Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 16 · October 17, 1996

Patrick O'Brian, Discovering the New World

The Travels and Other Writings of William Bartram by William Bartram

The Natures of John and William Bartram by Thomas P. Slaughter

Kanan Makiya, The Politics of Betrayal

Gabriele Annan, That's Life

The Collected Stories by Mavis Gallant

James Fenton, Degas in Chicago

Degas: Beyond Impressionism The Art Institute of Chicago, September 30, 1996–January 5, 1997. Press exhibition at the National Gallery, London, May 22–August 26, 1996;, Catalog of the exhibition by Richard Kendall

Ronald Dworkin, The Curse of American Politics

John Gregory Dunne, Hollywood: Opening Moves

Jason Epstein, White Mischief

Up from Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America by Michael Lind

The World Turned Right Side Up: A history of the Conservative Ascendancy in America by Godfrey Hodgson

Steve Jones, Up Against the Wall

Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould

FULL HOUSE: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould

Brad Leithauser, Here To Stay

Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist by Philip Furia

The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists by Philip Furia

The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin edited by Robert Kimball

Gershwin: His Life and Music by Charles Schwartz

Lyrics on Several Occasions by Ira Gershwin

The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin by Joan Peyser

Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin by Deena Rosenberg

Alan Ryan, Dream Time

A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 by Paul Berman

Perry Link, Fang Lizhi, The Hope for China

Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge by H. Lyman Miller

Michael Wood, Other People's Wives

John's Wife by Robert Coover

The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

David Brion Davis, At the Heart of Slavery

Ian Buruma, Fear and Loathing in Europe

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Letters

William Cookson, Louis Menand, Pound, Eliot, & Anti-Semitism
Carol Garrard, John Garrard, et al. Ukrainians & the Holocaust
Adonis, Kwame Anthony Appiah, et al. Censored in Palestine
Stewart O'Nan, Granta's Best
Henry Louis Gates, David Lodge, Granta's Best

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Contributors

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

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)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

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."

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)

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

Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and the author of In the Blood. (April 1998)

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

Perry Link is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (April 2008)

Kanan Makiya was born in Baghdad and teaches at Brandeis. His books include Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World, and, most recently, The Rock: A Tale of Seventh-Century Jerusalem. (January 2002)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 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)

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