. 52
      15. --- by McGeorge Bundy, p. 53
      16. --- by Sadruddin Aga Khan, p. 54
      17. --- by Olusegun Obasanjo, pp. 54-55
      18. --- by Anthony Parsons, p. 56
      19. --- by Marion Donhoff, p. 56
      20. --- by Brian Urquhart, p. 56
      21. Letters by Humphrey Burton, Joseph Horowitz, and Charles Hill, ..., pp. 56-60
      22. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      August 12, 1993 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Comrades by John Bayley, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick
      2. [+]
        The Aesthete by Garry Wills, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello by Susan R. Stein
      3. [+]
        Friend of the Great by Gabriele Annan, pp. 10-11 - 1 Review
        Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir by James Lord
      4. [+]
        The Hill-Thomas Mystery by Kathleen M. Sullivan, pp. 12-17 - 1 Review
        The Real Anita Hill by David Brock
      5. The Godfather of Bihac by Misha Glenny, pp. 18-19
      6. [+]
        Le Carre's New War by David Remnick, pp. 20-23 - 1 Review
        The Night Manager by John le Carre
      7. A Visit with Arafat by Amos Elon, pp. 24-28
      8. [+]
        Weeping Tears of Nostalgia by Ian Buruma, pp. 29-30 - 1 Review
        Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
      9. [+]
        Betrayal in France by Tony Judt, pp. 31-34 - 1 Review
        The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews by Susan Zuccotti
      10. [+]
        Art and 'Accuracy' by Robert L. Herbert, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review
        Beyond Impressionism by Gabriel P. Weisberg
      11. [+]
        A New Cambodia by William Shawcross, pp. 37-40 - 1 Review
        Brother Number One by David P. Chandler
      12. [+]
        Far from Saigon by Robert Towers, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review
        A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
      13. [+]
        Liberalism: The New Twist by Stuart Hampshire, pp. 43-46 - 1 Review
        Political Liberalism by John Rawls
      14. [+]
        Caves of the Vatican by Xavier Rynne, pp. 47-50 - 3 Reviews
        Paul VI: The First Modern Pope by Peter Hebblethwaite
        Memories and Hopes by Leon-Joseph Cardinal Suenens
        My Witness for the Church by Bernard Haring
      15. [+]
        Dinomania by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 51-55 - 3 Reviews
        Jurassic Park (1993 Film) by Steven Spielberg
        The Making of Jurassic Park by Don Shay and Jody Duncan
        Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
      16. An Exchange on Hogarth by Ronald Paulson and Richard Dorment, p. 56
      17. Letters by Ivo Banac, Bojan Bojic, Vesna Domany Hardy, and Branka Magas, ..., pp. 57-60
      18. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      September 23, 1993 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. [+]
        Living Others' Deaths by Garry Wills, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean
      2. [+]
        The Human Comedy of the Divine Marquis by John Weightman, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        Sade: A Biography by Maurice Lever
      3. A Waltz Dream by John Ashbery, pp. 10-11
      4. [+]
        Solitary Enigma by John Terborgh, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review
        The Last Panda by George B. Schaller
      5. [+]
        The Chinese Miracle? by Jonathan Spence, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        China's Environmental Crisis by Vaclav Smil
      6. [+]
        Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You! by Robert Stone, pp. 18-23 - 1 Review
        Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts
      7. [+]
        'The Evil of This Time' by Robert Conquest, pp. 24-27 - 1 Review
        This I Cannot Forget by Anna Larina
      8. [+]
        Double Indemnity by Hilary Mantel, pp. 28-29 - 1 Review
        In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
      9. [+]
        Pioneer by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 30-33 - 3 Reviews
        Race and History by John Hope Franklin
        The Color Line by John Hope Franklin
        The Facts of Reconstruction by Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss, Jr.
      10. [+]
        Shultz's Revenge by Ronald Steel, pp. 34-38 - 1 Review
        Turmoil and Triumph by George P. Shultz
      11. [+]
        How Mexican Is It? by Diane Johnson, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review
        Eclipse Fever by Walter Abish
      12. [+]
        Unlikely Hero by Paul Wilson, pp. 41-45 - 1 Review
        Hope Dies Last by Alexander Dubcek
      13. [+]
        Putting Saddam Hussein on Trial by Aryeh Neier, pp. 46-49 - 1 Review
        Crimes Against Humanity and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy
      14. [+]
        That Old Time Religion by Maurice Keen, pp. 50-51 - 1 Review
        The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Duffy
      15. [+]
        Reasons of the Heart by Alan Ryan, pp. 52-55 - 1 Review
        The Moral Sense by James Q. Wilson
      16. The New Romania by David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman, pp. 56-57
      17. [+]
        The Heroism of Despair by Denis Donoghue, pp. 58-64 - 4 Reviews
        The Selected Letters of Henry Adams by Ernest Samuels and Henry Adams
        Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams by Joanne Jacobson
        The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams, 1877-1914 by George Monteiro, Henry James, and Henry Adams
        Refinements of Love by Sarah Booth Conroy
      18. The Bosnian Case by Kasim Trnka, p. 65
      19. 'The Fifth Freedom' by Morton Mintz and M.F. Perutz, p. 66
      20. Letters by Joel Carmichael, Arthur Hertzberg, and Gordon Brady, ..., pp. 67-72
      21. Cover illustration by Nast
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1993 = 6 Issues, 99 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 7, 1993 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. The Politics of Memory by Amos Elon, pp. 3-5
      2. Clinton, So Far by Thomas Byrne Edsall, pp. 6-9
      3. [+]
        The Furtwangler Enigma by Robert Craft, pp. 10-13 - 2 Reviews
        The Devil's Music Master by Sam H. Shirakawa
        Trial of Strength by Fred K. Prieberg
      4. Daedalus in Sicily by Joseph Brodsky, p. 14
      5. Bosnia and Beyond by George Soros, pp. 15-16
      6. [+]
        'An Intellectual Bumblebee' by M.F. Perutz, pp. 17-20 - 1 Review
        Genius in the Shadows by William Lanouette and Bela Silard
      7. [+]
        'Diversity' and Its Dangers by Andrew Hacker, pp. 21-25 - 6 Reviews
        A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki
        American Apartheid by Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton
        Raising Black Children by James P. Comer and Alvin F. Poussaint
        Lure and Loathing by Gerald Early
        Race Matters by Cornel West
        The Scar of Race by Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza
      8. [+]
        The Master Builder by Jonathan Brown, pp. 26-27 - 1 Review
        Juan de Herrera: Architect to Philip II of Spain by Catherine Wilkinson Zerner
      9. [+]
        Never Call a Boy a Pig by Julian Moynahan, pp. 28-29 - 1 Review
        The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
      10. [+]
        The Hostess with the Mostest by Noel Annan, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review
        Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale by Miranda Seymour
      11. [+]
        In Love with Love by Jasper Griffin, pp. 33-37 - 1 Review
        Love and Friendship by Allan Bloom
      12. A New Ireland? by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 38-42
      13. [+]
        Intimate Enemies by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review
        Islam and the West by Bernard Lewis
      14. [+]
        Misjudgment at Nuremberg by Istvan Deak, pp. 46-52 - 4 Reviews
        The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials by Telford Taylor
        A Crime of Vengeance by Edward Alexander
        Ethics and Airpower in World War II by Stephen A. Garrett
        Remembering in Vain by Alain Finkielkraut
      15. Letters by Joanne Landy, Thomas Harrison, and Jennifer Scarlott, ..., pp. 53-56
      16. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      October 21, 1993 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        Lives of the Saints by William Trevor, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review
        No Other Life by Brian Moore
      2. [+]
        Their Favorite Thief by Tony Judt, pp. 8-14 - 2 Reviews
        Genet: A Biography by Edmund White
        The Selected Writings of Jean Genet by Edmund White and Jean Genet
      3. [+]
        Chicago Underground by Garry Wills, pp. 15-21 - 4 Reviews
        Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon
        Perfect Cities by James Gilbert
        Constructing Chicago by Daniel Bluestone
        A System of Architectural Ornament by Louis H. Sullivan
      4. Achilles, Penthesilea by Zbigniew Herbert, pp. 22-23
      5. [+]
        The Age of Innocence by Tatyana Tolstaya, pp. 24-27 - 1 Review
        Classic Russian Cooking by Joyce Toomre and Elena Molokhovets
      6. [+]
        Joyce's Many Lives by Denis Donoghue, pp. 28-35 - 10 Reviews
        James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882-1915 by Peter Costello
        James Joyce by Morris Beja
        James Joyce's Chamber Music by Myra Teicher Russel and James Joyce
        Picking up Airs by Ruth H. Bauerle
        The Dubliners by James Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler, and Walter Hettche, ...
        A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler, and Walter Hettche, ...
        A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and R.B. Kershner
        A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Seamus Deane
        Ulysses by James Joyce
        Reflections on James Joyce by Thomas F. Staley, Randolph Lewis, and Stuart Gilbert, ...
      7. [+]
        Women and Pornography by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 36-41 - 1 Review
        Only Words by Catharine A. MacKinnon
      8. Cat in an Empty Apartment by Wislawa Szymborska, p. 42
      9. [+]
        The Medium Inquisitor by Robert Hughes, pp. 43-51 - 4 Reviews
        The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. I by Clement Greenberg and John O'Brian
        The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. II by Clement Greenberg and John O'Brian
        The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. III by Clement Greenberg and John O'Brian
        The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. IV by Clement Greenberg and John O'Brian
      10. Godot Comes to Sarajevo by Susan Sontag, pp. 52-59
      11. [+]
        What Art Tells Us by E.H. Gombrich, pp. 60-63 - 1 Review
        History and Its Images by Francis Haskell
      12. The Magus of the North by Isaiah Berlin, pp. 64-71
      13. [+]
        The Miraculous Mandarin by Charles Rosen, pp. 72-77 - 2 Reviews
        Essays on Renaissance Literature, Vol. I by William Empson and John Haffenden
        Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture by William Empson and John Haffenden
      14. [+]
        Nature's Biggest Secret by Roger Penrose, pp. 78-82 - 1 Review
        Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
      15. [+]
        How Europe Became Europe by Eric Christiansen, pp. 83-84 - 1 Review
        The Making of Europe by Robert Bartlett
      16. [+]
        The Golden Land by Joan Didion, pp. 85-94 - 15 Reviews
        The California Water Atlas by William L. Kahrl
        Battling the Inland Sea by Robert Lloyd Kelley
        Northern California, Oregon and the Sandwich Island by Charles Nordhoff
        A Companion to California by James D. Hart
        The Great Central Valley by Stephen Johnson, Gerald Haslam, and Robert Dawson, ...
        Papers in Honour of Josiah Royce on His Sixtieth Birthday by Josiah Royce
        California: A Study of American Character by Josiah Royce
        Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard by Robert V. Hine
        Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr
        California: The Great Exception by Carey McWilliams
        The Octopus by Frank Norris
        The Ranch Papers by Jane Hollister Wheelwright
        Up and Down California, 1860-1864 by William H. Brewer and Francis P. Farquhar
        The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats by G. William Domhoff
        The Greatest Men's Party on Earth by John van der Zee
      17. Memories of Ellington by Murray Kempton, p. 95
      18. Letters by David E. Stannard, J.H. Elliott, and Tony Judt, pp. 95-100
      19. Cover drawing by Edward Gorey
    3. [+]
      November 4, 1993 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        A Night at the Opera by Gabriele Annan, pp. 3-5 - 5 Reviews
        Fast and Loose and the Buccaneers by Edith Wharton and Viola Hopkins Winner
        The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton and Marion Mainwaring
        The Age of Innocence (1993 Film) by Martin Scorsese
        The Age of Innocence by Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks
        The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
      2. [+]
        Terror in Mississippi by David Brion Davis, pp. 6-11 - 3 Reviews
        Tumult and Silence at Second Creek by Winthrop D. Jordan
        Witness for Freedom by C. Peter Ripley, Roy E. Finkenbine, and Michael F. Hembree, ...
        Free at Last by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, and Steven F. Miller, ...
      3. [+]
        Swing Shift in the Baltics by Czeslaw Milosz, pp. 12-16 - 1 Review
        The Baltic Revolution by Anatol Lieven
      4. [+]
        Survival of the Fittest by Nicholson Baker, pp. 17-21 - 1 Review
        Pause and Effect by M.B. Parkes
      5. [+]
        The View from the Keyhole by Keith Thomas, pp. 22-24 - 2 Reviews
        Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England, 1660-1753 by Lawrence Stone
        Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England, 1660-1857 by Lawrence Stone
      6. [+]
        Haiti on the Verge by Mark Danner, pp. 25-30 - 3 Reviews
        Tout Homme Est un Homme by Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Christophe Wargny
        Aristide by Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Christophe Wargny
        In the Parish of the Poor by Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Amy Wilentz
      7. [+]
        'One Life, One Writing' by John Bayley, pp. 31-32 - 2 Reviews
        A Different Person by James Merrill
        Selected Poems: 1946-1985 by James Merrill
      8. [+]
        The Best of Everything by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 33-37 - 2 Reviews
        Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
        Home Repairs by Trey Ellis
      9. Bosnia by Misha Glenny, pp. 38-49
      10. [+]
        The Poet of Chemistry by Oliver Sacks, pp. 50-56 - 1 Review
        Humphry Davy: Science and Power by David M. Knight
      11. [+]
        A Nineteenth-Century Man by Gore Vidal, pp. 57-59 - 1 Review
        The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972 by Edmund Wilson and Lewis M. Dabney
      12. [+]
        Baseball by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 60-65 - 5 Reviews
        My Life as a Fan: A Memoir by Wilfrid Sheed
        Fridays with Red by Bob Edwards
        The Era, 1947-1957 by Roger Kahn
        The Gospel According to Casey by Ira Berkow and Jim Kaplan
        O Holy Cow! by Phil Rizzuto, Hart Seely, and Tom Peyer
      13. [+]
        Prophets With Honor by Avishai Margalit, pp. 66-71 - 5 Reviews
        Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State by Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Eliezer Goldman
        The Letters of Martin Buber by Nahum N. Glatzer, Paul Mendes-Flohr, and Martin Buber, ...
        Encounter on the Narrow Ridge by Maurice S. Friedman
        On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity by Martin Buber and S.N. Eisenstadt
        Scripture and Translation by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig
      14. Letters by Aryeh Neier and Istvan Deak, pp. 72-76
      15. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    4. [+]
      November 18, 1993 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. How Europe Could Fail by Vaclav Havel, p. 3
      2. [+]
        Restoration or Ruination? by Charles Hope, pp. 4-8 - 1 Review
        Art Restoration by James H. Beck and Michael Daley
      3. Killers by Robert Block, pp. 9-11
      4. [+]
        The White Goddess! by Helen Vendler, pp. 12-19 - 4 Reviews
        First Awakenings by Laura Riding Jackson, Elizabeth Friedmann, and Alan J. Clark, ...
        The Word 'Woman' and Other Related Writings by Laura Riding Jackson, Elizabeth Friedmann, and Alan J. Clark, ...
        Four Unposted Letters to Catherine by Laura Riding
        In Extremis by Deborah Baker
      5. [+]
        Soul Food by Ian Buruma, pp. 20-22 - 1 Review
        The Phantom Empire by Geoffrey O'Brien
      6. [+]
        Troublemaker by Alastair Reid, pp. 23-26 - 9 Reviews
        Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
        El Central by Reinaldo Arenas
        The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando by Reinaldo Arenas
        Graveyard of the Angels by Reinaldo Arenas
        Old Rosa by Reinaldo Arenas
        The Doorman by Reinaldo Arenas
        Singing from the Well by Reinaldo Arenas
        The Palace of the White Skunks by Reinaldo Arenas
        Farewell to the Sea by Reinaldo Arenas
      7. [+]
        The Prophet by Mark Danner, pp. 27-36 - 2 Reviews
        Aristide by Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Christophe Wargny
        In the Parish of the Poor by Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Amy Wilentz
      8. [+]
        Love in a Cold Climate by Robert Craft, pp. 37-40 - 2 Reviews
        To My Best Friend by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck, ...
        Tchaikovsky: The Final Years, 1885-1893 by David Brown#2
      9. [+]
        Danger: Thin Ice by Michael Meyer, p. 41 - 1 Review
        Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
      10. [+]
        The Greek Way by Bernard Knox, pp. 42-47 - 1 Review
        Shame and Necessity by Bernard Williams
      11. [+]
        Leave it to Chance by P.N. Furbank, pp. 48-51 - 1 Review
        Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance by Thomas M. Kavanagh
      12. [+]
        Old Wives' Tales by W.V. Harris, pp. 52-54 - 2 Reviews
        Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance by John M. Riddle
        Demography and Roman Society by Tim G. Parkin
      13. [+]
        The Unknown Freud by Frederick Crews, pp. 55-65 - 4 Reviews
        Freud's Russia by James L. Rice
        Father Knows Best by Robin Tolmach Lakoff and James C. Coyne
        Seductive Mirage by Allen Esterson
        A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr
      14. [+]
        Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Veronica Geng, pp. 66-67 - 2 Reviews
        Short Cuts (1993 Film) by Robert Altman
        Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
      15. Letters by James C. O'Flaherty, Isaiah Berlin, and Brian R. Sullivan, ..., pp. 68-72
      16. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    5. [+]
      December 2, 1993 Issue = 13 Articles
      1. [+]
        Resisters by J.M. Coetzee, pp. 3-6 - 2 Reviews
        In No Uncertain Terms by Helen Suzman
        Return to Paradise by Breyten Breytenbach
      2. [+]
        Yes, Minister by Alan Ryan, pp. 7-12 - 1 Review
        The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
      3. [+]
        The Wild Child by Alice Truax, pp. 13-14 - 1 Review
        Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
      4. Weather and Turtles by John Ashbery, p. 15
      5. [+]
        On the Eve by Peter Reddaway, pp. 16-21 - 4 Reviews
        Figures in a Red Landscape by Pilar Bonet
        The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by John B. Dunlop
        The Struggle for Russia by Ruslan Khasbulatov
        The Morphology of Russian Mentality by Vladimir A. Zviglyanich
      6. [+]
        The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review
        City Poet by Brad Gooch
      7. [+]
        Supergirls by Diane Johnson, pp. 25-26 - 1 Review
        Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates
      8. [+]
        Power to the People? by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 27-29 - 1 Review
        The Debate on the Constitution by Bernard Bailyn
      9. [+]
        An American Prodigy by Louis Menand, pp. 30-35 - 1 Review
        Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life by Joseph Brent
      10. [+]
        The Agonies of Success by Jack Flam, pp. 36-39 - 1 Review
        Mark Rothko: A Biography by James E.B. Breslin
      11. [+]
        The Lost Art by Benedetta Craveri, pp. 40-43 - 2 Reviews
        Cartesian Women by Erica Harth
        Watteau's Painted Conversations by Mary Vidal
      12. [+]
        The Fall of the Prophet by Mark Danner, pp. 44-56 - 2 Reviews
        Aristide by Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Christophe Wargny
        In the Parish of the Poor by Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Amy Wilentz
      13. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    6. [+]
      December 16, 1993 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. [+]
        Big, Bright & Bendayed by John Updike, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        Lichenstein by Roy Lichtenstein and Diane Waldman
      2. [+]
        Blame the Foreigner by Robert M. Solow, pp. 7-13 - 1 Review
        The Endangered American Dream by Edward Luttwak
      3. [+]
        Donna Giovanna by Gabriele Annan, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
      4. For Andrew Wood by James Fenton, pp. 16-17
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