Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 10 · June 11, 1998
Ingrid D. Rowland, The Genius of Parma 
Correggio by David Ekserdjian
Correggio's Frescoes in Parma Cathedral by Carolyn Smyth
Alma Guillermoprieto, Love and Misery in Cuba
Alexander Stille, The Betrayal of History
A History of US by Joy Hakim
Our United States
America's Story
Build Our Nation
United States: Adventures in Time and Space
Larry McMurtry, The Return of Janet Lewis
The Dear Past (1994) by Janet Lewis
The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941) by Janet Lewis
Goodbye, Son (1943) by Janet Lewis
The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959) by Janet Lewis
The Trial of Soren Qvist (1947) by Janet Lewis
The Invasion (1932) by Janet Lewis
Andrew Hacker, Grand Illusion
One Nation, After All by Alan Wolfe
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration by Tamar Jacoby
Reaching Beyond Race by Paul M. Sniderman, by Edward G. Carmines
Roberts vs. Texaco: A True Story of Race and Corporate America by Bari-Ellen Roberts, with Jack E. White
Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century by Samuel C. Heilman
Luc Sante, What Happened in Hudson County?
Freedomland by Richard Price
Simon Leys, The Imitation of Our Lord Don Quixote
Gordon A. Craig, How to Think About the Swiss
The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine by Jean Ziegler
Hitler's Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold, and the Pursuit of Justice by Isabel Vincent
Hitler's Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust by Adam LeBor
Movements of Nazi Gold: Uncovering the Trail by Sidney Zabludoff
V.S. Naipaul, Indonesia: The Man of the Moment
Margaret Scott, Epilogue
Bernard Knox, Horace, Our Contemporary
Horace in English edited by D.S. Carne-Ross, by Kenneth Haynes, with an introduction by D.S. Carne-Ross
The Odes of Horace bilingual edition, translation by Ferry David
David Brion Davis, A Big Business
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas
The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 by Robin Blackburn
Ann Hulbert, In the Bosom of the Family
The Limits of Hope: An Adoptive Mother's Story by Ann Kimble Loux
Robert Post, Justice for Scalia
A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law by Antonin Scalia, with commentary by Amy Gutmann editor, by Gordon S. Wood, by Laurence H. Tribe, by Mary Ann Glendon, by Ronald Dworkin
John Ryle, Sudan: The Perils of Aid
Patricia Storace, The Scripture of Utopia
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Letters
Karen Corbett, Liz Jones, et al. Release Ratna Sarumpaet!
Robert B. Seaver, Robert Stone, The Beechers
Contributors
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)
David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)
Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)
Ann Hulbert is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford. She is currently at work on a book about twentieth-century American child-rearing experts. (June 1998)
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Simon Leys is the author of a dozen books, mostly on Chinese art, culture, and politics. His latest work is The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story. (December 2007)
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
Robert Post is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law at the School of Law at Berkeley. (June 1998)
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.
John Ryle is Chair of the Rift Valley Institute, a network of regional specialists working in East and Northeast Africa. (August 2004)
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.
Margaret Scott, formerly the Cultural Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, is a writer specializing in Asia. (August 1998)
Alexander Stille is the author of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic and The Future of the Past. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 2008)
Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.
