BOOKS
Wal ter Laqueur
Cushing Strout
Jenny Teichman
The
Founding Myths
oj
Israel
by Ze'ev Sternhell
178
Not Like Us: How Europeans
Have Loved, Hated, and
Traniformed American Culture
Since World JlJizr II
by Richard Pells
181
The Last Word
by Thomas Nagel
183
The following poems are from TIle
Colleaed Poellls
by Czeslaw Milosz: "A Magic Mountain." Translated
by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee. "What Once Was Great," "Dedication," "Pictures," and "The Sun."
Translated by Czeslaw Milosz. "Rivers" and "Bypassing Rue Descartes." Translated by Renata
Gorczynski and Robert Hass. "Mittelbergheim." Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Richard Lourie. "A
Song on the End of the World." Translated by Anthony Milosz. Copyright
©
1988 by Czeslaw Milosz
l"toyalties, Inc. "Capri" from
Facillg the
River
by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert
Hass. Copyright
©
1995 by Czeslaw Milosz Royalties, Inc. Reprinted by permission of The Ecco Press.
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus
&
Giroux, Inc.: " In the Beech," "When All the Others Were
Away at Mass" from "Clearances," and 44 lines from "Sweeney in Flight" from
Opelled Groulld: Seleaed
Poellls 1966-1996
by Seamus Heaney. Copyright
©
1998 by Seamus Heaney. "The Ice Storm" from
TIle
Figllred Wlleel: New mId Collected Poellls
1966-1996
by Robert Pinsky. Copyright
©
1996 by Robert Pinsky.
"My Masters," and "Lightning" from
Trelllor: Selected Poellls
by Adam Zagajewski. Translation copyright
©
1985 by Farrar, Straus
&
Giroux, Inc. "Self-Portrait" from
Mysticislllfor Begillllers
by Adam Zagajewski.
Translation copyright
©
1998 by Farrar, Straus
&
Giroux, Inc.
"A View from an Alley," "The Return of the Singer," and "A Projector Flickers," by Tomas Venclova,
reprinted by permission of the author. Translation copyright
©
Diana Senechal.
"The Poet At Seven" from
011
L,ve
by Edward Hirsch. Copyright
©
1998 by Edward Hirsch. "Simone
Weil: The Year of Factory Work" from
Eartltly Measllres
by Edward Hirsch. Copyright
©
1994 by Edward
Hirsch. "The Blind Seer of Ambon" from
Travels
by
W.
S. Merwin. Copyright
©
1992 by
W.
S. Merwin.
"Net" and "Holderlin at the River" from
TIle
Vixen
by
W.
S. Merwin. Copyright
©
1995 by
W.
S.
Merwin. #39 from
TI,e
Foldill,~
Cliffs
by
W.
S. Merwin. Copyright
©
1998 by
W.
S. Merwin. Reprinted
by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. "Echoing Light" and "Waves in August" from
TIle
River SOlllld,
to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1999. Copyright
1999 by
W.
S. Merwin.
"Emigre" from
Flower
&
Halld
reprinted courtesy of Copper Canyon Press. Copyright
©
1997 by
W. S. Merwin.
"The Perch" reprinted courtesy of
The New Yorker.
Copyright
©
1999 by Seamus Heaney.
Erratlllll:
In the Fall 1998 issue, it should have been noted that Andrey Platonov's "Chevengur,"
translated by Robert and Elizabeth C handler, is not a self-contained short story but consists of the
opening pages of Platonov's novel by the same name.
