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March 31, 1988 • Volume 35, Number 5

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Adrian Lyttelton

La Forza del Destino

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story by Dan Vittorio Segre, translated by Dan Vittorio Segre

The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival by Susan Zuccotti
Anton Shammas

A Stone’s Throw
M.F. Burnyeat

Cracking the Socrates Case

The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone
Robert Craft

Balanchine’s Steps

George Balanchine: Ballet Master by Richard Buckle, in collaboration with John Taras

Balletmaster: A Dancer’s View of George Balanchine by Moira Shearer

Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland, by Greg Lawrence
Harold Bloom

Literature as the Bible

The Literary Guide to the Bible edited by Robert Alter, edited by Frank Kermode
Lord Zuckerman

Nuclear Wizards

Rabi: Scientist and Citizen by John S. Rigden

Toward a Livable World: Leo Szilard and the Crusade for Nuclear Arms Control edited by Helen S. Hawkins, edited by G. Allen Greb, edited by Gertrud Weiss Szilard

Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology by Edward Teller
E.A.J. Honigmann

The New Shakespeare?

Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England by Stephen Greenblatt. (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 4)
Robert Towers

The Way We Live Now

The Book and The Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch

Found in the Street by Patricia Highsmith
Vladimir Nabokov,
Dmitri Nabokov

Pushkin, or the Real and the Plausible
David Brion Davis

The Benefit of Slavery

Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis

Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective by Seymour Drescher
Thomas Flanagan

The Quaking Bog

We Irish: Essays on Irish Literature and Society by Denis Donoghue
Jonathan Lieberson

The Sense of Santayana

George Santayana by John McCormick

Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography by George Santayana, edited by William G. Holzberger, edited by Herman J. Saatkamp Jr., with an introduction by Richard C. Lyon

LETTERS

Contributors

Harold Bloom’s most recent books are The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible. He teaches at Yale and is at work on a play, To You Whoever You are: A Pageant Celebrating Walt Whitman.  (February 2012)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (October 2011)

Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was a novelist, scholar, and critic. He was the author of The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 (1959) and the novels The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994).

M.F. Burnyeat is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato and A Map of Metaphysics Zeta. (November 2001)

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)

Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977. The translation in this issue appears in Verses and Versions, a collection of Nabokov’s translations of three centuries of Russian poetry, published this month by Harcourt. (November 2008)

Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)