BOOKS
H.J. Kaplan
Albert Camus: A Life
by
Olivier Todd
301
Eugene Goodheart
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
306
Paul Hollander
At a Century's Ending:
Reflections 1982-1995
by George
F.
Kennan
310
Norma Rosen
Fugitive Pieces
by Anne Michaels
313
Cushing Strout
American Sphinx: The Character
ofThomas Jdferson
by Joseph J. Ellis
317
Jean Bethke Elshtain
In Defense
of
Government.
The Rise and Fall of Public Trust
by Jacob Weisberg
320
Sanford Pinsker
Radical Son:
A Generational Odyssey
by David Horowi tz
323
J.
D.
McClatchy
Majestic Indolence: English
Romantic Poetry and the JlUJrk
of
Art
by Willard Spiegelman
The Title to the Poem
by Anne Ferry
326
Letters
330
Editor's Note: "A Contribution to Statistics" from
Poems, New and Collected,
1957-1997 by Wislawa Szymborska. English translation copyright
©
1998 by
Harcourt Brace
&
Company. To be published by Harcourt Brace
&
Company.