Winter 1990 Issue, THE PARTISAN REVIEW

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Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 40 Issues, 1,206 Articles
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  1. [+]
    Winter 1990 Issue = 36 Articles
    1. "The Liberal Conspiracy" by William Phillips, pp. 7-13
    2. Mary McCarthy: 1912-1989 by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 14-15
    3. Without Regrets by Raymond Aron, pp. 16-37
    4. The Freudians by Edith Kurzweil, pp. 38-47
    5. The Modern Gadfly by Tsvetan Todorov, pp. 48-54
    6. The Eye of Providence by Gustaw Herling, pp. 55-68
    7. Proust's "Mysterious Laws of Thought" by Roger Shattuck, pp. 69-79
    8. The Dark Side of July 14th by Susan Dunn, pp. 80-88
    9. Germany: Remembrance of Things Past by Stanley Kauffmann, pp. 89-96
    10. Poetry by Adam Zagajewski, pp. 97-98
    11. Everything by Mary Oliver, p. 99
    12. 162 by Simon Perchik, p. 100
    13. Reconstruction by David Weiss, p. 101
    14. Recovering the Commonplace by Jeanne Walker, p. 102
    15. Turkey Vultures by Alan Shapiro, p. 103
    16. Patriot Without Parole by Anthony Robbins, p. 104
    17. To His Subject Matter by A.F. Moritz, p. 104
    18. The Diva's First Song (White Hotel, London) by Karl Kirchwey, pp. 105-106
    19. Switch by John R. Reed, p. 107
    20. Polonius Revisited by Laurel Trivelpiece, p. 107
    21. The Fans by Emery George, p. 108
    22. The Self Talks to the Self by Nadya Aisenberg, p. 109
    23. Jellyfish by David Solway, pp. 110-111
    24. Berlin by Alan Shaw, p. 112
    25. Five Rumi Quatrains by Andrew Harvey, p. 113
    26. The Polish Spring by Jeffrey Herf, pp. 114-125
    27. At the Galleries by Karen Wilkin, pp. 126-135
    28. Salvador Dali by Jed Perl, pp. 136-140
    29. [+]
      Four Polish Poets by Stanislaw Baranczak, pp. 141-144 - 2 Reviews
      1. To Urania by Joseph Brodsky
      2. An Age Ago by Alan Myers
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      3 Reviews Happy as a Dog's Tail, by Anna Swir by Madeline Levine, pp. 145-149 - 3 Reviews
      1. Happy as a Dog's Tail by Anna Swir
      2. Tremor: Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski
      3. Unattainable Earth by Czeslaw Milosz
    31. [+]
      Empson's Ragbag by George Watson, pp. 150-154 - 1 Review
      1. Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture by William Empson and John Haffenden
    32. [+]
      Wilbur's Gifts by J.D. McClatchy, pp. 155-159 - 1 Review
      1. New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
    33. [+]
      Beyond Minimalism by Richard Burgin, pp. 160-162 - 3 Reviews
      1. Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
      2. Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin
      3. Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
    34. [+]
      Rousseau's Quest by Perry Meisel, pp. 163-164 - 1 Review
      1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction by Jean Starobinski
    35. [+]
      Through the Looking Glass by Peter Filkins, pp. 165-168 - 1 Review
      1. Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil
    36. Letters, pp. 169-178
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    Spring 1990 Issue = 36 Articles
    1. Comment by William Phillips, pp. 177-180
    2. Feminism and Politics by Jean Bethke Elshtain, pp. 181-192
    3. The Culture of Soviet Anti-Semitism by Boris Paramonov, pp. 193-201
    4. An Interview with Derek Walcott by David Montenegro, pp. 202-214
    5. Liberals and Communitarians by Amitai Etzioni, pp. 215-227
    6. Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust by Andrej Bryk, pp. 228-238
    7. Slow Flying by Mary Alice Ayers, pp. 239-242
    8. Apam (My Father) by Katherine Janowitz, pp. 243-246
    9. Reliving the Sixties by Jeffrey Herf, pp. 247-254
    10. A Wilde for Our Time by Louis Menand, pp. 255-263
    11. Poetry by Derek Walcott, pp. 264-265
    12. Inverkirkaig by Anne Stevenson, p. 266
    13. Epistle to the Angry Ones by Tomaz Salamun, p. 267
    14. Mr. Dobson & the After-Life of Carnations by Wong May, pp. 267-268
    15. A Vague Ode by Miklos Radnoti, p. 269
    16. Song of Sleeplessness by Francisco Brines, p. 270
    17. Three Poems by Miguel Hernandez, pp. 270-271
    18. Chamber Music by William Logan, p. 272
    19. The Misunderstanding of Nature by Sophie Cabot Black, pp. 272-273
    20. Under a Crown of Thorns, Some Questions Arise About Genesis I:27 by Philip Appleman, p. 274
    21. The Thinking Between Two Waves by Daniel Wolff, p. 275
    22. Mandelstam in Armenia, 1930 by Peter Balakian, p. 276
    23. Goethe at Naples by K.E. Duffin, pp. 277-278
    24. The Pivotal Kingdom by Alice Fulton, pp. 279-280
    25. Epistles to the Hebrews by David Twersky, pp. 281-288
    26. Picasso, Braque, and Rubin by Deborah Solomon, pp. 289-293
    27. From a Polish Writer in New Haven by Marcin Krol, pp. 294-297
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      Uncommon Readers and Common Sense by William Phillips, pp. 298-301 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age by Robert Alter
      2. The Ethics of Reading by J. Hillis Miller
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      The Holocaust in the Academy by Edith Kurzweil, pp. 302-305 - 2 Reviews
      1. Unanswered Questions by Francois Furet
      2. Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? by Arno J. Mayer
    30. [+]
      The Making of an Historian by Lionel Abel, pp. 306-308 - 1 Review
      1. From That Place and Time by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
    31. [+]
      Rethinking the Revolution by Ernest Gellner, pp. 309-311 - 1 Review
      1. The French Revolution by J.F. Bosher
    32. [+]
      Such Were the Joys by Morris Dickstein, pp. 312-316 - 1 Review
      1. New York by Leonard Wallock
    33. [+]
      Cultural Hierarchies by Sven Birkerts, pp. 317-320 - 1 Review
      1. Highbrow/Lowbrow by Lawrence W. Levine
    34. [+]
      A Conversion by David Lehman, pp. 321-325 - 1 Review
      1. Lovesong: Becoming a Jew by Julius Lester
    35. [+]
      The Art of Painting by Richard Shiff, pp. 326-329 - 1 Review
      1. Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim
    36. Letters, pp. 330-332
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    Summer 1990 Issue = 40 Articles
    1. Plus ca change... by William Phillips, pp. 337-338
    2. Russophobia by Andrei Sinyavsky, pp. 339-344
    3. The French Revolution and the Language of Terror by Susan Dunn, pp. 345-353
    4. Reinventing the Revolution by Steven Marcus, pp. 354-362
    5. Delmore Schwartz and Purgatory by Raymond J. Wilson, pp. 363-370
    6. Letter from Paris by H.J. Kaplan, pp. 371-377
    7. Chilean Writing after the Coup by Jorge Edwards, pp. 378-384
    8. The Fate of Hafsa's Poems by Christopher Middleton, pp. 385-393
    9. The Hair by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 394-406
    10. Truffaut's Notes by Robert Julian, pp. 407-413
    11. The Pleasures of Its Being Over by George Edwards, pp. 414-422
    12. God's Hat by Peter Esterhazy, pp. 423-427
    13. Poetry by James Dickey, p. 428
    14. We Did What Was Expected of Us by Yehuda Amichai, p. 429
    15. Let a Man... by Priscilla Sneff, p. 430
    16. Anniversary by Alfonso Gatto, p. 431
    17. Gift Shops in Pecs by Len Roberts, pp. 431-432
    18. "Who Is She..." by David St. John, p. 433
    19. Manifest by Sydney Lea, pp. 433-434
    20. Is It Modest? by Kay Ryan, p. 435
    21. Rooftop by Nicholas Christopher, p. 435
    22. Amor Fati: Because We Own Nothing by Bruce Smith, p. 436
    23. I'm in Uniform by Harold Schimmel, p. 437
    24. Natural History by Nadya Aisenberg, p. 438
    25. George Santayana Revisited by Don Share, p. 439
    26. The Evening Show by Robert Richman, p. 440
    27. Great Stone Face by George Bradley, p. 441
    28. What Bloodcells Understand by Ben La Farge, p. 442
    29. Jamaica by Angela Ball, pp. 442-443
    30. Advanced Research by Robert B. Shaw, p. 444
    31. Afternoon in Automobile by Jorge Teillier, p. 445
    32. At the Galleries by Karen Wilkin, pp. 446-455
    33. On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst by Marianna Torgovnick, pp. 456-466
    34. [+]
      The Art of Kundera by William Phillips, pp. 467-470 - 1 Review
      1. The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
    35. [+]
      Brodkey on Love by Barbara Probst Solomon, pp. 471-473 - 1 Review
      1. Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey
    36. [+]
      Trilling in the Tradition by Lewis P. Simpson, pp. 474-482 - 2 Reviews
      1. Lionel Trilling by Stephen L. Tanner
      2. Lionel Trilling by Daniel T. O'Hara
    37. [+]
      Tocqueville's History by Robert Nisbet, pp. 483-485 - 1 Review
      1. Tocqueville: A Biography by Andre Jardin
    38. [+]
      Wittgenstein's Worlds by Newton Garver, pp. 486-488 - 1 Review
      1. Wittgenstein: A Life, Vol. I by Brian McGuinness
    39. [+]
      James Schuyler of New York by George Bradley, pp. 489-492 - 1 Review
      1. Selected Poems by James Schuyler
    40. Letters, pp. 493-498
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    Fall 1990 Issue = 27 Articles
    1. Comment by William Phillips, pp. 503-507
    2. No Third Way by Ralf Dahrendorf, pp. 508-525
    3. An Israeli on Israel by Rikva Bar-Yosef, pp. 526-540
    4. Poland, May 1990, and Beyond by Stanislaw Baranczak, pp. 541-548
    5. The Castle by Edith Kurzweil, pp. 549-553
    6. Postmodernism and Its Discontented by Heather MacDonald, pp. 554-558
    7. The Ceiling by Galway Kinnell, p. 559
    8. In Nicaragua with Nelson "Mandala" and My Diva by Anthony Kerrigan, pp. 560-568
    9. The Overstanding Reader by Northrop Frye, pp. 569-573
    10. In Kafka's House by Leonard Kriegel, pp. 574-583
    11. A Leave of Absence by Louis Simpson, pp. 584-591
    12. Circus in Madrid by Edith Kurzweil, pp. 592-596
    13. At the Galleries by Karen Wilkin, pp. 597-607
    14. [+]
      Going to the Movies: War! by Morris Dickstein, pp. 608-615 - 2 Reviews
      1. Born on the Fourth of July (1989 Film) by Oliver Stone
      2. Henry V (1989 Film) by Kenneth Branagh
    15. The Baroque Equation in Spanish Films by Mary Hivnor, pp. 616-620
    16. Readings in Jerusalem by Michal Govrin, pp. 621-626
    17. Homage to Bettelheim (1903-1990) by David James Fisher, pp. 627-629
    18. [+]
      The Culture of Criticism by William Phillips, pp. 630-633 - 1 Review
      1. American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties by Vincent B. Leitch
    19. [+]
      The Philosopher and the Immigrant by Pearl K. Bell, pp. 634-639 - 2 Reviews
      1. Love in the Promised Land by Mary Dearborn
      2. John and Anzia by Norma Rosen
    20. [+]
      Women as Proletarians by Jean Bethke Elshtain, pp. 640-642 - 1 Review
      1. Soviet Women by Francine du Plessix Gray
    21. [+]
      Extreme Measures by Rosanna Warren, pp. 643-649 - 3 Reviews
      1. Harp Lake by John Hollander
      2. No Traveller by Richard Howard
      3. The Inner Room by James Merrill
    22. [+]
      Tradition and Poetry by Cleanth Brooks, pp. 650-655 - 2 Reviews
      1. To Scorch or Freeze by Donald Davie
      2. Collected Poems by Geoffrey Hill
    23. [+]
      The Periphery and the Center by Rachel Hadas, pp. 656-664 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
      2. Becoming a Poet by David Kalstone and Robert Hemenway
      3. Real Presences by George Steiner
      4. New and Selected Essays by Robert Penn Warren
    24. [+]
      Ashbery's Muse by Stephen Yenser, pp. 665-667 - 1 Review
      1. April Galleons by John Ashbery
    25. [+]
      Polymorphic Visions by Rachel Jacoff, pp. 668-670 - 1 Review
      1. Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
    26. Letters, pp. 671-673
    27. Index, pp. 674-690
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