Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 11 · June 20, 1996

Hilary Mantel, States of Emergency

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Fiona MacCarthy, Star

Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour

Rosemary Dinnage, The Survivor

Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy by Nina Sutton, translated by David Sharp

William H. McNeill, The Great Contest

The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis

Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery by Bernard Lewis

Thomas Powers, Who Won the Cold War?

From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War by Robert M. Gates

John Gregory Dunne, Keystone Killers

The Price of Experience: Money, Power, Image, and Murder in Los Angeles by Randall Sullivan

You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again Parrent by and Tiffany Robin, Liza, Linda. as told to Jennie Louise Frankel, Terrie Maxine Frankel, and Joanne

M.F. Perutz, The Cabinet of Dr. Haber

Fritz Haber, Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger, Deutscher, Jude: Eine Biografie by Dietrich Stoltzenberg

Der Fall Clara Immerwahr: Leben für eine humane Wissenschaft by Gerit von Leitner

Robert Craft, His Ewe Lamb

Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman by Thekla Clark, Introduction by James Fenton

Václav Havel, The Hope for Europe

Martin Filler, All About Eames

Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century by Pat Kirkham

The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Volumes I-IV

Eames House by Marilyn Neuhart, by John Neuhart

Eames House: Charles and Ray Eames by James Steele

Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Marrying Kind

The Case for Same-Sex Marriage by William N. Eskridge Jr.

Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan

Roger Shattuck, Emily Dickinson's Banquet of Abstemiousness

James Fenton, Goodbye to All That

Michael Wood, Up to the Minutiae

The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker

Jasper Griffin, Anxieties of Influence

Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History by Mary R. Lefkowitz

Black Athena Revisited edited by Mary R. Lefkowitz, edited by Guy MacLean Rogers

The Western Greeks edited by Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli. Catalog of the exhibition. an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, through December 8.

The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity a Bollingen Series XXXV by John Boardman


Letters

Philip H. Beard, William H. Gass, Seeing Musil Whole
Jean Francois Billeter, Simon Leys, The Calligraphic Spirit
The Editors, Corrections



Contributors

K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Experiments in Ethics. He is working on a book about the role of honor in moral life. (November 2008)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)

Martin Filler was the longtime architecture critic of House & Garden until it ceased publication in 2007. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect, and author of Makers of Modern Architecture, based on essays from the New York Review.

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Václav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement "Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard," is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Byron. Her most recent book is Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes. She is currently writing a biography of Edward Burne-Jones.
 (September 2009)

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 2009)

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather's Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

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)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)


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