Table of Contents

Volume 49, Number 3 · February 28, 2002

Michael Ignatieff, Barbarians at the Gate?

Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos by Robert D. Kaplan

Felix G. Rohatyn, The Betrayal of Capitalism

Ingrid D. Rowland, Through a Glass, Darkly

Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney

Devices of Wonder:From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen Catalog of the exhibition by Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak

Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae by Athanasius Kircher

Iconismi e Mirabilia da Athanasius Kircher edited by Eugenio Lo Sardo

Simon Schama, Rescuing Churchill

Churchill by Roy Jenkins

J.M. Coetzee, Emperor of Nostalgia

The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann

Charles Getchell, Wainscott Hollow Looking West (poem)

Gore Vidal, 'Everything Is Yesterday'

Revan Schendler, Second Growth (poem)

Gordon A. Craig, 'A Talented Amateur'

The Hidden Hitler by Lothar Machtan, translated from the German by John Brownjohn

Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately

Inside Hitler's High Command by Geoffrey P. Megargee

Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 by Richard Overy

Charles Simic, I Know Where I'm Going

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins

Memoir of the Hawk: Poems by James Tate

Robert Darnton, Euro State of Mind

John R. Searle, End of the Revolution

New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky

George M. Fredrickson, Wise Man

Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture by John Higham, edited by Carl J. Guarneri

Anne Hollander, Absolutely Fabulous

Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed Catalog of the exhibition by Harold Koda

Ronald Dworkin, The Threat to Patriotism


Letters

Andrew Patner, Berlin's Jewish Museum
Barry Werth, Benjamin DeMott, Horror Story



Contributors

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, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 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)

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."

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Charles Getchell is a practicing lawyer and publisher of the Ipswich Press. His poems have appeared in The American Scholar and The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine. (February 2002)

Anne Hollander's books include Seeing Through Clothes, Sex and Suits, and Feeding the Eye. Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting, a companion book for the upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery in London, will be published this spring. (February 2002)

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)

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)

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.

Simon Schama's most recent book is A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British, 1603–1776, the companion volume to his ongoing BBC/History Channel television series. (February 2002)

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction and Freedom and Neurobiology. (November 2006)

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)


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