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October 19, 1995 • Volume 42, Number 16

  • Bernard Knox

    Our Dante e-edition

    The Inferno of Dante A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky, bilingual edition, illustrated by Michael Mazur, with notes by Nicole Pinsky, foreword by John Freccero

  • Tatyana Tolstaya

    Russian Lessons e-edition

    ‘The Russian Question’ at the End of the Twentieth Century by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated and annotated by Yermolai Solzhenitsyn

  • George M. Fredrickson

    Demonizing the American Dilemma e-edition

    The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society by Dinesh D'Souza

  • Hugh Honour

    The Triumphs of Tiepolo e-edition

    Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence by Svetlana Alpers, by Michael Baxandall

    The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice edited by Jane Martineau, edited by Andrew Robison. Catalog of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London;

  • Geoffrey O’Brien

    Whitman’s Revolution e-edition

    Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography by David S. Reynolds

    Complete Poetry and Collected Prose by Walt Whitman

    Selected Letters of Walt Whitman edited by Edwin Haviland Miller

    Constructing the German Walt Whitman by Walter Gründzweig

    The Neglected Walt Whitman: Vital Texts edited by Sam Abrams

    The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman edited by Robert K. Martin

  • Michael Walzer

    Are There Limits to Liberalism? e-edition

    Isaiah Berlin by John Gray

  • Frank Kermode

    The Wonder of Mozart e-edition

    Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon

    Mozart and Posterity by Gernot Gruber, translated by K.S. Furness

    Mozart: Portrait of a Genius by Norbert Elias, translated by Edmund Jephcott

    On Mozart edited by James M. Morris

    Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School, 1740–1780 by Daniel Heartz

    Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Georg Knepler, translated by J. Bradford Robinson

  • Claire Messud

    Heartburn e-edition

    The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine

  • Noel Annan

    The Best Years of Their Lives e-edition

    Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American ‘Neutrality’ in World War II by Nicholas John Cull

    London at War by Philip Ziegler

    Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain 1942–1945 by David Reynolds

    For You, Lili Marlene: A Memoir of World War II by Robert Peters

  • P. N. Furbank

    The Time of Her Life e-edition

    That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser

    How Many Years by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Maria Louise Ascher

    A Blue Tale and Other Stories by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Alberto Manguel

    Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life by Josyane Savigneau, translated by Joan E. Howard

  • Michael Wood

    Horror of Horrors

    Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

    Dolores Claiborne a film directed by Taylor Hackford

    Rose Madder by Stephen King

  • Gordon S. Wood

    The Founding Realist e-edition

    If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason by Richard K. Matthews

  • Peter Holland

    Not Having It All e-edition

    Mrs. Jordan’s Profession:The Actress and the Prince by Claire Tomalin

  • Ian Buruma

    The Singapore Way e-edition

    To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison by Francis T. Seow

    Dare to Change: An Alternative Vision for Singapore by Dr. Chee Soon Juan

  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan

    ‘It Will Shame the Congress’ e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

Human Rights Watch, the largest human rights organization based in the United States, conducts fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses worldwide. (November 2005)

Noel Annan (1916–2000) was a British military intelligence officer and scholar of European history. His works include Leslie Stephen and Our Age, Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany, and The Curious Strength of Positivism in English Political Thought.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. His books include Murderer in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, and the novel The China Lover. His book Year Zero: A History of 1945 will be published in September 2013.

Norman Davies is the author of, among other books, Europe: A History, Rising 44: The Battle for Warsaw, and, most recently, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe.

 (May 2013)

Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)

Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British critic and literary theorist. Born on the Isle of Man, he taught at University College London, Cambridge, Columbia and Harvard. Adapted from a series of lectures given at Bryn Mawr College, Kermode’s Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literary criticism.

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.

Claire Messud’s books include When the World Was Steady and The Emperor’s Children. Her novel The Woman Upstairs will be published in April 2013. (February 2013)

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. He is the author of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights.

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.

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His recent works include Early Autumn and The Fall of the House of Walworth. His new book Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002–2012 will be published in 2013.


Jonathan Spence is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Death of Woman Wang, Treason by the Book, The Question of Hu, and The Search for Modern China.

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

P. N. Furbank is the author of nine books, including biographies of Samuel Butler, Italo Svevo, and E.M. Forster.

Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote the entry on Shakespeare in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (December 2004)

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)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

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

Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.