Contents

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

  • Czeslaw Milosz

    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

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.

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, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)

Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His latest books are The Fall of the House of Walworth and Early Autumn. 
(September 2011)

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, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

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.