Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 19 · November 19, 1992

Clifford Geertz, Genet's Last Stand

Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet, translated by Barbara Bray, Introduction by Edmund White

Michael Wood, Life Studies

Jazz by Toni Morrison

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

Robert L. Heilbroner, The Deficit: A Way Out

Richard Dorment, Painting in the Dark

Magritte an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, May 21–August 2;. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 9–November 22;. The Menil Collection, Houston, December 15, 1992–February 21, 1993;. The Art Institute, Chicago, March 16–May 30, 1993

Magritte: The Silence of the World by David Sylvester

Magritte catalog of the exhibition by Sarah Whitfield

René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné; Vol I: Oil Paintings 1916–1930 by David Sylvester, by Sarah Whitfield, edited by David Sylvester

Gabriele Annan, Graveyard Utopia

The Call of the Toad by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim

Alan Ryan, Twenty-First Century Limited

Robert Craft, Love in a Cold Climate

Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson edited by Nigel Nicolson

Garry Wills, Undemocratic Vistas

Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy by George F. Will

Keith Thomas, How Britain Made It

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 by Linda Colley

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh

Murray Kempton, A New Colonialism

E.A.J. Honigmann, Plague on the Globe?

Shakespeare The Later Years by Russell Fraser

Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years by Leeds Barroll

Witold Rybczynski, Pale Fire

Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion by Mark C. Taylor

Stephen Jay Gould, The Confusion over Evolution

The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today by Helena Cronin

The Miner's Canary by Niles Eldredge

On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions by Peter Douglas Ward

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Letters

Bryan Robertson, The Guggenheim Story
Thomas M. Messer, John Richardson, The Guggenheim Story
George Brunn, Ronald Dworkin, Free Speech and Its Limits
David L. Brooks, Free Speech and Its Limits
Jim Huggon, Richard Holmes, Not a Drummer
James Beck, Hugh Honour, Restoration Drama
David P. Calleo, 'Bankrupting America'
Annette Michelson, Oshima's Choice

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Contributors

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

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)

Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

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.

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is architecture critic for Slate. His new book on American building, Last Harvest, has just been published. (May 2007)

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

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.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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