Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 10 · June 8, 1995
Jason Epstein, The Man with Qualities 
Edmund Wilson: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson selected and introduced by Janet Groth, by David Castronovo
Robert Conquest, The Somber Monster
Lenin: A New Biography by Dmitri Volkogonov, translated and edited by Harold Shukman
Sergei Kovalev, Death in Chechnya
Richard Holmes, On the Enchanted Hill
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson 1854–1890 edited by Bradford A. Booth, edited by Ernest Mehew
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography by Frank McLynn
Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny by Alexandra Lapierre, translated by Carol Cosman
Joseph Brodsky, Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky (poem)
Gordon S. Wood, Disturbing the Peace
Tom Paine: A Political Life by John Keane
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings edited by Eric Foner
Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom by Jack Fruchtman Jr.
Anne Barton, Twice Around the Grounds
Arcadia a play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Trevor Nunn
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
D. Kern Holoman, Dispatches from the New Era
The Art of Music and Other Essays (A Travers Chants) by Hector Berlioz, translated and edited by Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay
Denis Donoghue, Kicking the Air
How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman
The Dead School by Patrick McCabe
Walking the Dog and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
Stuart Cary Welch, India's Virtuoso Builders
The History of Architecture in India: From the Dawn of Civilization to the End of the Raj by Christopher Tadgell
The Royal Palaces of India by George Michell, photographs by Antonio Martinelli
Letters
David Burress, Richard C. Lewontin, Sex, Lies, and Sociology
Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Sex, Lies, and Sociology
The Editors, Correction
William F. Schulz, 'The Hidden War in Turkey'
Contributors
Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)
Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)
Robert Conquest, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Great Terror. (March 1997)
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)
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)
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.
D. Kern Holoman is Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis, where he conducts the UCD Symphony. He is editor of The Nineteenth-Century Symphony, to be published next month. (November 1996)
Sergei Kovalev, a biologist and former political prisoner, is a leading candidate on the Yabloko Party list for the December election to the Russian State Duma. He is President of the Institute for Human Rights and Chairman of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (November 2007)
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)
