Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 16 · October 22, 1998
Adam Michnik, On Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) 
Zbigniew Herbert, Two Poems (poem)
Timothy Garton Ash, Orwell in 1998
The Complete Works of George Orwell edited by Peter Davison, assisted by Ian Angus, by Sheila Davison
Julian Barnes, The Wise Woman
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Joan Didion, Clinton Agonistes
Referral to the United States House of Representatives pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, §595(c) Submitted by the Office of the Independent Counsel
Luc Sante, The Eye of Walker Evans
Walker Evans: New York 11, 1998 exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, July 28-October
Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection by Judith Keller
Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye by Gilles Mora, by John T. Hill
Walker Evans: A Biography by Belinda Rathbone
The Last Years of Walker Evans by Jerry L. Thompson
Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-38 Administration Collection in the Library of Congress A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security
Walker Evans: American Photographs with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein
Walker Evans at Work with an essay by Jerry L. Thompson
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee, by Walker Evans
Walker Evans: Havana 1933 by Gilles Mora, by John T. Hill
Walker Evans: Signs with an essay by Andrei Codrescu
Louis Menand, Beat the Devil
The Time of Our Time by Norman Mailer
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., On JFK: An Interview with Isaiah Berlin
Larry McMurtry, The West Without Chili
The New Encyclopedia of the American West by Howard R. Lamar
W.S. Merwin, Two Poems (poem)
Alma Guillermoprieto, Fidel in the Evening
Fidel Castro y la religion: Conversaciones con Frei Betto
Alina: Memorias de la hija rebelde de Fidel Castro [Memoirs of the Rebel Daughter of Fidel Castro] Not in My Father's House (St. Martin's) by Alina Fernández
Memorias de un soldado cubano: Vida y muerte de la Revolución by Dariel Alarcón Ramírez, by ("Benigno")
Robert Pinsky, Prologue: for a Stage Presentation of the Inferno (poem)
James Fenton, Men, Women & Beasts
D.H. Lawrence The Cambridge Biography: The Early Years 1885-1912 by John Worthen
Birds, Beasts and Flowers! 1923) by D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence: The Complete Poems edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, by Warren Roberts
The Dying Game 1922-1930 by David Ellis
Triumph to Exile 1912-1922 (Volu by Mark Kinkead-Weekes
Richard C. Lewontin, Survival of the Nicest?
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by Elliott Sober, by David Sloan Wilson
Charles Rosen, Aimez-Vous Brahms?
Johannes Brahms: A Biography by Jan Swafford
Brahms Studies 2 edited by David Brodbeck
Brahms: The Four Symphonies by Walter Frisch
Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters selected and annotated by Styra Avins
Clifford Geertz, Deep Hanging Out
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians by Pierre Clastres, translated by Paul Auster
Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by Clifford. James
Mark Danner, 'Operation Storm'
Croatia: A Nation Forged in War by Marcus Tanner
To End a War by Richard Holbrooke
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber, by Allan Little
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Barbara Demick, photographs by John Costello
J.M. Coetzee, Borges's Dark Mirror
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley
Stephen Jay Gould, The Man Who Invented Natural History
Buffon by Jacques Roger, translated by Sarah Lucille Bonnefoi
Ronald Dworkin, Affirming Affirmative Action
The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions by William G. Bowen, by Derek Bok
Contributors
Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.
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)
Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
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)
Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)
Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)
Zbigniew Herbert, a leading Polish poet, died in 1998. The Collected Poems: 1956–1998, edited and translated by Alissa Valles, will be published by Ecco in February. (January 2007)
Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).
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.
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. He is the author of several books, including Letters from Prison and Letters from Freedom.
(July 2008)
Robert Pinsky is Poet Laureate of the United States. His most recent books, The Sounds of Poetry and The Handbook of Heartache, were published last fall. (February 1999)
Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)
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.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)
