Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 14 · August 12, 1993

John Bayley, Comrades

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick

Garry Wills, The Aesthete

The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello an exhibition at Monticello, Virginia,April 13–December 31, 1993

The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello by Susan R. Stein

Gabriele Annan, Friend of the Great

Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir by James Lord

Kathleen M. Sullivan, The Hill-Thomas Mystery

The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story by David Brock

Misha Glenny, The Godfather of Bihac

David Remnick, Le Carré's New War

The Night Manager by John le Carré

Amos Elon, A Visit with Arafat

Ian Buruma, Weeping Tears of Nostalgia

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus

Tony Judt, Betrayal in France

The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews by Susan Zuccotti

Robert L. Herbert, Art and 'Accuracy'

Beyond Impressionism: The Naturalist Impulse by Gabriel P. Weisberg

William Shawcross, A New Cambodia

Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot by David P. Chandler

Robert Towers, Far from Saigon

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

Stuart Hampshire, Liberalism: The New Twist

Political Liberalism by John Rawls

Xavier Rynne, Caves of the Vatican

Paul VI: The First Modern Pope by Peter Hebblethwaite

Memories and Hopes by Leon-Joseph Cardinal Suenens

My Witness for the Church by Bernard Häring, translated by Leonard Swidler

Stephen Jay Gould, Dinomania

Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Michael Crichton, by David Koepp

The Making of Jurassic Park by Don Shay, by Jody Duncan

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Ronald Paulson, Richard Dorment, An Exchange on Hogarth


Letters

Ivo Banac, Bojan Bujic, et al. The Bosnian Catastrophe
Phyllis Grosskurth, William J. McGrath, 'Greatly Exaggerated'?



Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

Kathleen M. Sullivan was until recently the Dean of Stanford Law School, where she has returned to the faculty as the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law. (September 2004)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.


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