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Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996

Louis Menand, Hollywood's Trap

The Nutty Professor a film by Tom Shadyac

Independence Day a film by Roland Emmerich

Mission: Impossible a film by Brian De Palma

The Rock a film by Michael Bay

The Cable Guy a film by Ben Stiller

Twister a film by Jan De Bont

Gordon A. Craig, The Devil in the Details

Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich by David Irving

Joan Didion, The Deferential Spirit

The Choice by Bob Woodward

The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward

Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward

The Brethren by Bob Woodward, by Scott Armstrong

Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi by Bob Woodward

The Commanders by Bob Woodward

Paul Kennedy, Doomsterism

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century by Robert D. Kaplan

Kenneth Maxwell, The Road to Kisses

The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe, by Michael D. Coe

Frederick C. Crews, The Consolation of Theosophy

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America by Peter Washington

Frank Kermode, The Pleasure of the Text

Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World by David Denby

Misha Glenny, Why the Balkans Are So Violent

Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass

Ian Hacking, In Pursuit of Fairness

Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen

Ingrid D. Rowland, Beyond Art

Etruscan Art Ridgway. by Otto J. Brendel

The Western Greeks edited by Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli

Brad Leithauser, Getting Things Right

New and Selected Poems by Donald Justice

Strange Relation by Daniel Hall

Nicholas Lemann, An Attack in Atlanta

The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene

Helen Vendler, The Truth Teller

Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke

The Lost Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy, edited by Roger L. Conover

Garry Wills, A Tale of Three Leaders

An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America by Andrew Young

Prophet of Rage: A Life of Louis Farrakhan and His Nation by Arthur J. Magida

In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam by Mattias Gardell

Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson by Marshall Frady

Peter H. Duesberg, Richard Horton, 'The AIDS Heresy': Another Exchange

Abraham Brumberg, Jack F. Matlock, 'Struggle for the Kremlin': An Exchange

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Letters

James Martin, In Defense of Mother Teresa
Liisa H. Malkki, Philip Gourevitch, 'The Poisoned Country'
Guy Cardwell, Gore Vidal, Mark Twain's Reputation
Gary Fisketjon, Thomas R. Edwards, Professional Mystery?
Gene Lyons, The Arkansas State Troopers

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Contributors

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)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)

Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)

Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)

Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, is the author and editor of fifteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. His latest book is The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. (November 2006)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Nicholas Lemann is the national correspondent for The Atlantic. (June 1998)

Kenneth Maxwell is Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, will be published this month. (July 2003)

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.

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 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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