Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 17 · November 5, 1998
Brad Leithauser, He's the Top! 
Cole Porter: A Biography by William McBrien
Lars-Erik Nelson, The Not Very Grand Inquisitor
Communication from the Office of the Independent Counsel, Kenneth W. Starr: Appendices to the Referral to the United States House of Representatives pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, §595(c), Parts 1 and 2 Submitted by the Office of the Independent Counsel
…And the Horse He Rode In On: The People v. Kenneth Starr by James Carville
The Clinton Enigma: A Four-and-a-Half-Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life by David Maraniss
James Merrill, Domestic Architecture (poem)
Anthony Grafton, Believe It or Not
A Collector's Cabinet 17-November 1, 1998. exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May, Catalog of the exhibition by Wheelock, Arthur K. Jr.
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston, by Katharine Park
Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters by Rosamond Purcell
Howard Gardner, Do Parents Count?
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris, with a foreword by Steven Pinker
Hilary Mantel, Escape Artists
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
Park City: New and Selected Stories by Ann Beattie
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Robert M. Solow, Guess Who Pays for Workfare?
Robert Stone, Waiting for Lefty
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Timothy Garton Ash, Goodbye to Bonn
Gabriele Annan, Pricks and Kicks
Mistler's Exit by Louis Begley
Europa by Tim Parks
James Lasdun, Between a and B (poem)
Shaul Bakhash, Iran's Unlikely President
Hope and Challenge: The Iranian President Speaks by Mohammad Khatami, edited by Parviz Morewedge, by Kent P. Jackson, translated by Alidad Mafinezam
Bim-e Mowj [Fear of the Wave] by Mohammad Khatami
Az Donya-ye Shahr ta Shahr-e Donya: Sayri dar Andisheh-ye Siyasi-ye Gharb [From the World of the City to the City of the World: A Survey of Western Political Thought] by Mohammad Khatami
William H. McNeill, Vivacious Ghost
How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History by Stephen J. Pyne
Ronald Dworkin, Is Affirmative Action Doomed?
John Ryle, The Landmines Ban & Its Discontents
The History of Landmines by Mike Croll
Letters
Hugh Agnew, Ivo Banac, et al. Scholars Against Milosevic
John Banville, Nietzsche's Complaint
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)
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."
Howard Gardner teaches psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His most recent book, with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, is Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. (April 2002)
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. (November 2008)
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published three books of poetry—A Jump Start, Woman Police Officer in Elevator, and Landscape with Chainsaw—and three collections of short stories, most recently Besieged (Selected Stories), of which the title story was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci.
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)
William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather’s Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)
James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)
Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.
John Ryle is Chair of the Rift Valley Institute, a network of regional specialists working in East and Northeast Africa. (August 2004)
Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (November 2008)
Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. He is the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. He has also written short stories, essays, and screenplays, and published a short story collection, Bear and His Daughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and in Key West, Florida.
