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March 7, 1991 • Volume 38, Number 5

  • Bernard Knox

    Achilles in the Caribbean e-edition

    Omeros by Derek Walcott

  • Scott MacLeod

    In the Wake of ‘Desert Storm’ e-edition

  • John Updike

    Innerlichkeit and Eigentümlichkeit e-edition

    The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the USSR 23–March 31, 1991 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York January

    The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the USSR (paper, distributed by Abrams) catalog of the exhibition by Robert Rosenblum, by Boris I. Asvarishch, edited by Sabine Rewald

    Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape by Joseph Leo Koerner

  • John Bayley

    Pasternak’s Great Fairy Tale e-edition

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    The Gulf in Europe

  • John Ashbery

    A Sedentary Existence (poem) e-edition

  • Václav Havel,
    Paul Wilson

    The New Year in Prague e-edition

  • Michael Wood

    No Sorrow Left Unturned e-edition

    The Palace of the White Skunks by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Andrew Hurley

    Old Rosa by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Ann Tashi Slater, by Andrew Hurley

  • Kenneth Maxwell

    The Tragedy of the Amazon e-edition

    The Last Rain Forests: A World Conservation Atlas edited by Mark Collins, foreword by David Attenborough

    Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide by Louise H. Emmons, illustrated by François Feer

    The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by Susanna Hecht, by Alexander Cockburn

    World Resources, 1990–1991: A Guide to the Global Environment a Report by the World Resources Institute

    Government Policies and Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Region by Dennis J. Mahar

    Developing Amazonia: Deforestation and Social Conflict in Brazil’s Carajás Programme by Anthony L. Hall

    The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rain Forest by Adrian Cowell

    Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush by David Cleary

    Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest edited by Anthony B. Anderson

  • Keith Thomas

    Divorce à la Mode e-edition

    Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987 by Lawrence Stone

  • Brian Urquhart

    Learning from the Gulf e-edition

  • David Cannadine

    Three Who Made a Revolution e-edition

  • Andrew Hacker

    Class Dismissed e-edition

    The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can’t Think Straight About Class by Benjamin DeMott

    Money Income and Poverty Status in the United States 1989: Advance Data from the March 1990 Current Population Survey, Bureau of the Census

  • Frederick C. Crews

    The Strange Fate of William Faulkner e-edition

    The Portable Faulkner edited by Malcolm Cowley

    Creating Faulkner’s Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism by Lawrence H. Schwartz

    William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country by Cleanth Brooks

    On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner by Cleanth Brooks

    Faulkner’s Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha by Daniel Hoffman

    Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner by John T. Irwin

    Faulkner’s Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities by John N. Duvall

    Reading Faulkner by Wesley Morris, by Barbara AlversonWtwith Morris

    Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting by Richard C. Moreland

    The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner’s Novels from ‘The Sound and the Fury’ to ‘Light in August’ by André Bleikasten

  • John Quigley,
    Arthur Hertzberg

    Israel and the Palestinians: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of many books, including The Magic Lantern, an eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989. His most recent book is Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name. He is currently leading an Oxford University 
research project for the discussion of global free speech norms (www.freespeechdebate.com) and working on a book about free speech.

Stuart Hampshire (1914–2004) was an English philosopher. He taught at University College London, Princeton, Stanford and Oxford, where he was named Warden of Wadham College. His books include Thought and Action, Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


Sidney Morgenbesser (1921–2004) was a philosopher. Educated at CUNY, The Jewish Theological Seminary and The University of Pennsylvania, Morgenbesser taught at Columbia, where he was named John Dewey Professor of Philosophy.

Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 2000)

Thomas Nagel is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at NYU. His latest book, Mind and Cosmos, was published in September. (December 2012)

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a political philosopher and historian of ideas. Born in Riga, he moved in 1917 with his family to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution. In 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy.

Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)

Leszek Kołakowski was professor of philosophy at the University of Warsaw until March 1968 when he was formally expelled for political reasons. He was later a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He was the author of several books, including Main Currents in Marxism. The article in this issue will appear in the collection of essays Is God Happy?, to be published in February by Basic Books. He died in 2009. (December 2012)

John Bayley is a critic and novelist. His books include Elegy for Iris and The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.

Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)

Frederick C. Crews is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays.

Václav Havel (1936–2011) was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic. Havel was one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard.”

Paul Wilson is a writer based in Toronto. He has translated major works by Josef Škvorecký, Ivan Klíma, Bohumil Hrabal, and Václav Havel. (May 2013)

Bernard Knox (1914–2010) was an English classicist. He was the first director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles’s translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Kenneth Maxwell is Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, will be published this month. (July 2003)

Arthur Hertzberg (1921–2006) was a Conservative rabbi, scholar and activist. His books include The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism and The Zionist Idea.

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England.

David Cannadine is the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)

John Updike (1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death. His major work was the set of four novels chronicling the life of Harry “Rabbit: Angstrom, he two of which, Rabbit is Richand Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Life. His article in this issue draws on his essay in Tyringham Topics.
 (February 2013)

Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His books include Literature and the Taste of Knowledge and Yeats and Violence

John Ashbery is the author of several books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. His first collection, Some Trees (1956), was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. From 1990 until 2008 Ashbery was the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.