Table of Contents

Volume 45, Number 19 · December 3, 1998

Gordon A. Craig, Destiny in Any Case

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer, translated by Martin Chalmers

Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten: Tagebücher 1933-1945 by Victor Klemperer, edited by Walter Nowojski

Lars-Erik Nelson, Democracy for Sale

The Buying of the Congress: How Special Interests Have Stolen Your Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Charles Lewis. the Center for Public Integrity

John Updike, Jackson Whole

Jackson Pollock 1998-February 2, 1999; Tate Gallery, London, March 11-June 6, 1999. an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 1,, Catalog of the exhibition by Kirk Varnedoe, with Pepe Karmel

Edmund S. Morgan, The Big American Crime

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation a book and audiotape set, translated by Ira Berlin, by Marc Favreau, by Steven F. Miller

Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery by Charles Johnson, by Patricia Smith. the WGBH Research Team

Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery produced by WGBH

Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan

Richard Jenkyns, China is Near

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds by Jonathan D. Spence

James Merrill, Oranges (poem)

David L. Hull, Scientists Behaving Badly

The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character by Daniel J. Kevles

James Fenton, Grand Illusions

New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, September 12, 1998-January 4, 1999, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 26-April 18, 1999. an exhibition traveling from Canberra and Melbourne to the Wadsworth, Catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Johns, by Andrew Sayers, by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, with Amy Ellis

Thomas Moran catalog of the traveling exhibition, edited by Nancy K. Anderson, with contributions from Thomas P. Bruhn, by Joni L. Kinsey, by Anne Morand

Michael Scammell, The Solzhenitsyn Archipelago

Alexander Solzhenitsyn:A Century in His Life by D.M. Thomas

W.S. Merwin, Footprints of a Shadow

Fernando Pessoa: A Centenary Pessoa edited by Eugénio Lisboa, with L.C. Taylor

Fernando Pessoa & Co.:Selected Poems edited and translated by Richard Zenith

The Keeper of Sheep by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Edwin Honig, by Susan M. Brown

The Presence of Pessoa:English, American, and South American Literary Responses by George Monteiro

An Introduction to Fernando Pessoa: Modernism and the Paradoxes of Authorship by Darlene J. Sadlier

Always Astonished: Selected Prose by Fernando Pessoa edited, translated, and introduced by Edwin Honig

Poems of Fernando Pessoa translated and edited by Edwin Honig, by Susan M. Brown

André Aciman, Out of Novemberland

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

P.N. Furbank, The Hack of Genius

Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures by Richard West

Tony Judt, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu

Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past edited by Pierre Nora, English-language edition edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Volume I: Conflicts and Divisions

Volume II: Traditions

Volume III: Symbols

Ted Hughes, The Watchman's Lament (poem)

Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, Richard C. Lewontin, 'Higher Superstition': An Exchange

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Letters

George F. Kennan, A Letter on Germany
John Szarkowski, Henry Allen, Revelations
Rick Wallach, A.O. Scott, Admiration Society
Timothy V. Craine, Martin Gardner, The New New Math
Ruth M. Heaton, Martin Gardner, Sandra's Math Block

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Contributors

André Aciman teaches Comparative Literature at the City University Graduate Center. He is the author of False Papers and the memoir Out of Egypt. His new novel will be published in 2007.

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)

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)

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

Ted Hughes's translation of Racine's Phèdre will be staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January and published that month. His translation of the complete Oresteia, of which the poem in this issue is the opening, will be staged by the National Theatre in England and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June. His last book was Birthday Letters. He died on October 28. (December 1998)

David L. Hull is Dressler Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. He is the author of Science as a Process and, with Michael Ruse, Philosophy of Biology. (December 1998)

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)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 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)

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.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)

Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.

Michael Scammell is Professor of Writing and Translation at Columbia. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, and has just completed a biography of Arthur Koestler. (November 2005)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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