Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 10 · June 6, 1996

Joan Acocella, On Tap

Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk choreography by Savion Glover. conceived and directed by George C. Wolfe. at the Ambassador Theatre, New York City

Elizabeth Hardwick, Family Values

In Contempt by Christopher A. Darden

The Search for Justice: A Defense Attorney's Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case by Robert L. Shapiro

I Want to Tell You by O.J. Simpson

Reasonable Doubts: The O.J. Simpson Case and the Criminal Justice System by Alan M. Dershowitz

Garry Wills, What Happened to the Revolution?

Showdown: The Struggle Between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House by Elizabeth Drew

'Tell Newt to Shut Up' by David Maraniss, by Michael Weisskopf

The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point by Haynes Johnson, by David S. Broder

Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics by Larry J. Sabate, by Glenn R. Simpson

Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival by Dan Balz, by Ronald Brownstein

Jonathan Aaron, Offering (poem)

J.M. Coetzee, En Route to the Catastrophe

Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt

Noel Annan, The Abominable Emperor

An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Russia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm by Hannah Pakula

Blood and Iron: From Bismarck to Hitler: The von Moltke Family's Impact on German History by Otto Friedrich

The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany by John C.G. Röhl, translated by Terence F. Cole

Stauffenberg: A Family History 1950-1944 by Peter Hoffmann

Roger Shattuck, The Pleasures of Abstinence

Ian Buruma, Japan: In the Spirit World

The Idea of Japan: Western Images, Western Myths by Ian Littlewood

A Zen Romance: One Woman's Adventures in a Monastery by Deborah Boliver Boehm

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K. Nelson

Louis Menand, Eliot and the Jews

T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form by Anthony Julius

Alexander Stille, Italy: The Convulsions of Normalcy

Gordon S. Wood, Not So Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies by Robert Middlekauff

The Devious Dr. Franklin, Colonial Agent: Benjamin Franklin's Years in London by David T. Morgan

Robert Darnton, How to Read a Book

Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer by Roger Chartier

Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater and the Stuart Court, 1603-1613 by Alvin Kernan

Philip Gourevitch, The Poisoned Country

Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide by René Lemarchand

Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology, Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania by Liisa H. Malkki

John Deutch, Charles Lane, Thom Shanker, The CIA and Bosnia: An Exchange

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Letters

Claire DeSilver, Gore Vidal, The Angel in the Story
Janadas Devan, Ian Buruma, 'The Singapore Way'
Eric Bentley, Thomas Mann's Frustration
David Herbert Donald, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Making It New

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Contributors

Jonathan Aaron's new collection of poems, Journey to the Lost City, has just been published. (August 2006)

Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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)

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)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

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.

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)

Alexander Stille is the author of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic and The Future of the Past. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 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.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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