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

Istvan Deak, 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 this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

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 most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)

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 the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. She is the editor, with Christopher Beha, of the forthcoming Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction. (September 2008)

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 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.

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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