Table of Contents

Volume 44, Number 20 · December 18, 1997

Garry Wills, A Second Assassination

The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh

Adam Zagajewski, The Three Kings (poem)

Alfred Brendel, Stuart Hampshire, Michael Ignatieff, et al. On Isaiah Berlin (1909 - 1997)

Joan Didion, The Lion King

Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader by Dinesh D'Souza

Diane Johnson, American Pie

Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noël Riley Fitch

A Welcoming Life: The M.F.K. Fisher Scrapbook compiled and annotated by Dominique Gioia

The All-New Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer, by Marion Rombauer Becker, by Ethan Becker

The American Century Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes of the 20th Century by Jean Anderson

Marcella Cucina by Marcella Hazan

Gore Vidal, A Lost World

New York Mosaic: Do I Wake or Sleep, The Christmas Tree, Many Mansions three novels by Isabel Bolton, with an introduction by Doris Grumbach

Martin Filler, The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Building the Getty by Richard Meier

The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for the New Century by John Walsh, by Deborah Gribbon

Making Architecture: The Getty Center by Harold M. Williams, by Ada Louise Huxtable, by Stephen D. Rountree, by Richard Meier

André Aciman, Shadow Cities

Charles Rosen, The Fabulous La Fontaine

Le Poète et le Roi: Jean de La Fontaine en son siècle by Marc Fumaroli

Michael Massing, West of Downtown

The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon, by Edward Burns

P.N. Furbank, The Pleasures of Reading Hogarth

Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow

The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth, edited with an introduction and notes by Ronald Paulson

Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy by David Bindman

Jasper Griffin, Their Jewish Problem

Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World by Peter Schäfer

John Bayley, The Naked Truth

The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler

Mark Danner, Clinton, the UN, and the Bosnian Disaster

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

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

Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia by Chuck Sudetic

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

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

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

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Letters

Michael Straight, Allen Weinstein, Not a Recruiter
George Bailey, Thomas Powers, Nothing to Hide

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Contributors

André Aciman teaches Comparative Literature at the City University Graduate Center. He is the author of False Papers and the memoir Out of Egypt. His new novel will be published in 2007.

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002)

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.

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)

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.

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

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)

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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.

Adam Zagajewski's books include Another Beauty and Without End: New and Selected Poems. The poem in this issue is from his new book, Eternal Enemies, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (April 2008)

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