Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 9 · May 14, 1992

Noel Annan, Oh, What a Lovely War

Howards End a film directed by James Ivory, based on the novel by E.M. Forster

The Films of Merchant Ivory by Robert Emmet Long

Amos Elon, East Germany: Crime and Punishment

Robert Bartlett, The Cantorbury Tales

Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century by Norman F. Cantor

Peter Jenkins, Goodbye to All That

Avishai Margalit, The Violent Life of Yitzhak Shamir

Gabriele Annan, Still Life

A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner

Robert L. Heilbroner, His Secret Life

Opening Doors: The Life and Work of Joseph Schumpeter Vol. 1: Europe Vol. 2: America by Robert Loring Allen

Schumpeter: A Biography by Richard Swedberg

Bill McKibben, The Call of the Not So Wild

John Maynard Smith, Taking a Chance on Evolution

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould

Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist by Ernst Mayr

Edward W. Desmond, Storm over India

Anatomy of a Confrontation: The Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhumi Issue edited by Sarvepalli Gopal

John Banville, Playing House

A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn

Daughters of Albion by A. N. Wilson

Patrice Higonnet, The Lamentable Library

David Remnick, Defending the Faith

Reflections on Russia by Dmitri S. Likhachev, edited by Nicolai N. Petro, translated by Christina Sever

Zametki i Nabludeniya: Iz Zapisnikh knizhek razhnikh lyet (Notes and Observations: From Notebooks Over the Years) by Dmitri S. Likhachev

Bibliographia: Dmitri Sergeyevich Likhachev edited by V. P. Adrionovi-Perets, by M.A. Salminoi et al.

Glasnost: An Anthology of Russian Literature under Gorbachev edited by Helena Goscilo, edited by Byron Lindsey

Stikhi iz Tyurmi (Poems From Prison) by Anatoly Lukyanov

Sleepwalker in a Fog by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell

Ronelle Alexander, Martin Bernal, Andrew M. Riggsby, et al. 'Becoming Homer': An Exchange

Martin Bernal, Earl L. Dachslager, Emily Vermeule, An Exchange on 'Black Athena'

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Letters

Mahshid Amir-Shahi, Ali-Asghar Haj Seyed Javadi, et al. Declaration of Iranian Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Salman Rushdie
Ronald K. Fried, Joyce Carol Oates, Not a Lightweight

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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.

Robert Bartlett is Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is the author of The Making of Europe, which won the Wolfson Prize for History in 1993, and, most recently, The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory and Colonialism in the Middle Ages. (June 2005)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

Patrice Higonnet teaches French history at Harvard. His latest book is Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution. (July 2001)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 2000)

Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.

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.

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