Table of Contents

Volume 46, Number 5 · March 18, 1999

Robert Darnton, The New Age of the Book

Ronald Dworkin, The Wounded Constitution

Roger Shattuck, The Threat to Proust

A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié

A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 2 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié

A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 4 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié

A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 3 by Marcel Proust, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié

Marcel Proust by Edmund White

Ingrid D. Rowland, Titian: The Sacred and Profane

Titian's Women by Rona Goffen

Tiziano: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano edited by Maria Grazia Bernardini

Timothy Garton Ash, The Puzzle of Central Europe

John Bayley, Under the Overcoat

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol translated by Richard Pevear, by Larissa Volokhonsky

Thomas Powers, Passion Play

Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry

Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux by Robert W. Larson

Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz, Introduction by Stephen B. Oates

The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Robert M. Utley

Plains Indian Drawings, 1865-1935: Pages from a Visual History edited by Janet Catherine Berlo

Gordon A. Craig, 'Working Toward the Führer'

Germans into Nazis by Peter Fritzsche

Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw

Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich by David Clay Large

Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Appenticeship by Brigitte Hamann, translated by Thomas Thornton

Ian Hacking, Mind Over Matter

Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain by Alison Winter

Derek Jarrett, The Doctor's Prescription

Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author by Lawrence Lipking

Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate

Theodore H. Draper, The Four-Sided War

The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography by Louis A. Pérez Jr.

Peter Green, Homer Lives!

Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom by Victor Davis Hanson, by John Heath

Fiona MacCarthy, The Green Pimpernel

Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary by Stella Tillyard

J.M. Coetzee, The Man with Many Qualities

Diaries 1899-1941 by Robert Musil, selected, translated, annotated, and with a preface by Philip Payne, edited and with an introduction Mark Mirsky

Henry A. Kissinger, Jonathan D. Spence, Talking with Mao: An Exchange

Jan Swafford, Charles Rosen, 'Aimez-Vous Brahms?': An Exchange


Letters

Steven Aftergood, Founding Father



Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

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 is Diary of a Bad Year. (November 2008)

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)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

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."

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)

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. (May 2008)

Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)

Derek Jarrett is Editor of the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Memoirs. His edition of The Memoirs of the Reign of George III will be published later this year. (March 1999)

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill and William Morris. Her most recent book is Byron: Life and Legend. (December 2005)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)


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