Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 18 · November 4, 1993

Gabriele Annan, A Night at the Opera

'Fast and Loose' and 'The Buccaneers' by Edith Wharton, edited and with an introduction by Viola Hopkins Winner

The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton, completed by Marion Mainwaring

The Age of Innocence directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Jay Cocks, by Martin Scorsese

The Age of Innocence: A Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Edith Wharton by Martin Scorsese, by Jay Cocks

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Introduction by R.W.B. Lewis

David Brion Davis, Terror in Mississippi

Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Conspiracy by Winthrop D. Jordan

Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War edited by Ira Berlin, edited by Barbara J. Fields, edited by Steven F. Miller, edited by Joseph P. Reidy, edited by Leslie S. Rowland

Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation edited by C. Peter Ripley, edited by Roy E. Finkenbine, edited by Michael F. Hembree, edited by Donald Yacovone

Czeslaw Milosz, Swing Shift in the Baltics

The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven

Nicholson Baker, Survival of the Fittest

Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West by M. B. Parkes

Keith Thomas, The View from the Keyhole

Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660–1753 by Lawrence Stone

Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660–1857 by Lawrence Stone

Mark Danner, Haiti on the Verge

Tout Homme Est Un Homme: Tout Moun Se Moun by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, with Christophe Wargny

Aristide: An Autobiography by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, with Christophe Wargny, translated by Linda M. Maloney

In the Parish of the Poor: Writings from Haiti by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, translated and edited by Amy Wilentz

Théologie et politique by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, preface by Leonardo Boff

John Bayley, 'One Life, One Writing'

A Different Person: A Memoir by James Merrill

Selected Poems: 1946–1985 by James Merrill

Darryl Pinckney, The Best of Everything

Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

Home Repairs by Trey Ellis

Misha Glenny, Bosnia: The Tragic Prospect

Oliver Sacks, The Poet of Chemistry

Humphry Davy: Science and Power by David Knight

Gore Vidal, A Nineteenth-Century Man

The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960–1972 by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Lewis M. Dabney

Stephen Jay Gould, Baseball: Joys and Lamentations

My Life As A Fan by Wilfrid Sheed

Fridays With Red: A Radio Friendship by Bob Edwards

The Era, 1947–1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World by Roger Kahn

The Gospel According to Casey: Casey Stengel's Inimitable, Instructional, Historical Baseball Book by Ira Berkow, by Jim Kaplan

O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto edited by Tom Peyer, edited by Hart Seely

Avishai Margalit, Prophets With Honor

Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State by Yeshayahu Leibowitz, edited by Eliezer Goldman, translated by Eliezer Goldman, by Yoram Navon, by Zvi Jacobson, by Gershon Levi, by Raphael Levy

The Letters of Martin-Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by Nahum N. Glatzer, by Paul Mendes-Flohr, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston, by Harry Zohn

Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber by Maurice Friedman

On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity by Martin Buber, edited by S.N. Eisenstadt

Scripture and Translation by Martin Buber, by Franz Rosenzweig, translated by Lawrence Rosenwald, by Everett Fox

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Letters

Aryeh Neier, István Deák, The Nuremberg Precedent

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Contributors

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

Nicholson Baker’s new book, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, will be published this month. (March 2008)

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)

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)

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)

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.

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)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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