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April 23, 1998 • Volume 45, Number 7

  • Alfred Kazin

    Laughter in the Dark e-edition

    Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Sherman

    Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life by Janet Hadda

  • Alfred Brendel

    Two Poems (poem) e-edition

  • Hugh Thomas

    Remember the Maine? e-edition

  • Steve Jones

    In the Genetic Toyshop e-edition

    Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead by Gina Kolata

    The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and remaking the World by Jeremy Rifkin

    Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson

  • John Ashbery

    Tenebrae (poem) e-edition

  • Joan Didion

    Varieties of Madness e-edition

    The Unabomber Manifesto "FC."

    A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

    Drawing Life by David Gelernter

  • James Fenton

    How Great Art Was Made

    Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, opened February 28, 1998 an installation from the permanent collection at the Fogg Art

    Bernini’s Rome: Italian Baroque Terracottas from the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg 1998; Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 16-August 2, 1998 an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, February 28-May 3,

    From the Sculptor’s Hand: Italian Baroque Terracottas from the State Hermitage Museum catalog of the Chicago exhibition organized by Ian Wardropper

    Bernini: Genius of the Baroque by Charles Avery, special photography by David Finn

    Bernini’s Scala Regia at the Vatican Palace: Architecture, Sculpture, and Ritual by T.A. Marder

    Italian Baroque Sculpture by Bruce Boucher

  • Barbara Smith

    Algeria: The Horror e-edition

    The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History by Michael Willis

    The Agony of Algeria by Martin Stone

    Unbowed: An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism by Khalida Messaoudi, with Elisabeth Schemla, translated by Anne C. Vila

  • William H. McNeill

    How the West Won e-edition

    The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes

  • Robert Cottrell

    Russia’s Dream City e-edition

    New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science by Paul R. Josephson

  • Ernst Gombrich

    In the Giving Vein e-edition

    Largesse by Jean Starobinski, translated by Jane Marie Todd

  • Robin Robertson

    Feeding the Fire (poem) e-edition

  • Frank Kermode

    The Midrash Mishmash e-edition

    The Bible As It Was by James L. Kugel

  • Richard Jenkyns

    Cards of Identity e-edition

    Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History by David Lowenthal

  • Eric L. McKitrick

    JQA: For the Defense e-edition

    John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life by Paul C. Nagel

    Amistad a film directed by Steven Spielberg, and produced by Steven Spielberg, by Debbie Allen, by Colin Wilson

    Amistad an opera, musical score by Anthony Davis, libretto by Thulani Davis

  • Mark Danner

    Slouching Toward Dayton e-edition

    To End a War by Richard Holbrooke

    Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege by Tom Gjelten

    The Choice: How Clinton Won by Bob Woodward

LETTERS

Contributors

John Ashbery is the author of several books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. His first collection, Some Trees (1956), was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. From 1990 until 2008 Ashbery was the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

Lawrence E. Walsh, formerly a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and a Deputy Attorney General of the US, has been president of the American Bar Association and was independent counsel during the Iran–contra affair. He is the author of Firewall: The Iran—Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up. (March 1998)

Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001) was an Austrian art historian. Born in Vienna, Gombrich studied at the Theresianum and then at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser. After graduating, he worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936 and was named Director in 1959. His major works include The Story of Art, Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography, The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art.

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)

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.

Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002)

Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and the author of In the Blood. (April 1998)

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was a writer and teacher. Among his books are On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from Howells to Faulkner, and the memoirs A Walker in the Cityand New York Jew. In 1996, he received the first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism from the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. His book Torture and the Forever War will be published in the spring of 2013. His writing and other work can be found at markdanner.com.

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.

Barbara Smith writes about the Middle East for The Economist and edits its International Section. (April 1998)

Eric L. McKitrick (1920–2002) was a historian of the United States. Educated at Columbia, McKitrick taught at the University of Chicago and Rutgers before returning to Columbia in 1960. He is perhaps best known for Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction; his other works treated slavery and the American South, as well as the history of the American party system.

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.

Robin Robertson is from the northeast coast of Scotland. His fifth collection of poetry will be published next year. (June 2012)

Hugh Thomas is the author of The Spanish Civil War, Cuba: The Pursuit of Liberty, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico, and, most recently, The Slave Trade. (April 1998)