Table of Contents

Volume 45, Number 9 · May 28, 1998

Richard Jenkyns, 2001

Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown by Stephen Jay Gould

Freeman Dyson, Is God in the Lab?

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist by Richard P. Feynman

Belief in God in an Age of Science by John Polkinghorne

Gerald Early, The Wonder Boy

Robert Craft, Sunday Afternoon Live

New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts, 1923-1987 book, 21 conductors, 18 soloists. ten compact discs of digitally remastered recordings, with 144-page

John Gregory Dunne, Angels of LA

His Eminence of Los Angeles by Monsignor Francis J. Weber

The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory by Norman M. Klein

American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church by Charles R. Morris

The Powers That Be by David Halberstam

Catholic Bishops by John Tracy Ellis

Enrique Krauze, In Memory of Octavio Paz (1914–1998)

John Leonard, TV: The Mummy's Curse

Made Possible By…The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States by James Ledbetter

Public Television: Politics and the Battle over Documentary Film by B.J. Bullert

Avishai Margalit, The Other Israel

Jonathan D. Spence, Goodfellas in Shanghai

The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941 by Frederic Wakeman Jr.

Warren Zimmermann, Bad Blood

The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff

Theodore H. Draper, A Dysfunctional Family

From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy after 1921 by André Liebich

Christopher Hitchens, Powell's Way

A Dance to the Music of Time collected in four "movements,", by Anthony Powell. A Question of Upbringing (1951). A Buyer's Market (1952). The Acceptance World (1955). At Lady Molly's (1957). Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960). The Kindly Ones (1962). The Valley of Bones (1964). The Soldier's Art (1966). The Military Philosophers (1968). Books Do Furnish a Room (1971). Temporary Kings (1973). Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975)

A Dance to the Music of Time a seven-hour miniseries adapted by Hugh Whitemore. broadcast in the UK on Channel Four

Journals: 1982-1986 by Anthony Powell

Journals: 1987-1989 by Anthony Powell

Journals: 1989-1992 by Anthony Powell

Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989 by Anthony Powell

Merlin Donald, Steven Mithen, Howard Gardner, 'The Prehistory of the Mind': An Exchange

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Letters

Jill-Elyse Grossvogel, Geraldine Norman, Clouds over Arles
Ralph Melnick, Ian Buruma, Anne Frank's Afterlife, cont'd.
Jean Starobinski, Ernst Gombrich, 'Largesse'

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Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.

Dyson's books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), and The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also serves as the Director of the Center for the Humanities. His latest book is This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s, published last year. (April 2004)

Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.

Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)

Enrique Krauze is the author of Mexico: Biography of Power. He is Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Letras Libres and was, for twenty years, Deputy Editor of Vuelta, whose editor was Octavio Paz. (December 2000)

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)

Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)

Warren Zimmermann, a professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University, was US Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992. A revised edition of his book, Origins of a Catastrophe:Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers, has just been published in paperback. (June 1999)

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