Table of Contents

Volume 44, Number 14 · September 25, 1997

Andrew Delbanco, The Risk of Freedom

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography by Roger Shattuck

James Fenton, Seurat and the Sewers

Impressionists on the Seine: A Celebration of Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party 21, 1996- February 9, 1997. exhibition at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., September, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Eliza E. Rathbone, by Katherine Rothkopf, by Richard R. Brettell, by Charles S. Moffett

Seurat and the Avant-Garde by Paul Smith

Seurat and the Bathers exhibition at the National Gallery, London, July 2-September 28, 1997., Catalog of the exhibition by John Leighton, by Richard Thompson

Sue M. Halpern, The Awful Truth

The Story of Junk: A Novel by Linda Yablonsky

The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison

Eve's Apple by Jonathan Rosen

Timothy Ferris, Some Like It Hot

The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin

Imagined Worlds: The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures by Freeman Dyson

Noel Annan, Secret Sharers

The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash

Robert Craft, On the 'Virge'

Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini

Gabriele Annan, Ghosts

The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

Garry Wills, The Front Page

The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick: 1880-1955 by Richard Norton Smith

Ronald Dworkin, Assisted Suicide: What the Court Really Said

J.H. Elliott, The Enigma of Philip II

Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen

Aryeh Neier, Impasse in Kosovo

John Kidd, Making the Wrong Joyce

Ulysses: A Reader's Edition edited by Danis Rose

Jonathan Mirsky, Betrayal

The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan Dimbleby

Henri Zerner, The Vision of Leonardo

Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist 1997, and the Singapore Art Museum,October 3, 1997-February 1, 1998. an exhibition at the Museum of Science, Boston, March 3-September 1,, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Otto Letze, by Thomas Buchsteiner

Jack F. Matlock, Success Story

The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze by Carolyn M. Ekedahl, by Melvin A. Goodman

My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter by Pavel Palazchenko

R.J. Tyndorf, Istvan Deak, 'Memories of Hell': An Exchange

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Letters

Kenneth S. Lynn, Michael Wood, Monsieur Verdoux in Color
Martin Gardner, A Friend in Prison
Hellmut Wohl, Query
P.A. Bauer, M.G. Piety, et al. Not a Seducer

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Contributors

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

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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)

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."

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)

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)

Timothy Ferris, Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author, most recently, of Seeing in the Dark. (March 2003)

Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)

John Kidd is the founding director of the James Joyce Research Centre at Boston University. (September 1997)

Jack F. Matlock Jr. was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 and is the author of Autopsy on an Empire. He is George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (February 2000)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. (May 2008)

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)

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.

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)

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