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February 20, 1997 • Volume 44, Number 3

  • Garry Wills

    The Real Scandal e-edition

    Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties by Dick Morris

  • Martin Filler

    Big Mack e-edition

    Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1996-February 16, 1997; The Art Institute of Chicago, March 29-June 22; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 3-October 12 (previously at the Glasgow Museums, McLellan Galleries, May 25-September 30, 1996) Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 19,

    Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) by Charlotte Fiell, by Peter Fiell

    Charles Rennie Mackintosh catalog of the exhibition,, edited by Wendy Kaplan

    Mackintosh’s Masterwork: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art by William Buchanan, by James Macaulay, by Andrew MacMillan, by George Rawson, by Peter Trowles, foreword by Eckart Muthesius

  • Christopher Hitchens

    The Long Littleness of Life e-edition

    Christopher Isherwood: Diaries, Volume One: 1939-1960 edited and introduced by Katherine Bucknell

  • Louis Menand

    Born Free e-edition

    What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation by Charles Murray

  • John Banville

    Revelations e-edition

    Selected Stories by Alice Munro

    After Rain by William Trevor

  • Gordon S. Wood

    Liberty’s Wild Man e-edition

    The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O'Brien

  • Sarah Kerr

    Working Girl e-edition

    Evita a film directed by Alan Parker, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice

    The Making of Evita by Alan Parker, with an introduction by Madonna

    Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez, translated by Helen Lane

    Eva Perón by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, translated by Shawn Fields

    Evita: In My Own Words translated by Laura Dail

  • Daniel J. Kevles

    Endangered Environmentalists e-edition

    The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy American Agriculture by Paul Raeburn

    Our Children’s Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides by Wargo John

    Noah’s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species by Charles C. Mann, by Mark L. Plummer

    Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century by Mark Dowie

  • David Brion Davis

    White Wives and Slave Mothers e-edition

    Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South by Brenda E. Stevenson

  • M.F. Perutz

    A Passion for Science e-edition

    Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime

  • Aileen Kelly

    ‘Where the Dead Smiled’ e-edition

    St. Petersburg: A Cultural History by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina W. Bouis

LETTERS

Contributors

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) was a British-American journalist and social critic. Known for his confrontational style and contrarian views on a range of social issues, Hitchens was a frequent contributor to The Nation, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. Hitchens recounts his struggle with esophageal cancer in Mortality, which was published in 2012.

Aileen Kelly is a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Her books include Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin.

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, Eclipse, The Sea (winner of the Man Booker Prize), and Ancient Light. As Benjamin Black he has written six crime novels, including Vengeance.

Rosemary Dinnage’s books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is the author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.

Martin Filler was the longtime architecture critic of House & Garden, until it ceased publication in 2007. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect, and author of Makers of Modern Architecture, which is based on essays from The New York Review. A second volume of his writings on architecture is forthcoming from New York Review Books.


Walter Laqueur is a historian of Europe and the Middle East. He has taught at Brandeis, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago.

Robert O. Paxton, Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia, is a lifelong birder. He is a former president of the Linnaean Society of New York and a regional editor of North American Birds magazine.
 He is the author of The Anatomy of Fascism, among other works.


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.

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (December 2008)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale. His recent works include The Baltimore Case and he is currently completing a history of intellectual property in plants, animals, and people.


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.

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His study of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. His latest book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, was published in February 2013.