Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 18 · November 16, 1995
Jason Epstein, Metropolitan Life 
The Encyclopedia of New York City edited by Kenneth T. Jackson
George F. Kennan, Witness to the Fall
Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of The Soviet Union by Jack F Matlock Jr.
Witold Rybczynski, Design for Living
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America by Henry Petroski
Bernard Knox, Author, Author
Frank Kermode, Howl
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Misha Glenny, The Birth of a Nation
Who Are the Macedonians? by Hugh Poulton
Vladimir Nabokov, The Christmas Story
Joan Acocella, Heroes and Hero Worship
Mosaic: Memoirs by Lincoln Kirstein
Following Balanchine by Robert Garis
Joyce Carol Oates, Story of X
In the Cut by Susanna Moore
Anthony Grafton, Strange and Desperate Cures
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution by William R. Newman
Luc Sante, The Unexamined Life
Mapplethorpe edited and designed by Mark Holborn, by Dimitri Levas, essay by Arthur C. Danto
Altars by Robert Mapplethorpe, essay by Edmund White
Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Patricia Morrisroe
Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe by Arthur C. Danto
Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera by Jack Fritscher Ph.D.
Jeremy Bernstein, Odd Man In
Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling by Thomas Hager
John Bayley, Feet on the Ground
Louis MacNeice by Jon Stallworthy
John R. Searle, The Mystery of Consciousness: Part II
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 M. Edelman
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald M. 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
John K. Lattimer, Sanford Levinson, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, et al. To Keep and Bear Arms: An Exchange
Letters
Alfred Brendel, Charles Rosen, Beethoven's Triumph'
William Kinderman, Beethoven's Triumph'
Henry Hardy, Sharing the Credit
David Brion Davis, The Southern League
The Editors, Correction
Elaine H. Pagels, Norman Cohn, It Was Luke
Contributors
Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at Los Alamos. His Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element was published in paperback in March. (April 2009)
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House. He is chairman of On Demand Books, maker of the Espresso Book Machine. His latest book, Eating: A Memoir, will be published in October. (August 2009)
Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)
Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His latest book, ConcerningE.M. Forster, will be published in December.
(October 2009)
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.
Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977. The translation in this issue appears in Verses and Versions, a collection of Nabokov’s translations of three centuries of Russian poetry, published this month by Harcourt. (November 2008)
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)
Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate. His book on American building, Last Harvest, was published in 2007.
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction, Freedom and Neurobiology, and Philosophy in a New Century.
(September 2009)
