Table of Contents

Volume 45, Number 6 · April 9, 1998

Russell Baker, Bravest and Best

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 by Taylor Branch

The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign by Gerald D. McKnight

But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle by Glenn T. Eskew

Alfred Kazin, God's Own Terrorist

Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks

David Remnick, How Russia Is Ruled

Boris Yel'tsin: Ot Rassveta do Zakata (Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk) by Aleksandr Korzhakov

The Russian Intelligentsia by Andrei Sinyavsky, translated by Lynn Visson

Martin Filler, Giant in the Woods

Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, February 19-May 19, 1998., Catalog of the exhibition edited by Peter Reed

Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997 Arts, February 27-June 14, 1998. exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Marianne Aav, by Nina Stritzler-Levine

Alvar Aalto in His Own Words by Göran Schildt

The Alvar Aalto Guide by Michael Trencher

Alvar Aalto: Master Works by Göran Schildt

Gordon A. Craig, The Other Mann

Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949 edited and with an introduction by Hans Wysling, and a foreword by Anthony Heilbut, translated by Don Reneau

The Loyal Subject by Heinrich Mann, edited by Helmut Peitsch, translated by Ernest Boyd, by Daniel Theisen. The German Library, Volume 64.

Pankaj Mishra, Edmund Wilson in Benares

Rosemary Dinnage, So Alert with Love

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

Frank J. Sulloway, Darwinian Virtues

The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley

Gordon S. Wood, The Bloodiest War

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore

Geoffrey O'Brien, Recapturing the American Sound

Anthology of American Folk Music compiled by Harry Smith

Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard A. Peterson

When We Were Good: The Folk Revival by Robert Cantwell

Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus

Theodore H. Draper, Sidney Hook's Revolution

Young Sidney Hook by Christopher Phelps

Peter Holland, Culture Ho!

The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer

Elaine Scarry, The Fall of TWA 800: The Possibility of Electromagnetic Interference

Tom Hayden, Fintan O'Toole, 'The End of the Troubles?': An Exchange

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Letters

Cynthia Ozick, Ian Buruma, Anne Frank's Afterlife
Edward Field, Tobias Schneebaum, The Shock of Recognition
Stephen Schwartz, Noel Malcolm, In the Palace of Nightmares'
Gregory Nagy, Performing Homer
Jim Sleeper, Nicholas Lemann, Not a Judge

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Contributors

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (July 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)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.

Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote the entry on Shakespeare in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (December 2004)

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

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)

David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.

Elaine Scarry is the author of On Beauty and Being Just and recently received the Truman Capote Prize for Dreaming by the Book. She teaches at Harvard, where she is completing a project on war and the social contract. (October 2000)

Frank J. Sulloway is Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author most recently of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. (November 2006)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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