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Joan Acocella
On Tap
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
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Elizabeth Hardwick
Family Values
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
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Garry Wills
What Happened to the Revolution?
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
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Jonathan Aaron
Offering (poem)
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J. M. Coetzee
En Route to the Catastrophe
Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt
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Noel Annan
The Abominable Emperor
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
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Roger Shattuck
The Pleasures of Abstinence
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Ian Buruma
Japan: In the Spirit World
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
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Louis Menand
Eliot and the Jews
T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form by Anthony Julius
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Alexander Stille
Italy: The Convulsions of Normalcy
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Gordon S. Wood
Not So Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies by Robert Middlekauff
The Devious Dr. Franklin, Colonial Agent: Benjamin Franklin’s Years in London by David T. Morgan
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Robert Darnton
How to Read a Book
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
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Philip Gourevitch
The Poisoned Country
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
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John Deutch,
Charles Lane,
Thom ShankerThe CIA and Bosnia: An Exchange
LETTERS
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Claire DeSilver,
Gore VidalThe Angel in the Story
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‘The Singapore Way’
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Eric Bentley
Thomas Mann’s Frustration
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David Herbert Donald,
Bertram Wyatt-BrownMaking It New


