Table of Contents

Volume 44, Number 8 · May 15, 1997

Frank Kermode, Advertisement for Himself

The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Horse Sense

The Nature of Horses: Exploring Equine Evolution, Intelligence, and Behavior by Stephen Budiansky

James Fenton, The Many Arts of Elizabeth Bishop

Exchanging Hats: Paintings by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by William Benton

Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell by David Kalstone, edited by Robert Hemenway, afterword by James Merrill

Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett C. Millier

One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop, selected and edited by Robert Giroux

Czeslaw Milosz, Subjects to Let

Kathleen M. Sullivan, Democracy and the Deficit

Andrew Delbanco, The Great Leviathan

Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker

Witold Rybczynski, This New House

A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder by Michael Pollan

Louis Menand, How Eliot Became Eliot

Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T.S. Eliot, edited by Christopher Ricks

The Waste Land, the 75th anniversary edition by T.S. Eliot, with an afterword by Christopher Ricks

R.J.W. Evans, Doing the Continental

Europe: A History by Norman Davies

Fiona MacCarthy, Refuseniks

Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser

Mark Lilla, The Enemy of Liberalism

The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt, translated and introduced by George Schwab, with a new foreword by Tracy B. Strong

Die Lehre Carl Schmitts: Vier Kapitel zur Unterscheidung Politischer Theologie und Politischer Philosophie by Heinrich Meier

Die eigentlich katholische Verschärfung: Konfession, Theologie und Politik im Werk Carl Schmitts edited by Bernd Wacker

Carl Schmitt: Eine Biographie by Paul Noack

Der Katechon: Zu Carl Schmitts fundamentalistischer Kritik der Zeit by Günter Meuter

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue by Heinrich Meier, translated by J. Harvey Lomax, foreword by Joseph Cropsey

The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol by Carl Schmitt, translated by George Schwab, translated by Erna Hilfstein

Glossarium: Aufzeichnungen der Jahre 1947-1951 by Carl Schmitt, edited by Eberhard Freiherr von Medem

Staat, Grossraum, Nomos: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1916-1969 by Carl Schmitt, edited by Günther Maschke

Der Fall Carl Schmitt: Sein Aufstieg zum "Kronjuristen des Dritten Reiches" by Andreas Koenen

Roman Catholicism and Political Form by Carl Schmitt, translated by G.L. Ulmen

John Bayley, Class Act

Palimpsest by Gore Vidal

William H. McNeill, History Upside Down

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Darryl Pinckney, The Drama of Ralph Ellison

Flying Home and Other Stories by Ralph Ellison, edited with an introduction by John F. Callahan

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison edited with an introduction by John F. Callahan, preface by Saul Bellow

David J. Chalmers, John R. Searle, 'Consciousness and the Philosophers': An Exchange

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Letters

Ian Patterson, Christopher Hitchens, The Life of Literature

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is Melville: His World and Work. (April 2008)

R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. (September 2007)

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)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)

Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill and William Morris. Her most recent book is Byron: Life and Legend. (December 2005)

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's most recent books are The Hidden Life of Dogs, Certain Poor Shepherds, and The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture. (May 1997)

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather’s Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)

Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is architecture critic for Slate. His new book on American building, Last Harvest, has just been published. (May 2007)

Kathleen M. Sullivan was until recently the Dean of Stanford Law School, where she has returned to the faculty as the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law. (September 2004)

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