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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

    The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney

    The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney

    Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture by Seamus Heaney

  • 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 (1940–1996) was a Russian poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, Brodsky moved to the United States when he was exiled from Russia in 1972. His poetry collections include A Part of Speech andTo Urania; his essay collections include Less Than One, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Watermark. In 1987, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He served as US Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1992.

Jeff Madrick writes an economics column for Harper’s Magazine, is editor of Challenge Magazine, and is director of the Rediscovering Government Initiative at the Roo­sevelt Institute. His most recent book is Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America.

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

Martin Bernal is Professor Emeritus of Government at Cornell. His controversial study of Ancient Greece, Black Athena, explores the origins of Hellenic culture and, in particular, the influence of Egypt and Phoenicia on the development of Ancient Greece.

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

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

Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet and of the forthcoming Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist.. 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 (1915–2004) was a critic and literary scholar. After working as a translator and announcer for the BBC French service, Weightman turned to the study of French literature. He taught at King’s College London and the University of London. His books include The Concept of the Avant-Gardeand The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd.

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the winner of the 2012 Philosophical Book Award (Hannover) for his most recent book, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises.

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at New York University, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. His works include The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and The American Classics.

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.

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.

James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999, Fenton was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2007 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.