Table of Contents
Volume 39, Number 14 · August 13, 1992
Gabriele Annan, A Moral Tale 
The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
John Ashbery, Two Poems by John Ashbery (poem)
Stuart Hampshire, Russell's Paradox
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell Volume 1, The Private Years, 1884-1914 edited by Nicholas Griffin
Benjamin M. Friedman, The Morning After
The Seven Fat Years: And How To Do It Again by Robert L. Bartley
The Bankrupting of America: How the Federal Budget Is Impoverishing the Nation by David P. Calleo
John Banville, The Last Word
Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
Garry Wills, The Hostage
Roger Shattuck, In the Magic Circle
The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwest France by W.S. Merwin
Ronald Dworkin, The Center Holds!
Ronald Steel, A Self-Made Man
Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal by Townsend Hoopes, by Douglas Brinkley
Eberstadt and Forrestal: A National Security Partnership, 1909–1949 by Jeffrey M. Dorwart
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler
Misha Glenny, Yugoslavia: The Revenger's Tragedy
Helen Vendler, Tireless Messenger
Provinces: Poems 1987–1991 by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by the author, translated by Robert Hass
Beginning With My Streets: Essays and Recollections by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Madeline G. Levine
The Poet's Work: An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz by Leonard Nathan, by Arthur Quinn
Jeremy Bernstein, The Farm Hall Transcripts: The German Scientists and the Bomb
Thomas R. Edwards, Family Values
Very Old Bones by William Kennedy
The Evening Star by Larry McMurtry
Paul Wilson, The End of the Velvet Revolution
Letters
Carl Andre, The Swedish Way
Michael E. Raynor, Peter Singer, Necessary Suffering?
Robert L. Benson, Ralph E. Giesey, et al. Defending Kantorowicz
Steven T. Katz, Edmund S. Morgan, Convicting Witches
Gordon M. Messing, When Pericles Spoke
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
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.
Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at
Los Alamos. His forthcoming book is about the element plutonium. (May 2006)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)
Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (March 2008)
Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)
Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)
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.
Paul Wilson is a writer based in Toronto and the translator of several books, plays, and essays by Václav Havel. (May 2007)
