Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 4 · March 5, 1998
Lawrence E. Walsh, Kenneth Starr and the Independent Counsel Act 
James Fenton, A Family Romance
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes, Fever (poem)
Jason Epstein, Prophet
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde a play written and directed by Moisés Kaufman. at the Minetta Lane Theater, New York City
The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society by Michael S. Foldy
Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century by Philip Hoare
John Updike, Pioneer
Arthur Dove: A Retrospective 1998-April 12, 1998. by an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 15, Catalog of the exhibition by Debra Bricker Balken, with William C. Agee, by Elizabeth Hutton Turner
J.M. Coetzee, 'Whither Dost Thou Hasten?'
Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange
The Iron Tracks by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green
Edmund S. Morgan, The Governor in Drag?
The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America by Patricia U. Bonomi
Roger Shattuck, Louisiana Story
Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable by Christopher Benfey
Masters and Servants by Pierre Michon, translated by Wyatt Alexander Mason
Nicholas Lemann, Justice for Blacks?
Race, Crime, and the Law by Randall Kennedy
Malign Neglect—Race, Crime, and Punishment in America by Michael Tonry
Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System by Jerome G. Miller
P.N. Furbank, Portraits of a Lady
Women's Words: Essay on French Singularity by Mona Ozouf, translated by Jane Marie Todd
John Gross, A Garland of Ibids
The Footnote: A Curious History by Anthony Grafton
Francis Haskell, The Art of the Possible
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon 12, 1998, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 10, 1998-June 7, 1998. by 1997-January an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, September 23, Catalog of the exhibition by Sylvain Lavessière
Augustin Pajou, Royal Sculptor and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 26-May 24, 1998. by an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, October 20, 1997-January 19, 1998, Catalog of the exhibition by James David Draper, by Guilhelm Scherf
Jonathan Mirsky, Talking with Wei Jingsheng
Thomas R. Edwards, Pulling Down the Temple
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
Vaclav Havel, The Sad State of the Republic
James F. Childress, Thomas H. Murray, Harold T. Shapiro, et al. 'The Confusion over Cloning': An Exchange
Charles Hill, Joan Didion, 'The Lion King': An Exchange
Martin Kilson, Kwame Anthony Appiah, 'The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding'
Letters
Gerard Launay, Alicia Ostriker, The Mysterious 'Song'
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)
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)
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 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)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)
Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)
Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)
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)
Nicholas Lemann is the national correspondent for The Atlantic. (June 1998)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)
Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Lawrence E. Walsh, formerly a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and a Deputy Attorney General of the US, has been president of the American Bar Association and was independent counsel during the Iran–contra affair. He is the author of Firewall: The Iran—Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up. (March 1998)
