Table of Contents

Volume 46, Number 9 · May 20, 1999

Hilary Mantel, Killer Children

Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell by Gitta Sereny

Aileen Kelly, The Russian Sphinx

Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum by Martin Malia

Neal Ascherson, Put Out More Flags

Anglomania: A European Love Affair by Ian Buruma

Tony Judt, The Reason Why

Stanley Hoffmann, What Is to Be Done?

Diane Johnson, Missionary

Single & Single by John le Carré

James Fenton, The Zincsmith of Genius

Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch 1999; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 23-August 22, 1999; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 5, 1999-January 2, 2000. an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, January 27-April 25, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Gary Tinterow, by Philip Conisbee

Ingres by Georges Vigne

Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women by Aileen Ribeiro

Gabriele Annan, Ghosts

Another World by Pat Barker

Tony Judt, The Courage of the Elementary

Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist by Myriam Anissimov, Translated from the French by Steve Cox

Charles Rosen, Mallarmé the Magnificent

Oeuvres complètes, Vol. 1 by Stéphane Mallarmé, edited by Bertrand Marchal

Pankaj Mishra, A Spirit of Their Own

Freedom Song by Amit Chaudhuri

The Quilt and Other Stories by Ismat Chugtai, Translated from the Urdu by Tahira Naqvi, by Syeda S. Hamed

Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand

Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man by U.R. Anantha Murthy, Translated from the Kannada by A.K. Ramanujan

River of Fire by Qurratulain Hyder, Translated from the Urdu by the author., (to be published in November 1999)

Mirrorwork: Fifty Years of Indian Writing, 1947-1997 edited by Salman Rushdie, by Elizabeth West

Nirmala by Premchand, Translated from the Hindi by Alok Rai

Denis Donoghue, Lover of Lost Causes

Canaan by Geoffrey Hill

The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill

Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis

The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen by Paul Gordon Lauren

Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims? edited by Carrie Gustafson, by Peter Juviler

War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice by Aryeh Neier

Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence by Martha Minow

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting and Intent by Johannes Morsink

United States of America: Rights for All by Amnesty International USA

In the Lion's Den: A Shocking Account of Persecution and Martyrdom of Christians Today and How We Should Respond by Nina Shea, foreword by Chuck Colson, afterword by Ravi Zacharius

The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights edited by Joanne R. Bauer, by Daniel A. Bell

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond edited by Yael Danieli, by Elsa Stamatopoulou, by Clarence J. Dias, foreword by Kofi Annan, epilogue by Mary Robinson

NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine by William Korey

Jim Holt, Infinitesimally Yours

Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe by Michel Blay, Translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought by William R. Everdell

Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, a Personal and Mathematical Odyssey by Joseph Warren Dauben

Non-standard Analysis by Abraham Robinson

Arthur Kempton, The Lost Tycoons

To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography by Berry Gordy

Berry, Me, and Motown by Raynoma Gordy Singleton

An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad by Claude Andrew Clegg III.

Ray Kurzweil, John R. Searle, 'I Married a Computer': An Exchange

Peter G. Peterson, Robert M. Solow, 'Gray Dawn': An Exchange

Patricia Hilden, Arnold Krupat, The Editors, et al. 'Passion Play': An Exchange

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Letters

William Burr, The Kissinger Papers

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

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)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

Jim Holt writes about science and philosophy for The New Yorker, Slate, and other publications. (May 2003)

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)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

Arthur Kempton, the author of Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, is a fellow at the Institute for African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (March 2006)

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

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