Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 7 · April 18, 1996

Gordon A. Craig, How Hell Worked

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany by John VH Dippel

Sergei Kovalev, On the New Russia

Hilary Mantel, That Old Black Magic

Love, Again by Doris Lessing

Virginia Hamilton Adair, Cutting the Cake (poem)

Virginia Hamilton Adair, Early Walk (poem)

George M. Fredrickson, Far from the Promised Land

Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics by Manning Marable

Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy by Stephen Steinberg

Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks

The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Race by Benjamin DeMott

Alfred Kazin, A Genius of the Spiritual Life

Jeff Madrick, How to Succeed in Business

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein

It Ain't As Easy As It Looks (out of print) by Porter Bibb

Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve by George Soros, by Byron Wien, by Krisztina Koenen

Soros: The Life, Times, and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor by Robert Slater

Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon by Robert Goldberg, by Gerald Jay Goldberg

Simon Leys, One More Art

The Chinese Art of Writing by Jean François Billeter

Derek Beales, The Enlightened Despot

Pombal: Paradox of the Enlightenment by Kenneth Maxwell

Edward Hirsch, Subversive Activities

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak, translated by Clare Cavanagh

Robert L. Herbert, Degas & Women

The Spectacular Body: Science, Method and Meaning in the Work of Degas by Anthea Callen

Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era by Hollis Clayson

Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas by Carol Armstrong

Norman Davies, On the Barbary Shore

Black Sea by Neal Ascherson

Millicent Bell, George Eliot, Radical

George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography by Frederick R Karl

The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction by Rosemarie Bodenheimer

Garry Wills, The Clinton Scandals

Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries by James B Stewart

A Supplemental Report on the Representation of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan by the Rose Law Firm Prepared for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP

Madhouse: The Private Turmoil of Working for the President by Jeffrey H Birnbaum

Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Whitewater Development Company, Inc.: A Supplemental Report to the Resolution Trust Corporation Prepared by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP, San Francisco, California, with financial and economic analysis support from Tucker Alan Inc., Seattle, Washington

A Report on Certain Real Estate Loans and Investments Made by Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Related Entities

A Report on the Rose Law Firm's Conduct of Accounting Malpractice Litigation Pertaining to Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Prepared for Resolution Trust Corporation by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP

Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Whitewater Development Company, Inc.: A Preliminary Report to the Resolution Trust Corporation

Murray Kempton, Whose Foreign Policy?

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995 May)

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Letters

Madelyn Gutwirth, P.N. Furbank, Allowing for Mme De Stael
Nader Mousavizadeh, Michael Ignatieff, 'Missed Chance in Bosnia'
Michael A. Pawel, Selecting Heine
Patricia Ireland, Julia Reed, Over the Edge

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Contributors

Millicent Bell is Professor of English Emerita at Boston University. She is the author of Meaning in Henry James and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. (May 1998)

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)

Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”

Edward Hirsch most recent book of poems is Lay Back the Darkness. A collection of his essays and other nonfiction, Poet's Choice, will be published this spring. (February 2006)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

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.

Sergei Kovalev, a biologist and former political prisoner, is a leading candidate on the Yabloko Party list for the December election to the Russian State Duma. He is President of the Institute for Human Rights and Chairman of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (November 2007)

Simon Leys is the author of a dozen books, mostly on Chinese art, culture, and politics. His latest work is The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story. (December 2007)

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Director of Policy Research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. (March 2008)

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt in 2009. (July 2008)

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.

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