Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 6 · April 6, 1995
Robert Stone, Looking the Worst in the Eye 
In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery by Wilfrid Sheed
Rosemary Dinnage, Kicking the Myth Habit
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
Tony Judt, At Home in This Century
Essays in Understanding, 1930–1954 by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949–1975 edited and with an introduction by Carol Brightman
Frederick C. Cuny, Killing Chechnya
Ada Louise Huxtable, The New Architecture
Sarah Kerr, Rain Man
Pulp Fiction a film by Quentin Tarantino
Richard Horton, Infection: The Global Threat
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
John Banville, Fish and Roses
The Monkey Link: A Pilgrimage Novel by Andrei Bitov, translated by Susan Brownsberger
Amos Elon, One Foot on the Moon
Benedetta Craveri, Venice: Going for Glory
The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello by Margaret L. King
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal
Darryl Pinckney, Promissory Notes
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White by Brent Staples
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America by Nathan McCall
Murray Kempton, Narco-Democracy?
Vance Cope-Kasten, Naomi Scheman, Martha C. Nussbaum, Feminism and Philosophy: An Exchange
Letters
Seymour Drescher, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Slavery and the British Economy
Joseph Frank, Anna Dostoevsky's Diary
Contributors
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.
Benedetta Craveri is a professor of French literature at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, and the Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. She regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books and to the cultural pages of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Her books include Madame du Deffand and Her World and La Vie privée du Maréchal de Richelieu, and Amanti e regine: Il potere delle donne. She is married to a French diplomat.
Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.
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)
Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist
for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of
Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events
and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1985.
Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
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.
