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Contents

May 15, 1997 • Volume 44, Number 8

  • Frank Kermode

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    The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer

  • Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

    Horse Sense e-edition

    The Nature of Horses: Exploring Equine Evolution, Intelligence, and Behavior by Stephen Budiansky

  • James Fenton

    The Many Arts of Elizabeth Bishop e-edition

    Exchanging Hats: Paintings by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by William Benton

    Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell by David Kalstone, edited by Robert Hemenway, afterword by James Merrill

    One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop, selected and edited by Robert Giroux

    Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett C. Millier

  • Czeslaw Milosz

    Subjects to Let e-edition

  • Kathleen M. Sullivan

    Democracy and the Deficit e-edition

  • Andrew Delbanco

    The Great Leviathan e-edition

    Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker

  • Witold Rybczynski

    This New House e-edition

    A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder by Michael Pollan

  • Louis Menand

    How Eliot Became Eliot e-edition

    Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T.S. Eliot, edited by Christopher Ricks

    The Waste Land, the 75th anniversary edition by T.S. Eliot, with an afterword by Christopher Ricks

  • R.J.W. Evans

    Doing the Continental e-edition

    Europe: A History by Norman Davies

  • Fiona MacCarthy

    Refuseniks e-edition

    Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser

  • Mark Lilla

    The Enemy of Liberalism e-edition

    The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt, translated and introduced by George Schwab, with a new foreword by Tracy B. Strong

    The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol by Carl Schmitt, translated by George Schwab, translated by Erna Hilfstein

    Roman Catholicism and Political Form by Carl Schmitt, translated by G.L. Ulmen

    Glossarium: Aufzeichnungen der Jahre 1947-1951 by Carl Schmitt, edited by Eberhard Freiherr von Medem

    Staat, Grossraum, Nomos: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1916-1969 by Carl Schmitt, edited by Günther Maschke

    Der Fall Carl Schmitt: Sein Aufstieg zum “Kronjuristen des Dritten Reiches” by Andreas Koenen

    Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue by Heinrich Meier, translated by J. Harvey Lomax, foreword by Joseph Cropsey

    Die Lehre Carl Schmitts: Vier Kapitel zur Unterscheidung Politischer Theologie und Politischer Philosophie by Heinrich Meier

    Der Katechon: Zu Carl Schmitts fundamentalistischer Kritik der Zeit by Günter Meuter

    Carl Schmitt: Eine Biographie by Paul Noack

    Die eigentlich katholische Verschärfung: Konfession, Theologie und Politik im Werk Carl Schmitts edited by Bernd Wacker

  • John Bayley

    Class Act e-edition

    Palimpsest by Gore Vidal

  • William H. McNeill

    History Upside Down e-edition

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

  • Darryl Pinckney

    The Drama of Ralph Ellison e-edition

    Flying Home and Other Stories by Ralph Ellison, edited with an introduction by John F. Callahan

    The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison edited with an introduction by John F. Callahan, preface by Saul Bellow

  • David J. Chalmers,
    John R. Searle

    ‘Consciousness and the Philosophers’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Making the Social World. (June 2011)

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

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Byron. Her most recent book is Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes. She is currently writing a biography of Edward Burne-Jones.
 (September 2009)

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s most recent books are The Hidden Life of Dogs, Certain Poor Shepherds, and The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture.

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and Summers Long Ago: On Grandfather’s Farm and in Grandmother’s Kitchen, published by the Berkshire Publishing Group. His most recent publication, as editor, is the second edition of the Encyclopedia of World History.

Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of Discovering Modernism, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies, and The Marketplace of Ideas.

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

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. He died in 2004.

Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.

Andrew Delbanco is Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies at Columbia. His new books, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be and The Abolitionist Imagination, will be published in April.
 (February 2012)

R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867.
 (February 2012)

Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.

Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate. His book on American building, Last Harvest, was published in 2007.

Kathleen M. Sullivan was until recently the Dean of Stanford Law School, where she has returned to the faculty as the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law. (September 2004)

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.