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October 8, 1992 • Volume 39, Number 16

  • M.F. Perutz

    The Fifth Freedom e-edition

    The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas’ Horse: The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi by Carl Djerassi

    The ‘Abortion Pill’ by Etienne-Emile Baulieu, with Mort Rosenblum

  • István Deák

    Strategies of Hell e-edition

    ‘The Good Old Days’: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders edited by Ernst Klee, by Willi Dressen, by Volker Riess, translated by Deborah Burnstone, foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper

    Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss, edited by Steven Paskuly, translated by Andrew Pollinger

    In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of Mauthausen by Gordon J. Horwitz

    Stella: One Woman’s True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler’s Germany by Peter Wyden

    Outcast: A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin by Inge Deutschkron, translated by Jean Steinberg

    In the Lion’s Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen by Nechama Tec

  • Gore Vidal

    The Romance of Sinclair Lewis

    Main Street and Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, edited by John Hersey

  • Andrew Brown

    The Attack on I.F. Stone e-edition

  • James Chace

    The Proconsul e-edition

    The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment by Kai Bird

    America’s Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany by Thomas Alan Schwartz

  • James Joll

    Tales from the Vienna Woods e-edition

    Alma Mahler or the Art of Being Loved by Françoise Giroux

    The Bride of the Wind: The Life and Times of Alma Mahler-Werfel by Susanne Keegan

    Oskar Kokoschka Letters 1905-1976 selected by Olda Kokoschka, by Alfred Marnau

    Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge: An Artist and His Muse by Wolfgang G. Fischer

    The Fin-de-Siècle Culture of Adolescence by John Neubauer

  • Gitta Sereny

    John Demjanjuk and the Failure of Justice e-edition

  • Sarah Kerr

    Shock Treatment e-edition

    The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela, translated by Anthony Kerrigan

    Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside by Camilo José Cela, translated by Frances M. López-Morillas

    The Hive by Camilo José Cela, translated by J.M. Cohen

    San Camilo, 1936 by Camilo José Cela, translated by John H.R. Polt

    Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son by Camilo José Cela, translated by J.S. Bernstein

  • Ian Buruma

    Bad Boy e-edition

    Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956–1978 by Nagisa Oshima, edited and with an introduction by Annette Michelson, translated by Dawn Lawson

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

    Justice For Women! e-edition

    Justice, Gender, and the Family by Susan Moller Okin

  • Sue Halpern

    Do the Right Thing e-edition

    Billie Dyer and Other Stories by William Maxwell

  • Nora Beloff,
    Theodossis C. Demetracopoulos,
    Misha Glenny

    Bosnia and the Balkans: An Exchange

  • Alfred Kazin

    The Opera of ‘The Scarlet Letter’ e-edition

  • Jamey Gambrell

    Moscow: The Front Page e-edition

Contributors

Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. His books include Murderer in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, and the novel The China Lover. His book Year Zero: A History of 1945 will be published in September 2013.

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include Marina Tsvetaeva’s Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, a volume of Aleksandr Rodchenko’s writings, Experiments for the Future; and Tatyana Tolstaya’s novel, The Slynx. Her translation of Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik will be published in 2011.

Sue Halpern is the editor of NYRB Lit and scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home, will be published in May.
 (March 2013)

James Joll (1936–2011) was a British historian. His books include The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870.

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Jan Gross and Tony Judt, of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.

Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was a writer and teacher. Among his books are On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from Howells to Faulkner, and the memoirs A Walker in the Cityand New York Jew. In 1996, he received the first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism from the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (December 2008)

M. F. Perutz (1914–2002) was an Austrian molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier.

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright. His many works include the memoirs Point to Point Navigation and Palimpsest, the novels The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, and Lincoln, and the collection United States: Essays 1952–1992.