Table of Contents

Volume 41, Number 7 · April 7, 1994

Clifford Geertz, Life on the Edge

In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Misha Glenny, Hope for Bosnia?

Willibald Sauerländer, Un-German Activities

Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany by Stephanie Barron et al.

Cathleen Schine, Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

The Fermata by Nicholson Baker

Jonathan Mirsky, The Battle for Hong Kong

A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh

Alison Lurie, Leaving the Door Ajar

Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare by Theresa Whistler

Joan Acocella, The Long Goodbye

New York City Ballet's 'Balanchine Celebration' September 1994) directed by Matthew Diamond. produced by Dance in America, Channel 13/WNET

Richard C. Lewontin, Women Versus the Biologists

Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers by Ruth Hubbard, by Elijah Wald

Biological Woman—The Convenient Myth edited by Ruth Hubbard, edited by Mary Sue Henifin, edited by Barbara Fried

Women's Nature: Rationalizations of Inequality by Marian Lowe, by Ruth Hubbard

Genes and Gender: II, Pitfalls in Research on Sexual Gender edited by Ruth Hubbard, edited by Marian Lowe

The Politics of Women's Biology by Ruth Hubbard

The Shape of Red: Insider/Outsider Reflections by Ruth Hubbard, by Margaret Randall

C. Vann Woodward, The Inner Civil War

'…the real war will never get in the books': Selections from Writers During the Civil War edited by Louis P. Masur

The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home by Reid Mitchell

Peter G. Peterson, Entitlement Reform: The Way to Eliminate the Deficit

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Letters

J.G.A. Pocock, Amplifying 'The Piano'
R.M. Jagmohan, Edward W. Desmond, The Cat in the Bag
Martha C. Nussbaum, Sarah Kerr, Amplifying 'The Piano'
Harry G. Parke, Leyster Redux

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Contributors

Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.

Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)

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

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His most recent books are Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments and Essai sur les Visages des Bustes de Houdon. (June 2007)

Cathleen Schine is the author of seven novels, including Rameau's Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, and the forthcoming The New Yorkers. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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