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February 1, 1996 • Volume 43, Number 2

  • Henry Kamen

    The Secret of the Inquisition e-edition

    The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain by B. Netanyahu

  • Janet Malcolm

    Aristocrats e-edition

    Untitled by Diane Arbus

  • Jack F. Matlock Jr.

    The Go-Between e-edition

    In Confidence: Moscow’s Ambassador to America’s Six Cold War Presidents by Anatoly Dobrynin

  • Louis Menand

    What Jane Austen Doesn’t Tell Us e-edition

    Sense and Sensibility a film directed by Ang Lee, screenplay by Emma Thompson

    Persuasion a film directed by Roger Michell, screenplay by Nick Dear

    Clueless a film directed by Amy Heckerling, screenplay by Amy Heckerling

    Pride and Prejudice 1996 directed by Simon Langton, screenplay by Andrew Davies. produced by BBC Television Arts and Entertainment, January 14—16,

    The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen’s Novel to Film by Emma Thompson

    The Making of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Sue Birtwistle, by Susie Conklin

  • Michael Massing

    Crime and Drugs: The New Myths e-edition

    Land of Opportunity: One Family’s Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack by William M. Adler

    In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois

    Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals by Mark S. Fleisher

    The American Street Gang: Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control by Malcolm W. Klein

  • Sarah Kerr

    Tender Buttons e-edition

    After All by Mary Tyler Moore

  • Julia Reed

    The Case of the Kissing Senator e-edition

    Documents Related to the Investigation of Senator Robert Packwood Senate Select Committee on Ethics US Senate 104th Congress, first session

    The Packwood Report by the Senate Ethics Counsel on Senator Robert Packwood, Introduction by Helen Dewar

  • J. M. Coetzee

    Speaking for Language e-edition

    On Grief and Reason: Essays by Joseph Brodsky

  • Joseph Brodsky

    Via Funari (poem) e-edition

  • Vaclav Smil

    Is There Enough Chinese Food? e-edition

    Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet by Lester R. Brown

  • James Fenton

    On Statues e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, is currently a visiting professor of humanities at the University of Adelaide. His newest book, *Summertime*, was published in 2009.

James Fenton is a visiting fellow at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library.
 (March 2012)

Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002)

Charles Rosen’s recording The Romantic Generation, which contains a performance of Franz Liszt’s Reminiscences of Don Juan, was recently reissued. (February 2012)

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

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York.

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

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)

Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of Discovering Modernism, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies, and The Marketplace of Ideas.

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 2000)

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

Alfred Kazin’s most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Robert N. Bellah is Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books and coauthor of Habits of the Heart. In 2000 he received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. (February 2005)

Paul Berman is the author of A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968. (October 2001)

Natalie Zemon Davis is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton and Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author most recently of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds. (May 2008)

Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)

Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation. She is the author of a book of poems, Antarctic Traveller, and two prose collections, Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism and Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture.

Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (March 2003)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)