Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 17 · November 2, 1995
Thomas Powers, General Right
My American Journey by Colin Powell, by Joseph E. Persico
Gordon A. Craig, In Love With Hitler
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
Gore Vidal, Dah
Michael Ignatieff, The Politics of Self-Destruction
Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia by Richard West
The Death of Yugoslavia by Laura Silber, by Allan Little
Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of "Ethnic Cleansing" by Norman Cigar
Robert Stone, The Sins of the Fathers
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterfield
Millicent Bell, Dangerous Women
The Brontës by Juliet Barker
Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life by Lyndall Gordon
The Letters of Charlotte Brontë edited by Margaret Smith
Theodore H. Draper, An Anti-Intellectual Intellectual
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol
Fiona MacCarthy, Governess on Speed
Christina Rossetti: A Writer's Life by Jan Marsh
Derek Beales, Benevolent Dinosaur
Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph by Alan Palmer
Robert L. Herbert, Impressionists on Stage
Landscapes of France: Impressionism and its Rivals 1995 an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, May 18 to August 28,
Monet to Matisse: Landscape Painting in France 18741914 Edinburgh an exhibition held in 1994 at the National Gallery of Scotland,, Catalog of the exhibition by Richard Thomson, with an essay by Michael Clarke
Impressions of France: Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and their Rivals October 4, 1995 to January 14, 1996. the same exhibition, retitled, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,, Catalog of the exhibitions by John House, with contributions from Ann Dumas, by Jane Mayo Roos, by James F. McMillan
Claude Monet 18401926 26, 1995 an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, July 22 to November, Catalog of the exhibition by Charles F. Stuckey, with the assistance of Sophia Shaw
John Gross, Keeping the Hard Gemlike Flame
Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue
Stanley Hoffmann, Dreams of a Just World
On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1993 edited by Stephen Shute, edited by Susan Hurley
Robert Craft, Women Musicians of Venice and The Red Priest
Women Musicians of Venice: Musical Foundations, 15251855 by Jane L. Baldauf-Berdes
Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque by H. C. Robbins Landon
John R. Searle, The Mystery of Consciousness
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness by Gerald Edelman
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald Edelman
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose
The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness by Israel Rosenfield
Frank R. Aqueno, Jonathan Ned Katz, Richard C. Lewontin, et al. Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange
Michael Scammell, Just Like Old Times
Contributors
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)
Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)
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)
Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)
John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)
Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”
Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)
Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)
Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill and William Morris. Her most recent book is Byron: Life and Legend. (December 2005)
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
Michael Scammell is Professor of Writing and Translation at Columbia. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, and has just completed a biography of Arthur Koestler. (November 2005)
John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction and Freedom and Neurobiology. (November 2006)
Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. He is the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. He has also written short stories, essays, and screenplays, and published a short story collection, Bear and His Daughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and in Key West, Florida.
Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)