Table of Contents
Volume 41, Number 17 · October 20, 1994
Robert Block, The Tragedy of Rwanda 
Helen Vendler, Death of a Soul
Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
Benjamin M. Friedman, Must We Compete?
Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations by Paul Krugman
Thomas R. Edwards, Catch-23
Closing Time by Joseph Heller
Stephen Jay Gould, So Near and Yet So Far
The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind by Erik Trinkaus, by Pat Shipman
In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins by Christopher Stringer, by Clive Gamble
J.H. Elliott, Going Baroque
The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America by Claudio Véliz
William Finnegan, The Election Mandela Lost
Anthony Grafton, Ah, Wilderness
Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape by Christopher S. Wood
C. Vann Woodward, Wallace Redeemed?
George Wallace: American Populist by Stephan Lesher
Brad Leithauser, Barely Sighted Lives
New Things Come into the World by Peter Kane Dufault
The Invention of the Zero by Richard Kenney
Gordon S. Wood, The Wandering Jewish Prophet in New York
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America by Paul E. Johnson, by Sean Wilentz
Martha C. Nussbaum, Feminists and Philosophy
A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity edited by Louise M. Antony, edited by Charlotte Witt
Ivan Klima, An Upheaval for Czech Readers
Ian Buruma, Action Anglaise
Mrs. Thatcher's Minister: The Private Diaries of Alan Clark by Alan Clark
The Faber Book of Conservatism edited by Kenneth Baker
Murray Kempton, The Carter Mission
Letters
Rita Steblin, Charles Rosen, Schubert à la Mode
Sigmund Diamond, Louis Menand, Conant & the FBI
Bruce Grant, Crackdown in Indonesia
Contributors
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)
Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)
J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)
William Finnegan’s books include A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique and Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country. (April 2007)
Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (November 2008)
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)
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
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.
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)
Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)
