Table of Contents
Volume 43, Number 17 · October 31, 1996
Elizabeth Hardwick, In the Wasteland 
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
Tony Judt, Holy Warrior
His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time by Carl Bernstein, by Marco Politi
John Richardson, Faking Picasso
Surviving Picasso a film directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant
Bernard Knox, Victims and Executioners
The Jews: History, Memory and the Present by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated and edited by David Ames Curtis
Robert Craft, Nights at the Opera
Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times by Peter Heyworth
Benjamin M. Friedman, There They Go Again
Witold Rybczynski, Losers
The New American Ghetto by Camilo José Vergara
Joyce Carol Oates, The King of Weird
H.P. Lovecraft: A Life by S.T. Joshi
The Dunwich Horror and Others selected by August Derleth, with texts edited by S.T. Joshi
At the Mountains of Madness & Other Novels edited by S.T. Joshi
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales edited by S.T. Joshi
Selected Letters Vol. I: 1911-1924 edited by S.T. Joshi
Selected Letters Vol. V: 1934-1937 edited by S.T. Joshi
Selected Letters Vol. IV: 1932-1934 edited by S.T. Joshi
Selected Letters Vol. III: 1929-1931 edited by S.T. Joshi
Selected Letters Vol. II: 1925-1929 edited by S.T. Joshi
Miscellaneous Writings edited by S.T. Joshi
Charles Hope, The Myth of Florence
Florence: A Portrait by Michael Levey
Gordon A. Craig, The New Germany
The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany by Jane Kramer
Thomas R. Edwards, Palm Beach Story
About Schmidt by Louis Begley
Edmund S. Morgan, Subject Women
First Generations: Women in Colonial America by Carol Berkin
Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society by Mary Beth Norton
Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 by Cornelia Hughes Dayton
David Rieff, Rwanda: The Big Risk
Murray Kempton, Keeping Arafat Occupied
Letters
Ian Jack, Choosing the Best
John Rechy, Complaint
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Denis Donoghue, A Terrible State of Nerves
Stuart Pierson, M.F. Perutz, What Berthollet Wrote
Serge Lang, Richard Horton, Review of a Review
Contributors
Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)
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)
Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)
Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (November 2008)
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was a frequent contributor to 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 (NYRB Classics); the essay collections A View of My Own and Seduction and Betrayal (NYRB Classics).
Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)
Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued in paperback. (September 2009)
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.
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)
John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)
David Rieff's most recent book is Slaughterhouse:Bosnia and the Failure of the West. (October 1996)
Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate. His book on American building, Last Harvest, was published in 2007.
