Table of Contents
Volume 42, Number 12 · July 13, 1995
Thomas C. Grey, Bad Man from Olympus
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self by G. Edward White
The Collected Works of Justice Holmes: Complete Public Writings and Selected Judicial Opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes edited by Sheldon M. Novick
The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. edited and with an introduction by Richard A. Posner
Louis Menand, Journey into the Dark
The Tunnel by William H. Gass
John Womack, The Strange Case of Pablo Chapa
Jack F. Matlock, Russia: The Power of the Mob
Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya by Stephen Handelman
Joseph Brodsky, Kolo
(poem)
Joseph Kerman, The Big Sound
The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen
Timothy Garton Ash, Central Europe: The Present Past
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
Ian Buruma, George Grosz's Amerika
George Grosz: Berlin-New York Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, May 6-July 30, 1995. an exhibition Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, until April 16, 1995;
George Grosz: Berlin-New York catalog of the exhibition edited by Peter-Klaus Schuster
Murray Kempton, Notes from Underground
The Secret World of American Communism by Harvey Klehr, by John Earl Haynes, by Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Russian documents translated by Timothy D. Sergay
Henry Allen, A Billboard Lovely as a Tree
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America by Jackson Lears
Richard Horton, Is Homosexuality Inherited?
The Sexual Brain by Simon LeVay
The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior by Dean Hamer, by Peter Copeland
Christopher Hitchens, Ode to the West Wing
Shelley's Heart by Charles McCarry
Stuart Hampshire, A New Way of Seeing
Looking at Giacometti Macrae) by David Sylvester
Stanley Hoffmann, The New France?
Hugh Honour, Burma: Splendor and Miseries
Letters
Jay A. Hurwitz, Andrew Hacker, Not Granted
J. Herbie DiFonzo, Norman Mailer, 'The Amateur Hit Man'
Catherine Drucker, Indonesia's Unfree Press
Contributors
Henry Allen is a cultural critic at The Washington Post. His new book, What It Felt Like, will be published in the fall. (March 2000)
Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)
Hugh Honour is the author, with John Fleming, of The Visual Arts: A History, which has recently been published in its sixth expanded edition. (November 2002)
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.
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.
Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).
Jack F. Matlock Jr. was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 and is the author of Autopsy on an Empire. He is George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (February 2000)
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.