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Bewitched

The Crucible

film by Nicholas Hytner, screenplay by Arthur Miller

The Crucible Screenplay

by Arthur Miller


Artist of the Floating World

Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller

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

Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller

catalog of the exhibition and H. Perry Chapman and Wouter Th. Kloek and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.


The Real Thing

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


Between Planes

Airframe

by Michael Crichton


Decline of the West?

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

by Samuel P. Huntington


‘O Unforgetting Elephant’

Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life

by Max Saunders


Billions and Billions of Demons

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

by Carl Sagan


China: The Defining Moment

The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray

by James Miles


Prophets

From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800

An exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 8, 1996-January 19, 1997. 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


Fall of the Falls

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

by William Irwin


The Conspiracy That Failed

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

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