Table of Contents
Volume 44, Number 1 · January 9, 1997
Edmund S. Morgan, Bewitched 
The Crucible film by Nicholas Hytner, screenplay by Arthur Miller
The Crucible Screenplay by Arthur Miller
Ian Buruma, Artist of the Floating World
Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller 12, 1997 (first at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 28-August 18, 1996) Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, September 21, 1996-January
Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller catalog of the exhibition, by H. Perry Chapman, by Wouter Th. Kloek, by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
Janet Malcolm, The Real Thing
Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans reproduced from prints made by Lee Friedlander, Introduction by Susan Sontag, interviews edited by John Szarkowski
Louis Menand, Between Planes
Airframe by Michael Crichton
William H. McNeill, Decline of the West?
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
Julian Barnes, 'O Unforgetting Elephant'
Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life by Max Saunders
Richard C. Lewontin, Billions and Billions of Demons
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Jonathan Mirsky, China: The Defining Moment
The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray by James Miles
Gordon A. Craig, Prophets
From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800 1996-January 19, 1997. An exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 8,. Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Vivian B. Mann, edited by Richard I. Cohen
Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time by Amos Elon
Jeri Laber, Smoldering Indonesia
Henry Allen, Fall of the Falls
The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Falls, 1776-1917 by William Irwin
Thomas Powers, The Conspiracy That Failed
Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of the German Resistance by Joachim Fest, translated by Bruce Little
The Unnecessary War: Whitehall and the German Resistance to Hitler by Patricia Meehan
Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944 by Peter Hoffmann
American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler: A Documentary History edited by Jürgen Heideking, edited by Christof Mauch
The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War by John H. Waller
Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany by Noel Annan
Avigdor Arikha, James Fenton, On Drawing: An Exchange
Letters
Nicholas Hildyard, Ian Buruma, 'Fear & Loathing in Europe'
Simon Leys, On Mother Teresa
Contributors
Henry Allen is a cultural critic at The Washington Post. His new book, What It Felt Like, will be published in the fall. (March 2000)
Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.
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)
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)
Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying': Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)
Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).
Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.
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)
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.
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
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)
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.
