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Volume 43, Number 6 · April 4, 1996

George M. Fredrickson, Land of Opportunity?

Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation by Jennifer L Hochschild

John Banville, That's Life!

Last Orders by Graham Swift

Joseph Brodsky, At the City Dump in Nantucket (poem)

Stephen Jay Gould, Why Darwin?

Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne

James Fenton, The Cherry Orchard Has to Come Down

Gordon S. Wood, 'The Writingest Explorers'

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose

David Sylvester, Pure and Not So Simple

Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957 31, 1995. an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 8–December, Catalog by Friedrich Teja Bach, by Margit Rowell, by Ann Temkin

Denis Donoghue, The Myths of Robert Graves

Robert Graves and the White Goddess, 1940–1985 by Richard Perceval Graves

Robert Graves: His Life and Work revised and extended edition., by Martin Seymour-Smith

Robert Graves: Life on the Edge by Miranda Seymour

Francis Haskell, Ah! Sweet History of Life

The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga, translated by Rodney J. Payton, by Ulrich Mammitzsch

The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale

Theodore H. Draper, Rise & Fall of a Revolutionary

Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary by Dmitri Volkogonov, translated and edited by Harold Shukman

Andrew Delbanco, Melville's Fever

Pierre, or the Ambiguities by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker, pictures by Maurice Sendak

Pierre, or the Ambiguities. Historical Note by Leon Howard and Hershel Parker. by Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford, by Hershel Parker, by G. Thomas Tanselle, Historical Note by Leon Howard, by Hershel Parker

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, First Fine Careless Raptor

Raptor Red by Robert T Bakker

Anne Barton, An Affair to Remember

The Clairmont Correspondence: Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin, Volume I (1808–1834), Volume II (1835–1879) edited by Marion Kingston Stocking

Ingrid D. Rowland, The Empress of Ice Cream

Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices by Elizabeth David, edited by Jill Norman

Quentin Skinner, Bringing Back a New Hobbes

The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes edited by Noel Malcolm

Three Discourses: A Critical Modern Edition of Newly Identified Work of the Young Hobbes by Thomas Hobbes, edited by Noel B Reynolds, edited by Arlene W Saxonhouse

Luc Sante, American Photography's Golden Age

Mathew Brady: American Art Series

Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War by Alexander Gardner

Landscapes of the Civil War: Newly Discovered Photographs from the Medford Historical Society edited by Constance Sullivan

Jacob A. Riis: Photographer and Citizen by Alexander Alland

The North American Indians by Edward Curtis

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown by Arnold Genthe, by John K Tchen

Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer by Dorothy Norman

Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography by Richard Whelan

Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George by John Szarkowski

Gertrude Käsebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs by Barbara Michaels

Alvin Langdon Coburn: Symbolist Photographer, 1882–1966 by Mike Weaver

Women at Work: One Hundred and Fifty-Three Photographs by Lewis W Hine

Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines by Lewis W Hine

Paul Strand: An American Vision

Paul Strand (Aperture Masters of Photography Series, No. 1)

Edward Weston: Forms of Passion edited by Gilles Mora

Tina Modotti: Photographs by Sarah M Lowe

Berenice Abbott: Photographs

Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision

American Photographs by Walker Evans

Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye by Gilles Mora

Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection by Judith Keller

Photography Until Now by John Szarkowski

Photography and the American Scene by Robert Taft

The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present (fifth edition, 1982) by Beaumont Newhall

Amos Oz, A Letter to a Palestinian Friend

Gerald L Geison, M.F. Perutz, Pasteur and the Culture Wars: An Exchange

Letters

Roger F Betteridge, Roger Shattuck, Tea with Alice
Timothy Garton Ash, Tracer
Michael J Mikos, Czeslaw Milosz, Another Version of 'Laments'

Contributors

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)

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)

Andrew Delbanco is Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. He is working on a book on college education, to be published next 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)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

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)

Amos Oz's latest novel is Don't Call It Night. Two collections of essays, Israel, Palestine, and Peace and Under this Blazing Light, have recently been published in the US. (November 1996)

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

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.

Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University. His most recent books are Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Liberty Before Liberalism. (November 2000)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)