Table of Contents

Volume 42, Number 16 · October 19, 1995

Bernard Knox, Our Dante

The Inferno of Dante A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky, bilingual edition, illustrated by Michael Mazur, with notes by Nicole Pinsky, foreword by John Freccero

Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian Lessons

'The Russian Question' at the End of the Twentieth Century by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated and annotated by Yermolai Solzhenitsyn

George M. Fredrickson, Demonizing the American Dilemma

The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society by Dinesh D'Souza

Hugh Honour, The Triumphs of Tiepolo

Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence by Svetlana Alpers, by Michael Baxandall

The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice edited by Jane Martineau, edited by Andrew Robison. Catalog of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London;

Geoffrey O'Brien, Whitman's Revolution

Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography by David S. Reynolds

Constructing the German Walt Whitman by Walter Gründzweig

The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman edited by Robert K. Martin

The Neglected Walt Whitman: Vital Texts edited by Sam Abrams

Selected Letters of Walt Whitman edited by Edwin Haviland Miller

Complete Poetry and Collected Prose by Walt Whitman

Michael Walzer, Are There Limits to Liberalism?

Isaiah Berlin by John Gray

Frank Kermode, The Wonder of Mozart

Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon

Mozart and Posterity by Gernot Gruber, translated by K.S. Furness

On Mozart edited by James M. Morris

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Georg Knepler, translated by J. Bradford Robinson

Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School, 1740–1780 by Daniel Heartz

Mozart: Portrait of a Genius by Norbert Elias, translated by Edmund Jephcott

Claire Messud, Heartburn

The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine

Noel Annan, The Best Years of Their Lives

Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American 'Neutrality' in World War II by Nicholas John Cull

London at War by Philip Ziegler

Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain 1942–1945 by David Reynolds

For You, Lili Marlene: A Memoir of World War II by Robert Peters

P.N. Furbank, The Time of Her Life

That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser

Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life by Josyane Savigneau, translated by Joan E. Howard

How Many Years by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Maria Louise Ascher

A Blue Tale and Other Stories by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Alberto Manguel

Michael Wood, Horror of Horrors

Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Rose Madder by Stephen King

Dolores Claiborne a film directed by Taylor Hackford

Gordon S. Wood, The Founding Realist

If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason by Richard K. Matthews

Peter Holland, Not Having It All

Mrs. Jordan's Profession:The Actress and the Prince by Claire Tomalin

Ian Buruma, The Singapore Way

To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison by Francis T. Seow

Dare to Change: An Alternative Vision for Singapore by Dr. Chee Soon Juan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 'It Will Shame the Congress'

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Letters

Aryeh Neier, Timothy Garton Ash, Do Trials Work?
The Editors, Note
Alliance of Independent Journalists, American Society of Newspaper Editors, et al. In Defense of Algerian Journalists
Jonathan D. Spence, It Was Yang Mo
Norman Davies, Cartwheels at Dawn
The Editors, Correction

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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)

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote the entry on Shakespeare in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (December 2004)

Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)

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

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Claire Messud's most recent novel is The Emperor’s Children. Her earlier novels include When the World Was Steady. (July 2008)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)

Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.

Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)

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)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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