Contributors

Michael R. Beschloss is the author of The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963, which is just out in paperback from HarperPerennial.

Sidney Blumenthal, a senior editor at The New Republic, is covering the 1992 presidential election and analyzes the powerful role that rumor and innuendo have played in this race. "The spin is out of control," says Blumenthal. "The undercurrents of the campaign, more than anything else, have created the image of Bill Clinton."

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

Joan Juliet Buck is a movie critic for Vogue and the author of two novels, The Only Place to Be and Daughter of the Swan.

Fredric Dannen covered France's dictators-in-residence for V.F.'s April 1992 issue. "We will probably never know for certain whether John Demjanjuk was guilty of war crimes," says Dannen of his piece this month, "but we do know that our own government was guilty of questionable judgment and conduct in creating the case against him. The result, I fear, will be more fuel for the sickminded Holocaust deniers."

Edward Klein is writing a screenplay on the life of Ingrid Bergman. He frequently covers the media for V.F.

Annie Leibovitz'sPhotographs 1970-1990 will be published by HarperPerennial in softcover this fall.

Arthur Lubow's biography of Richard Harding Davis, The Reporter Who Would Be King (Scribner's), will be out next month.

Susan Mercandetti,V.F.'s Washington editor, found the subjects of this month's photo essay on the twentieth anniversary of Watergate a little wary at first. "I think they would rather have heard from the Devil himself than from the media," says Mercandetti. "They've all moved on, sheltering themselves in the cocoon of their new lives."

Ron Rosenbaum's May 1991 V.F. piece on the trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian was recently nominated for a National Magazine Award. His latest book, Travels with Dr. Death and Other Unusual Investigations, is out from Viking Penguin.

Stephen Schiff,V.F.'s critic-at-large, frequently covers cultural subjects.

James Wolcott recently appeared on Edge, the PBS series about pop culture.