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April 7, 1994 • Volume 41, Number 7

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Clifford Geertz

Life on the Edge

In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Misha Glenny

Hope for Bosnia?
Willibald Sauerländer

Un-German Activities

Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany by Stephanie Barron et al.
Cathleen Schine

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
Jonathan Mirsky

The Battle for Hong Kong

A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh
Alison Lurie

Leaving the Door Ajar

Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare by Theresa Whistler
Joan Acocella

The Long Goodbye

New York City Ballet’s ‘Balanchine Celebration’ September 1994) directed by Matthew Diamond. produced by Dance in America, Channel 13/WNET
Richard C. Lewontin

Women Versus the Biologists

Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers by Ruth Hubbard, by Elijah Wald

Biological WomanThe Convenient Myth edited by Ruth Hubbard, edited by Mary Sue Henifin, edited by Barbara Fried

Women’s Nature: Rationalizations of Inequality by Marian Lowe, by Ruth Hubbard

Genes and Gender: II, Pitfalls in Research on Sexual Gender edited by Ruth Hubbard, edited by Marian Lowe

The Politics of Women’s Biology by Ruth Hubbard

The Shape of Red: Insider/Outsider Reflections by Ruth Hubbard, by Margaret Randall
C. Vann Woodward

The Inner Civil War

‘the real war will never get in the books’: Selections from Writers During the Civil War edited by Louis P. Masur

The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home by Reid Mitchell
Peter G. Peterson

Entitlement Reform: The Way to Eliminate the Deficit

LETTERS

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.

Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)

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

Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian of China. Until 1998 he was East Asia editor of The Times of London. (October 2011)

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His book on Rubens’s altarpieces has been just published. (November 2011)

Cathleen Schine is the author of several novels, including Rameau’s Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, The New Yorkers, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

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)

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)

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