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Volume 45, Number 8 · May 14, 1998

Mark Lilla, A Tale of Two Reactions

John Golding, Simply Himself

Fernand Léger Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, May 29-September 29, 1997; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, October 28, 1997-January 12, 1998; Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 15-May 12, 1998. a retrospective exhibition at the Musée National d'Art Moderne,, Catalog of the New York exhibition by Carolyn Lanchner, with Jodi Hauptman, by Matthew Affron

J.M. Coetzee, Kafka: Translators on Trial

The Castle by Franz Kafka, translated by Harman Mark

Timothy Garton Ash, Europe: Iceberg Ahead

Europe Adrift by John Newhouse

Charles Rosen, Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde?

Kenneth Maxwell, The Dirty War

A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture by Marguerite Feitlowitz

Henry Allen, Strand's Great Moment

Paul Strand circa 1916 1998, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 19-September 15, 1998. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 10-May 31,, Catalog of the exhibition by Maria Morris Hambourg

Millicent Bell, Victoria's Secrets

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith

Notorious Victoria by Mary Gabriel

James Fenton, Keats the Radical

John Keats and the Culture of Dissent by Nicholas Roe

Keats: A Biography by Andrew Motion

Neal Ascherson, A Murder in South Africa

The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer

Kenneth Koch, The Language of Poetry

Tim Judah, Will There Be a War in Kosovo?

Kosovo: A Short History by Noel Malcolm

Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo by Miranda Vickers

Leonard Thompson, Comparatively Speaking

The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements by George M. Fredrickson

Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa by George M. Fredrickson

Comrades in Business: Post-Liberation Politics in South Africa by Heribert Adam, by Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, by Kogila Moodley

Isaiah Berlin, The First and the Last

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Contributors

Henry Allen is a cultural critic at The Washington Post. His new book, What It Felt Like, will be published in the fall. (March 2000)

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Millicent Bell is Professor of English Emerita at Boston University. She is the author of Meaning in Henry James and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. (May 1998)

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

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)

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)

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)

John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)

Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)

Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)

Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.

Kenneth Maxwell is Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, will be published this month. (July 2003)

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

Leonard Thompson is Charles J. Stillé Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His books include The Political Mythology of Apartheid and A History of South Africa. (May 1998)

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