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December 19, 1996 • Volume 43, Number 20

  • Hilary Mantel

    Murder and Memory e-edition

    Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

  • Warren Zimmermann

    Last Chance for Bosnia? e-edition

    Unfinished Peace: Report of the International Commission on the Balkans

  • Richard Jenkyns

    But Is It True? e-edition

    Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit by David A. Traill

    Lost and Found: The 9,000 Treasures of Troy: Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold That Got Away by Caroline Moorehead

    The Gold of Troy: Searching for Homer’s Fabled City Museum of Fine Arts/Abrams by Vladimir Tolstikov, by Mikhail Treister

  • Nicholas Lemann

    High in the Lower Depths e-edition

    Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America by Leon Dash

  • Amos Elon

    Israel and the End of Zionism e-edition

  • Fiona MacCarthy

    The Power of Chastity e-edition

    Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara

    Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy edited by Daniel Bornstein, edited by Roberto Rusconi

  • Jack F. Matlock Jr.

    Gorbachev: Lingering Mysteries e-edition

    Memoirs by Mikhail Gorbachev ( the copyright page states, "This edition based on the translation by Georges Peronansky and Tatjana Varsavsky," implying that the translation was edited substantially.)

    The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown

  • Anne Barton

    The Village Genius e-edition

    John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period 1822-1837 edited by Eric Robinson, edited by David Powell, edited by P.M.S. Dawson

  • Jonathan D. Spence

    The Risks of Witness e-edition

    Troublemaker: One Man’s Crusade Against China’s Cruelty by Harry Wu

  • Geoffrey O’Brien

    Magnificent Obsession e-edition

    Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, restored by Robert A. Harris, by James C. Katz

  • James Fenton

    A Banner With a Strange Device e-edition

    Jasper Johns: A Retrospective 1996-January 21, 1997. exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York October 20,. Catalog of the exhibition, by Kirk Varnedoe, with an essay by Roberta Bernstein

  • Jeff Madrick

    Social Security and Its Discontents e-edition

    Restoring Hope in America: The Social Security Solution by Sam Beard

    Frightening America’s Elderly: How the Age Lobby Holds Seniors Captive by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

    Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old? How the Coming Social Security Crisis Threatens You, Your Family, and Your Country by Peter G. Peterson

    Social Security in the Twenty-First Century edited by Eric R. Kingson, edited by James H. Schulz

  • William Shawcross

    The Cambodian Tragedy, Cont’d e-edition

  • Garry Wills

    The Art & Politics of the Nativity e-edition

    The Angel Tree: A Christmas Celebration (1993) by Linn Howard, by Mary Jane Pool

    Scene e scenografie del presepe Napoletano (1991) by Gennaro Borrelli

    Il presepio: Otto secoli di storia, arte, tradizione (1995) by Pietro Gargano

    El belén: Historia, tradición y actualidad (1992) by Pablo Martínez-Palomero

    Il presepe Napoletano del settecento (1995) by Teodoro Fittipaldi

    Venite Adoremus: Note sul presepe Genovese (1993) catalog of the 1993-1994 exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Genoa.

    Il presepe riscoperto: Un “unicum” Napoletano del seicento a Genova (1989) by Giuliana Biavati, by Giulio Sommariva

    Il presepe Italiano (1993) by Pietro Gasperini

    Il presepe Napoletano (1990) by Gennaro Borrelli

  • Murray Kempton

    The Second Oldest Profession e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean.

James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999, Fenton was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2007 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) was a British-American journalist and social critic. Known for his confrontational style and contrarian views on a range of social issues, Hitchens was a frequent contributor to The Nation, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. Hitchens recounts his struggle with esophageal cancer in Mortality, which was published in 2012.

Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)

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.

Nicholas Lemann is Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.


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

Amos Elon (1926–2009) was an Israeli journalist. His final book was The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews In Germany 1743 – 1933.

Jack F. Matlock Jr. was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 and is the author of Autopsy on an Empire. He is George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (February 2000)

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His recent works include Early Autumn and The Fall of the House of Walworth. His new book Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002–2012 will be published in 2013.


Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and the author of In the Blood. (April 1998)

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Lord Byron. Her most recent book, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination, was published last year. (April 2013)

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.

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

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.

Warren Zimmermann, a professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University, was US Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992. A revised edition of his book, Origins of a Catastrophe:Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers, has just been published in paperback. (June 1999)

Jonathan Spence is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Death of Woman Wang, Treason by the Book, The Question of Hu, and The Search for Modern China.