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July 11, 1996 • Volume 43, Number 12

  • Murray Kempton

    The Shadow Saint

    The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens

  • Tony Judt

    Europe: The Grand Illusion e-edition

  • Richard Jenkyns

    The Pleasures of Melodrama e-edition

    George Cruikshank’s Life, Times, and Art by Robert L. Patten

  • Garry Wills

    The Would-Be Progressives e-edition

    They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era by E.J. Dionne Jr.

    In Defense of Government: The Fall and Rise of Public Trust by Jacob Weisberg

    Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America by Michael Tomasky

    Values Matter Most: How Republicans or Democrats or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life by Ben J. Wattenberg

    The New Promise of American Life edited by Lamar Alexander, edited by Chester E. Finn Jr.

  • Alan Ryan

    The Politics of Dignity e-edition

    The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit, translated by Naomi Goldblum

  • Joseph Brodsky

    Cabbage and Carrot (poem)

  • Andrew Hacker

    Goodbye to Affirmative Action? e-edition

    The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America by John David Skrentny

    Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice by Terry Eastland

    In Defense of Affirmative Action by Barbara R. Bergmann

    Divided by Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals by Donald R. Kinder, by Lynn M. Sanders

    The Future of the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr., by Cornel West

  • John Weightman

    The Book of Cohen e-edition

    Belle du Seigneur: A Novel by Albert Cohen, translated and with an introduction by David Coward

  • Michael Massing

    How To Win the Tobacco War e-edition

    Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger

    The Cigarette Papers by Stanton A. Glantz, by John Slade, by Lisa A. Bero, by Peter Hanauer, by Deborah E. Barnes

    Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-up by Philip J. Hilts

  • James Fenton

    The Orpheus of Ulster e-edition

  • Bill McKibben

    Some Versions of Pastoral e-edition

    Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture by Craig Canine

    Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea by Victor Davis Hanson

    Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry

    The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma by Paul R. Ehrlich, by Anne H. Ehrlich, by Gretchen C. Daily

  • Robert Conquest

    Stalin and the Jews e-edition

    Out of the Red Shadows: Anti-Semitism in Stalin’s Russia by Gennadi Kostyrchenko

    Nepravedniy Sud: Posledniy Stalinskiy Rasstrel (The Unjust Trial: Stalin’s Last Execution) edited by V.P. Naumov

    The Bones of Berdichev: The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman by John Garrard, by Carol Garrard

  • P. N. Furbank

    A Simple Facilitator e-edition

    Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions by Lloyd Kramer

  • Caroline Fraser

    Mrs. Eddy Builds Her Empire e-edition

    Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

    ‘With Bleeding Footsteps’: Mary Baker Eddy’s Path to Religious Leadership by Robert David Thomas

    Christian Science by Mark Twain

    The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy & the History of Christian Science by Willa Cather, by Georgine Milmine

  • Thomas M. Doerflinger,
    Jeff Madrick

    ‘How to Succeed in Business’: An Exchange

  • Murray Kempton

    The Nation’s Progress e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Jeff Madrick teaches at Cooper Union. His latest book, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, was published in May. Frank Partnoy is the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance at the University of San Diego. His most recent book is The Match King: The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals. (November 2011)

Robert Conquest, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Great Terror. (March 1997)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (March 2010)

Caroline Fraser ‘s most recent book, Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution, was published in December. (May 2010)

Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

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

Andrew Hacker teaches at Queens College. His books include Money: Who Has How Much and Why, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, and, most recently, Higher Education, written with Claudia Dreifus. (February 2012)

Bill McKibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. He is also the founder of 350.org, the global climate campaign that has been actively involved in the fight against natural gas fracking.

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His forthcoming book is On Compromise and Rotten Compromises.
 (September 2009)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. The article in the Review‘s November 24, 2011 issue is drawn from his new book, Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater (Viking).

Alan Ryan, the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, and Bertrand Russell, is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Mill: The Spirit of the Age, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women. He teaches at Princeton. (December 2011)

James Fenton is a visiting fellow at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library.
 (March 2012)