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 latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)
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's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
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 is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
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 is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton. Her collection of short novellas Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway has just been published, and her novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike will be published this summer. (June 2008)
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 intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)
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 is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)
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)
