Yale University
Sects Appeal
The Farmer as Hero
THE GEORGICS OF VIRGIL Translated by David Ferry(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 202 pp., $30) VIRGIL’S GEORGICS Translated by Janet Lembke(Yale University Press, 114 pp., $25) IN VIRGIL’S AENEID, THE EPIC story of the founding of Rome, the Trojan foreigner Aeneas carries into battle a shield elaborately wrought by the divine craftsman Vulcan, a stand-in for the poet. On it the god has prophetically sculpted scenes of future Roman history.
Divine Rights
THE MIND OF THE MASTER CLASS: HISTORY AND FAITH IN THE SOUTHERN SLAVEHOLDERS’ WORLDVIEW By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese (Cambridge University Press, 828 pp., $70) DWELLING PLACE: A PLANTATION EPIC By Erskine Clarke (Yale University Press, 601 pp., $35) I. FOR ALL THE INK THAT HAS been spilled, for all the quarrels and the debates that have erupted over the past century and a half, popular and scholarly understandings of the Civil War almost universally share one view in common: that the war was a great tragedy in American history and American life.
The Founder
Nehru: A Political Life By Judith M.
Bookings
The most beautiful libraries exude a bookish rapture, and no libraries have more of this luminous poetry than the glorious confections, all polished wood and shining stone and white-and- gold stucco, that royal families and religious orders built in the eighteenth century, mostly in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
News Break
The summer of 2002 didn't feel all that different from the summer of 2001. Last summer we worried about shark attacks; this summer we wrung our hands over kidnappings. In 2001 the media waited outside Gary Condit's Adams Morgan apartment; in 2002 it camped out in a Los Angeles hospital waiting room to see if conjoined twins from Guatemala would be successfully separated. The difference is that this year these weren't the things we were supposed to be focusing on. In the first blurry weeks following September 11, Americans seemed hungry to learn about events beyond our shores.
The Liar's Tale
Zeno’s Conscience By Italo Svevo translated by William Weaver (Everyman’s Library, 437 pp., $20) Emilio’s Carnival (Senilita) By Italo Svevo translated by Beth Archer Brombert with an introduction by Victor Brombert (Yale University Press, 233 pp., $14.95) A Life By Italo Svevo translated by Archibald Colquhoun (Pushkin Press, 411 pp., £10) Memoir of Italo Svevo By Livia Veneziani Svevo translated by Isabel Quigly (The Marlboro Press/ Northwestern University Press, 178 pp., $15.95) Italo Svevo’s third and final novel, Zeno’s Conscience, is most famously a novel about quitting smoking.
The Liar's Tale
Zeno’s Conscience By Italo Svevo translated by William Weaver (Everyman’s Library, 437 pp., $20) Emilio’s Carnival (Senilita) By Italo Svevo translated by Beth Archer Brombert with an introduction by Victor Brombert (Yale University Press, 233 pp., $14.95) A Life By Italo Svevo translated by Archibald Colquhoun (Pushkin Press, 411 pp., £10) Memoir of Italo Svevo By Livia Veneziani Svevo translated by Isabel Quigly (The Marlboro Press/ Northwestern University Press, 178 pp., $15.95) Italo Svevo’s third and final novel, Zeno’s Conscience, is most famously a novel about quitting smoking.
The Undying Swan
The Historian as Hero
The Light of the Eyes By Azariah de’Rossi Translated and annotated by Joanna Weinberg (Yale University Press, 802 pp., $125) For at least a few years toward the end of his life, Azariah de' Rossi believed that February 26, 747 B.C.E.
