Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 1 · January 15, 1998
Elizabeth Hardwick, Tru Confessions 
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton
Tatyana Tolstaya, Missing Persons
The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia by David King
Eyewitness to History: The Photographs of Yevgeny Khaldei with a biographical essay by Alexander Nakhimovsky, by Alice Nakhimovsky
Pico Iyer, Lost Horizons
Kundun a film directed by Martin Scorsese
Seven Years in Tibet a film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Luc Sante, Thimble Theater
Ronald Steel, Instead of NATO
Vaclav Havel, The Charms of NATO
John Weightman, The Outsider
Albert Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd, Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry
Neal Ascherson, Lost
As If: A Crime, a Trial, a Question of Childhood by Blake Morrison
The Missing by Andrew O'Hagan
Bernard Knox, Playboy of the Roman World
The Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse by Alessandro Barchiesi
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated freely into verse by David R. Slavitt
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses edited by Michael Hoffman, by James Lasdun
Al Alvarez, High Flier
Burning the Days: Recollection by James Salter
James Fenton, Object Lessons
A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1997-January 18, 1998. Following its presentation in Baltimore, A Grand Design will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (February 25-May 17, 1998); the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (June 20- September 13, 1998); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (October 18, 1998- January 10, 1999); and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (February 13-May 9, 1999). an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 12,, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Malcolm Baker, by Brenda Richardson
Photography: An Independent Art: Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839-1996 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Gabriele Annan, The Mahdi's Bullet
The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
P.N. Furbank, A Finished Woman
The Portrait of Zélide by Geoffrey Scott, Introduction by Shirley Hazzard, afterword by Richard Dunn
Garry Wills, A Language of Their Own
Interntional Silent Film Festival Pordenone, Italy
Tony Judt, On the Brink
'One Hell of a Gamble': Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 by Aleksandr Fursenko, by Timothy Naftali
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis edited by Ernest R. May, by Philip D. Zelikow
The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963 by Philip Nash
Ismail Kadare, Noel Malcolm, 'In the Palace of Nightmares': An Exchange
Danis Rose, John Kidd, 'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange
Letters
Raphael Falk, William Pfaff, Eugenics Denied
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)
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)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)
Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. (June 2008)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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.
Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)
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.
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 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.
