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Volume 44, Number 18 · November 20, 1997

Tatyana Tolstaya, Love Story

Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï Makine, Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan

Breyten Breytenbach, Reading Li Po (Saigon, December 18, 1995) (poem)

Robert L. Herbert, Renoir the Radical

Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age 27-September 14, 1997; the Art Institute of Chicago, October 17, 1997-January 4, 1998; and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, February 8-April 26, 1998. exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June, Catalog of the exhibition by Colin B. Bailey, with the assistance of John B. Collins, and with essays by Linda Nochlin, by Anne Distel

Luc Sante, Résumé

Theodore H. Draper, The Case of Cases

Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus

Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (updated edition) by Allen Weinstein

Alfred Kazin, The Long Voyage Home

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Gordon A. Craig, Man of the People?

The Hitler of History by John Lukacs

John Banville, A Life Elsewhere

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee

Michael Wood, Looking Good

Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood by Todd McCarthy

Who the Devil Made It by Peter Bogdanovich

Howard Hawks American Artist edited by Jim Hillier, by Peter Wollen

The Big Sleep by David Thomson

Sean Wilentz, Speedy Fred's Revolution

The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency by Robert Kanigel

Richard Jenkyns, Points of Order

The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination by Harriet Ritvo

Amos Elon, Death for Sale

Masks: An Attempt about Shoah an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Vienna, July 25-October 26, 1997

D.J. Enright, Lone Wolf

The Mad Dog by Heinrich Böll, translated by Breon Mitchell

Hayden N. Pelliccia, As Many Homers As You Please

Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond by Gregory Nagy

Homeric Questions by Gregory Nagy

Noel Annan, Blue Fingernails

Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse by Jessica Douglas-Home

Gordon S. Wood, Doing the Continental

The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 by Lester D. Langley

Mark Danner, The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe

Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its Destroyers—America's Last Ambassador Tells What Happened and Why by Warren Zimmermann

Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honeg, by Norbert Both

Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II by David Rohde

The Reluctant Superpower: United States Policy in Bosnia, 1991-1995 by Wayne Bert

The World and Yugoslavia's Wars edited by Richard H. Ullmann

Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War by James Gow

The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah

Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War by Susan L. Woodward

American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War: An Insider's Account of U.S. Policy in Europe, 1989-1992 by Robert L. Hutchings

Jim Sleeper, George M. Fredrickson, 'America's Caste System': Two Exchanges

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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.

Breyten Breytenbach is the author of, among other books, True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, which details his years in the prisons of the apartheid regime in South Africa. (November 1997)

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)

Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

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)

D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”

Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Hayden Pelliccia teaches Classics at Cornell. (April 2007)

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

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.

Sean Wilentz is Professor of History and Director of the Program in American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author, with Paul E. Johnson, of The Kingdom of Matthias. (November 1997)

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)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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