Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 19 · November 30, 1995
Clifford Geertz, Culture War 
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere
How 'Natives' Think, About Captain Cook, for Example by Marshall Sahlins
John Barton, A God's Life
God: A Biography by Jack Miles
Denis Mack Smith, Italy's Dirty Linen
Getting the Boot: Italy's Unfinished Revolution by Matt Frei
The Crisis of the Italian State: From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi by Patrick McCarthy
John Updike, Archer's Way
Richard Jenkyns, Victoria's Secret
When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians by Patricia Anderson
The Naked Heart by Peter Gay
Michael Lind, The Myth of Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater by Robert Alan Goldberg
Goldwater: The Man Who Made A Revolution by Lee Edwards
Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP by Mary C. Brennan
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Man's Next-Best Friend
The Company of Wolves by Peter Steinhart
The Wolf Almanac by Robert H. Busch
Richard Dorment, The Perfectionist
William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy
The Collected Letters of William Morris edited by Norman Kelvin
Vol. I, 1848–1880
Vol. II, Part A, 1881–1884
Vol. II, Part B, 1885–1888
Vols. III and IV forthcoming
William Shawcross, A Hero of Our Time
John Weightman, Extravaganza in Progress
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki, translated by Ian Maclean
Robert Mazzocco, Milking an Elk
John Maynard Smith, Genes, Memes, & Minds
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
Richard Holmes, Voltaire's Grin
Murray Kempton, Heat Lightning
Gar Alperovitz, Robert Jay Lifton, Greg Mitchell, et al. 'The New War Over Hiroshima': An Exchange
Contributors
Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)
Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
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.
Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)
Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist
for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of
Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events
and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1985.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's most recent books are The Hidden Life of Dogs, Certain Poor Shepherds, and The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture. (May 1997)
John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 2000)
William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
