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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)

  • 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, the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Literature, is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

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.

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 is a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.

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

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) was a Russian poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, Brodsky moved to the United States when he was exiled from Russia in 1972. His poetry collections include A Part of Speech andTo Urania; his essay collections include Less Than One, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Watermark. In 1987, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He served as US Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1992.

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 wrote about the trial of Mazoltuv Borukhova, the mother of Michelle, in her book Iphigenia in Forest Hills, just out in paperback. Her collection Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers will be published in the spring of 2013.


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. His books include The Marketplace of Ideas, American Studies and The Metaphysical Club.

Sidney Morgenbesser (1921–2004) was a philosopher. Educated at CUNY, The Jewish Theological Seminary and The University of Pennsylvania, Morgenbesser taught at Columbia, where he was named John Dewey Professor of Philosophy.

Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at MIT.

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.

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 (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.

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.

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)

Robert L. Heilbroner (1919–2005) was an American economist. He taught economic history at the New School, where he was appointed Norman Thomas Professor of Economics in 1971.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007) was an American historian and social critic. He served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. His Journals: 1952– 2000 were published in 2007.