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Volume 36, Number 20 · December 21, 1989

Joan Didion, Life at Court

What I Saw At the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era Magazine on October 12) by Peggy Noonan

Jean Howard's Hollywood: A Photo Memoir photographs by Jean Howard, text by James Watters

My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan by Nancy Reagan, with William Novak

At Reagan's Side by Helene von Damm

Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches by Ronald Reagan

Behind the Scenes by Michael K. Deaver, with Mickey Herskowitz

Peggy Noonan, 'Knee Deep in the Hoopla'

John Bayley, God and the Devil

August 1914: The Red Wheel/Knot I by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts

Timothy Garton Ash, The German Revolution

Garry Wills, The Phallic Pulpit

Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right by Michael d'Antonio

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture of America by Randall Balmer

Forgiven: The Rise and Fall of Jim Bakker and the PTL Ministry by Charles E. Shepard

John Gross, Shaw and Super-Shaw

Bernard Shaw Volume II: 1898–1918, The Pursuit of Power by Michael Holroyd

Daniel J. Kevles, Paradise Lost

The End of Nature by Bill McKibben

Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century? by Stephen H. Schneider

Ludvik Vaculik, The Czech Party

Robert O. Paxton, The Company of Owls

North American Owls: Biology and Natural History by Paul A. Johnsgard, with watercolors by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Owls of the Northern Hemisphere by Karel H. Voous, illustrated by Ad Cameron

John Weightman, Written on Water

The Walnut Trees of Altenburg by André Malraux, translated by A.W. Fielding

Fang Lizhi, Keeping the Faith

M.H. Abrams, The Strangeness of Wordsworth

William Wordsworth: A Life by Stephen Gill

Michael P. Johnson, Upward in Slavery

Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery by Robert William Fogel

Without Consent or Contract: Evidence and Methods edited by Robert W. Fogel, edited by Ralph A. Galantine, edited by Richard L. Mannings

Without Consent or Contract: Technical Papers Volume I: Markets and Productions Volume II: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom edited by Robert W. Fogel, edited by Stanley L. Engerman

Anthony Hecht, The Case of the Dizzy Detective

The Poet Auden: A Personal Memoir by A.L. Rowse

Rosemary Dinnage, The Good Doctor

Human Nature by D.W. Winnicott

Murray Kempton, Mad About Guns

Alan Adelson, George Diestel, John-Paul Himka, et al. The Incomprehensible Holocaust: An Exchange

Alfred M. Freedman, Abraham L. Halpern, Peter B. Reddaway, Soviet Psychiatry: An Exchange

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Letters

Avraham Weiss, War Crimes
Radu J. Bogdan, Immanuel Wallerstein, The Case of Silviu Brucan
R.J.W. Evans, War Crimes
Michael Stuermer, Ian Buruma, War Crimes
Rolf Kaltenborn, C. Vann Woodward, Wheels

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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)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

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 most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)

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)

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.

Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (March 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)

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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