Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 19 · November 21, 1991

Robert M. Adams, A Good Minestrone

The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey

Felix G. Rohatyn, The New Domestic Order?

Garry Wills, Man of the Year

Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration 1991–January, 12, 1992 an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, DC, October 12,

Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration catalog of the exhibition, edited by Jay A. Levensen

The Worlds of Christopher Columbus by William D. Phillips Jr., by Carla Rahn Phillips

Columbus by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

1492 by Jacques Attali

Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World by Stephen Greenblatt

Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari by Paul Barolsky

Columbus: The Great Adventure: His Life, His Times, and His Voyages by Paolo Emilio Taviani, translated by Luciano F. Farina, by Marc A. Beckwith

Out of Italy: 1450–1650 by Fernand Braudel, translated by Sián Reynolds

Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by Jeffrey Burton Russell

The 'Libro de las profecias' of Christopher Columbus by Delno C. West, by August Kling

In Search of Columbus: The Sources for the First Voyage by David Henige

Renaissance Characters edited by Eugenio Garin, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane

Nathan Gardels, Two Concepts of Nationalism: An Interview with Isaiah Berlin

Stane Bernik, Andrej Smrekar, The Endangered Monuments of Croatia

Noel Annan, Folie à Trois

Politics, Religion and Love: The Story of H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel Montagu by Naomi B. Levine

John Banville, Winners

Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer

Playing the Game by Ian Buruma

Asya by Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff, In the New Republics

Tomas Venclova, Instruction (poem)

David Cannadine, Through the Keyhole

A History of Private Life Vol. IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War edited by Michelle Perrot, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Louis Menand, The Politics of Deconstruction

Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man by David Lehman

Lord Zuckerman, Creations of the Dark

Circular Evidence by Pat Delgado, by Colin Andrews

Crop Circles: The Latest Evidence by Pat Delgado, by Colin Andrews

The Crop Circle Enigma: Grounding the Phenomenon in Science, Culture and Metaphysics edited by Ralph Noyes, photographs by Busty Taylor

Helen Vendler, Mapping the Air

An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988–1991 by Adrienne Rich

Region of Unlikeness by Jorie Graham

Lee A. Casey, David B. Rivkin, Theodore H. Draper, 'Presidential Wars': An Exchange

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Letters

Hilary Masters, Elizabeth Hardwick, Mastering Masters
Irving Howe, How They Died
Gore Vidal, Lincoln Addendum
Lincoln Kirstein, Not Choreographed by Balanchine

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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.

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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