Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 13 · August 8, 1996

Warren Zimmermann, Prophet With Honor

At a Century's Ending:Reflections, 1982—1995 by George F. Kennan

Derek Walcott, Italian Eclogues (poem)

John Updike, The Ache in Eakins

Thomas Eakins:The Rowing Pictures 23-September 29, 1996; The Yale University Art Gallery, October 11, 1996-January 14, 1997; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 15-May 15, 1997. exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, D. C., June, Catalog of the exhibition by Helen A. Cooper, with contributions by Martin A. Berger, by Christina Currie, by Amy B. Werbel

Steven Weinberg, Sokal's Hoax

David Lodge, O Ye Laurels

The Best of Young American Novelists'Granta 54,' Summer 1996 edited by Ian Jack

James Fenton, The Best of Both Worlds

Pisanello the Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, September 7—December 9, 1996 an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, May 6—August 5, 1996, and at

Pisanello: le peintre aux sept vertus catalog of the exhibition, edited by Dominique Cordellier

Gene Lyons, Anything Goes

Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America by Roger Morris

Jack F. Matlock, The Struggle for the Kremlin

Gabriele Annan, All About Evil

An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel

Gordon S. Wood, The Would-Be Gentleman

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor

Brad Leithauser, Great Old Modern

Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays edited by Richard Poirier, edited by Mark Richardson

Ronald Dworkin, Sex, Death, and the Courts

Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington, 79 F. 3d 790, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (1996)

Quill v. Vacco, 80 F. 3d 716, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1996)

Romer v. Evans, 116 S. Ct. 1620, United States Supreme Court (1996)

Prudence Crowther, James Taibi, Olympic Notes

Peter H. Duesberg, Richard Horton, 'The AIDS Heresy': An Exchange

David Carroll, Jaap Querido, Robert J. Soucy, et al. 'France's Hollow Years': An Exchange

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Letters

American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, American Friends Service Committee (Washington), et al. On Bosnian War Criminals: An Open Letter
James Fenton, Not the Black and Tans
Mary R. Lefkowitz, Guy MacLean Rogers, 'Black Athena Revisited'
Bruce Seymour, Fiona MacCarthy, Inventing Lola

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Prudence Crowther is the copy chief at BusinessWeek. (April 2007)

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)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

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.

Jack F. Matlock Jr. was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 and is the author of Autopsy on an Empire. He is George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (February 2000)

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.

Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His most recent book is Selected Poems. (May 2008)

Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. (September 2008)

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)

Warren Zimmermann, a professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University, was US Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992. A revised edition of his book, Origins of a Catastrophe:Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers, has just been published in paperback. (June 1999)

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