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Volume 39, Number 16 · October 8, 1992

M.F. Perutz, The Fifth Freedom

The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse: The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi by Carl Djerassi

The 'Abortion Pill' by Etienne-Emile Baulieu, with Mort Rosenblum

Istvan Deak, Strategies of Hell

'The Good Old Days': The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders edited by Ernst Klee, by Willi Dressen, by Volker Riess, translated by Deborah Burnstone, foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper

Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss, edited by Steven Paskuly, translated by Andrew Pollinger

Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany by Peter Wyden

In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of Mauthausen by Gordon J. Horwitz

Outcast: A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin by Inge Deutschkron, translated by Jean Steinberg

In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen by Nechama Tec

Gore Vidal, The Romance of Sinclair Lewis

Main Street and Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, edited by John Hersey

Andrew Brown, The Attack on I.F. Stone

James Chace, The Proconsul

The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment by Kai Bird

America's Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany by Thomas Alan Schwartz

James Joll, Tales from the Vienna Woods

Alma Mahler or the Art of Being Loved by Françoise Giroux

The Bride of the Wind: The Life and Times of Alma Mahler-Werfel by Susanne Keegan

Oskar Kokoschka Letters 1905-1976 selected by Olda Kokoschka, by Alfred Marnau

Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge: An Artist and His Muse by Wolfgang G. Fischer

The Fin-de-Siècle Culture of Adolescence by John Neubauer

Gitta Sereny, John Demjanjuk and the Failure of Justice

Sarah Kerr, Shock Treatment

The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela, translated by Anthony Kerrigan

Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son by Camilo José Cela, translated by J.S. Bernstein

San Camilo, 1936 by Camilo José Cela, translated by John H.R. Polt

Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside by Camilo José Cela, translated by Frances M. López-Morillas

The Hive by Camilo José Cela, translated by J.M. Cohen

Ian Buruma, Bad Boy

Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956–1978 by Nagisa Oshima, edited and with an introduction by Annette Michelson, translated by Dawn Lawson

Martha C. Nussbaum, Justice For Women!

Justice, Gender, and the Family by Susan Moller Okin

Sue M. Halpern, Do the Right Thing

Billie Dyer and Other Stories by William Maxwell

Nora Beloff, Theodossis C. Demetracopoulos, Misha Glenny, Bosnia and the Balkans: An Exchange

Alfred Kazin, The Opera of 'The Scarlet Letter'

Jamey Gambrell, Moscow: The Front Page

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko's writings, Experiments for the Future, and many of the stories included in Tatyana Tolstaya's White Walls. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin's Ice has recently been published by NYRB Classics.

Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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