Table of Contents

Volume 44, Number 4 · March 6, 1997

Freeman Dyson, The Race is Over

Robert Conquest, Terrorists

The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archives edited by Richard Pipes

Stalin's Letters to Molotov: 1925-1936 edited by Lars T. Lih, edited by Oleg V. Naumov, edited by Oleg V. Khlevniuk

James Fenton, Who Was Thomas Jones?

In The Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting 26-September 2, 1996; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 11, 1996-January 12, 1997; and the St. Louis Art Museum, February 21-May 18, 1997 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May

Corot in Italy: Open-Air Painting and the Classical Landscape Tradition by Peter Galassi

Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography catalog of the exhibition, by Peter Galassi

In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting catalog of the exhibition, by Philip Conisbee, by Sarah Faunce, by Jeremy Strick, with guest curator Peter Galassi

Jared Diamond, Outcasts of the Islands

The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks

Jeff Madrick, The Cost of Living: A New Myth

Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index Final Report to the Senate Finance Committee from the Advisory

Bias in the Consumer Price Index: What is the Evidence? by Brent R. Moulton. Journal of Economic Perspectives

Getting Prices Right: A Methodologically Consistent Consumer Price Index, 1953-94 by Dean Baker

American Standards of Living, 1918-1988 by Clair Brown

Rosemary Dinnage, The Blasted Oak Tree

Augustus John: The New Biography by Michael Holroyd

Portraits of Women: Gwen John & Her Forgotten Contemporaries by Alison Thomas

Themes and Variations: The Drawings of Augustus John 1901-1931 with essays by Michael Holroyd, by Mark Evans, by Rebecca John

Garry Wills, American Adam

Kenneth Maxwell, Pirate Democracy

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly

Michael Wood, Hollywood: Money That Dreams Can't Buy

Monster: Living Off the Big Screen by John Gregory Dunne

J.M. Coetzee, Their Man On Earth

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch, translated by Paul Vincent

John R. Searle, Consciousness & the Philosophers

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David J. Chalmers

Wayne C. Booth, Richard C. Lewontin, Science & 'The Demon-Haunted World': An Exchange

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Letters

Joseph L. Ruby, Janet Malcolm, Bellocq's Women
Charles Larmore, Isaac Levi, et al. Jonathan Lieberson Prize
Morris B. Abram, Nicholas Lemann, White Liberals, Black Problems
Peter Hart, Christopher Hitchens, Taking Off?

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Contributors

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, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)

Robert Conquest, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Great Terror. (March 1997)

Jared Diamond, a Professor of Physiology and Public Health at UCLA and winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Medal of Science, is the author of, among other books, Guns, Germs, and Steel. (March 2004)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.

Dyson's books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), and The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book The Case for Big Government will be published this fall. (September 2008)

Kenneth Maxwell is Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, will be published this month. (July 2003)

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction and Freedom and Neurobiology. (November 2006)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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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