Table of Contents
Volume 33, Number 3 · February 27, 1986
Robert O. Paxton, The Lesson of the Dreyfus Case
The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin
Neal Ascherson, No Place for Them
The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century by Michael R. Marrus
Stephen Jay Gould, A Triumph of Historical Excavation
The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists by Martin J.S. Rudwick
D.J. Enright, Worlds of Wonder
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
Jeri Laber, A New Turn in Turkey
Ian Hacking, Science Turned Upside Down
Revolution in Science by I. Bernard Cohen
Eugenio Montale, The Lemon Trees
(poem)
Peter Singer, Unspeakable Acts
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry
Torture by Edward Peters
Jaroslaw Anders, Voice of Exile
The Land of Ulro by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Louis Iribarne
Nathan Gardels, Czeslaw Milosz, An Interview with Czeslaw Milosz
Keith Thomas, Politics as Language
Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century by J.G.A. Pocock
Joseph Brodsky, In a Room and a Half
Letters
Stojan Dobrosavljevic, Istvan Deak, The Writing on the Wall
R.M. Acheson, V.R. Cane, et al. Protest
Francine du Plessix Gray, Gore Vidal, Calling Dr. Kubie
Peers Carter, Help the Afghans
William A. Williams, Michael Walzer, Is Marx Dead?
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)
Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)
D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 19481998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)
Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)
Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)
Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 19791987. (January 1997)
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. (November 2004)
Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (March 2008)
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)