New York Review Books

Book Reviews

• **The Case of Comrade Tulayev (Victor Serge)
  - the outstanding novel of Stalin's purges
• Chinese Poetic Writing (François Cheng, Jerome P. Seaton)
  With an Anthology of Tang Poetry
• Chinese Rhyme-Prose (Burton Watson)
  Poems in the Fu Form from the Han and Six Dynasties Periods
• It Ain't Necessarily So (Richard Lewontin)
  The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
• Jenny Linsky and the Cat Club (Esther Averill)
  - stories about a little black cat who lives in New York
• *A Little Primer of Tu Fu (David Hawkes)
  - an introduction to classical Chinese poetry
• Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)
  - novellas about women in 1930s Hong Kong and Shanghai
• Mirage: An Anonymous Novel (Patrick Hanan)
  - a Chinese novel from 1804
• Niki: The Story of a Dog (Tibor Déry)
  - a family and a dog in post-war Hungary
• On the Abolition of All Political Parties (Simone Weil)
  - and Milosz on "The Importance of Simone Weil"