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Volume 36, Number 13 · August 17, 1989

Ronald Steel, Guest of the Age

Sketches From A Life by George F. Kennan

George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy by David Mayers

Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy by Anders Stephanson

Philip Roth, Pro-Life Pro

John Bayley, Living with Trollope

The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope by R.H. Super

Trollope: Living With Character by Stephen Wall

He Knew She Was Right: The Independent Woman in the Novels of Anthony Trollope by Jane Nardin

Anthony Hecht, Naming the Animals (poem)

Timothy Garton Ash, Revolution in Hungary and Poland

Brad Leithauser, Microscopy

The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

Charles Hope, The Real Leonardo

Leonardo da Vinci (January–April 1989) catalog of an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, by Martin Kemp, by Jane Roberts, by Philip Steadman, introduction by E.H. Gombrich

Leonardo on Painting edited by Martin Kemp, selected and translated by Martin Kemp, by Margaret Walker

Michelangelo Draftsman DC (October–December 1988), and, in revised form, as Michel-Ange Dessinateur at the Louvre, Paris (May 13–July 31, 1989) catalog of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington,, by Michael Hirst

Michelangelo and his Drawings by Michael Hirst

Peter B. Reddaway, The Threat to Gorbachev

Andrei D. Sakharov, A Speech to the People's Congress

Helen Vendler, Four Prized Poets

Blackbird Bye Bye by April Bernard

The Night Parade by Edward Hirsch

Acrimony by Michael Hofmann

The Daylight Moon and Other Poems by Les A. Murray

Gordon A. Craig, The Grand Decider

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

A Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam—The Story of America's Rise to Power by Geoffrey Perret

The Wages of War: When America's Soldiers Came Home—From Valley Forge to Vietnam by Richard Severo, by Lewis Milford

Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression by Robert L. O'Connell

War: Ends and Means by Paul Seabury, by Angelo Codevilla

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon by Robert Jervis

The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan

Technology and War: From 2000 BC to the Present by Martin van Creveld

Amos Elon, Jerusalem: The Future of the Past

Thomas Powers, Spook of Spooks

Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA by Edward Jay Epstein

William Pfaff, Romania: Defying the Tyrant

Joseph Brodsky, Isaiah Berlin at Eighty

James Chace, Dithering in Nicaragua

Condemned to Repetition by Robert A. Pastor

Somoza Falling by Anthony Lake

War and Peace in Central America: Reality and Illusion by Frank McNeil

Agony in the Garden: A Stranger in Central America by Edward R.F. Sheehan

Thomas R. Edwards, Sad Young Men

Moon Palace by Paul Auster

Closer by Dennis Cooper

Boomerang by Barry Hannah

Theodore H. Draper, Revelations of the North Trial

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Letters

Axel Hoffer, Phyllis Grosskurth, Freud & Ferenczi
Jay Topkis, Gore Vidal, Rosebud
Karen Kennerly, Larry McMurtry, Arrested in China
Mark Paterson, Freud & Ferenczi
Freeman Dyson, Edward Witten, Free Taysir Aruri!
Edward Butscher, Becoming Conrad Aiken
Henry Hope Reed, Training the Artist

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Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)

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)

Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)

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)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

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)

Anthony Hecht'sCollected Later Poems and Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry were published in 2003. He died on October 20. (December 2004)

Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)

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

William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet's Song. (December 2007)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

Helen Vendler's recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, will be published later this year. (March 2009)

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