Table of Contents

Volume 42, Number 2 · February 2, 1995

Warren Zimmermann, The Captive Mind

Forging War: The Media in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina by Mark Thompson

Al Alvarez, Lonely Passion

A Passion for Wings by Robert Wohl

Saint-Exupéry: A Biography by Stacy Schiff

William Finnegan, The Liberator

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Alastair Reid, Talking Cuba

Mea Cuba by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. translated by Kenneth Hall with the author

Millicent Bell, 'The Margaret Ghost'

The Letters of Margaret Fuller 1817-1850, in six volumes edited by Robert N. Hudspeth

Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller by Joan Von Mehren

These Sad But Glorious Days: Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850 by Margaret Fuller, edited by Larry J. Reynolds, by Susan Belasco Smith

Margaret Fuller's New York Journalism: A Biographical Essay and Key Writings edited by Catherine C. Mitchell

Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Volume I: The Private Years by Charles Capper

Michael Lind, Rev. Robertson's Grand International Conspiracy Theory

The New World Order by Pat Robertson

John Banville, The Un-Heimlich Maneuver

The Norton Book of Ghost Stories edited by Brad Leithauser

Women and Ghosts by Alison Lurie

Willibald Sauerländer, The Great Outsider

Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society, Selected Papers, Volume IV by Meyer Schapiro

Romanesque Art (Volume I)

Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries (Volume II)

Late Antique, Early Christian, and Mediaeval Art (Volume III)

Bernard Williams, The Riddle of Umberto Eco

The Limits of Interpretation by Umberto Eco

Interpretation and Overinterpretation by Umberto Eco, by Richard Rorty, by Jonathan Culler, by Christine Brooke-Rose, edited by Stefan Collini

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco

Apocalypse Postponed by Umberto Eco, translated and edited by Robert Lumley

Misreadings by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

Garry Wills, Thomas's Confirmation: The True Story

The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up the Federal Appointments Process by Stephen L. Carter

Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality edited and with an introduction by Toni Morrison

Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas by John C. Danforth

Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer, by Jill Abramson

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Letters

Elena Bonner, A Letter to Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Harry F. Weyher, Charles Lane, 'The Bell Curve' and Its Sources
Richard Lynn, Charles Lane, 'The Bell Curve' and Its Sources
Jeremy J. Stone, Defending the Atom Scientists

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Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)

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.

Millicent Bell is Professor of English Emerita at Boston University. She is the author of Meaning in Henry James and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. (May 1998)

William Finnegan’s books include A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique and Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country. (April 2007)

Alastair Reid received the PEN Kolovakos Award for Translation in 2001, along with Gregory Rabassa. (January 2004)

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)

Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 2000)

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.

Warren Zimmermann, a professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University, was US Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992. A revised edition of his book, Origins of a Catastrophe:Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers, has just been published in paperback. (June 1999)

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