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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

  • Murray Kempton

    A Mess of Improprieties e-edition

    Human Rights Watch World Report 1996: Events of 1995

  • Jerold S. Auerbach,
    William Kolbrener,
    Amos Elon

    ‘Israel’s Demons’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Al Alvarez is the author of Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of many books, including The Magic Lantern, an eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989. His most recent book is Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name. He is currently leading an Oxford University 
research project for the discussion of global free speech norms (www.freespeechdebate.com) and working on a book about free speech.

David Cannadine is the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton.

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

John Golding (1929–2012) was a British painter and art historian. He taught at the Courtauld Institute and the Royal College of Art. Among his many books was Cubism: A History and an Analysis, which refuted the notion that Cubism represented a break with the realist tradition. Golding also curated exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, including Picasso: Painter/Sculpter and Matisse Picasso.

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe.


William H. Gass is an American writer, critic and philosopher. He is the David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at the Washington University in St. Louis.

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.

John Terborgh, who has worked in the Peruvian Amazon since 1973, is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke and Director of its Center for Tropical Conservation. His latest book, co-edited with James A. Estes, is Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature.
 (April 2012)

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.

Roger Shattuck (1923–2005) was an American writer and scholar of French culture. He taught at Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University, where he was named University Professor. His books includeForbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography.

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.

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.