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April 18, 1996 • Volume 43, Number 7

  • Gordon A. Craig

    How Hell Worked e-edition

    Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

    Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany by John VH Dippel

  • Sergei Kovalev

    On the New Russia e-edition

  • Hilary Mantel

    That Old Black Magic e-edition

    Love, Again by Doris Lessing

  • Virginia Hamilton Adair

    Cutting the Cake (poem) e-edition

  • Virginia Hamilton Adair

    Early Walk (poem) e-edition

  • George M. Fredrickson

    Far from the Promised Land e-edition

    Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics by Manning Marable

    Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks

    Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy by Stephen Steinberg

    The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can’t Think Straight About Race by Benjamin DeMott

  • Alfred Kazin

    A Genius of the Spiritual Life e-edition

  • Jeff Madrick

    How to Succeed in Business e-edition

    Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein

    Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve by George Soros, by Byron Wien, by Krisztina Koenen

    Soros: The Life, Times, and Trading Secrets of the World’s Greatest Investor by Robert Slater

    Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon by Robert Goldberg, by Gerald Jay Goldberg

    It Ain’t As Easy As It Looks (out of print) by Porter Bibb

  • Simon Leys

    One More Art e-edition

    The Chinese Art of Writing by Jean François Billeter

  • Derek Beales

    The Enlightened Despot e-edition

    Pombal: Paradox of the Enlightenment by Kenneth Maxwell

  • Edward Hirsch

    Subversive Activities

    View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

  • Robert L. Herbert

    Degas & Women e-edition

    The Spectacular Body: Science, Method and Meaning in the Work of Degas by Anthea Callen

    Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era by Hollis Clayson

    Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas by Carol Armstrong

  • Norman Davies

    On the Barbary Shore e-edition

    Black Sea by Neal Ascherson

  • Millicent Bell

    George Eliot, Radical e-edition

    George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography by Frederick R Karl

    The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction by Rosemarie Bodenheimer

  • Garry Wills

    The Clinton Scandals e-edition

    Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries by James B Stewart

    Madhouse: The Private Turmoil of Working for the President by Jeffrey H Birnbaum

    Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Whitewater Development Company, Inc.: A Preliminary Report to the Resolution Trust Corporation

    Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Whitewater Development Company, Inc.: A Supplemental Report to the Resolution Trust Corporation Prepared by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP, San Francisco, California, with financial and economic analysis support from Tuc

    A Report on Certain Real Estate Loans and Investments Made by Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Related Entities

    A Report on the Rose Law Firm’s Conduct of Accounting Malpractice Litigation Pertaining to Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Prepared for Resolution Trust Corporation by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP

    A Supplemental Report on the Representation of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan by the Rose Law Firm Prepared for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP

  • Murray Kempton

    Whose Foreign Policy? e-edition

    Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995 May)

LETTERS

Contributors

Millicent Bell is Professor of English Emerita at Boston University. She is the author of Meaning in Henry James and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. (May 1998)

Norman Davies is the author of, among other books, Europe: A History, Rising 44: The Battle for Warsaw, and, most recently, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe.

 (May 2013)

Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature’s Workshop: Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte.

Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) was a Scottish-American historian of Germany. He taught at both Princeton and Stanford, where he was named the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1979.

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His recent books include Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner.

P. N. Furbank is the author of nine books, including biographies of Samuel Butler, Italo Svevo, and E.M. Forster.

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.

Edward Hirsch’s latest book of poetry, The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, will be published in March. (February 2010)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Sergei Kovalev, a biologist and former political prisoner, is a leading candidate on the Yabloko Party list for the December election to the Russian State Duma. He is President of the Institute for Human Rights and Chairman of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (November 2007)

Hilary Mantel is an English novelist, short story writer, and critic. Her novel, Wolf Hall, won the Man Booker Prize in 2009.

Michael Ignatieff, a former leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, is a fellow at Massey College and teaches human rights and international politics at the University of Toronto.
 (December 2012)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His study of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. His latest book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, was published in February 2013.

Simon Leys is the pen name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. Leys’s writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Le Monde, Le Figaro Littéraire, and other periodicals. Among his books are Chinese Shadows, The Death of Napoleon (forthcoming from NYRB Classics), Other People’s Thoughts, and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper. In 1996 he delivered the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Boyer lectures. His many awards include the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Femina, the Prix Guizot, and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

Jeff Madrick writes an economics column for Harper’s Magazine, is editor of Challenge Magazine, and is director of the Rediscovering Government Initiative at the Roo­sevelt Institute. His most recent book is Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America.