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
Vaclav 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 The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism. He has recently edited Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption with Martin Bunzl. (September 2007)
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's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
Vaclav 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 and William Morris. Her most recent book is Byron: Life and Legend. (December 2005)
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/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)
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. (April 2008)
