Table of Contents

Volume 44, Number 2 · February 6, 1997

Fiona MacCarthy, How the Other Half Lived

The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe—Volume One, 1500-1800 by Olwen Hufton

Murray Kempton, The New Equality

All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons

Czeslaw Milosz, Themes

Geoffrey O'Brien, The Ghost at the Feast

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet film directed by Baz Luhrmann

Looking for Richard a film directed by Al Pacino

Hamlet a film directed by Kenneth Branagh

Twelfth Night a film directed by Trevor Nunn

A Midsummer Night's Dream Tramway Theater, Glasgow, February 4-7; the Palais Résidence, Brussels, February 12-15; and the Cultural Center Belem, Lisbon, February 19-23 a play directed by Jonathan Miller. At the Almeida Theatre, London, through February 1, 1997; then the

Gabriele Annan, An International Episode

Le Divorce by Diane Johnson

James Fenton, Becoming Picasso

A Life of Picasso: Volume II, 1907-1917 by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully

Steve Jones, Crooked Bones

Unraveling Piltdown: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution by John Evangelist Walsh

Louis Menand, It's a Wonderful Life

The People vs. Larry Flynt a film by Milos Forman

The People vs. Larry Flynt: The Shooting Script by Scott Alexander, by Larry Karaszewski. with an afterword by Milos Forman

An Unseemly Man: My Life as Pornographer, Pundit, and Social Outcast by Larry Flynt, with Kenneth Ross

Frank Kermode, The World Turned Upside Down

The Dictionary of Global Culture edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Page Stegner, The Plains That Broke the Plow

Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban

Francis Haskell, In Love with Light

Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 1996, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, January 24-April 27, 1997 Exhibition at the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, September 5-December 9,

Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Keith Christiansen

Der Himmel auf Erden—Tiepolo in Würzburg February 15-May 19, 1996 Exhibition at the Prince-Bishop's Residenz, Würzburg, Germany.

Heaven on Earth: Tiepolo—Masterpieces of the Würzburg Years by Peter O. Krückmann

Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections the Pierpont Morgan Library Catalog of the exhibition at the Harvard University Art Museums and, by Bernard Aikema, translated by Andrew McCormick

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Josef Joffe, 'Hitler's Willing Executioners': An Exchange

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Letters

William F. Schulz, Palestinian Abuses: the Amnesty Report
William C. Summers, M.F. Perutz, Pasteur's 'Private Science'
Committee to Protect Journalists, For Mr. Yurtçu's Release

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)

Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and the author of In the Blood. (April 1998)

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 latest book, ConcerningE.M. Forster, will be published in December.
 (October 2009)

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Byron. Her most recent book is Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes. She is currently writing a biography of Edward Burne-Jones.
 (September 2009)

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.

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. He died in 2004.

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. (September 2009)

Page Stegner is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His most recent book is Grand Canyon: The Great Abyss. (February 1997)

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