Table of Contents
Volume 43, Number 5 · March 21, 1996
Gore Vidal, Queen of the Golden Age 
The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931–1965 edited by Tim Page
Alan Ryan, Too Nice to Win?
Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir by Bill Bradley
J.M. Coetzee, Palimpsest Regained
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Michael Wood, The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Postman (II Postino) a film directed by Michael Radford
The Postman by Antonio Skármeta, translated by Katherine Silver
Edmund S. Morgan, Don't Tread On Us
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution by Theodore Draper
James Fenton, Peter Brook's Way
Qui Est Là directed by Peter Brook. at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris
Ian Buruma, Mrs. Thatcher's Revenge
The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
Letters from London by Julian Barnes
The Disenchanted Isle: Mrs. Thatcher's Capitalist Revolution by Charles Dellheim
Virginia Hamilton Adair, Dover (poem)
Darryl Pinckney, In the Black Room of the World
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
Timothy Garton Ash, On Olga Havel (1933–1996)
Willibald Sauerländer, German Art: The Return of the Repressed
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner
Denis Donoghue, The Philosopher of Selfless Love
Emmanuel Levinas by Marie-Anne Lescourret
In the Time of the Nations by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Michael B. Smith
Outside the Subject by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Michael B. Smith
Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Gary D. Mole
John Weightman, Between Animal and Angel
Zola: A Life by Frederick Brown
Joseph Brodsky, The Russian Academy: Preliminary Notes
Ronald Dworkin, The Moral Reading of the Constitution
Murray Kempton, The Republican Implosion
Jean Daniel, Jean Lacouture, William Pfaff, 'On the Death of Mitterrand': An Exchange
Letters
Lotte Kohler, The Arendt/Heidegger Affair
Stephen J Adler, Andrew Hacker, Just Juries?
Robert D. Kaplan, Timothy Garton Ash, The Foul Balkan Sky?
Contributors
Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year's Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 2008)
J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel is Diary of a Bad Year. (November 2008)
Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)
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. (November 2008)
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.
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His most recent books are Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments and Essai sur les Visages des Bustes de Houdon. (June 2007)
Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)
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)
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
