Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 10 · June 16, 1988

Garry Wills, Big Buddy

For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington by Donald T. Regan

Arthur Hertzberg, The Illusion of Jewish Unity

Brad Leithauser, Signalled (poem)

David Cannadine, The Secret House of Death

Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England by Olive Anderson

Martin Gardner, The Ultimate Turtle

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking, introduction by Carl Sagan

Robert Craft, Pulling No Punches

Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson edited by Tim Page, edited by Vanessa Weeks Page

John Updike, The Writer Lectures

Edmund S. Morgan, Negrophobia

The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia by Mechal Sobel

Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia: 1860–1900 by Roger Lane

Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720–1840 by Gary B. Nash

Josh Rubins, Genius Without Tears

Harry Mathews, That Ephemeral Thing

Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos

Thomas Sheehan, Heidegger and the Nazis

Heidegger et le nazisme by Victor Farias, translated from Spanish and German into French by Myriam Benarroch, by Jean-Baptiste Grasset, preface by Christian Jambet

Richard Ollard, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Robert M. Adams, Great Tew: An Exchange

Walter Laqueur, Vitaly Rapoport, Stephen Schwartz, et al. 'The Mystery of Max Eitingon': An Exchange

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Letters

Sallie Bingham, Nicholas Lemann, The Binghams
Hannes Alfven, Edoardo Amaldi, et al. The Case of Mordechai Vanunu
Arthur D. Kahn, Jasper Griffin, O Mighty Caesar!
Kenneth Heineman, Freedom of Information and Other Queries
Kathleen Tynan, Freedom of Information and Other Queries

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Contributors

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

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)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. (December 2001)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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