Table of Contents

Volume 42, Number 15 · October 5, 1995

John Banville, Nabokov's Dark Treasures

The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction by Michael Wood

Robert Block, The Madness of General Mladic

Charles Hope, Can You Trust Vasari?

Giorgio Vasari: Art and History by Patricia Lee Rubin

John Ashbery, By Guess and by Gosh (poem)

Bernard Bailyn, An American Tragedy

The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities by Colin G. Calloway

Avishai Margalit, The Terror Master

Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists by Benjamin Netanyahu

Robert M. Adams, A Self-Made Man

Writing Was Everything by Alfred Kazin

Gordon A. Craig, Under an Evil Star

Nazi Germany: A New History by Klaus P. Fischer

The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander

Nadine Gordimer, Adam's Rib

Alan Ryan, It Takes All Kinds

The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution by Michael Lind

David Gilmour, Adrift in Iberia

The Stone Raft by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero

Tony Judt, What Are American Interests?

Temptations of a Superpower by Ronald Steel

Steven Weinberg, Reductionism Redux

Nature's Imagination: The Frontiers of Scientific Vision edited by John Cornwell, Introduction by Freeman Dyson

David Brion Davis, Southern Comfort

The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism by Eugene D. Genovese

The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820–1860 by Eugene D. Genovese

The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War by Eugene D. Genovese

Michael Neill, The Marlowe Murder Case

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl

A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess

Adrian Lyttelton, The Crusade Against Cosa Nostra

Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic by Alexander Stille

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Letters

Robert L. Heilbroner, Felix G. Rohatyn, Good Debt
Saunders Mac Lane, Freeman Dyson, 'A Matter of Temperament'
Michael C.D. Macdonald, Stephen Jay Gould, The Case for the Kid
Frances D'Souza, Stop the Fatwa!
Andrew Hacker, Correction

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Contributors

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

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.

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)

David Gilmour's The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj was published last year. His previous books were biographies of Lord Curzon and Rudyard Kipling. (December 2007)

Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)

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)

Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries. (April 2004)

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