Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 18 · November 14, 1996

Jared Diamond, The Roots of Radicalism

Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives by Frank J. Sulloway

Ernst Gombrich, The Miracle at Chauvet

Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave, The Oldest Known Paintings in the World by Jean-Marie Chauvet, by Eliette Brunel Deschamps, by Christian Hillaire

The Cave Beneath the Sea: Paleolithic Images at Cosquer by Jean Clottes, by Jean Courtin

Garry Wills, Hating Hillary

The Seduction of Hillary Rodham by David Brock

Jasper Griffin, Gifts of the Greeks

Dinner with Persephone by Patricia Storace

Czeslaw Milosz, On Szymborska

Timothy Garton Ash, Hungary's Revolution: Forty Years On

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Reform, Revolt and Repression, 1953-1963 H. Legers. edited by György Litván. English version edited and translated by János M. Bak and Lyman

Hungary's Negotiated Revolution: Economic Reform, Social Change, and Political Succession, 1957-1990 by Rudolf L. Tokés

Louis Menand, Dole's Three Strikes

John Banville, The Painful Comedy of Samuel Beckett

Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson

Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist by Anthony Cronin

The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 by Lois Gordon

The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 edited by S.E. Gontarski

Eleutheria by Samuel Beckett, translated by Michael Brodsky

Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett

Murray Kempton, Million Dollar Legs

Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer by Edward Jay Epstein

Rosemary Dinnage, The Rise & Fall of a Half-Genius

The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D. Laing by Daniel Burston

Mad to be Normal: Conversations with R.D. Laing by Bob Mullan

Christopher Hitchens, Something for the Boys

Executive Orders by Tom. Clancy

Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit by Tom Clancy

John Bayley, Poet of Holy Dread

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner

William Shawcross, Tragedy in Cambodia

The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan

Gecko Tails by Carol Livingston

Propaganda, Politics and Violence in Cambodia: Democratic Transition Under United Nations Peace-keeping edited by Steve Heder, edited by Judy Ledgerwood

Eric L. McKitrick, A Hero of Antislavery

Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller

Gordon A. Craig, The Drama of Gottfried Semper

Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century by Harry Francis Mallgrave

Charles Rosen, Did Beethoven Have All the Luck?

Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803 by Tia DeNora

M. Victor Westberg, Caroline Fraser, Christian Science: An Exchange

Amos Oz, An Unholy War

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Letters

K. Paul Johnson, Frederick C. Crews, Blavatsky Lite
Jeri Laber, The Making of the Taliban

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Contributors

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

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)

Jared Diamond, a Professor of Physiology and Public Health at UCLA and winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Medal of Science, is the author of, among other books, Guns, Germs, and Steel. (March 2004)

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

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. His most recent book is Free World. (November 2008)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.

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.

Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)

Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.

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

Amos Oz's latest novel is Don't Call It Night. Two collections of essays, Israel, Palestine, and Peace and Under this Blazing Light, have recently been published in the US. (November 1996)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (November 2008)

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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