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Volume 40, Number 1 & 2 · January 14, 1993

Elizabeth Hardwick, The Kennedy Scandals

JFK: Reckless Youth by Nigel Hamilton

The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga by Doris Kearns Goodwin

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills

Of Kennedys and Kings by Harris Wofford

The Founding Father by Richard Whelan

A Question of Character: The Life of John F. Kennedy by Thomas C. Reeves

J.M. Coetzee, A Betrayed People

Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People by Noël Mostert

John Golding, Live Menu

Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Grand Palais, Paris by Jean Sutherland Boggs, with essays by Marie-Laure Bernadac, by Brigitte Léal. Catalog of the exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the

Picasso: Collected Writings edited and with an introduction by Marie-Laure Bernadac, by Christine Piot, preface by Michel Leiris

Theodore H. Draper, A New History of the Velvet Revolution

Hilary Mantel, Wraith's Progress

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Jeri Laber, Slouching Toward Democracy

John Bayley, Gallant Pastiche

The Complete Poems by C. Day Lewis, with an introduction by Jill Balcon

Thomas Sheehan, A Normal Nazi

The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader edited by Richard Wolin

Martin Heidegger: Politik und Geschichte im Leben und Denken (Martin Heidegger: Politics and History in His Life and Thought) by Ernst Nolte

Kerry Fried, Criminal Elements

Before and After by Rosellen Brown

Black Dogs by Ian McEwan

Edward R.F. Sheehan, In the Heart of Somalia

Daniel C. Dennett, John Maynard Smith, Stephen Jay Gould, 'Confusion Over Evolution': An Exchange

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Letters

Michael S. Flier, 'Not So Free at Last'
John Dugan, The Wrong Catullus!
Magdalena Opalski, 'Not So Free at Last'
Peter J. Potichnyj, Abraham Brumberg, 'Not So Free at Last'
James D. Seymour, Jonathan D. Spence, Women's Place

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (August 2009)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a frequent contributor to Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights (NYRB Classics); the essay collections A View of My Own and Seduction and Betrayal (NYRB Classics).

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 2009)

Edward R. F. Sheehan is a former US diplomat in the Middle East, a novelist (Cardinal Galsworthy), and the author of The Arabs, the Israelis, and Kissinger. He is a former Fellow of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. (April 2004)

Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. (December 2001)

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