Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 4 · February 14, 1991

Ian Buruma, Signs of Life

India: A Million Mutinies Now by V.S. Naipaul

David Remnick, Native Son

'Kak nam obustroit' Rossiya?' ('How Shall We Organize Russia?') 1990, and Literaturnaya Gazeta, September 19, 1990. by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

C. Vann Woodward, In God We Trust

Under God: Religion and American Politics by Garry Wills

John Banville, Laughter in the Dark

New World Avenue and Vicinity by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Walter Arndt

Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim

Helping Verbs of the Heart by Péter Esterházy, translated by Michael Henry Heim

Nicholas Lemann, That's Earl, Folks!

Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics by Michael L. Kurtz, by Morgan D. Peoples

Denis Donoghue, The Poet of Modern Life

Baudelaire by Claude Pichois, translated by Graham Robb

The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poèmes en prose by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Edward K. Kaplan

Baudelaire: Collected Essays, 1953–1988 by F.W. Leakey, edited by Eva Jacobs

Charles Baudelaire, La Voix (poem)

Charles Hope, Storm over the Storm

Giorgione's 'Tempest': Interpreting the Hidden Subject by Salvatore Settis, translated by Ellen Bianchini

Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Welcome Homer!

Homer: The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox

The Odyssey of Homer a new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum

The Iliad for Speaking Steingrabenstrasse 20, 8036 Briebrunntam Ammersee, Germany) translated by Michael Reck

Margaret Drabble, Fallen Woman

Mrs. Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian by John Sutherland

Peter Matthiessen, The Blue Pearl of Siberia

Murray Kempton, A Case of Amnesia

Gerald Graff, George Levine, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, et al. 'The Storm Over the University': An Exchange

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Letters

Neal Zaslaw, Charles Rosen, 'The Shock of the Old'

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Contributors

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year's Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 2008)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

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

Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)

Peter Matthiessen's most recent book is End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica. His novel Shadow Country will be published in the spring. The Nation Institute Investigative Fund provided assistance for his article in this issue. (November 2007)

David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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