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Contents

May 20, 1999 • Volume 46, Number 9

  • Hilary Mantel

    Killer Children e-edition

    Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell by Gitta Sereny

  • Aileen Kelly

    The Russian Sphinx e-edition

    Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum by Martin Malia

  • Neal Ascherson

    Put Out More Flags e-edition

    Anglomania: A European Love Affair by Ian Buruma

  • Tony Judt

    The Reason Why e-edition

  • Stanley Hoffmann

    What Is to Be Done? e-edition

  • Diane Johnson

    Missionary e-edition

    Single & Single by John le Carré

  • James Fenton

    The Zincsmith of Genius e-edition

    Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch 1999; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 23-August 22, 1999; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 5, 1999-January 2, 2000. an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, January 27-April 25, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Gary Tinterow, by Philip Conisbee

    Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres’s Images of Women by Aileen Ribeiro

    Ingres by Georges Vigne

  • Gabriele Annan

    Ghosts e-edition

    Another World by Pat Barker

  • Tony Judt

    The Courage of the Elementary e-edition

    Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist by Myriam Anissimov, Translated from the French by Steve Cox

  • Charles Rosen

    Mallarmé the Magnificent e-edition

    Oeuvres complètes, Vol. 1 by Stéphane Mallarmé, edited by Bertrand Marchal

  • Pankaj Mishra

    A Spirit of Their Own e-edition

    Freedom Song by Amit Chaudhuri

    Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand

    The Quilt and Other Stories by Ismat Chugtai, Translated from the Urdu by Tahira Naqvi, by Syeda S. Hamed

    Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man by U.R. Anantha Murthy, Translated from the Kannada by A.K. Ramanujan

    Nirmala by Premchand, Translated from the Hindi by Alok Rai

    River of Fire by Qurratulain Hyder, Translated from the Urdu by the author., (to be published in November 1999)

    Mirrorwork: Fifty Years of Indian Writing, 1947-1997 edited by Salman Rushdie, by Elizabeth West

  • Denis Donoghue

    Lover of Lost Causes e-edition

    Canaan by Geoffrey Hill

    The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill

  • Michael Ignatieff

    Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis e-edition

    The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen by Paul Gordon Lauren

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond edited by Yael Danieli, by Elsa Stamatopoulou, by Clarence J. Dias, foreword by Kofi Annan, epilogue by Mary Robinson

    NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine by William Korey

    The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights edited by Joanne R. Bauer, by Daniel A. Bell

    Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims? edited by Carrie Gustafson, by Peter Juviler

    In the Lion’s Den: A Shocking Account of Persecution and Martyrdom of Christians Today and How We Should Respond by Nina Shea, foreword by Chuck Colson, afterword by Ravi Zacharius

    United States of America: Rights for All by Amnesty International USA

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting and Intent by Johannes Morsink

    Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence by Martha Minow

    War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice by Aryeh Neier

  • Jim Holt

    Infinitesimally Yours e-edition

    Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe by Michel Blay, Translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

    The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought by William R. Everdell

    Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, a Personal and Mathematical Odyssey by Joseph Warren Dauben

    Non-standard Analysis by Abraham Robinson

  • Arthur Kempton

    The Lost Tycoons e-edition

    To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography by Berry Gordy

    Berry, Me, and Motown by Raynoma Gordy Singleton

    An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad by Claude Andrew Clegg III.

  • Ray Kurzweil,
    John R. Searle

    ‘I Married a Computer’: An Exchange

  • Peter G. Peterson,
    Robert M. Solow

    ‘Gray Dawn’: An Exchange

  • Arnold Krupat,
    Patricia Hilden,
    The Editors,
    Thomas Powers

    ‘Passion Play’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.


Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. Her books include Lulu in Marrakechand Le Divorce. Her new book, Flyover Lives, will be published in January 2014.

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.

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)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His most recent books are Chaos and Violence: What Globalization, Failed States, and Terrorism Mean for US Foreign Policy and Rousseau and Freedom, coedited with Christie McDonald.


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.

Arthur Kempton, the author of Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, is a fellow at the Institute for African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (March 2006)

Aileen Kelly is a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Her books include Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance.


Jim Holt writes about science and philosophy. His latest book, Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story, is out now in paperback.
 (May 2013)

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.

Hilary Mantel is an English novelist, short story writer, and critic. Her novel, Wolf Hall, won the Man Booker Prize in 2009.

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (May 2009)

Michael Ignatieff, a former leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, is a fellow at Massey College and teaches human rights and international politics at the University of Toronto.
 (December 2012)

Pankaj Mishra lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. Mishra’s recent books include Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond and From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia.

Charles Rosen is a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone. His latest book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. He is currently writing a memoir of his father, who once told him that the last time he met Clare Boothe Luce was in the office of Allen Dulles.