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Volume 45, Number 3 · February 19, 1998

Ian Buruma, The Afterlife of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank a play by Frances Goodrich, by Albert Hackett, adapted by Wendy Kesselman, directed by James Lapine. at the Music Box Theater, New York City

An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary by Lawrence Graver

The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank: Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary by Ralph Melnick

Adam Zagajewski, From Memory (poem)

Fintan O'Toole, The End of the Troubles?

Behind the Mask: The IRA and Sinn Fein by Peter Taylor

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography by Gerry Adams

C. Vann Woodward, Dangerous Liaisons

White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South by Martha Hodes

Denis Donoghue, The Myth of W.B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats: A Life Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, by R.F. Foster

The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats Volume II: 1896-1900, edited by Warwick Gould, by John Kelly, by Deirdre Toomey

Garry Wills, The Vatican Monarchy

Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith by William F. Buckley Jr.

Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from Saint Peter to John Paul II by Richard P. McBrien

The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism by Michael W. Cuneo

Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes by Eamon Duffy

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer

Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II by Jonathan Kwitny

Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan

Gabriele Annan, Fantasia

Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

Oscar and Lucinda a film directed by Gillian Armstrong

James Fenton, Verrocchio: The New Cicerone

The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio by Andrew Butterfield

Rosemary Dinnage, Delightful Tears

Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century by Laurence Lerner

Timothy Garton Ash, The Truth About Dictatorship

Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes Studies, 780 pp.; Volume III: Laws, Rulings, and Reports, 834 pp., Volume I: General Considerations, 604 pp.; Volume II: Country, edited by Neil J. Kritz

Die Enquete-Kommission 'Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland' im Deutschen Bundestag [Inquiry Commission in the German Bundestag (for the) 'Treatment of the Past and Consequences of the SED-Dictatorship in Germany']

Politik und Schuld: Die zerstörerische Macht des Schweigens [Politics and Guilt: The Destructive Power of Staying Silent] by Gesine Schwan

Spór o PRL [The Controversy about the Polish People's Republic]

Mark Danner, Bosnia: Breaking the Machine

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

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

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

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Letters

David Astor, 'The Hitler of History'
Claus von Buelow, Martin Filler, L.A. Art
Charles Rosen, The Other Perrault
Ronald Paulson, The Editors, Not His Hogarth

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 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.

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

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)

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)

Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. He is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. (November 2007)

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.

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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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