Contributors

T. D. Allman,V.F.'s foreign correspondent, last covered the murder of Arafat's second-in-command. His piece on Helmut Kohl, which appeared in the December 1990 V.F., was selected as a finalist in the 1991 National Magazine Awards.

Ben Brantley reports regularly from New York, Los Angeles, and London.

Nancy Collins is a special correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. "Jessica Lange," she says of her profile this month, "is a smart, substantial, feminine, subtle woman who says yes to life in a big way."

Czeslaw Czaplinski'sKosinski's Passions will be published in Poland this fall.

Bob Drury has a fourth book, Mafia Cop, coming out next spring from Simon and Schuster.

Dominick Dunne's second collection of V.F. pieces, The Mansions of Limbo, is just out from Crown.

John Gruen'sThe Artist Observed was just published by A Cappella Books. Keith Haring (Prentice Hall) is out this month.

Marnie Inskip is a television producer and investigative journalist who focuses on organized crime.

Paul Rosenfield's first book, The Club Rules (Warner), about power in Hollywood, will be out next April.

Gail Sheehy'sThe Man Who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev is just out in paperback from HarperPerennial.

Toby Thompson has just finished a book about the Manhattan office of the F.B.I.

James Wolcott contributed the foreword to Seymour Krim's anthology, What's This Cat's Story?, upcoming from Paragon.

Richard B. Woodward writes about art, jazz, film, and books.

James Kaplan is working on a book about John F. Kennedy International Airport for William Morrow.

Julie Kavanagh,V.F.'s London editor, is writing the official life of Sir Frederick Ashton. Of her piece this month, she says, "Going to see Brian Friel in Ireland was about as daunting and inspiring as it must have been to interview Chekhov after the first night of Three Sisters."