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October 3, 1996 • Volume 43, Number 15

  • Michael Ignatieff

    Whispers from the Abyss e-edition

    The Mandelstam and “Der Nister” Files: An Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records by Peter B. Maggs

    Arrested Voices: Resurrecting the Disappeared Writers of the Soviet Regime by Vitaly Shentalinsky, translated by John Crowfoot, Introduction by Robert Conquest

    Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s edited by Véronique Garros, by Natalia Korenevskaya, by Thomas Lahusen, translated by Carol A. Flath

  • Patricia Storace

    Marble Girls of Athens e-edition

  • J. M. Coetzee

    Only in Amerika e-edition

    The Bride of Texas by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Káca Polácková Henley

    Headed for the Blues: A Memoir by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Káca Polácková Henley

  • Garry Wills

    A Tale of Two Cities

  • Joseph Kerman

    The Beethoven Takeover e-edition

    Beethoven Hero by Scott Burnham

  • Isaiah Berlin

    On Political Judgment e-edition

  • Alma Guillermoprieto

    Mexico: Murder Without Justice e-edition

    Deposition of Raúl Salinas de Gortari published in Epoca

    Lessons of the Mexican Peso Crisis Foreign Relations, John C. Whitehead, Chairman, Marie-Josée Kravis, Project Director. Report of an Independent Task Force sponsored by the Council on

    The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the United States by Jorge G. Castañeda

    Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico’s Road to Prosperity by Andres Oppenheimer

  • John Gross

    Marked Man e-edition

    The Statement by Brian Moore

    Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs edited by Richard J. Golsan

  • Frederick C. Crews

    The Consolation of Theosophy II e-edition

    The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology; The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

    The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement by Richard Noll

    Remembering Anna O.: A Century of Mystification by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, translated by Kirby Olson, in collaboration with Xavier Callahan

    Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America by Peter Washington

  • Caroline Fraser

    Mortal Longings e-edition

    The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter by Honor Moore

  • James Fenton

    Degas in the Evening e-edition

    Degas as a Collector exhibition at the National Gallery, London, through August 26, 1996.. Catalog of the exhibition, by Ann Dumas

    Degas: Beyond Impressionism The Art Institute of Chicago, September 30, 1996-January 5, 1997. exhibition at the National Gallery, London, through August 26, 1996;. Catalog of the exhibition, by Richard Kendall

  • Murray Kempton

    Me, the People e-edition

  • Michael Holquist,
    Robert Shulman,
    George Levine, et al.

    Sokal’s Hoax: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

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.

Frederick Crews is a fellow of the Institute for Science in Medicine. His most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (October 2011)

James Fenton is a visiting fellow at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library.
 (March 2012)

Caroline Fraser ‘s most recent book, Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution, was published in December. (May 2010)

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Parodies, which will be published in September. (April 2010)

Alma Guillermoprieto is the author of Dancing with Cuba, a memoir of her experience teaching Cunningham and Graham technique in Havana’s national schools of art.
 (February 2012)

Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. His latest book for general readers is Lake Views: This World and the Universe.

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece, and Sugar Cane, a children’s book. She lives in New York.

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).

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.

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

Andrew Hacker teaches at Queens College. His books include Money: Who Has How Much and Why, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, and, most recently, Higher Education, written with Claudia Dreifus. (February 2012)

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)

Robert Conquest, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Great Terror. (March 1997)