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May 15, 1997 Issue
- 17 Articles
[+]
Advertisement for Himself
(Review)
Frank Kermode
, pp. 4-7
The Gospel According to the Son, by Norman Mailer
The Gospel According to the Son
by Norman Mailer
[+]
Horse Sense
(Review)
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
, pp. 8-11
The Nature of Horses, by Stephen Budiansky
The Nature of Horses
by Stephen Budiansky
[+]
The Many Arts of Elizabeth Bishop
(4 Reviews)
James Fenton
, pp. 12-15
Exchanging Hats: Paintings, by Elizabeth Bishop and William Benton
Exchanging Hats: Paintings
by Elizabeth Bishop and William Benton
Becoming a Poet
by David Kalstone and Robert Hemenway
One Art: Letters
by Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Giroux
Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It
by Brett C. Millier
Subjects to Let
Czeslaw Milosz
, p. 16
Democracy and the Deficit
Kathleen Sullivan
, p. 17
[+]
The Great Leviathan
(Review)
Andrew Delbanco
, pp. 18-22
Herman Melville: A Biography, Vol. I: 1819-1851, by Hershel Parker
Herman Melville: A Biography, Vol. I: 1819-1851
by Hershel Parker
[+]
This New House
(Review)
Witold Rybczynski
, pp. 23-25
A Place of My Own, by Michael Pollan
A Place of My Own
by Michael Pollan
[+]
How Eliot Became Eliot
(2 Reviews)
Louis Menand
, pp. 26-29
Inventions of the March Hare, by T.S. Eliot and Christopher Ricks
Inventions of the March Hare
by T.S. Eliot and Christopher Ricks
The Waste Land
by T.S. Eliot and Michael North
[+]
Doing the Continental
(Review)
R.J.W. Evans
, pp. 30-34
Europe: A History, by Norman Davies
Europe: A History
by Norman Davies
[+]
Refuseniks
(Review)
Fiona MacCarthy
, pp. 35-37
Faith and Treason, by Antonia Fraser
Faith and Treason
by Antonia Fraser
[+]
The Enemy of Liberalism
(6 Reviews)
Mark Lilla
, pp. 38-44
The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt
The Concept of the Political
by Carl Schmitt
The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
by Carl Schmitt
Roman Catholicism and Political Form
by Carl Schmitt
Glossarium
by Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss
by Heinrich Meier
Carl Schmitt
by Paul Noack
[+]
Class Act
(Review)
John Bayley
, pp. 45-47
Palimpsest, by Gore Vidal
Palimpsest
by Gore Vidal
[+]
History Upside Down
(Review)
William H. McNeill
, pp. 48-51
Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond
[+]
The Drama of Ralph Ellison
(2 Reviews)
Darryl Pinckney
, pp. 52-59
Flying Home, and Other Stories, by Ralph Ellison
Flying Home, and Other Stories
by Ralph Ellison
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
by John F. Callahan and Ralph Ellison
'Consciousness and the Philosophers'
David J. Chalmers and John Searle
, pp. 60-61
An Exchange
Letters
Ian Patterson, Christopher Hitchens, and David Remnick, ...
, pp. 62-64
Cover Drawing
David Levine
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