Table of Contents
Volume 40, Number 4 · February 11, 1993
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Radical
Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy by George F. Kennan
Ivo Banac, Stanislaw Baranczak, Norberto Bobbio, et al. An Appeal
John Weightman, Fatal Attraction
Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 19441956 by Tony Judt
Alan Ryan, Invasion of the Mind Snatchers
Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking by David Bromwich
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by Gerald Graff
Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition by Francis Oakley
Martin Filler, He's the Top
The Paintings and Sketches of Louis I. Kahn by Jan Hochstim, Introduction by Vincent Scully
Louis I. Kahn: Writings, Lectures, Interviews edited and with an introduction by Alessandra Latour
Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture 1991January 5, 1992), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (March 5May 4, 1992), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (June 14August 18, 1992), the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (September 26November 3, 1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (March 7May 30, 1993), Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (July 3October 10, 1993), Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus (November 17, 1993February 1, 1994) an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (October 20,
Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture catalog of the exhibition by David B. Brownlee, by David G. De Long
The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn University Museum of Art by catalog of an exhibition at the Duke Patricia Cummings Loud, foreword by Michael P. Mezzatesta
James Joll, Nietzsche vs. Nietzsche
The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 18901990 by Steven E. Aschheim
Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre
When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
Scott MacLeod, South Africa on the Edge
Garry Wills, Popes and Pagans
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture DC, January 6April 30, 1993 catalog of the exhibition at the Library of Congress, Washington,, edited by Anthony Grafton
From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance by N.G. Wilson
Piero della Francesca by Carlo Bertelli, translated by Edward Farrelly
Murray Kempton, The Jumper
Hoffa a film directed by Danny De Vito, written by David Mamet
Paul Kennedy, Preparing for the 21st Century: Winners and Losers
Letters
Jacques Derrida, Thomas Sheehan, 'L'affaire Derrida'
John D. Moore, 'L'affaire Derrida'
John Irving, Edmund Keeley, et al. An Urgent Appeal from Pen American Center
Adam Schwartz, M.F. Perutz, Sex and the Church
Mark Kleiman, Michael Massing, Drugs and the Law
Sander Vanocur, James Chace, Outsiders
Contributors
Stanislaw Baranczak, a poet and essayist, is the Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Literature (emeritus) at Harvard. (February 2006)
Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)
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.
Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, is the author and editor of fifteen books, including
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. His latest book is
The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. (November 2006)
Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-
Communist government in the Soviet bloc. He is the author of several books, including Letters from Prison and Letters from Freedom.
(June 2007)
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)
Simon Schama's most recent book is A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British, 1603–1776, the companion volume to his ongoing BBC/History Channel television series. (February 2002)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
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 Prizewinning 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.