Table of Contents

Volume 42, Number 20 · December 21, 1995

Ian Buruma, The Beginning of the End

Moving the Mountain a documentary film directed by Michael Apted, produced by Trudie Styler

The Gate of Heavenly Peace a documentary film directed and produced by Carma Hinton, by Richard Gordon

Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China by Craig Calhoun

James M. McPherson, Götterdämmerung

The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861–1865 by Mark Grimsley

Davis and Lee at War by Steven E. Woodworth

Robert E. Lee: A Biography by Emory M. Thomas

Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Michael Fellman

Jorge Luis Borges, All Our Yesterdays (poem)

Michael Wood, Sleepless Nights

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

Claude Levi-Strauss, Saudades Do Brasil

Timothy Garton Ash, Bosnia in Our Future

Joyce Carol Oates, The Simple Art of Murder

Stories and Early Novels by Raymond Chandler

Later Novels and Other Writings by Raymond Chandler

Amos Elon, Israel's Demons

Alison Lurie, Opening the Box of Delights

A Book of Discoveries by John Masefield

Jim Davis by John Masefield

The Box of Delights: When the Wolves Were Running by John Masefield, illustrated by Quentin Blake

The Midnight Folk by John Masefield, illustrated by Quentin Blake

Martin Hyde: The Duke's Messenger by John Masefield

M.F. Perutz, The Pioneer Defended

The Private Science of Louis Pasteur by Gerald L. Geison

John Updike, An Honest Eye

John Singleton Copley in America 26, 1995–January 7, 1996. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September, Catalog of the exhibition by Carrie Rebora, by Paul Staiti, by Erica E. Hirshler, by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., by Carol Troyen, with contributions by Morrison H. Heckscher, by Aileen Ribeiro, by Marjorie Shelley

John Singleton Copley in England 1995–January 7, 1996. an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, DC, October 11,, Catalog of the exhibition by Emily Ballew Neff, with an essay by William L. Pressly

P.N. Furbank, Call Me Madame

Delphine by Germaine de Staël, translated and with an introduction by Avriel H. Goldberger

István Deák, Separated at Birth

Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870–1930 edited by Thomas Bender, edited by Carl E. Schorske

Darryl Pinckney, Slouching Toward Washington

Murray Kempton, The Last Gentleman

Daniel C. Dennett, John R. Searle, 'The Mystery of Consciousness': An Exchange

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Letters

David Binder, Robert Block, 'The Madness of General Mladic'

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (November 2009)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

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

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His books include Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name and (as editor with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
 (December 2009)

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.

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Abraham Lincoln.
 (September 2009)

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)

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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