Table of Contents
Volume 44, Number 6 · April 10, 1997
Umberto Eco, Murder in Chicago 
Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu by Ted Anton
Jonathan D. Spence, What Confucius Said
The Analects of Confucius translation and notes by Simon Leys
Alan Lightman, The Contradictory Genius
Albert Einstein: A Biography by Albrecht Fölsing, translated by Ewald Osers
Gabriele Annan, In Search of the Wild Boy
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf
Clifford Geertz, Learning With Bruner
The Culture of Education by Jerome Bruner
David Remnick, Laughter in the Dark
At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel by A.N. Pirozhkova
Richard Holmes, The Romantic Circle
Roger E. Alcaly, Reinventing the Corporation
Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-First Century by Margaret M. Blair
Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win by David I. Levine
Friendly Takeover: How an Employee Buyout Saved a Steel Town by James B. Lieber
Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial "Downsizing" by David M. Gordon
Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance by Mark J. Roe
Profit Sharing: Does it Make a Difference? by Douglas L. Kruse
Freeman Dyson, Can Science Be Ethical?
Bernard Knox, The Crack in the Teacup
W.H. Auden: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse, Volume I, 1926-1938 edited by Edward Mendelson
Shaul Bakhash, Letter from an Iranian Prisoner
Thomas R. Edwards, It's a Mad World
The Friends of Freeland by Brad Leithauser
Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
Anthony Grafton, The Rest vs. the West
The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization by Walter D. Mignolo
Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650 edited by Claire Farago
Robert L. Barry, Jeri Laber, 'Smoldering Indonesia': An Exchange
Tia DeNora, Charles Rosen, Beethoven's Genius: An Exchange
Letters
Y. Michal Bodemann, Josef Joffe, 'Pornography of Horror'?
Alexander Schouvaloff, Russian Academy in Rome
Jude Wanniski, Jason Epstein, No Laffer Matter
Contributors
Roger Alcaly, who formerly taught economics at Columbia University, is a principal of Mount Lucas Management Corporation, an investment firm in Princeton, New Jersey. (October 1999)
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)
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.
Umberto Eco is an Italian philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays.
Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)
Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Alan Lightman, a physicist, teaches at MIT. His latest book is The Diagnosis. (May 2002)
David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.
Jonathan Spence, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 2007)
