Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 5 · March 4, 1993

Iris Murdoch, Taking the Plunge

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson

Roger Penrose, The Great Diversifier

From Eros to Gaia by Freeman Dyson

Robert Hughes, Masterpiece Theater

Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thomas Hoving

James Fenton, Private Lives

Stuart Hampshire, The Last Charmer

Diderot: A Critical Biography by P.N. Furbank

'This Is Not a Story' and Other Stories by Denis Diderot translated with an introduction by P.N. Furbank

Ernst Gombrich, Getting the Picture

Only Connect…Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance by John Shearman

Gabriele Annan, Devil in the Flesh

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Edward W. Desmond, Himalayan Ulster

Kashmir: A Disputed Legacy, 1846–1990 by Alastair Lamb

My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir by R.M. Jagmohan

Kashmir Under Siege: Human Rights in India an Asia Watch Report

India: Torture, Rape and Deaths in Custody an Amnesty International Publication

George Plimpton, Death in the Family

Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada, Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico by Paul R. Ehrlich, by David S. Dobkin, by Darryl Wheye, illustrations by Darryl Wheye

Where Have All the Birds Gone? Essays on the Biology and Conservation of Birds That Migrate to the American Tropics by John Terborgh

Federal and State Endangered Species Expenditures: Fiscal Year 1990 compiled by the US Fish and Wildlife Service

Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species by Paul Ehrlich, by Anne Ehrlich

A Shadow and a Song by Mark Jerome Walters

John Banville, An Interview with Salman Rushdie

Thomas Nagel, The Mind Wins!

The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle

Paul Kennedy, The American Prospect

Kenneth Roth, Haiti and Clinton

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Letters

Rachel Ehrenfeld, Peter Dale Scott, et al. 'Evil Money'
Richard Caplan, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, et al. An Open Letter to the United Nations, President Clinton, and the Congress
Nigel Hamilton, Sour Grapes
John D. Moore, Thomas Sheehan, L'affaire Derrida (cont'd)

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Contributors

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

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.

James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn’t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

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)

Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. His most recent book is Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays. (May 2006)

Kenneth Roth is Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. (November 1998)

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