Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 20 · December 19, 1996

Hilary Mantel, Murder and Memory

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Warren Zimmermann, Last Chance for Bosnia?

Unfinished Peace: Report of the International Commission on the Balkans

Richard Jenkyns, But Is It True?

Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit by David A. Traill

Lost and Found: The 9,000 Treasures of Troy: Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold That Got Away by Caroline Moorehead

The Gold of Troy: Searching for Homer's Fabled City Museum of Fine Arts/Abrams by Vladimir Tolstikov, by Mikhail Treister

Nicholas Lemann, High in the Lower Depths

Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America by Leon Dash

Amos Elon, Israel and the End of Zionism

Fiona MacCarthy, The Power of Chastity

Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara

Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy edited by Daniel Bornstein, edited by Roberto Rusconi

Jack F. Matlock, Gorbachev: Lingering Mysteries

Memoirs by Mikhail Gorbachev ( the copyright page states, "This edition based on the translation by Georges Peronansky and Tatjana Varsavsky," implying that the translation was edited substantially.)

The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown

Anne Barton, The Village Genius

John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period 1822-1837 edited by Eric Robinson, edited by David Powell, edited by P.M.S. Dawson

Jonathan D. Spence, The Risks of Witness

Troublemaker: One Man's Crusade Against China's Cruelty by Harry Wu

Geoffrey O'Brien, Magnificent Obsession

Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, restored by Robert A. Harris, by James C. Katz

James Fenton, A Banner With a Strange Device

Jasper Johns: A Retrospective 1996-January 21, 1997. exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York October 20,. Catalog of the exhibition, by Kirk Varnedoe, with an essay by Roberta Bernstein

Jeff Madrick, Social Security and Its Discontents

Restoring Hope in America: The Social Security Solution by Sam Beard

Frightening America's Elderly: How the Age Lobby Holds Seniors Captive by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old? How the Coming Social Security Crisis Threatens You, Your Family, and Your Country by Peter G. Peterson

Social Security in the Twenty-First Century edited by Eric R. Kingson, edited by James H. Schulz

William Shawcross, The Cambodian Tragedy, Cont'd

Garry Wills, The Art & Politics of the Nativity

The Angel Tree: A Christmas Celebration (1993) by Linn Howard, by Mary Jane Pool

Scene e scenografie del presepe Napoletano (1991) by Gennaro Borrelli

Il presepio: Otto secoli di storia, arte, tradizione (1995) by Pietro Gargano

El belén: Historia, tradición y actualidad (1992) by Pablo Martínez-Palomero

Il presepe Napoletano del settecento (1995) by Teodoro Fittipaldi

Venite Adoremus: Note sul presepe Genovese (1993) catalog of the 1993-1994 exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Genoa.

Il presepe riscoperto: Un "unicum" Napoletano del seicento a Genova (1989) by Giuliana Biavati, by Giulio Sommariva

Il presepe Italiano (1993) by Pietro Gasperini

Il presepe Napoletano (1990) by Gennaro Borrelli

Murray Kempton, The Second Oldest Profession

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Letters

David Coady, Steve Jones, Not Cricket
Abraham H. Foxman, The Historian's Freedom
Clancy Sigal, Rosemary Dinnage, Working with Laing
Christopher Hitchens, Mother Teresa

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Contributors

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)

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.

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

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill and William Morris. Her most recent book is Byron: Life and Legend. (December 2005)

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book The Case for Big Government will be published this fall. (September 2008)

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)

Jack F. Matlock Jr. was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 and is the author of Autopsy on an Empire. He is George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (February 2000)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (October 2008)

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 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.

Warren Zimmermann, a professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University, was US Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992. A revised edition of his book, Origins of a Catastrophe:Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers, has just been published in paperback. (June 1999)

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