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December 4, 1997 • Volume 44, Number 19

  • John Ryle

    Nomad e-edition

    With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer by Susannah Clapp

    Anatomy of Restlessness by Bruce Chatwin

  • James Fenton

    A Nice German Lady e-edition

    The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II by Ben Pimlott

    The Royals by Kitty Kelley

  • John Updike

    Can Genitals Be Beautiful? e-edition

    Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, October 12, 1997-January 4, 1998., Catalog of the exhibition by Magdalena Dabrowski, by Rudolf Leopold

  • Ian Buruma

    India: The Perils of Democracy

    The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani

    The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India by Christophe Jaffrelot

  • Louis Menand

    Not Getting the Lesson of the Master e-edition

    Washington Square a film directed by Agnieszka Holland

    The Wings of the Dove a film directed by Iain Softley

  • Theodore H. Draper

    The Drama of Whittaker Chambers e-edition

    Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus

    Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (updated edition) by Allen Weinstein

  • Josef Joffe

    The Euro: The Engine That Couldn’t e-edition

  • Robert Stone

    The Croatians Are Coming e-edition

    Toward the End of Time by John Updike

  • Andrew Hacker

    The War Over the Family e-edition

    The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild

    The Divorce Culture by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

    The Assault on Parenthood: How Our Culture Undermines the Family by Dana Mack

    The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America’s Changing Families by Stephanie Coontz

    Kids These Days: What Americans Really Think about the Next Generations by Steve Farkas, by Jean Johnson, with Ann Duffett, by Ali Bers

  • Helen Vendler

    ‘Ice and Fire and Solitude’ e-edition

    Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose by Frank Kermode elected and annotated by, by Joan Richardson

  • Murray Sayle

    Sugihara’s List e-edition

    In Search of Sugihara by Hillel Levine

  • Thomas L. Haskell

    The New Aristocracy e-edition

    Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present by Elliott A. Krause

  • Edwin Frank

    Passage to Brooklyn e-edition

    The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman

  • Mark Danner

    America and the Bosnia Genocide

    Witness to Genocide by Roy Gutman

    Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia’s War by Ed Vulliamy

    The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia by Rezak Hukanovic, with a Foreword by Elie Wiesel

    Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media’s Influence on Peace Operations by Warren P. Strobel

    The Serbs: History, Myth and the Resurrection of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah

    Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia by Beverly Allen

    The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia by Michael A. Sells

    “Yugoslavia: 1989-1996” by Warren Zimmermann. in US and Russian Policymaking with Respect to the Use of Force, edited by Jeremy R. Azrael, by Emil A. Pagin

    The Conceit of Innocence: Losing the Conscience of the West in the War Against Bosnia edited by Stjepan G. Mestrovic

    This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia edited by Thomas Cushman, by Stjepan G. Mestrovic

    Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of Ethnic Cleansing by Norman Cigar

    Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West by David Rieff

LETTERS

Contributors

Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. His book Torture and the Forever War will be published in the spring of 2013. His writing and other work can be found at markdanner.com.

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.

Edwin Frank is the editor of NYRB Classics.

Josef Joffe is editorial page editor and a columnist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich and an associate of Harvard’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. (December 1997)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)

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.

Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. He is the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. He has also written short stories, essays, and screenplays, and published a short story collection, Bear and His Daughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and in Key West, Florida.

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.

Misha Glenny is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999. (July 2003)

Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the Department of English at Harvard. Stone at Delphi: Seamus Heaney’s Poems with Classical References, Selected and Introduced by Helen Vendler has just appeared in a limited edition. (March 2013)

Murray Sayle is an Australian journalist long based in Japan. His book The Myth of Hiroshima, on the end of World War II, will be published next year. (December 1997)

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.

Theodore H. Draper (1912–2006) was an American historian. Educated at City College, he wrote influential studies of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution and the Iran-Contra Affair. Draper was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association.

John Updike (1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death. His major work was the set of four novels chronicling the life of Harry “Rabbit: Angstrom, he two of which, Rabbit is Richand Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Thomas Haskell is the McCann Professor of History at Rice University and the author of Objectivity is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History. (December 1997)

John Ryle is Chair of the Rift Valley Institute, a network of regional specialists working in East and Northeast Africa. (August 2004)