Table of Contents
Volume 44, Number 3 · February 20, 1997
Garry Wills, The Real Scandal 
Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties by Dick Morris
Martin Filler, Big Mack
Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1996-February 16, 1997; The Art Institute of Chicago, March 29-June 22; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 3-October 12 (previously at the Glasgow Museums, McLellan Galleries, May 25-September 30, 1996) Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 19,
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) by Charlotte Fiell, by Peter Fiell
Mackintosh's Masterwork: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art by William Buchanan, by James Macaulay, by Andrew MacMillan, by George Rawson, by Peter Trowles, foreword by Eckart Muthesius
Charles Rennie Mackintosh catalog of the exhibition,, edited by Wendy Kaplan
Christopher Hitchens, The Long Littleness of Life
Christopher Isherwood: Diaries, Volume One: 1939-1960 edited and introduced by Katherine Bucknell
Louis Menand, Born Free
What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation by Charles Murray
John Banville, Revelations
Selected Stories by Alice Munro
After Rain by William Trevor
Gordon S. Wood, Liberty's Wild Man
The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O'Brien
Sarah Kerr, Working Girl
Evita a film directed by Alan Parker, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice
The Making of Evita by Alan Parker, with an introduction by Madonna
Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez, translated by Helen Lane
Eva Perón by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, translated by Shawn Fields
Evita: In My Own Words translated by Laura Dail
Daniel J. Kevles, Endangered Environmentalists
The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy American Agriculture by Paul Raeburn
Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century by Mark Dowie
Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species by Charles C. Mann, by Mark L. Plummer
Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides by Wargo John
David Brion Davis, White Wives and Slave Mothers
Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South by Brenda E. Stevenson
M.F. Perutz, A Passion for Science
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime
Aileen Kelly, 'Where the Dead Smiled'
St. Petersburg: A Cultural History by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina W. Bouis
Letters
Avigdor Arikha, The Core of Art?
Daniel Burston, Rosemary Dinnage, Rescuing R.D. Laing
Walter Laqueur, Robert O. Paxton, What's Wrong with 'Fascism'?
Contributors
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)
Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)
Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (December 2008)
Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.
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.
M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)
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.
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
