Table of Contents
Volume 44, Number 7 · April 24, 1997
Eric L. McKitrick, Portrait of an Enigma 
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
Jason Epstein, V. S. Pritchett, 1900–1997
Jonathan Mirsky, Peking, Hong Kong, & the US
The Coming Conflict with China by Richard Bernstein, by Ross H. Munro
Tatyana Tolstaya, The Way They Live Now
Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia by David Remnick
Josef Joffe, Germany vs. the Scientologists
Joseph Kerman, Two Cheers for Rach 3
Robin Lane Fox, How It Grew
The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000 by Peter Brown
Timothy Garton Ash, In the Serbian Soup
James Fenton, Becoming Marianne Moore
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Arts of Africa
William F. Schulz, Cruel & Unusual Punishment
Noel Annan, Between the Acts
Bloomsbury Recalled by Quentin Bell
Lutyens and the Edwardians: An English Architect and his Clients by Jane Brown
Edwardians: London Life and Letters, 1900-1914 by John Paterson
On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World by Peter Stansky
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Herbert Spiegel, Sybil—The Making of a Disease: An Interview with Dr. Herbert Spiegel
Letters
Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, et al. Standing with Soyinka
Christopher Cahill, 'Nohow On'
Stephen Basson, Charles Rosen, The Missing Bassoon
Herbert C. Friedmann, It Was 1869
Alice Schlegel, 'Born to Rebel'
Mike Marqusee, Getting Cricket Straight
Contributors
Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)
K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism. He has recently edited Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption with Martin Bunzl. (September 2007)
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. His most recent book is Remembering Anna O.: A Century of Mystification. (April 1997)
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)
James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
Robin Lane Fox is a fellow at New College, Oxford, and the gardening correspondent for the Financial Times.
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
Josef Joffe is editorial page editor and a columnist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich and an associate of Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. (December 1997)
Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).
Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. (May 2008)
William F. Schulz is Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA, and the author of In Our Own Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All. (April 2002)
Dr. Herbert Spiegel, previously Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, is now in private practice in New York City. He is the co-author of War Stress and Neurotic Illness (with A. Kardiner) and Trance and Treatment: The Clinical Uses of Hypnosis (with David Spiegel). The interview in this issue will be published later this year in Freud Under Analysis: History, Theory, Practice, a Festschrift volume for Paul Roazen, edited by Todd Dufresne. (April 1997)
Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.
