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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.

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.


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.

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.
 (November 2011)

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 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.

Alexander Stille is San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 2010)

Gore Vidal’s most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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. (November 2011)

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 is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. The article in the Review‘s November 24, 2011 issue is drawn from his new book, Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater (Viking).