Table of Contents
Volume 41, Number 9 · May 12, 1994
Garry Wills, A Class Act 
Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events by Murray Kempton
Louis Menand, Eliot Without Tears
George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' directed by Anthony Page. produced by BBC Television
Gordon A. Craig, Looking for Order
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
James Fenton, Hinterhof (poem)
Richard Holmes, Lord of Unreason
Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law by E.P. Thompson
Ian Buruma, Japan Against Itself
Blueprint for a New Japan by Ichiro Ozawa, translated by Louisa Rubinfein
John Bayley, Off the Map
Brazil by John Updike
David Brion Davis, The Triumph of the Country
The Age of Federalism by Stanley Elkins, by Eric McKitrick
Brian Urquhart, Who Can Police the World?
Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s and Beyond by Gareth Evans
Seeking Peace from Chaos: Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia Publishers by Samuel M. Makinda
The UN in Cambodia: Lessons for Complex Peacekeeping International Peacekeeping by Michael W. Doyle, by Nishkala Suntharalingam
Aftermath of the Gulf War: An Assessment of UN Action Publishers by Ian Johnstone
Thomas Nagel, Freud's Permanent Revolution
The Mind and Its Depths by Richard Wollheim
Freud and His Critics by Paul Robinson
Christopher Jencks, Housing the Homeless
Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s by Martha R. Burt
New Homeless and Old: Community and the Skid Row Hotel by Charles Hoch, by Robert Slayton
Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness by Peter H. Rossi
A Place to Call Home: The Low Income Housing Crisis Continues Information Service by Edward Lazere, by Paul Leonard, by Cushing Dolbeare, by Barry Zigas
Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women by Elliot Liebow
The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy by the New York City Commission on the Homeless (Andrew Cuomo, chair)
Gabriele Annan, 'When One Is a Somebody'
Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba edited and translated by Benito Ortolani
V.S. Naipaul, A Way In the World
Letters
Raymond Bonner, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Fate of the Elephants
Kees Tamboer, Denis Donoghue, Making a Man of Joyce
Charles Larmore, Isaac Levi, et al. Jonathan Lieberson Prize
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
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)
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)
Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
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)
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.
Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. His most recent book is Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays. (May 2006)
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)
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.
