Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 2 · February 1, 1996

Henry Kamen, The Secret of the Inquisition

The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain by B. Netanyahu

Janet Malcolm, Aristocrats

Untitled by Diane Arbus

Jack F. Matlock, The Go-Between

In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents by Anatoly Dobrynin

Louis Menand, What Jane Austen Doesn't Tell Us

Sense and Sensibility a film directed by Ang Lee, screenplay by Emma Thompson

Pride and Prejudice 1996 directed by Simon Langton, screenplay by Andrew Davies. produced by BBC Television Arts and Entertainment, January 14—16,

Persuasion a film directed by Roger Michell, screenplay by Nick Dear

Clueless a film directed by Amy Heckerling, screenplay by Amy Heckerling

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film by Emma Thompson

The Making of 'Pride and Prejudice' by Sue Birtwistle, by Susie Conklin

Michael Massing, Crime and Drugs: The New Myths

Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack by William M. Adler

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois

The American Street Gang: Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control by Malcolm W. Klein

Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals by Mark S. Fleisher

Sarah Kerr, Tender Buttons

After All by Mary Tyler Moore

Julia Reed, The Case of the Kissing Senator

Documents Related to the Investigation of Senator Robert Packwood Senate Select Committee on Ethics US Senate 104th Congress, first session

The Packwood Report by the Senate Ethics Counsel on Senator Robert Packwood, Introduction by Helen Dewar

J.M. Coetzee, Speaking for Language

On Grief and Reason: Essays by Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky, Via Funari (poem)

Vaclav Smil, Is There Enough Chinese Food?

Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet by Lester R. Brown

James Fenton, On Statues

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Letters

Ronald Steel, Tony Judt, 'Temptations of a Superpower'
Charles Larmore, Isaac Levi, et al. Jonathan Lieberson Prize
Noam Chomsky, John Maynard Smith, Language and Evolution
Stanley Aronowitz, Derrick Bell, et al. Hope for Labor
Alfred Brendel, Charles Rosen, Getting Back to Life
M.F. Perutz, Corrections

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Contributors

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)

J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)

James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)

Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

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.

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