Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 9 · May 25, 1995
Hilary Mantel, The Mystery of Innocence 
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
Norman Davies, The Misunderstood Victory in Europe
John Golding, Supreme Outsider
James McNeill Whistler 28-August 20, 1995 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May
James McNeill Whistler by Richard Dorment, by Margaret F. MacDonald
James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth by Ronald Anderson, by Anne Koval
Whistler on Art: Selected Letters and Writings of James McNeill Whistler edited by Nigel Thorp
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler
Theodore H. Draper, The Abuse of McNamara
John Updike, Nadar's Swift Tact
Nadar 14-July 9, 1995 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April
Nadar catalog of the exhibition by Maria Morris Hambourg, by Françoise Heilbrun, by Philippe Néagu, with contributions by Sylvie Aubenas, by André Jammes, by Ulrich Keller, by Sophie Rochard, by André Rouillé
Tony Judt, Downhill All the Way
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
Jeremy Bernstein, The Passions of Mme. Curie
Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn
Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel
Michael Massing, Hanging Out
Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men by Elliot Liebow
Mark Lilla, The Riddle of Walter Benjamin
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910–1940 edited and annotated by Gershom Scholem, by Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Manfred Jacobson, translated by Evelyn Jacobson
John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, Robert T. Michael, et al. 'Sex, Lies, and Social Science': An Exchange
Letters
Franz Schulze, Martin Filler, 'Prince of the City'
Contributors
Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at Los Alamos. His Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element was published in paperback in March. (April 2009)
Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)
Freeman Dyson has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the general public. He was born in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. He also worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied.
Dyson's books include Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), Origins of Life (1986, second edition 1999), and The Sun, the Genome and the Internet (1999). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.
John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)
Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued in paperback. (September 2009)
Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 2009)
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
