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February 6, 1997 • Volume 44, Number 2

  • Fiona MacCarthy

    How the Other Half Lived e-edition

    The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe—Volume One, 1500-1800 by Olwen Hufton

  • Murray Kempton

    The New Equality e-edition

    All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons

  • Czesław Miłosz

    Themes e-edition

  • Geoffrey O’Brien

    The Ghost at the Feast e-edition

    William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet film directed by Baz Luhrmann

    Hamlet a film directed by Kenneth Branagh

    Looking for Richard a film directed by Al Pacino

    Twelfth Night a film directed by Trevor Nunn

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tramway Theater, Glasgow, February 4-7; the Palais Résidence, Brussels, February 12-15; and the Cultural Center Belem, Lisbon, February 19-23 a play directed by Jonathan Miller. At the Almeida Theatre, London, through February 1, 1997; then the

  • Gabriele Annan

    An International Episode e-edition

    Le Divorce by Diane Johnson

  • James Fenton

    Becoming Picasso e-edition

    A Life of Picasso: Volume II, 1907-1917 by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully

  • Steve Jones

    Crooked Bones e-edition

    Unraveling Piltdown: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution by John Evangelist Walsh

  • Louis Menand

    It’s a Wonderful Life e-edition

    The People vs. Larry Flynt a film by Milos Forman

    The People vs. Larry Flynt: The Shooting Script by Scott Alexander, by Larry Karaszewski. with an afterword by Milos Forman

    An Unseemly Man: My Life as Pornographer, Pundit, and Social Outcast by Larry Flynt, with Kenneth Ross

  • Frank Kermode

    The World Turned Upside Down e-edition

    The Dictionary of Global Culture edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  • Page Stegner

    The Plains That Broke the Plow e-edition

    Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban

  • Francis Haskell

    In Love with Light e-edition

    Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 1996, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, January 24-April 27, 1997 Exhibition at the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, September 5-December 9,

    Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Keith Christiansen

    Der Himmel auf Erden—Tiepolo in Würzburg February 15-May 19, 1996 Exhibition at the Prince-Bishop's Residenz, Würzburg, Germany.

    Heaven on Earth: Tiepolo—Masterpieces of the Würzburg Years by Peter O. Krückmann

    Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections the Pierpont Morgan Library Catalog of the exhibition at the Harvard University Art Museums and, by Bernard Aikema, translated by Andrew McCormick

  • Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,
    Josef Joffe

    ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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)

Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and the author of In the Blood. (April 1998)

Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British critic and literary theorist. Born on the Isle of Man, he taught at University College London, Cambridge, Columbia and Harvard. Adapted from a series of lectures given at Bryn Mawr College, Kermode’s Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literary criticism.

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Lord Byron. Her most recent book, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination, was published last year. (April 2013)

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.

Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania. Over the course of his long and prolific career he published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

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.

William F. Schulz is Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA, and the author of In Our Own Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All. (April 2002)

Francis Haskell (1928-2000) was an English art historian. His works include Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italyand History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. Haskell taught at Oxford.

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His recent works include Early Autumn and The Fall of the House of Walworth. His new book Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002–2012 will be published in 2013.


Page Stegner is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His most recent book is Grand Canyon: The Great Abyss. (February 1997)

M. F. Perutz (1914–2002) was an Austrian molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier.

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.