Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 1 · January 14, 1999
Adam Michnik, A Death in St. Petersburg 
Gabriele Annan, Wages of Sin
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
John Ryle, Disneyland for Dictators
Henri Zerner, Passion Painter
Delacroix by Barthélémy Jobert
Delacroix: The Late Work Museum of Art, September 15, 1998-January 3, 1999. an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, and the Philadelphia, Catalog of the exhibition by Arlette Sérullaz, by Vincent Pomarède, by Joseph J. Rishel, by Lee Johnson, by Louis-Antoine Prat, by David Liot
W.S. Merwin, Plan for the Death of Ted Hughes (poem)
John Banville, The Dawn of the Gods
Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks
Robert Darnton, The Real Marquis
At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life by Francine du Plessix Gray
Sade: A Biographical Essay by Laurence L. Bongie
Richard Dorment, The Triumph of Matisse
The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, The Early Years, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling
Timothy Garton Ash, Cry, the Dismembered Country
Alma Guillermoprieto, Cuban Hit Parade
Buena Vista Social Club recording produced by Ry Cooder
Afro-Cuban All Stars: A Toda Cuba le Gusta recording produced by Nick Gold, by Juan de Marcos González
Introducing…Rubén González recording produced by Nick Gold
Jeff Madrick, George Soros, The International Crisis: An Interview
James Fallows, Fear of Flying
Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight by William Langewiesche
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche
Nall Report: Accident Trends and Factors for 1996 by 1997 Air Safety Foundation, Airline Owners and Pilots Association
Sam Tanenhaus, The Red Scare
Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America by Ellen Schrecker
Anne Barton, The Mysterious Mr. Wordsworth
Wordsworth and the Victorians by Stephen Gill
The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy by Kenneth R. Johnston
Joan Acocella, Secrets of Nijinsky
Ronald Dworkin, A Kind of Coup
Letters
Shlomo Avineri, On the Assassination of Galina Starovoitova
Contributors
Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
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.
Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)
Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)
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)
Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book The Case for Big Government will be published this fall. (September 2008)
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. (September 2008)
John Ryle is Chair of the Rift Valley Institute, a network of regional specialists working in East and Northeast Africa. (August 2004)
George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Institute, is the author most recently of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets. (September 2008)
Sam Tanenhaus, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of Whittaker Chambers, is writing a biography of William F. Buckley Jr. (April 2002)
Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)
