Table of Contents

Volume 42, Number 5 · March 23, 1995

Garry Wills, The Visionary

James Merrill, Three Poems by James Merrill (poem)

Alison Lurie, On James Merrill (1926–1995)

Louis Menand, Finding It at the Movies

For Keeps by Pauline Kael

Gabriele Annan, Through the Looking Glass

The Last of the Duchess by Caroline Blackwood

James Fenton, A Lesson from Michelangelo

P.N. Furbank, Little Women

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740–1832 by Stella Tillyard

Howard Gardner, Green Ideas Sleeping Furiously

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science by Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Acts of Meaning by Jerome Bruner

Michael Ignatieff, The Art of Witness

A Year of the Hunter by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Madeline G. Levine

Facing the River: New Poems by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by the author and Robert Hass

Czeslaw Milosz, To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only (poem)

Francis Haskell, Poussin's Season

Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665 Paris, September 1994–January 1995, by catalog of the exhibition at the Grand Palais, Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat

A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicolas Poussin by Richard Beresford

Nicolas Poussin by Anthony Blunt

Autour de Poussin Musée du Louvre, 1994, by Dossier-Exposition du Département des Peintures, Gilles Chomer, by Sylvain Laveissiére

Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology by David Carrier

Nicolas Poussin by Jacques Thuillier

Nicolas Poussin: La Collection du Musée Condé à Chantilly by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat

Poussin before Rome, 1594–1624 by Jacques Thuillier, translated by Christopher Allen

Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665 January 19–April 9, 1995, by Richard Verdi and others. catalog of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London,

Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665: Catalogue raisonné des dessins by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat

Nicolas Poussin: La Collection du Musée Bonnat à Bayonne by Pierre Rosenberg, by Louis-Antoine Prat

Rosemary Dinnage, Night Thoughts

Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep, and Dreams by A. Alvarez

John Bayley, A Moment's Truth

History: The Home Movie by Craig Raine

Misha Glenny, Yugoslavia: The Great Fall

Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition, second edition by Lenard J. Cohen

The Yugoslav Drama by Mihailo Crnobrnja

Izmedju Slave i Anateme: Politicka Biografia Slobodana Milosevica (Between Glory and Anathema: A Political Biography of Slobodan Milosevic) by Slavoljub Djukic

Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed by Robert J. Donia, by John V.A. Fine Jr., with maps by John C. Hamer

Joegoslavische Kroniek: Juli 1991–Augustus 1992 by Henry Wijnaendts

Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West by David Rieff

The Volatile Powder Keg: Balkan Security After the Cold War edited by F. Stephen Larrabee

Matthew Hugh Erdelyi, Frederick C. Crews, Freud and Memory: An Exchange

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Letters

John McDermott, Thomas Powers, The CIA and Vietnam
Roland Perry, Noel Annan, The Fifth Man
Daniel R. Vining, Charles Lane, Pioneer
The Editors, Correction
Rosa M. Segre, Jeremy Bernstein, Emilio Segre
David Wagner, 'Down on Their Luck'

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Contributors

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

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

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

Howard Gardner teaches psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His most recent book, with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, is Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. (April 2002)

Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences. (January 2009)

Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.

James Merrill died in 1995. The poem in this issue appears in Last Poems, a collection of previously unpublished work, just published by Thornwillow Press. (December 1998)

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

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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