Table of Contents

Volume 44, Number 19 · December 4, 1997

John Ryle, Nomad

With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer by Susannah Clapp

Anatomy of Restlessness by Bruce Chatwin

James Fenton, A Nice German Lady

The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II by Ben Pimlott

The Royals by Kitty Kelley

John Updike, Can Genitals Be Beautiful?

Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, October 12, 1997-January 4, 1998., Catalog of the exhibition by Magdalena Dabrowski, by Rudolf Leopold

Ian Buruma, India: The Perils of Democracy

The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani

The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India by Christophe Jaffrelot

Louis Menand, Not Getting the Lesson of the Master

Washington Square a film directed by Agnieszka Holland

The Wings of the Dove a film directed by Iain Softley

Theodore H. Draper, The Drama of Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus

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

Josef Joffe, The Euro: The Engine That Couldn't

Robert Stone, The Croatians Are Coming

Toward the End of Time by John Updike

Andrew Hacker, The War Over the Family

The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild

The Assault on Parenthood: How Our Culture Undermines the Family by Dana Mack

Kids These Days: What Americans Really Think about the Next Generations by Steve Farkas, by Jean Johnson, with Ann Duffett, by Ali Bers

The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families by Stephanie Coontz

The Divorce Culture by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Helen Vendler, 'Ice and Fire and Solitude'

Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose by Frank Kermode elected and annotated by, by Joan Richardson

Murray Sayle, Sugihara's List

In Search of Sugihara by Hillel Levine

Thomas L. Haskell, The New Aristocracy

Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present by Elliott A. Krause

Edwin Frank, Passage to Brooklyn

The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman

Mark Danner, America and the Bosnia Genocide

Witness to Genocide by Roy Gutman

Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia's War by Ed Vulliamy

The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia by Rezak Hukanovic, with a Foreword by Elie Wiesel

Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media's Influence on Peace Operations by Warren P. Strobel

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

Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia by Beverly Allen

The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia by Michael A. Sells

"Yugoslavia: 1989-1996" by Warren Zimmermann. in US and Russian Policymaking with Respect to the Use of Force, edited by Jeremy R. Azrael, by Emil A. Pagin

The Conceit of Innocence: Losing the Conscience of the West in the War Against Bosnia edited by Stjepan G. Mestrovic

This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia edited by Thomas Cushman, by Stjepan G. Mestrovic

Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of Ethnic Cleansing by Norman Cigar

Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West by David Rieff

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Letters

Jonathan Sunley, Misha Glenny, Disorder in Albania
Morris Dickstein, Irving Howe Memorial
Louise Asmal, Timothy Garton Ash, Not Comparable

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year's Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 2008)

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)

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

Edwin Frank is the editor of NYRB Classics.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Thomas Haskell is the McCann Professor of History at Rice University and the author of Objectivity is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History. (December 1997)

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)

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.

John Ryle is Chair of the Rift Valley Institute, a network of regional specialists working in East and Northeast Africa. (August 2004)

Murray Sayle is an Australian journalist long based in Japan. His book The Myth of Hiroshima, on the end of World War II, will be published next year. (December 1997)

Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. He is the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. He has also written short stories, essays, and screenplays, and published a short story collection, Bear and His Daughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and in Key West, Florida.

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Helen Vendler’s recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published in 2009. (November 2008)

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