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January 9, 1997 • Volume 44, Number 1

  • Edmund S. Morgan

    Bewitched e-edition

    The Crucible film by Nicholas Hytner, screenplay by Arthur Miller

    The Crucible Screenplay by Arthur Miller

  • Ian Buruma

    Artist of the Floating World e-edition

    Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller 12, 1997 (first at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 28-August 18, 1996) Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, September 21, 1996-January

    Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller catalog of the exhibition, by H. Perry Chapman, by Wouter Th. Kloek, by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

  • Janet Malcolm

    The Real Thing e-edition

    Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans reproduced from prints made by Lee Friedlander, Introduction by Susan Sontag, interviews edited by John Szarkowski

  • Louis Menand

    Between Planes e-edition

    Airframe by Michael Crichton

  • William H. McNeill

    Decline of the West?

    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

  • Julian Barnes

    ‘O Unforgetting Elephant’ e-edition

    Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life by Max Saunders

  • Richard C. Lewontin

    Billions and Billions of Demons e-edition

    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    China: The Defining Moment e-edition

    The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray by James Miles

  • Gordon A. Craig

    Prophets e-edition

    From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800 1996-January 19, 1997. An exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 8,. Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Vivian B. Mann, edited by Richard I. Cohen

    Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time by Amos Elon

  • Jeri Laber

    Smoldering Indonesia e-edition

  • Henry Allen

    Fall of the Falls e-edition

    The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Falls, 1776-1917 by William Irwin

  • Thomas Powers

    The Conspiracy That Failed e-edition

    Plotting Hitler’s Death: The Story of the German Resistance by Joachim Fest, translated by Bruce Little

    The Unnecessary War: Whitehall and the German Resistance to Hitler by Patricia Meehan

    Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944 by Peter Hoffmann

    American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler: A Documentary History edited by Jürgen Heideking, edited by Christof Mauch

    The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War by John H. Waller

    Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany by Noel Annan

  • Avigdor Arikha,
    James Fenton

    On Drawing: 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.

Henry Allen is a cultural critic at The Washington Post. His new book, What It Felt Like, will be published in the fall. (March 2000)

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

Julian Barnes has written eleven novels, three books of short stories, and four collections of essays. His latest novel, The Sense of an Ending, won the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.


Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York.

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and Summers Long Ago: On Grandfather’s Farm and in Grandmother’s Kitchen, published by the Berkshire Publishing Group. His most recent publication, as editor, is the second edition of the Encyclopedia of World History.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book is The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America. (June 2011)

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Jeri Laber, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, was formerly executive director of its Helsinki division. She is the author, with Barnett R. Rubin, of ‘A Nation is Dying’: Afghanistan Under the Soviets, 1979—1987. (January 1997)

Simon Leys is the author of Chinese Shadows. Among his latest works are The Wreck of the Batavia, With Stendhal, and The Hall of Uselessness.
 (February 2012)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian of China. Until 1998 he was East Asia editor of The Times of London. (October 2011)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.