Table of Contents

Volume 42, Number 3 · February 16, 1995

Jack F. Matlock, The Chechen Tragedy

Anne Barton, Over the Dark River

Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage by Richard Holmes

Hilary Mantel, Real Magicians

East, West: Stories by Salman Rushdie

The Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories by R.K. Narayan

Rudolf Peierls, The Communist Bomb

Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939–1956 by David Holloway

Ian Buruma, The Great Art of Embarrassment

Writing Home by Alan Bennett

The Madness of King George III a film directed by Nicholas Hytner. screenplay by Alan Bennett, based on his play The Madness of George III

The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett

Diane Johnson, Rags!

Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century by Philippe Perrot, translated by Richard Bienvenu

Sex and Suits by Anne Hollander

Fashion, Culture, and Identity by Fred Davis

The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad by Sheila Paine

The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy by Gilles Lipovetsky, translated by Catherine Porter, foreword by Richard Sennett

Joseph Connors, 'The Seated Sublime'

Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi, Sangallo, Michelangelo—The Cathedrals of Florence and Pavia, and St. Peter's, Rome 1994 The National Gallery, Washington, DC, December 18, 1994–March 19, 1995 an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, April 1–November 6,

The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture edited by Henry A. Millon, edited by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani

The Architectural Drawings of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and His Circle Vol. 1: Fortifications, Machines, and Festival Architecture edited by Christoph L. Frommel, edited by Nicholas Adams

San Pietro. Un progetto e un modello. Storia e restauro. Santa Maria del Fiore. Quattro modelli per il tamburo della cupola edited by Pier Luigi Silvan

Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur by William E. Wallace

Michelangelo Architect by Giulio Carlo Argan, by Bruno Contardi, translated by Marion L. Grayson

Leon Battista Alberti 10–December 11, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo del Te, Mantua, September, edited by Joseph Rykwert, edited by Anne Engel

Alfred Brendel, On Playing Schoenberg's Piano Concerto

Brad Leithauser, After the Detonation of the Moon (poem)

Alan Ryan, Pragmatism Rides Again

The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority by John P. Diggins

Frank Kermode, Sound and Fury

Witches & Jesuits: Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' by Garry Wills

Robert Hughes, Why Watch It, Anyway?

Murray Kempton, A Family Affair

Lillian Gates, William Herrick, Bernard Knox, The Spanish Civil War: An Exchange

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Letters

Ellen Bass, Laura Davis, et al. Thanks for the Memories

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Contributors

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)

Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002)

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)

Joseph Connors, the Director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, writes on Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. He was formerly Director of the American Academy in Rome and professor of art history at Columbia.

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn’t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

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.

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)

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

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)

Jack F. Matlock Jr. was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 and is the author of Autopsy on an Empire. He is George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (February 2000)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)

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