Table of Contents

Volume 46, Number 6 · April 8, 1999

Ian Buruma, The Joys and Perils of Victimhood

Yehuda Amichai, Chana Kronfeld, On the Night of the Exodus (poem)

John Bayley, The Strange Death of Pushkin

Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale, Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein, by Jon Rothschild

Joyce Carol Oates, The Case of the Canned Lawyer

The Crime of Sheila McGough by Janet Malcolm

Marilyn McCully, The Fallen Angel?

The Picasso Papers by Rosalind E. Krauss

David Gilmour, Sheep in Wolf's Clothing

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell

Peter Canby, The Truth About Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll

I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala edited and introduced by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, translated by Ann Wright

John R. Searle, I Married a Computer

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil

Christopher Benfey, The Mystery of Emily Dickinson

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition edited by R.W. Franklin

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson edited by Ellen Louise Hart, by Martha Nell Smith

The Emily Dickinson Handbook edited by Gudrun Grabher, by Roland Hagenbüchle, by Cristanne Miller

Jonathan Mirsky, Message from Shangri-La

High Peaks, Pure Earth: Collected Writings on Tibetan History and Culture by Hugh Richardson, edited with an introduction by Michael Aris

P.N. Furbank, Tocqueville's Lament

The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville, edited by François Furet, by Françoise Mélonio, translated by Alan S Kahan

Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution by Patrice Higonnet

István Deák, Survivor in a Sea of Barbarism

Hungary's Admiral on Horseback: Miklós Horthy, 1918-1944 by Thomas Sakmyster

Anthony Quinton, My Son the Philosopher

The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change by Randall Collins

Edwin Frank, It Happened One Night

Singing into the Piano by Ted Mooney

Robert Cottrell, Europe: So Far, It Flies

This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair by Hugo Young. To be published in May.

Redrawing the Map of Europe by Michael Emerson

William Pfaff, Power for What?

Gar Alperovitz, Eric Alterman, Barton J. Bernstein, et al. 'The Red Scare': An Exchange

John C. Markowitz, Cushing Strout, Louis Menand, The Strange Case of William James: An Exchange

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Letters

Steven Flanders, David Brion Davis, The Big Business of Slavery
Michael Laschinger, Tony Judt, Not a False Past
Russell Seitz, Destroyer of Worlds

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Contributors

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was one of Israel's leading writers. His books of poetry include Now and in Other Days, Songs of Jerusalem and Myself, Love Poems, Amen and Open, Closed, Open.

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

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His edition of Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings was published last spring by the Library of America. (October 2009)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.

Peter Canby is the author of The Heart of the Sky: Travels Among the Maya. He is an editor and the head of the fact-checking department at The New Yorker. (November 2005)

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (November 2009)

Edwin Frank is the editor of NYRB Classics.

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

David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)

Chana Kronfeld is the author of On the Margins of Modernism. (April 1999)

Marilyn McCully is the editor of Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier. (April 2002)

Jonathan Mirsky is a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs. In 2002 he was the first I.F. Stone Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Journalism School.
 (August 2009)

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)

William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet's Song. (December 2007)

Anthony Quinton is the former president of Trinity College, Oxford, former chairman of the British Library, and the author of Hume. (June 2001)

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction, Freedom and Neurobiology, and Philosophy in a New Century.
 (September 2009)

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