Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 18 · November 19, 1998
Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian Roulette 
David Lodge, Bye-Bye Bech
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel by John Updike
Noel Annan, Dean of the Cold War
Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World by James Chace
Czeslaw Milosz, Discreet Charm of Nihilism
Robert L. Herbert, Monet Our Contemporary
Monet in the 20th Century 20-December 27, 1998, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 23-April 18, 1999 an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September
Monet in the 20th Century Catalog of the exhibition by Paul Hayes Tucker, with George T.M. Shackelford, by MaryAnne Stevens, and essays by Romy Golan, by John House, by Michael Leja
Ian Buruma, Hello to Berlin
Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
Capital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy by Michael Z. Wise
Fintan O'Toole, Mystic Scientist
Threads of Time: Recollections by Peter Brook
Michael Massing, The Blue Revolution
Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic by William Bratton, with Peter Knobler
Politics, Punishment, and Populism by Lord Windlesham
Getting Away With Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System by Susan Estrich
John Bayley, What Follies and Paradoxes!
Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance by Aileen M. Kelly
Bernard Williams, The End of Explanation?
The Last Word by Thomas Nagel
Kenneth Roth, The Court the US Doesn't Want
James Fenton, Leonardo's Nephew
Rosemary Dinnage, Doris Lessing's Double Life
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 by Doris Lessing
Bernard Knox, Under the Volcano
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
Daniel J. Kevles, Darwin in Dayton
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
Darryl Pinckney, The Magic of James Baldwin
James Baldwin: Collected Essays
Louis Lowenstein, Hungry and Homeless
Letters
Lev Loseff, Simon Leys, Dostoevsky & 'Don Quixote'
Contributors
Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)
Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.
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)
Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”
Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.
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.
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and
the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
Louis Lowenstein is the Rifkind Professor Emeritus of Finance and Law at Columbia University and the Chairman of the Coalition for the Homeless. (November 1998)
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. He is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. (November 2007)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Kenneth Roth is Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. (November 1998)
Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.
Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 2000)
