Table of Contents

Volume 44, Number 15 · October 9, 1997

Ian Buruma, Royal Comedy

Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert by Stanley Weintraub

Mrs. Brown a film directed by John Madden. distributed by Miramax Films

Ian Buruma, Royal Tragedy

Alfred Kazin, A Single Jew

Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work edited by Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco

The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux

Michael Ignatieff, The Gods of War

Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich

Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict by Chris Hables Gray

The Rosy Future of War by Philippe Delmas

John Gregory Dunne, 'Poet of Resentment'

Jackie Robinson by Arnold Rampersad

I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson

Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy by Jules Tygiel

Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait by Rachel Robinson

The Jackie Robinson Reader: Perspectives of an American Hero edited by Jules Tygiel

Breaking the Line a television documentary broadcast on ESPN, February 28, 1997

Alastair Reid, Report from an Undeclared War

News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman

Howard Gardner, Thinking About Thinking

The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science by Steven Mithen

Gordon A. Craig, Among the Missing

The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property edited by Elizabeth Simpson

The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art by Hector Feliciano

Jasper Griffin, Miriam Griffin, Show Us You Care, Ma'am

Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding

On Toleration by Michael Walzer

We Are All Multiculturalists Now by Nathan Glazer

Thomas R. Edwards, Desperate Characters

Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone

Tony Judt, Why the Cold War Worked

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History Press by John Lewis Gaddis

The Cominform: Minutes of the Three Conferences 1947/1948/1949 edited by Giuliano Procacci

John Bayley, Slightly Sacred Poet

Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray

Willibald Sauerländer, The Riddle of the French Renaissance

L'Art de la Renaissance en France: L'invention du classicisme by Henri Zerner

Charles Rosen, The Great Inventor

Bach and the Patterns of Invention by Laurence Dreyfus

Harold Kalant, Werner Kalow, Steven Pinker, et al. Evolutionary Psychology: An Exchange

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Letters

John Kidd, The Right Slogger

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Contributors

K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism. He has recently edited Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption with Martin Bunzl. (September 2007)

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

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

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)

Howard Gardner teaches psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His most recent book, with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, is Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. (April 2002)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and Public Orator at Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (December 2007)

Miriam Griffin is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Somerville College, Oxford. She is the author of books on Nero and Seneca. (October 1997)

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Alastair Reid received the PEN Kolovakos Award for Translation in 2001, along with Gregory Rabassa. (January 2004)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His most recent books are Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments and Essai sur les Visages des Bustes de Houdon. (June 2007)

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