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February 2, 1995 • Volume 42, Number 2

  • Warren Zimmermann

    The Captive Mind e-edition

    Forging War: The Media in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina by Mark Thompson

  • Al Alvarez

    Lonely Passion e-edition

    A Passion for Wings by Robert Wohl

    Saint-Exupéry: A Biography by Stacy Schiff

  • William Finnegan

    The Liberator e-edition

    Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

  • Alastair Reid

    Talking Cuba e-edition

    Mea Cuba by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. translated by Kenneth Hall with the author

  • Millicent Bell

    ‘The Margaret Ghost’ e-edition

    The Letters of Margaret Fuller 1817-1850, in six volumes edited by Robert N. Hudspeth

    Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller by Joan Von Mehren

    Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Volume I: The Private Years by Charles Capper

    These Sad But Glorious Days: Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850 by Margaret Fuller, edited by Larry J. Reynolds, by Susan Belasco Smith

    Margaret Fuller’s New York Journalism: A Biographical Essay and Key Writings edited by Catherine C. Mitchell

  • Michael Lind

    Rev. Robertson’s Grand International Conspiracy Theory e-edition

    The New World Order by Pat Robertson

  • John Banville

    The Un-Heimlich Maneuver

    The Norton Book of Ghost Stories edited by Brad Leithauser

    Women and Ghosts by Alison Lurie

  • Willibald Sauerländer

    The Great Outsider e-edition

    Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society, Selected Papers, Volume IV by Meyer Schapiro

    Romanesque Art (Volume I)

    Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries (Volume II)

    Late Antique, Early Christian, and Mediaeval Art (Volume III)

  • Bernard Williams

    The Riddle of Umberto Eco e-edition

    The Limits of Interpretation by Umberto Eco

    Interpretation and Overinterpretation by Umberto Eco, by Richard Rorty, by Jonathan Culler, by Christine Brooke-Rose, edited by Stefan Collini

    Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco

    Apocalypse Postponed by Umberto Eco, translated and edited by Robert Lumley

    Misreadings by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

    How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

  • Garry Wills

    Thomas’s Confirmation: The True Story

    The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up the Federal Appointments Process by Stephen L. Carter

    Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality edited and with an introduction by Toni Morrison

    Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas by John C. Danforth

    Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer, by Jill Abramson

LETTERS

Contributors

Al Alvarez is the author of Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, Eclipse, The Sea (winner of the Man Booker Prize), and Ancient Light. As Benjamin Black he has written six crime novels, including Vengeance.

Millicent Bell is Professor of English Emerita at Boston University. She is the author of Meaning in Henry James and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. (May 1998)

Alastair Reid is a poet, a prose chronicler, a translator, and a traveler. Born in Scotland, he came to the United States in the early 1950s, began publishing his poems in The New Yorker in 1951, and for the next fifty-odd years was a traveling correspondent for that magazine. Having lived in both Spain and Latin America for long spells, he has been a constant translator of poetry from the Spanish language, in particular the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda. He has published more than forty books, among them a wordbook for children, Ounce Dice Trice, with drawings by Ben Shahn. Most recently, in 2008, he published in the U.K. two career-spanning volumes, Outside In: Selected Prose and Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations. The substance of Supposing… e gleaned from the many children who have influenced him, to all of whom he owes and dedicates the text.

Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, is a longtime human rights activist and the Chair of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (March 2001)

William Finnegan’s books include A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique and Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country. (April 2007)

Willibald Sauerländer is a former Director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His latest book is Manet malt Monet: Ein Sommer in Argenteuil. David Dollenmayer is Emeritus Professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
 (June 2013)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His study of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. His latest book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, was published in February 2013.

Warren Zimmermann, a professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University, was US Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992. A revised edition of his book, Origins of a Catastrophe:Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers, has just been published in paperback. (June 1999)

Bernard Williams (1929–2003) was Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include *Problems of the Self*, *Moral Luck*, *Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy*, and *Truth and Truthfulness*.