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  1. From the Editor
  2. Jeffrey M. Perl
  3. pp. 1-8
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  1. Call for Papers
  2. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Joseph Frank, Stanley N. Katz
  3. pp. 9-10
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  1. Commensurability and the Alien Mind
  2. W. V. Quine
  3. pp. 11-12
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  1. Potentially Every Culture Is All Cultures
  2. Paul Feyerabend
  3. pp. 13-20
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  1. Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies
  2. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
  3. pp. 21-42
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  1. Call for Papers
  2. Stephen Toulmin
  3. p. 43
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  1. Call for Papers
  2. Cornelius Castoriadis, Stanley Cavell, Steven Marcus
  3. p. 44
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  1. Self-Subversion
  2. Albert O. Hirschman
  3. pp. 45-50
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  1. The Achievement of Ambivalence
  2. Hanna Segal
  3. pp. 51-62
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  1. Are There Rationally Undecidable Arguments?
  2. Manfred Frank, Ruth Morris, Barry Allen
  3. pp. 63-75
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  1. Unloading the Self-Refutation Charge
  2. Barbara Herrnstein Smith
  3. pp. 76-91
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  1. "Weak Thought" and the Reduction of Violence: A Dialogue with Gianni Vattimo
  2. Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala, Yaakov Mascetti
  3. pp. 92-103
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  1. Peace and Knowledge Politics in the Upper Xingu
  2. Marina Vanzolini, Julia Sauma
  3. pp. 104-121
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  1. Call for Papers
  2. Clifford Geertz
  3. p. 122
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  1. Left-Wing Kuhnianism
  2. Richard Rorty
  3. pp. 123-125
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  1. Do Scientific Objects Have a History? Pasteur and Whitehead in a Bath of Lactic Acid
  2. Bruno Latour, Lydia Davis
  3. pp. 126-142
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  1. On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
  2. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
  3. pp. 143-162
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  1. Historians and Storytellers
  2. Keith Thomas
  3. pp. 163-164
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  1. Local Knowledge and Microidentities
  2. G. W. Bowersock
  3. pp. 165-166
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  1. The Historians' Preposterous Project
  2. Inga Clendinnen
  3. pp. 167-170
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  1. Martin Luther, Martin Guerre, and Ways of Knowing
  2. Natalie Zemon Davis
  3. pp. 171-175
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  1. Comparison as a Matter of Concern
  2. Isabelle Stengers
  3. pp. 176-191
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  1. Rethinking "Normative Conscience": The Task of the Intellectual Today
  2. Julia Kristeva
  3. pp. 192-199
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  1. The Woman with the Pearl Necklace
  2. Caroline Walker Bynum
  3. pp. 200-203
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  1. Decreation: How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete, and Simone Weil Tell God
  2. Anne Carson
  3. pp. 204-219
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  1. Regarding Change at Ise Jingū
  2. Jeffrey M. Perl
  3. pp. 220-232
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  1. Punitive Scholarship: Postwar Interpretations of Shinto and Ise Jingū
  2. Michiko Urita
  3. pp. 233-258
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  1. Excellence Is by No Means Enough: Intellectual Philanthropy and the Just University
  2. Stanley N. Katz
  3. pp. 259-270
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  1. The Latest Forms of Book-Burning
  2. G. Thomas Tanselle
  3. pp. 271-277
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  1. Publishing Matters
  2. Hugh Kenner
  3. pp. 278-284
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  1. Une Machine à Penser
  2. Carlo Ginzburg
  3. pp. 285-291
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  1. A Turning-Point in Political Thought
  2. Isaiah Berlin
  3. pp. 292-320
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  1. Left-Wing Wittgenstein
  2. Bernard Williams
  3. pp. 321-331
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  1. Suffocation in the Polis
  2. Jeffrey M. Perl
  3. pp. 332-338
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  1. Calls for Papers: Excerpts
  2. Paul Feyerabend
  3. pp. 339-340
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  1. Love and Money
  2. Richard Rorty
  3. pp. 341-345
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  1. A Reply to Paul Feyerabend and Richard Rorty
  2. Frank Kermode
  3. pp. 346-347
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  1. The Political Economy of Hunger: On Reasoning and Participation
  2. Amartya Sen
  3. pp. 348-356
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  1. The Catholic Church vis-à-vis Liberal Society
  2. Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, Mei Lin Chang
  3. pp. 357-363
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  1. On How Postwar Germany Has Faced Its Recent Past
  2. Jürgen Habermas
  3. pp. 364-377
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  1. "The Period after 1989"
  2. Václav Havel, Adam Michnik, Clare Cavanagh
  3. pp. 378-383
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  1. Cosmopolitan: A Tale of Identity from Ottoman Alexandria
  2. Maya Jasanoff
  3. pp. 384-400
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  1. The European Rescue of the Nation-State by Alan S. Milward (review)
  2. Edward Heath
  3. p. 401
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  1. A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England by Steven Shapin (review)
  2. Bas van Fraassen
  3. pp. 401-402
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  1. Les Diplomates: Cohabiter avec les loups sur une autre carte du vivant by Baptiste Morizot (review)
  2. Thibault De Meyer
  3. pp. 402-404
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  1. Culture: The Anthropologist's Account by Adam Kuper (review)
  2. Ian Hacking
  3. p. 404
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  1. The Collapse of the Fact-Value Distinction and Other Essays by Hilary Putnam (review)
  2. Richard Rorty
  3. p. 405
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  1. The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson, and: The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by David Bentley Hart (review)
  2. Francis X. Clooney SJ
  3. pp. 405-409
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  1. The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers: A Select Edition and Complete English Translation by John Wortley (review)
  2. Rowan Williams
  3. pp. 409-410
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  1. An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions by Daniel Defoe (review)
  2. J. M. Coetzee
  3. pp. 410-411
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  1. Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Stuart Clark (review)
  2. Quentin Skinner
  3. pp. 411-412
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  1. The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett (review)
  2. Stuart Clark
  3. pp. 412-413
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  1. Medieval Children by Nicholas Orme (review)
  2. Nadja Reissland
  3. pp. 413-414
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  1. Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus by James Robert Enterline (review)
  2. Colin Richmond
  3. pp. 414-415
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  1. Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire by Steven Seegel (review)
  2. Timothy Snyder
  3. pp. 415-416
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  1. Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders (review)
  2. Colin Richmond
  3. p. 416
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  1. Russia's Islamic Threat by Gordon M. Hahn (review)
  2. Michael Cook
  3. pp. 416-417
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  1. Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World by Carlos Fraenkel (review)
  2. Sari Nusseibeh
  3. pp. 417-418
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  1. Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence by Bruce Robbins (review)
  2. David A. Hollinger
  3. p. 419
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  1. Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin (review)
  2. Alexander Nehamas
  3. pp. 419-420
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  1. The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between ed. by Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser (review)
  2. J. G. A. Pocock
  3. p. 421
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  1. Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen by Jenny Davidson (review)
  2. Anton O. Kris
  3. pp. 421-422
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  1. Back to the Rough Ground: "Phronesis" and "Techne" in Modern Philosophy and in Aristotle by Joseph Dunne (review)
  2. Albert R. Jonsen
  3. p. 422
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  1. Truth and Predication by Donald Davidson (review)
  2. Barry Allen
  3. p. 423
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  1. Care Crosses the River by Hans Blumenberg, and: Paradigms for a Metaphorology by Hans Blumenberg (review)
  2. Bruce Krajewski
  3. pp. 423-424
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  1. D'un ton guerrier en philosophie: Habermas, Derrida & Co. by Pierre Bouretz (review)
  2. Isabelle Stengers
  3. p. 425
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  1. The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha by David A. deSilva (review)
  2. Jack Miles
  3. pp. 426-427
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  1. Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn (review)
  2. Greil Marcus
  3. p. 428
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  1. The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam by G. W. Bowersock (review)
  2. Maria Conterno
  3. p. 429
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  1. The Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge (review)
  2. H. R. Woudhuysen
  3. p. 430
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  1. The Letters of T. S. Eliot ed. by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden (review)
  2. William M. Chace
  3. pp. 431-432
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  1. Shklovsky: Witness to an Era, by Serena Vitale (review)
  2. Caryl Emerson
  3. pp. 433-434
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  1. Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge by G. L. Hagberg (review)
  2. M. H. Abrams
  3. p. 434
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  1. The Country Road by Regina Ullmann (review)
  2. Lydia Davis
  3. p. 435
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  1. Carnations: A Play in One Act, Common Knowledge by Raymond Carver (review)
  2. Edward Albee
  3. p. 436
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  1. Burial: Comedy without Intermission by Péter Nádas (review)
  2. Susan Sontag
  3. pp. 436-438
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  1. Mosaic: Memoirs by Lincoln Kirstein (review)
  2. Jeffrey M. Perl
  3. pp. 438-439
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  1. The Institutions of Meaning: A Defense of Anthropological Holism by Vincent Descombes (review)
  2. Marilyn Strathern
  3. pp. 439-440
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  1. The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study in Canon, Ritual, and Ideology by William Weber (review)
  2. Jeffrey M. Perl
  3. p. 440
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  1. Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich by Gundula Kreuzer (review)
  2. Philip Gossett
  3. pp. 440-442
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  1. The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon: Henry Miller's Dostoyevsky by Maria Bloshteyn (review)
  2. Joseph Frank
  3. pp. 442-444
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  1. The Total Art of Stalinism: Avante-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys (review)
  2. Mikhail Epstein
  3. pp. 444-445
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  1. Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 by Frank Dikötter (review)
  2. Fang Lizhi
  3. p. 445
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  1. War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present by Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl (review)
  2. Christopher Coker
  3. p. 446
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  1. The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture by Evelyn Fox Keller (review)
  2. Lorraine Daston
  3. pp. 446-447
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  1. Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission by Anne Toner (review)
  2. Miguel Tamen
  3. p. 447
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  1. Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm (review)
  2. Marjorie Perloff
  3. pp. 448-449
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  1. From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe (review)
  2. Clifford Geertz
  3. p. 450
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  1. Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert (review)
  2. John Boardman
  3. p. 451
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  1. Renaissance Emir: A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici by T. J. Gorton (review)
  2. Ingrid D. Rowland
  3. p. 452
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  1. The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City by Mary Ting Yi Lui (review)
  2. Charlie Samuya Veric
  3. pp. 452-453
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  1. Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T. J. Clark (review)
  2. Michael Fried
  3. p. 453
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  1. Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence by F. W. Kent (review)
  2. Wayne Andersen
  3. pp. 454-455
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  1. Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Bass (review)
  2. Joseph Leo Koerner
  3. pp. 456-457
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  1. Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art by Willard Spiegelman (review)
  2. Helen Vendler
  3. p. 457
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  1. The Translation of Lucretius, vol. 1 of The Works of Lucy Hutchinson ed. by Reid Barbour and David Norbrook (review)
  2. Stephen Greenblatt
  3. p. 458
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  1. Philosophy of Nature by Paul Feyerabend (review)
  2. Oren Harman
  3. pp. 458-459
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  1. The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed by Amir D. Aczel (review)
  2. Reviel Netz
  3. pp. 459-460
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  1. Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait by Denys Turner (review)
  2. Anthony Kenny
  3. pp. 460-461
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  1. New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America by John Lynch (review)
  2. J. H. Elliott
  3. pp. 461-463
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  1. The Domain of Constant Excess: Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka by Rohan Bastin (review)
  2. Andrew P. Tuck
  3. pp. 463-464
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  1. After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernity by Robert B. Pippin (review)
  2. Richard Shiff
  3. pp. 464-467
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  1. Time for Outrage! by Stéphane Hessel (review)
  2. Jeffrey M. Perl
  3. p. 467
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  1. Litterae Humaniores
  2. Belle Randall
  3. p. 468
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  1. Dogs
  2. Aldo Buzzi, Ann Goldstein
  3. pp. 469-471
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  1. Fifty-Six Guinea Pigs over the Garden: (A Novella)
  2. Péter Esterházy, Marianna Birnbaum
  3. pp. 472-473
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  1. A Mountain from the North: Chapter XIV
  2. László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
  3. pp. 474-475
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  1. Between Wars
  2. Colin Richmond
  3. pp. 476-479
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  1. Bihar County Homecoming
  2. György Konrád, John Bátki
  3. pp. 480-483
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  1. Suckling Pig
  2. A. L. Snijders, Lydia Davis
  3. p. 484
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  1. Foraminifera
  2. Wisława Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh
  3. pp. 485-486
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  1. Pull the drawstring to close the sea into a lake
  2. Jee Leong Koh
  3. p. 487
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  1. In the Blood
  2. Yusef Komunyakaa
  3. p. 488
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  1. Snide, and: More to Come
  2. Samuel Menashe
  3. p. 489
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  1. Names
  2. Gunter Eich, Michael Hofmann
  3. p. 490
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  1. Ghost Neighbors
  2. Thom Gunn
  3. pp. 491-492
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  1. The British Museum
  2. Miroslav Holub, David Young, Dana Hábová
  3. pp. 493-494
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  1. Millennial
  2. Darrel Alejandro Holnes
  3. pp. 495-496
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  1. The Stranger
  2. Luis Garcia
  3. p. 497
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  1. God Asks
  2. Ewa Lipska, Robin Davidson
  3. p. 498
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  1. The Other Side
  2. Grzegorz Wróblewski, Adam Zdrodowski
  3. p. 499
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  1. Dear Reader
  2. Belle Randall
  3. p. 500
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  1. Two Hundred Years Together
  2. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Jamey Gambrell
  3. pp. 501-524
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  1. Romania—Between Continuity and Change
  2. His Majesty King Michael of Romania
  3. pp. 525-552
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  1. The Birth of Peace: A Ballet
  2. René Descartes, André Gombay
  3. pp. 553-568
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. 569-587
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