Table of Contents
Volume 44, Number 17 · November 6, 1997
Luc Sante, Between Hell and History
Underworld by Don DeLillo
James Fenton, The Voracious Eye 
Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective An exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, September 19, 1997-January 7, 1998. Catalog of the exhibition by Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson.
Steve Jones, The Set Within the Skull
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Joyce Carol Oates, Killer Kids
The Bad Seed by William March
Noel Malcolm, In the Palace of Nightmares
The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
Amos Elon, The Case of Hannah Arendt
Ingrid D. Rowland, The Renaissance Revealed
Renaissance by George Holmes
Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance by Lisa Jardine
Art and Life in Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown
Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto by James S. Grubb
Autobiography of An Aspiring Saint by Cecilia Ferrazzi, transcribed, translated, and edited by Anne Jacobson Schutte
Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power by Roger D. Masters
Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence by Michael Rocke
Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival: Seven Sacred Plays by Antonia Pulci, annotated and translated by James Wyatt Cook, edited by James Wyatt Cook, by Barbara Collier Cook
Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 by Dennis Romano
Venice and Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past by Patricia Fortini Brown
J.M. Coetzee, What We Like to Forget
The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips
Tony Judt, François Furet (1927–1997)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, America's Holy War
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson
Alan Ryan, The Prophet
Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism by Christopher Lasch, edited by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
John Higham, Three Reconstructions
Helen Vendler, Anglo-Celtic Attitudes
Woman Police Officer in Elevator by James Lasdun
Selected Poems 1968-1986 by Paul Muldoon
The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon
Rest for the Wicked by Glyn Maxwell
Paul Muldoon by Tim Kendall
Aileen Kelly, Chekhov the Subversive
Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary Translated from the Russian by Michael Henry Heim. with Simon Karlinsky, introduction and commentary by Simon Karlinsky
Chekhov's Plays: An Opening into Eternity by Richard Gilman
Anton Chekhov: A Life by Donald Rayfield
Veran Matic, Laura Silber, Radio Free Yugoslavia
Yale Kamisar, Ronald Dworkin, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: An Exchange
Contributors
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 new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (August 2009)
Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)
James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)
John Higham is Professor of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University and the editor of Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black—White Relations Since World War II, which has just been published. (November 1997)
Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and the author of In the Blood. (April 1998)
Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued in paperback. (September 2009)
Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)
Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Bosnia: A Short History and Kosovo: A Short History. (December 2007)
Veran Matic is editor-in-chief of Belgrade Radio B-92. Before co-founding the Radio in 1989, he worked as an independent journalist and he has also started a publishing house. (November 1997)
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
Laura Silber is a reporter for the Financial Times and the coauthor of Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation. (November 1997)
Helen Vendler's recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published later this year. (March 2009)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent books are The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War and the forthcoming Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition. (October 2002)
