Table of Contents

Volume 41, Number 8 · April 21, 1994

Michael Ignatieff, Homage to Bosnia

Bosnia: A Short History by Noel Malcolm

Sarajevo: Survival Guide by the FAMA Collective, Sarajevo, 1993

Why Bosnia? Writings on the Balkan War edited by Rabia Ali, edited by Lawrence Lifschultz

Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović

Sarajevo: A War Journal by Zlatko Dizdarević, translated by Anselm Hollo, edited by Ammiel Alcalay

James M. McPherson, Liberating Lincoln

Lincoln in American Memory by Merrill D. Peterson

The Lincoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism by J. David Greenstone

The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Phillip Shaw Paludan

Amos Elon, Look Over Jordan

Willibald Sauerländer, The Nazis' Theater of Seduction

'Degenerate Art': The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany by Stephanie Barron et al

Artists Under Vichy: A Case of Prejudice and Persecution by Michèle C. Cone

The Art of the Third Reich by Peter Adam

Christopher Jencks, The Homeless

Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s by Martha R. Burt

Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness by Peter H. Rossi

The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy by the New York City Commission on the Homeless

Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People by David A. Snow, by Leon Anderson

Rude Awakenings: What the Homeless Crisis Tells Us by Richard W. White Jr.

Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community by David Wagner

The Mole People by Jennifer Toth

Brad Leithauser, Cold Comfort

Absolution by Olafur Jóhann Olafsson

Simon Leys, Lawrence of Australia

Garry Wills, The Saint of Mott Street

Denis Donoghue, The Magic of W.B. Yeats

Yeats's 'Vision' Papers, Volume 1: The Automatic Script: 5 November 1917–18 June 1918 General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Steve L. Adams, by Barbara J. Frieling, by Sandra L. Sprayberry

Yeats's 'Vision' Papers, Volume 2: The Automatic Script: 25 June 1918–29 March 1920 General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Steve L. Adams, by Barbara J. Frieling, by Sandra L. Sprayberry

Yeats's 'Vision' Papers, Volume 3: Sleep and Dream Notebooks, 'Vision' Notebooks 1 and 2, Card File General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Robert Anthony Martinich, by Margaret Mills Harper

Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art by M.L. Rosenthal

Yeats and Artistic Power by Phillip L. Marcus

The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893–1938 edited by Anna MacBride White, by A. Norman Jeffares

Wendy Doniger, Unspeakable Sins

Idolatry by Moshe Halbertal, by Avishai Margalit, translated by Naomi Goldblum

Arthur Kempton, How Far from Canaan?

The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church by Michael W. Harris

Got to Tell it: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel by Jules Schwerin

Jason Epstein, A Dissent on 'Schindler's List'

Morris Eagle, Allen Esterson, Robert R. Holt, et al. The 'Unknown Freud': Yet Another Exchange


Letters

Norman Birnbaum, Tony Judt, The West German Left & the East
Wendy Walker, 'As a Man Grows Older'



Contributors

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)

Arthur Kempton, the author of Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, is a fellow at the Institute for African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (March 2006)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Simon Leys is the author of a dozen books, mostly on Chinese art, culture, and politics. His latest work is The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story. (December 2007)

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. (December 2008)

Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His most recent books are Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments and Essai sur les Visages des Bustes de Houdon. (June 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.


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