Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 17 · November 4, 1999
Joan Didion, 'The Day Was Hot and Still…' 
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris
Seamus Heaney, A New 'Beowulf'
Ian Buruma, China in Cyberspace
Jonathan Mirsky, Misfortune in Shanghai
Gordon A. Craig, The End of the Golden Age
Einstein's German World by Fritz Stern
Larry McMurtry, Death of the Cowboy
Colin McGinn, Freud Under Analysis
Christopher Hitchens, The Case of Arthur Conan Doyle
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower
Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes by Stephen Kendrick
Robert L. Herbert, Goodbye to All That
Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism by T.J. Clark
Andrew Delbanco, The Decline and Fall of Literature
In Plato's Cave by Alvin Kernan
The Death of Literature by Alvin Kernan
Literature: An Embattled Profession by Carl Woodring
The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline by Robert Scholes
Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John M. Ellis
The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies by Michael Bérubé
What's Happened to the Humanities? edited by Alvin Kernan
Jasper Griffin, The Myth of Myths
Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India by Wendy Doniger
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth by Wendy Doniger
David Gilmour, The Ballad of Federico García Lorca
Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stainton
Shaul Bakhash, The Eyptian Gamble
Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question by Michael Doran
Eric L. McKitrick, Washington the Liberator
George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America by Robert F. Dalzell Jr., by Lee Baldwin Dalzell
Whitney Balliett, War at the Top
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
Quentin Skinner, The Advancement of Francis Bacon
Philosophical Studies c.1611-c.1619 by Francis Bacon, edited by Graham Rees
Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626 by B.H.G. Wormald
Francis Bacon by Perez Zagorin
Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination by Nieves Mathews
Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon by Lisa Jardine, by Alan Stewart
Richard Wilbur, To a Comedian (poem)
Jason Epstein, Always Time to Kill
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 by David M. Glantz, with German translations by Mary E. Glantz
An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare by Joanna Bourke
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh
Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich by Omer Bartov
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
The First World War by John Keegan
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
Gerald Needham, Francis Schrag, Alison Gopnik, Psychology for Teachers: An Exchange
Letters
Morris Dickstein, Irving Howe Memorial Lecture
Theodore Reff, James Fenton, Degas' Birds
Contributors
Shaul Bakhash is Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. (September 2005)
Whitney Balliett's most recent book is Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954—2001 (August 2003).
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 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)
Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is Melville: His World and Work. (April 2008)
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)
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)
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
Seamus Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
Colin McGinn teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Miami and is a Cooper Fellow. His most recent book is Shakespeare’s Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays. (March 2008)
Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University. His most recent books are Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Liberty Before Liberalism. (November 2000)
Richard Wilbur's book Mayflies: New Poems and Translations will be published in April. (November 2000)
