Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 8 · May 9, 1996

Theodore H. Draper, Our Man in Moscow

Operation SOLO: The FBI's Man in the Kremlin by John Barron

Norman Cohn, The Uses of God

Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions by Walter Burkert

Charles Lane, Thom Shanker, Bosnia: What the CIA Didn't Tell Us

Michael Wood, Terror in the Mountains

Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman

Avishai Margalit, The Chances of Shimon Peres

Battling for Peace: A Memoir by Shimon Peres

P.N. Furbank, Love à la Mode

The Love Affair as a Work of Art by Dan Hofstadter

Charles Rosen, The Scandal of the Classics

Oeuvres Complètes, Volume 5: Ecrits sur la musique, la langue et le théâtre by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Anatomy of Melancholy, Volumes I–III by Robert Burton

Sämtliche Werke, Band 7/I and 7/II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Werke, Band 3: Politische Schriften by Bettina von Arnim

Oeuvres, Volume 2 by Marquis de Sade

David Lodge, Confessions of a Literary Man

Not Entitled: A Memoir by Frank Kermode

Michael J Sandel, Dewey Rides Again

John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism by Alan Ryan

Helen Vendler, Worth a Thousand Words?

The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art by John Hollander

On the Laws of the Poetic Art (The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1992) Bollingen Series XXXV: 41 by Anthony Hecht

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Home Fires

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

James Fenton, The Secrets of Maillol

Fondation Dina Vierny, Musée Maillol 59-61 Rue de Grenelle, Paris (inaugurated January 1995). Catalog of the museum

Aristide Maillol an exhibition at the Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, January 14–May 5, 1996; continuing on to Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, May 15–September 22; Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen, October 6–January 13, 1997; and Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, January 25–March 31, 1997. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Ursel Berger, edited by Jörg Zutter

Aristide Maillol by Bertrand Lorquin

Murray Kempton, Dying for Life

Terry MSW Mizrahi, Natalie Robins, Joseph G Sweeting, et al. The Libby Zion Case: An Exchange


Letters

Richard Gordon, Carma Hinton, et al. The Beijing Rebellion
The Editors, Correction



Contributors

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)

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

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent books are The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War and the forthcoming Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition. (October 2002)


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