Richard Bernstein

Richard Bernstein is a former Time correspondent in China and a correspondent in France and Germany for The New York Times. His most recent book is The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters. (November 2009)

From the Review

November 19, 2009: The Empire of Sister Ping

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe

April 9, 2009: At Last, Justice for Monsters

Closing Order Indicting Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch by the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

March 26, 2009: The Death and Life of a Great Chinese City

The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed by Michael Meyer

Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip P. Pan

Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China by Jen Lin-Liu

November 22, 2007: The Korean War: An Exchange

October 25, 2007: Good War Gone Bad

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam

March 1, 2007: How Not to Deal with North Korea

A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions by Marion V. Creekmore Jr.

Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World by Gordon G. Chang

Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea by Jasper Becker

November 3, 1994: 'The Culture Wars': An Exchange

March 24, 1994: 'Guilty If Charged': An Exchange

January 13, 1994: Guilty If Charged

June 25, 1992: French Collaborators: The New Debate