Table of Contents

Volume 34, Number 13 · August 13, 1987

Ronald Dworkin, The Bork Nomination

Gordon A. Craig, The Good Soldier

George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945–1959 by Forrest C. Pogue

Murray Kempton, A Hero's Mission

Geoffrey O'Brien, Grand Illusions

A Life in Movies: An Autobiography by Michael Powell

Martin Gardner, Giving God a Hand

Oral Roberts: An American Life by David Edwin Harrell Jr.

Miracles of Seed-Faith by Oral Roberts

He's the God of a Second Chance! by Richard Roberts

Run to the Roar by Tammy Bakker, by Cliff Dudley

I Gotta Be Me by Tammy Bakker, by Cliff Dudley

Ashes to Gold by Patti Roberts, by Sherry Andrews

The Holy Spirit in the Now by Oral Roberts

To Cross a River by Jimmy Swaggart, with Robert Paul Lamb

Salvation for Sale: An Insider's View of Pat Robertson's Ministry by Gerard Thomas Straub

Answers to 200 of Life's Most Probing Questions by Pat Robertson

Beyond Reason: How Miracles Can Change Your Life by Pat Robertson, with William Proctor

Shout it From the Housetops by Pat Robertson, with Jamie Buckingham

Catholicism and Christianity by Jimmy Swaggart

The Pre-Adamic Creation and Evolution by Jimmy Swaggart

Ian Buruma, Marcos and Morality

Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy by Raymond Bonner

Luc Sante, All Conquers Love

Les Liaisons dangereuses a play by Christopher Hampton, from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos, directed by Howard Davies. at the Music Box Theater, New York City

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Christopher Hampton

Frederick C. Crews, Pressure Under Grace

Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn

Woody Allen, True Colors

Robert M. Adams, The Bard of Wichita Falls

Texasville by Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

John Weightman, Summing Up Sartre

Sartre: A Life by Annie Cohen-Solal, translated by Anna Cancogni, edited by Norman MacAfee

Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century edited by Hélène Vivienne Wenzel

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life…A Love Story by Claude Francis, by Fernande Gontier, translated by Lisa Nesselson

The Politics of Prose: Essay on Sartre by Denis Hollier, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman, foreword by Jean-François Lyotard

Sartre: A Life by Ronald Hayman

Sartre's Second Critique by Ronald Aronson

A Preface to Sartre by Dominick LaCapra

Bruce Chatwin, The Lizard Man

Martin Garbus, New Mag in Moscow

Thomas R. Edwards, Indictments

Bandits by Elmore Leonard

The Red White and Blue by John Gregory Dunne

George Soros, A Global New Deal

Robert Hughes, On Lucian Freud

Bernard Aronson, Patt Derian, Tony Jenkins, et al. Tangled Nicaragua: An Exchange

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Letters

Andrei D. Sakharov, On Accepting a Prize

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

Robert Hughes's most recent book, Things I Didn’t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (October 2008)

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.

George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Institute, is the author most recently of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets. (September 2008)

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

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