Table of Contents
Volume 40, Number 15 · September 23, 1993
Garry Wills, Living Others' Deaths 
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean C.S.J.
John Weightman, The Human Comedy of the Divine Marquis
Sade: A Biography by Maurice Lever, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
John Ashbery, A Waltz Dream (poem)
John Terborgh, Solitary Enigma
The Last Panda by George B. Schaller
Jonathan D. Spence, The Chinese Miracle?
China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development by Vaclav Smil
Robert Stone, Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You!
Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the US Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Randy Shilts
Robert Conquest, 'The Evil of This Time'
This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow by Anna Larina, Introduction by Stephen F. Cohen, translated by Gary Kern
Hilary Mantel, Double Indemnity
In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
George M. Fredrickson, Pioneer
Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938–1988 by John Hope Franklin
The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin edited by Eric Anderson, edited by Alfred A. Moss Jr.
The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century by John Hope Franklin
Ronald Steel, Shultz's Revenge
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State by George P. Shultz
Diane Johnson, How Mexican Is It?
Eclipse Fever by Walter Abish
Paul Wilson, Unlikely Hero
Hope Dies Last: The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek edited and translated by Jirí Hochman
Aryeh Neier, Putting Saddam Hussein on Trial
Crimes Against Humanity and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy Congress, May 25, 1993 Report issued by the Executive Council of the Iraqi National
Maurice Keen, That Old Time Religion
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400–c. 1580 by Eamon Duffy
Alan Ryan, Reasons of the Heart
The Moral Sense by James Q. Wilson
David J. Rothman, Sheila M. Rothman, The New Romania
Denis Donoghue, The Heroism of Despair
Selected Letters by Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels
Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams by Joanne Jacobson
The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams 1877–1914 edited by George Monteiro
Refinements of Love: A Novel about Clover and Henry Adams by Sarah Booth Conroy
Kasim Trnka, The Bosnian Case
Morton Mintz, M.F. Perutz, 'The Fifth Freedom': An Exchange
Letters
Joel Carmichael, Arthur Hertzberg, 'The Great Hatred'
Contributors
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
Robert Conquest, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Great Terror. (March 1997)
Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)
George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)
Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 2008)
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)
Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)
David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.
Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School, Columbia University. Their books written together include The Willowbrook Wars: A Decade of Struggle for Social Justice (1984) and The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement (2003).
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)
Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)
Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. He is the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. He has also written short stories, essays, and screenplays, and published a short story collection, Bear and His Daughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and in Key West, Florida.
John Terborgh is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke. His latest book is Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature. (November 2007)
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
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.
Paul Wilson is a writer based in Toronto and the translator of several books, plays, and essays by Václav Havel. (May 2007)
