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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

  • Czesław Miłosz

    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

    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 is a critic and novelist. His books include Elegy for Iris and The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Making the Social World.
 (January 2013)

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.

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Lord Byron. Her most recent book, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination, was published last year. (April 2013)

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. His books include The Marketplace of Ideas, American Studies and The Metaphysical Club.

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.

Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania. 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.

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) was a British-American journalist and social critic. Known for his confrontational style and contrarian views on a range of social issues, Hitchens was a frequent contributor to The Nation, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. Hitchens recounts his struggle with esophageal cancer in Mortality, which was published in 2012.

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 Emeritus at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. (July 2012)

Mark Lilla is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia and author of The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. His article in the April 25, 2013 issue will appear as the introduction to Against the Current by Isaiah Berlin, to be published in a new edition by Prince­ton University Press in May 2013.

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.