Contents

January 11, 1996 • Volume 43, Number 1
  • Roger Shattuck

    Brinksmanship e-edition

    Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography by Norman Mailer

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    Neo-Pagan’ Poland e-edition

  • Al Alvarez

    Learning from Las Vegas e-edition

    The Luck Business: The Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America’s Gambling Explosion by Robert Goodman

    The Black Book and the Mob: The Untold Story of the Control of Nevada’s Casinos by Ronald A. Farrell, by Carole Case

    Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi

    Casino a film directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi, by Martin Scorsese

    Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn by John L. Smith

  • Gabriele Annan

    An Affair to Remember e-edition

    Carrington an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London

    Carrington a film directed by Christopher Hampton

  • Alan Ryan

    Dangerous Liaison e-edition

    Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger by Elzbieta Ettinger

  • Anthony Grafton

    Vermeer’s Mystery Theater e-edition

    Johannes Vermeer 12, 1995-February 11, 1996 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, November

    Johannes Vermeer Hague/ Yale University Press catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Jr. Wheelock

  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan

    Congress Builds a Coffin e-edition

  • Rosemary Dinnage

    Melting into Air e-edition

    The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, translated from Italian by William Weaver

    Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman

  • John Terborgh

    Cracking the Bird Code e-edition

    Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations by C. K. Catchpole, by P. J. B. Slater

  • John Golding

    Under Cézanne’s Spell e-edition

    Cézanne 1995—January 7, 1996; Tate Gallery, London, February 8—April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 30—August 18, 1996 an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, September 25,, Catalog of the exhibition by Françoise Cachin, by Joseph J. Rishel

    Cézanne: A Biography by John Rewald

    Paul Cézanne: The Bathers by Mary Louise Krumrine

    Lost Earth: A Life of Cézanne by Philip Callow

    Cézanne by Richard Verdi

    Cézanne by Philippe Dagen

    Le Paradis de Cézanne by Philippe Sollers

  • David Cannadine

    The Once and Future Princess e-edition

  • James Fenton

    Subversives e-edition

    Berlin-Moscow 1900-1950 1995-January 7, 1996; and the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, March 1-July 1, 1996 An exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, September 3,, Catalog of the exhibition by Irina Antonova, by Jörn Merkert

    Art and Power: Europe Under the Dictators 1930-45 1995-January 21, 1996, continuing on to Barcelona, February 26-May 6, 1996, and Berlin, June 7-August 20, 1996 An exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, October 26,, Catalog of the exhibition by Dawn Ades, by Tim Benton, by David Elliott, by Iain Boyd Whyte

    Von Allen Seiten Schön [Beautiful from All Sides] Museum, Berlin, October 31, 1995-January 28, 1996 An exhibition of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes at the Altes, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Volker Krahn

  • Veronica Geng

    My Dream Team e-edition

  • William H. Gass

    The Hovering Life e-edition

    The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins, by Burton Pike

  • A Mess of Improprieties e-edition

  • Jerold S. Auerbach,
    William Kolbrener,
    Amos Elon

    Israel’s Demons’: An Exchange

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