Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 4 · March 4, 1999
Rosemary Dinnage, In the Dark Continent 
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
Garry Wills, Fire & Ice
Gabriele D'Annunzio: Defiant Archangel by John Woodhouse
Cabiria e il suo tempo edited by Paolo Bertetto, by Gianni Rondolino
Griffithiana: The Journal of Film History edited by Davide Turconi
Neal Ascherson, On the Edge of Catastrophe
Secrets by Nuruddin Farah
V.S. Naipaul, The Writer and India
John Ryle, Children in Arms
In the Firing Line: War and Children's Rights by Amnesty International UK
Jonathan D. Spence, Kissinger & the Emperor
The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow edited by William Burr
Edmund S. Morgan, Mr. W. on Show
The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic October 6, 1998-June 6, 1999; and the Morgan Library, New York, September 16, 1999-January 2, 2000 an exhibition at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California,
The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic by John Rhodehamel, foreword by Gordon S. Wood
Joel E. Cohen, The Bright Side of the Plague
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by David Herlihy, edited and with an introduction by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Michael Ignatieff, Prophet in the Ruins
Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism's Self-Destruction by Milovan Djilas, edited by Vasilije Kalezic, Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by John Loud
Ian Buruma, Back to the Future
Anthony Grafton, Remaking the Renaissance
The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome by Ingrid Rowland
J.S. Marcus, Screentime for Hitler
The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company 1918-1945 by Klaus Kreimeier, translated by Robert Kimber, by Rita Kimber
The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife by Eric Rentschler
Der Bewegte Mann (Maybe…Maybe Not) (1994) a film by Sönke Wortmann
Fintan O'Toole, Poet Beyond Borders
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney by Helen Vendler
Letters
Christopher Benfey, Unreliable Source
John Gregory Dunne, Not Jewish
James Fallows, It Was Aircraft
Olga Andreyev Carlisle, Solzhenitsyn's Refusal
Philip Roth, John Updike, Slight Revision
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard.
He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)
Joel E. Cohen, Professor of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities in New York City, is the author of How Many People Can the Earth Support? (March 1999)
Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)
J. S. Marcus's most recent novel is The Captain's Fire. He is currently a fellow at the Santa Maddalena Foundation, near Florence. (April 2001)
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. (September 2007)
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.
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)
John Ryle is Chair of the Rift Valley Institute, a network of regional specialists working in East and Northeast Africa. (August 2004)
Jonathan Spence, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 2007)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
