Contents

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 e-edition

    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 is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.


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 lives in Cambridge, England. His latest book, Concerning E.M. Forster, was published in December. (July 2010)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus 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 most recent novel is The Emperor’s Children. (December 2011)

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)

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.

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His latest books are The Fall of the House of Walworth and Early Autumn. 
(September 2011)

Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, The Death of Woman Wang, and Return to Dragon Mountain. (December 2011)

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)

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. (November 2011)

Michael Wood teaches at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of 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.