Table of Contents
Volume 40, Number 13 · July 15, 1993
George F. Kennan, The Balkan Crisis: 1913 and 1993
Blair Worden, Lyrical Historian
G.M. Trevelyan: A Life in History by David Cannadine
Return to Essentials: Some Reflections of the Present State of Historical Study by G.R. Elton
Witold Rybczynski, The Mystery of Cities
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History by Spiro Kostof
The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History by Spiro Kostof
Cities Without Suburbs by David Rusk
William Pfaff, The Complacent Democracies
Adrian Lyttelton, Mussolini's Femme Fatale
II Duce's Other Woman by Philip V. Cannistraro, by Brian R. Sullivan
John Banville, Living in the Shadows
Judge on Trial by Ivan Klíma, translated by A.G. Brain
Francis Haskell, Art & the Apocalypse
Michael Massing, Delusions of the Drug Cops
Swordfish: A True Story of Ambition, Savagery, and Betrayal by David McClintick
Edmund Keeley, Haunted Islands
Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture by Charles Stewart
Gabriele Annan, Tales From the Narmada Woods
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
Benjamin M. Friedman, The Clinton Budget: Will It Do?
A Vision of Change for America by President Bill Clinton
Budget of the United States Government Fiscal Year 1994
Jeri Laber, The Dictatorship Returns
T.M. Scanlon, Partisan For Life
Life's Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom by Ronald Dworkin
Sadruddin Aga Khan, McGeorge Bundy, Marion Graeffin Doenhoff, et al. A UN Volunteer ForceThe Prospects
Letters
Humphrey Burton, Joseph Horowitz, 'Professor Lenny'
Charles Hill, Theodore H. Draper, What Shultz Knew
Theodore H. Draper, A Note on 'Ruthenia'
Bernard Knox, 'A Small Correction'
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (March 2008)
Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)
Edmund Keeley is Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English Emeritus at Princeton. His latest books are Borderlines: A Memoir and the novel Some Wine for Remembrance. (November 2007)
George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)
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, 19791987. (January 1997)
Adrian Lyttelton is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Bologna and the author of The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919–1929. (March 2006)
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired general of the Nigerian Army, was president of Nigeria from 1976 until 1979. He was recently released from prison. (September 1998)
William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)
Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is architecture critic for Slate. His new book on American building, Last Harvest, has just been published. (May 2007)