Table of Contents
Volume 41, Number 4 · February 17, 1994
Jonathan Raban, At Home in Babel
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
Avishai Margalit, The Uses of the Holocaust
The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust by Tom Segev
Gabriele Annan, Love and Friendship
Love From Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford edited by Charlotte Mosley
Elizabeth Hardwick, The Menendez Show
John Bayley, Singing in the Rain
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Gabriel García Márquez: Solitude and Solidarity by Michael Bell
Robert Stone, Oliver Stone's USA
Heaven and Earth a film directed by Oliver Stone, produced by Arnon Milchan, by Robert Kline, by A. Kitman Ho, by Oliver Stone
R.J.W. Evans, The Sun Also Sets
The Last Descendant of Aeneas: The Hapsburgs and the Mythic Image of the Emperor by Marie Tanner
Joseph Brodsky, Vaclav Havel, 'The Post-Communist Nightmare': An Exchange
Peter C. Sutton, Dutch Treat
Judith Leyster: A Dutch Master and Her World Netherlands, May 16August 22, 1993, and Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, September 19December 5, 1993. by James A. Welu, by Pieter Biesboer et al.. catalog of an exhibition held at the Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, The
David J. Rothman, The Crime of Punishment
Crime Control as Industry: Towards GULAGS, Western Style? by Nils Christie
Prison Conditions in the United States a Human Rights Watch report
Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System by Norval Morris, by Michael Tonry
A Decade of Sentencing Guidelines: Revisiting the Role of the Legislature Wake Forest Law Review Summer 1993 issue
Edward J. Nell, Benjamin M. Friedman, How Dangerous is the Deficit? An Exchange
Letters
James E.B. Breslin, Writing on Rothko
Sam Hunter, Jack Flam, Writing on Rothko
Michael Haas, Aryeh Neier, Genocide & the Khmer Rouge
Alan Roland, Rosemary Dinnage, Not an Anthropologist
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)
R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. (September 2007)
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The 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, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)
Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
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.
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.