Table of Contents
Volume 43, Number 19 · November 28, 1996
Neal Ascherson, The Man in the Otter Collar 
Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast by Tomas Venclova
Andrew Hacker, Modest Proposals
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson
John Updike, Bridges to the Invisible
Max Beckmann in Exile 1997 Barbara Stehlé-Akhtar, Reinhard Spieler, Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann, and Eric Fischl. exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo October 9, 1996-January 5,. Catalog of the exhibition with contributions by Matthew Drutt,
Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950 by Max Beckmann, edited and translated by Barbara C. Buenger
Michael Wood, The Lying Game
The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré
Josef Joffe, Goldhagen in Germany
Diane Johnson, What Do Women Want?
'Bad Girls'/'Good Girls': Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties edited by Nan Bauer Maglin, edited by Donna Perry
'Feminism is Not the Story of My Life': How Today's Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the Real Concerns of Women by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood by Sharon Hays
The Seasons of a Woman's Life by Daniel J. Levinson
The Sibling Society by Robert Bly
She Works, He Works: How Two-Income Families are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off by Rosalind C. Barnett, by Caryl Rivers
Frank Kermode, Getting Even
Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon by John Kerrigan
Bill McKibben, Easy Rider
The Car that Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle by Michael Shnayerson
Taking Charge: The Electric Automobile in America by Michael Brian Schiffer
D. Kern Holoman, Godfather
Franz Liszt: Volume III, The Final Years, 1861-1886 by Alan Walker
Stuart Hampshire, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872-1921 by Ray Monk
Ian Buruma, The Sky's the Limit
S,M,L,XL (Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large) by Rem Koolhaas, by Bruce Mau, edited by Jennifer Sigler, photography by Hans Werlemann
Robert O. Paxton, The Uses of Fascism
Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur
A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 by Stanley G. Payne
Jasper Griffin, Bringing Homer Home
The Odyssey of Homer translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox
Raymond Carr, Homage from Catalonia
Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ by William A. Christian Jr.
Denis Donoghue, The Supreme Fiction
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry by Helen Vendler
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham by Helen Vendler
The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition by Helen Vendler
Jorie Graham, In the Pasture (poem)
Murray Kempton, Drugs & the CIA
Letters
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Gene Lyons, The Vincent Foster Case
Robert N. Bellah, Clinton & Welfare
Morris Dickstein, Irving Howe Memorial
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)
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)
Raymond Carr was Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has written extensively on modern Spanish history. (April 2003)
Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)
Jorie Graham is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. Her book Sea Change: Poems will be published next spring. (December 2007)
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
D. Kern Holoman is Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis, where he conducts the UCD Symphony. He is editor of The Nineteenth-Century Symphony, to be published next month. (November 1996)
Josef Joffe is editorial page editor and a columnist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich and an associate of Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. (December 1997)
Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)
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.
Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)
Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (March 2008)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
