Table of Contents

Volume 42, Number 14 · September 21, 1995

Warren Zimmermann, The Choice in the Balkans

Keith Thomas, The Big Cake

Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama

Patricia Storace, Casablanca Villanelle (poem)

Jeff Madrick, The End of Affluence

Norman Cohn, Le Diable au Coeur

The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels

Milan Kundera, You're Not in Your Own House Here, My Dear Fellow

Ian Buruma, The War Over The Bomb

The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth by Gar Alperovitz, by Sanho Tree, by Edward Rouse Winstead, by Kathryn C. Morris, by David J. Williams, by Leo C. Maley III, by Thad Williamson, by Miranda Grieder

Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb by John Whittier Treat

Judgment at the Smithsonian: The Uncensored Script of the Smithsonian's 50th Anniversary Exhibit of the Enola Gay edited and introduced by Philip Nobile, afterword by Barton J. Bernstein

Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial by Robert Jay Lifton, by Greg Mitchell

Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan—And Why Truman Dropped the Bomb by Thomas B. Allen, by Norman Polmar

Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata, August 10, 1945 edited by Rupert Jenkins

Diane Johnson, The Constant Wife

D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by Brenda Maddox

Frieda Lawrence, Including 'Not I, But the Wind' and other autobiographical writings by Rosie Jackson

A Genius for Living: The Life of Frieda Lawrence by Janet Byrne

Stephen Spender, The Mythical Life and Love of D.H. Lawrence (poem)

Bernard Osser, Patrick de Saint-Exupery, The UN's Failure: An Interview with Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, A Letter of Resignation

Timothy Ferris, On the Edge of Chaos

The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and Complex by Murray Gell-Mann

Andrew Hacker, Twelve Angry Persons

The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom by Stephen J. Adler

We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy by Jeffrey Abramson

The Private Diary of an O.J. Juror: Behind the Scenes of the Trial of the Century by Michael Knox, by Mike Walker

Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror by Hazel Thornton, with commentaries by Lawrence J. Wrightsman, by Amy J. Posey, by Alan Scheflin

James Wood, Little Guignol

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders by Peter Ackroyd

Charles Rosen, Beethoven's Triumph

Listening in Paris: A Cultural History by James H. Johnson

Beethoven by William Kinderman

Jonathan Mirsky, No Trumpets, No Drums

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh, translated by Phan Thanh Hao

Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong, translated by Phan Huy Duong, by Nina McPherson

Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong, translated by Phan Huy Duong, by Nina McPherson

Garry Wills, To Keep and Bear Arms

Second Amendment Symposium Issue Tennessee Law Review, Spring 1995

A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees by Stephen P. Halbrook

To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right by Joyce Lee Malcolm

Guns, Crime, and Freedom by Wayne LaPierre, foreword by Tom Clancy

An Argument, Shewing, that a Standing Army Is inconsistent with A Free Government, and absolutely destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy by John Trenchard

Murray Kempton, Bradley's Escape

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Letters

Richard T. Davies, Should Nato Grow?—A Dissent
Michael Shelden, David Lodge, Greene & Anti-Semitism
Sheldon M. Novick, Thomas C. Grey, The Complete Holmes
Lee Siegel, Tony Judt, Still Friends

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year's Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 2008)

Timothy Ferris, Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author, most recently, of Seeing in the Dark. (March 2003)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Diane Johnson’s new novel, Lulu in Marrakech, will be published this month. (October 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.

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book The Case for Big Government will be published this fall. (September 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He reported from Vietnam in 1965 and 1967. (November 2008)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (November 2008)

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Warren Zimmermann, a professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University, was US Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992. A revised edition of his book, Origins of a Catastrophe:Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers, has just been published in paperback. (June 1999)

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