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June 6, 1996 • Volume 43, Number 10

  • Joan Acocella

    On Tap e-edition

    Bring In ‘da Noise, Bring In ‘da Funk choreography by Savion Glover. conceived and directed by George C. Wolfe. at the Ambassador Theatre, New York City

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    Family Values e-edition

    In Contempt by Christopher A. Darden

    Reasonable Doubts: The O.J. Simpson Case and the Criminal Justice System by Alan M. Dershowitz

    The Search for Justice: A Defense Attorney’s Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case by Robert L. Shapiro

    I Want to Tell You by O.J. Simpson

  • Garry Wills

    What Happened to the Revolution? e-edition

    Showdown: The Struggle Between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House by Elizabeth Drew

    Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival by Dan Balz, by Ronald Brownstein

    ‘Tell Newt to Shut Up’ by David Maraniss, by Michael Weisskopf

    Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics by Larry J. Sabate, by Glenn R. Simpson

    The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point by Haynes Johnson, by David S. Broder

  • Jonathan Aaron

    Offering (poem) e-edition

  • J. M. Coetzee

    En Route to the Catastrophe e-edition

    Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt

  • Noel Annan

    The Abominable Emperor e-edition

    An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Russia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm by Hannah Pakula

    Blood and Iron: From Bismarck to Hitler: The von Moltke Family’s Impact on German History by Otto Friedrich

    The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany by John C.G. Röhl, translated by Terence F. Cole

    Stauffenberg: A Family History 1950-1944 by Peter Hoffmann

  • Roger Shattuck

    The Pleasures of Abstinence e-edition

  • Ian Buruma

    Japan: In the Spirit World e-edition

    The Idea of Japan: Western Images, Western Myths by Ian Littlewood

    A Zen Romance: One Woman’s Adventures in a Monastery by Deborah Boliver Boehm

    A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K. Nelson

  • Louis Menand

    Eliot and the Jews e-edition

    T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form by Anthony Julius

  • Alexander Stille

    Italy: The Convulsions of Normalcy e-edition

  • Gordon S. Wood

    Not So Poor Richard e-edition

    Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies by Robert Middlekauff

    The Devious Dr. Franklin, Colonial Agent: Benjamin Franklin’s Years in London by David T. Morgan

  • Robert Darnton

    How to Read a Book e-edition

    Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer by Roger Chartier

    Shakespeare, the King’s Playwright: Theater and the Stuart Court, 1603-1613 by Alvin Kernan

  • Philip Gourevitch

    The Poisoned Country e-edition

    Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide by René Lemarchand

    Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology, Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania by Liisa H. Malkki

  • John Deutch,
    Charles Lane,
    Thom Shanker

    The CIA and Bosnia: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Jonathan Aaron’s new collection of poems, Journey to the Lost City, has just been published. (August 2006)

Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. Her article in the May 23, 2013 issue is adapted from her introduction to a new edition of Isadora Duncan’s My Life, published in May 2013 by Liveright.


Noel Annan (1916–2000) was a British military intelligence officer and scholar of European history. His works include Leslie Stephen and Our Age, Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany, and The Curious Strength of Positivism in English Political Thought.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. His books include Murderer in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, and the novel The China Lover. His book Year Zero: A History of 1945 will be published in September 2013.

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

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.


Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.

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.

Alexander Stille is San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. His memoir, The Force of Things: A Marriage in War in Peace, will be published next February. (October 2012)

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright. His many works include the memoirs Point to Point Navigation and Palimpsest, the novels The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, and Lincoln, and the collection United States: Essays 1952–1992.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

David Herbert Donald is the author, most recently, of We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. (May 2004)

Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent books are The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War and the forthcoming Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition. (October 2002)

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.

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.