Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 5 · March 31, 1988

Adrian Lyttelton, La Forza del Destino

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story by Dan Vittorio Segre, translated by Dan Vittorio Segre

The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival by Susan Zuccotti

Anton Shammas, A Stone's Throw

M.F. Burnyeat, Cracking the Socrates Case

The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone

Robert Craft, Balanchine's Steps

George Balanchine: Ballet Master by Richard Buckle, in collaboration with John Taras

Balletmaster: A Dancer's View of George Balanchine by Moira Shearer

Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland, by Greg Lawrence

Harold Bloom, Literature as the Bible

The Literary Guide to the Bible edited by Robert Alter, edited by Frank Kermode

Lord Zuckerman, Nuclear Wizards

Rabi: Scientist and Citizen by John S. Rigden

Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology by Edward Teller

Toward a Livable World: Leo Szilard and the Crusade for Nuclear Arms Control edited by Helen S. Hawkins, edited by G. Allen Greb, edited by Gertrud Weiss Szilard

E.A.J. Honigmann, The New Shakespeare?

Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England by Stephen Greenblatt. (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 4)

Robert Towers, The Way We Live Now

The Book and The Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch

Found in the Street by Patricia Highsmith

Vladimir Nabokov, Pushkin, or the Real and the Plausible

David Brion Davis, The Benefit of Slavery

Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis

Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective by Seymour Drescher

Thomas Flanagan, The Quaking Bog

We Irish: Essays on Irish Literature and Society by Denis Donoghue

Jonathan Lieberson, The Sense of Santayana

George Santayana by John McCormick

Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography by George Santayana, edited by William G. Holzberger, edited by Herman J. Saatkamp Jr., with an introduction by Richard C. Lyon


Letters

John F. Guilmartin, Theodore H. Draper, Public Diplomacy
Kenneth J. Arrow, Nathan P. Glazer, et al. An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Israel
David Bain, Martha C. Nussbaum, 'The Closing of the American Mind'
Barry R. Gross, 'The Closing of the American Mind'
Patricia O'Toole, Help the Los Angeles Central Library



Contributors

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale. He is the author of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine and American Religious Poems: An Anthology. His new book is Fallen Angels, with illuminations by Mark Podwal. (November 2007)

M.F. Burnyeat is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato and A Map of Metaphysics Zeta. (November 2001)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was a novelist, scholar, and critic. He was the author of The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 (1959) and the novels The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994).

Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)


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