Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 7 · April 28, 1988

Garry Wills, More Than a Game

The Power Game: How Washington Really Works by Hedrick Smith

Michael Wood, Heartsick

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman

Nicholas Lemann, Breaking Up

House of Dreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville by Marie Brenner

The Binghams of Louisville: The Dark History Behind One of America's Great Fortunes by David Leon Chandler, with Mary Voelz Chandler

Bernard Knox, Attic Exits

Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman by Nicole Loraux, translated by Anthony Forster

Gordon A. Craig, The Art of War

The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800 by Geoffrey Parker

The Mask of Command by John Keegan

Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace by Edward N. Luttwak

John R. Durant, Darwin Unbuttoned

Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836–1844: Geology, Transmutation of Species, Metaphysical Enquiries transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, by Peter J. Gautrey, by Sandra Herbert, by David Kohn, by Sydney Smith

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume 3: 1844–1846 edited by Frederick Burkhardt, edited by Sydney Smith

Sidney Hook, The Uses of Death

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society by Daniel Callahan

Janet Malcolm, Down There on a Visit

Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the New Guinea Jungle by Tobias Schneebaum

T.M. Scanlon, Down from Liberalism

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

Helen Vendler, Second Thoughts

The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney

Christopher Hill, History Turned Upside Down

Criticism and Compliment: The politics of literature in the England of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe

Feminist Milton by Joseph Wittreich

Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630–1890 by Keith W.F. Stavely

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740 by Michael McKeon

The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution by Margaret C. Jacob

James Chace, Getting to Sack the General

Gore Vidal, C. Vann Woodward, Gore Vidal's 'Lincoln'?: An Exchange

Tomis Kapitan, Abbas Milani, Bernard Lewis, Islamic Revolution: An Exchange

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Letters

Jacek Bochenski, Andrzej Boguslawski, et al. For a Polish-Russian Dialogue: An Open Letter
Peter Collier, David Horowitz, et al. It Wasn't Them
James Collignon, Denis Donoghue, The Journey Westward
Robert C. Williams, Stephen Toulmin, Grinding Axes

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Contributors

James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Nicholas Lemann is the national correspondent for The Atlantic. (June 1998)

Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York.

Helen Vendler's recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published later this year. (March 2009)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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