Table of Contents
Volume 44, Number 5 · March 27, 1997
Amos Elon, Jerusalem Blues 
City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem by Meron Benvenisti
Ian Buruma, God's Choice
Gladstone: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
Roderick MacFarquhar, Demolition Man
John Bayley, Living Ghosts
Lament for the Makers by W.S. Merwin
The Vixen by W.S. Merwin
Flight Among the Tombs by Anthony Hecht
The Bounty by Derek Walcott
Roger Shattuck, Confidence Man
Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins
The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp, and Avant-Gardism by Jeffrey Weiss
New York Dada 1915-23 by Francis M. Naumann
Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Esthetics by Heather Busch, by Burton Silver
Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York edited by Francis M. Naumann, with Beth Venn. Catalog of the Whitney Museum exhibition, which closed on February 23.
The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp edited by Thierry de Duve
The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture by Jerrold Seigel
Robert Cottrell, Russia: The New Oligarchy
Kremlin Capitalism: The Privatization of the Russian Economy by Joseph R. Blasi, by Maya Kroumova, by Douglas Kruse, foreword by Andrei Shleifer
John Richardson, The Great Forgotten Modernist
Braque: The Late Works 6, 1997, and the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, April 25-August 31, 1997 An exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 23-April
Braque: The Late Works by John Golding, by Sophie Bowness, by Isabelle Monod-Fontaine
Robert Darnton, George Washington's False Teeth
Joyce Carol Oates, Troubles I've Seen
The Cattle Killing by John Edgar Wideman
Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, et al. Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief
Murray Kempton, With Malice Toward Many
Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events of 1996
Amy Knight, Jack F. Matlock, 'The Gorbachev Factor': An Exchange
Letters
David Astor, Thomas Powers, Conspiring Against Hitler
Richard Askey, Wolfgang Fuchs, et al. An Appeal for Wang Dan
Contributors
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard.
He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)
Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (April 2008)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
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)
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.
Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book, written with Michael Schoenhals, is Mao’s Last Revolution. (June 2007)
Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. His most recent book is Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays. (May 2006)
Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton. Her collection of short novellas Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway has just been published and her novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike will be published this summer. (May 2008)
John Richardson's A Life of Picasso, Volume Two, was published in December. Volume One won the Whitbread Prize in England in 1991. (March 1997)
Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)
