Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 1 · January 11, 1996

Roger Shattuck, Brinksmanship

Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography by Norman Mailer

Timothy Garton Ash, 'Neo-Pagan' Poland

Al Alvarez, Learning from Las Vegas

The Luck Business: The Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion by Robert Goodman

The Black Book and the Mob: The Untold Story of the Control of Nevada's Casinos by Ronald A. Farrell, by Carole Case

Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi

Casino a film directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi, by Martin Scorsese

Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn by John L. Smith

Gabriele Annan, An Affair to Remember

Carrington an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London

Carrington a film directed by Christopher Hampton

Alan Ryan, Dangerous Liaison

Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger by Elzbieta Ettinger

Anthony Grafton, Vermeer's Mystery Theater

Johannes Vermeer 12, 1995-February 11, 1996 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, November

Johannes Vermeer Hague/ Yale University Press catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Jr. Wheelock

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Congress Builds a Coffin

Rosemary Dinnage, Melting into Air

The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, translated from Italian by William Weaver

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman

John Terborgh, Cracking the Bird Code

Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations by C. K. Catchpole, by P. J. B. Slater

John Golding, Under Cézanne's Spell

Cézanne 1995—January 7, 1996; Tate Gallery, London, February 8—April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 30—August 18, 1996 an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, September 25,, Catalog of the exhibition by Françoise Cachin, by Joseph J. Rishel

Paul Cézanne: The Bathers by Mary Louise Krumrine

Lost Earth: A Life of Cézanne by Philip Callow

Cézanne: A Biography by John Rewald

Cézanne by Richard Verdi

Le Paradis de Cézanne by Philippe Sollers

Cézanne by Philippe Dagen

David Cannadine, The Once and Future Princess

James Fenton, Subversives

Berlin-Moscow 1900-1950 1995-January 7, 1996; and the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, March 1-July 1, 1996 An exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, September 3,, Catalog of the exhibition by Irina Antonova, by Jörn Merkert

Art and Power: Europe Under the Dictators 1930-45 1995-January 21, 1996, continuing on to Barcelona, February 26-May 6, 1996, and Berlin, June 7-August 20, 1996 An exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, October 26,, Catalog of the exhibition by Dawn Ades, by Tim Benton, by David Elliott, by Iain Boyd Whyte

Von Allen Seiten Schön [Beautiful from All Sides] Museum, Berlin, October 31, 1995-January 28, 1996 An exhibition of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes at the Altes, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Volker Krahn

Veronica Geng, My Dream Team

William H. Gass, The Hovering Life

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins, by Burton Pike

Murray Kempton, A Mess of Improprieties

Human Rights Watch World Report 1996: Events of 1995

Jerold S. Auerbach, William Kolbrener, Amos Elon, 'Israel's Demons': An Exchange

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Letters

Alberto Arbasino, On 'Italy's Dirty Linen'

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Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 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. (November 2008)

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)

Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.

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.

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

John Terborgh is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke. His latest book is Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature. (November 2007)

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