Table of Contents
Volume 44, Number 12 · July 17, 1997
Richard Holmes, Paradise in a Dream 
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Michael Wood, Perseverance to the Point of Madness
Charlie Chaplin and His Times by Kenneth S. Lynn
Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin by Joyce Milton
Liu Binyan, Living in Truth
The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings by Wei Jingsheng
Ted Hughes, On Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Ovid, Peleus and Thetis (poem)
Christopher Hitchens, Goodbye to All That
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America by Ernesto Che Guevara, translated by Ann Wright
Neal Ascherson, Ceremony of Innocence
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Goodbye to Catholic Ireland by Mary Kenny
Sergei Kovalev, Russia After Chechnya
Gabriele Annan, No Man's Land
Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark
Timothy Garton Ash, True Confessions
Steve Jones, Go Milk a Fruit Bat!
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond
Richard Jenkyns, Child's Play
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
Stanley Hoffmann, Look Back in Anger
J.M. Coetzee, Blowing Hot and Cold
In the Dutch Mountains by Cees Nooteboom, translated by Adrienne Dixon
Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain by Cees Nooteboom, by Ina Rilke
John Weightman, Cosmic Adventurer
Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography by Herbert R. Lottman
Paris in the Twentieth Century the lost novel by Jules Verne, translated by Richard Howard
James Fenton, The Mummy's Secret
Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits From Ancient Egypt Paul Roberts and John Taylor. an exhibition at the British Museum, March 14-July 20, 1997.. Catalog of the exhibition by Susan Walker and Morris Bierbrier, with
The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt by Euphrosyne Doxiadis
Portraits and Masks: Burial Customs in Roman Egypt edited by Morris Bierbrier
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2008)
Liu Binyan, one of China's leading writers, is currently a Director of the Princeton China Initiative in Princeton, New Jersey. His most recent book in English is A Higher Kind of Loyalty: A Memoir. (October 1998)
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)
James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (November 2008)
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)
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.
Ted Hughes's translation of Racine's Phèdre will be staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January and published that month. His translation of the complete Oresteia, of which the poem in this issue is the opening, will be staged by the National Theatre in England and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June. His last book was Birthday Letters. He died on October 28. (December 1998)
Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)
Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and the author of In the Blood. (April 1998)
Sergei Kovalev, a biologist and former political prisoner, is a leading candidate on the Yabloko Party list for the December election to the Russian State Duma. He is President of the Institute for Human Rights and Chairman of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (November 2007)
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
