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Volume 34, Number 8 · May 7, 1987

Gore Vidal, Obsession

Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess

Stanley Hoffmann, Reagan's Underworld

Report of the President's Special Review Board by John Tower, by Edmund S. Muskie, by Brent Scowcroft

The Tower Commission Report with an introduction by R.W. Apple Jr.

Luc Sante, Jean Valjean, Superstar

Les Misérables a musical by Alain Boublil, by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, original French text by Alain Boublil, by Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton, directed and adapted by Trevor Nunn, by John Caird

Ewa Kuryluk, Irina Ratushinskaya, An Interview with Irina Ratushinskaya

Irina Ratushinskaya, Two Poems from Prison by Irinia Ratushinskaya (poem)

David Lodge, The Home Front

Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes

Timothy Garton Ash, In the Churchill Museum

Winston S. Churchill: Vol. VII, Road to Victory, 1941–1945 by Martin Gilbert

Michael Wood, No Success Like Failure

Selected Essays of R.P. Blackmur edited and with an introduction by Denis Donoghue

Wayward Skeptic: The Theories of R.P. Blackmur by James T. Jones

Garrett Epps, The Discreet Charms of a Demogogue

Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms by Ernest B. Furgurson

Christopher Hill, Under the Tudor Bed

Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia by Lacey Baldwin Smith

Monroe K. Spears, 'Kipper of de Vineyards'

The Language of the American South by Cleanth Brooks

Lord Zuckerman, The Nuclear Opening

Star Wars: A Defense Insider's Case Against the Strategic Defense Initiative by Robert Bowman

Watershed in Europe: Dismantling the East-West Military Confrontation by Jonathan Dean

Searching for World Security: Understanding Global Armament and Disarmament by Curt Gasteyger

Nuclear War, Nuclear Proliferation, and their Consequences edited by Sadruddin Aga Khan

Roger Scruton, Martha C. Nussbaum, 'Sexual Desire': An Exchange

The Editors, 'The Fighting City'

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Letters

Kay Boyle, Pound in Rapallo
Aleksandr Bogoslovski, Glasnost
Joan Richardson, Helen Vendler, Reading Wallace Stevens
Eric Sams, Ernst Honigmann, 'Edmund Ironside'
Arcadi Nebolsine, Glasnost

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Contributors

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 books include Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name and (as editor with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
 (December 2009)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. He also wrote Chaos and Violence.

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)

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