Table of Contents

Volume 38, Number 21 · December 19, 1991

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Was Giordano Bruno a Mole?

Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy

Ian Buruma, Ghosts of Pearl Harbor

Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans that Led to Pearl Harbor by William H. Honan

Pearl Harbor Ghosts: A Journey to Hawaii Then and Now by Thurston Clarke

A Time For War: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Path to Pearl Harbor by Robert Smith Thompson

Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II by James Rusbridger, by Eric Nave

An Enemy Among Friends by Kiyoaki Murata

Richard Dorment, Lautrec's Bitter Theater

The Letters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec edited by Herbert D. Schimmel, Introduction by Gale B. Murray

Toulouse-Lautrec 1991–January 19, 1992 Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, February 21–June 1, 1992 an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, October 10,

Toulouse-Lautrec Yale University Press catalog of the exhibition by Richard Thomson, by Claire Frèches-Thory, by Anne Roquebert, by Danièle Devynck

Nightlife of Paris: The Art of Toulouse Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878–1891 by Gale B. Murray

Lee H. Hamilton, A Two-State Solution?

No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark A. Heller, by Sari Nusseibeh

Patricia Storace, Look Away, Dixie Land

Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell by Darden Asbury Pyron

Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With the Wind' by Alexandra Ripley

Michael Massing, The Betrayal of the Contras

Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels by Sam Dillon

Executive Report 102–19 on the Nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence report by the Select Committee on Intelligence

Milan Kundera, The Umbrella, the Night World, and the Lonely Moon

Chronique des Sept Misères by Patrick Chamoiseau

Hadriana dans tous mes rêves by René Depestre

Solibo Magnifique by Patrick Chamoiseau

Eros dans un train chinois by René Depestre

Alléluia pour une femme-jardin by René Depestre

Charles Rosen, Radical, Conventional Mozart

Mozart Speaks: Views on Music, Musicians, and the World selected and with a commentary by Robert L. Marshall

Mozart's Operas by Daniel Heartz

Autonomy and Mercy: Reflections on Mozart's Operas by Ivan Nagel, translated by Marion Faber, by Ivan Nagel

Robert M. Adams, The Floating Operetta

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig

Avishai Margalit, The Myth of Jerusalem

Benedetta Craveri, Women in Retreat

Storia delle donne in Occidente: Dal Rinascimento all'età moderna (A History of Women in the West: From the Renaissance to the Modern Era) edited by Arlette Farge, edited by Natalie Zemon Davis

Letteratura per il popolo in Francia (1600–1750) (Literature for the French People, 1600–1750) by Giovanni Dotoli

Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King

Ange ou diablesse: La représentation de la femme au XVIe siècle (Angel or Devil: The Representation of Women in the Sixteenth Century) by Sara F. Matthews Grieco

Le travail des apparences: Le corps féminin, XVIIIe–XIXe siècle (The Work of Appearances: The Female Body in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries) by Philippe Perot

David Remnick, Dead Souls

Katyn: The Untold Story of Stalin's Polish Massacre by Allen Paul

The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons by Mikhail Gorbachev

Gorbachev by Gerd Ruge, translated by Peter Tegel

Memoirs: The Gorbachev Enigma by Yegor Ligachev

The Future Belongs to Freedom by Eduard Shevardnadze, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick

I Hope by Raisa Gorbachev, translated by David Floyd

Raisa: The 1st First Lady of the Soviet Union by Urda Jürgens

The Second Russian Revolution Discovery Channel by Brian Lapping Associates a six-part documentary series made for BBC Television and the, produced by Norman Percy

The Second Russian Revolution: The Struggle for Power in the Kremlin by Angus Roxburgh

Nizabvayemoe (Unforgettable) by Anna Larina Bukharina

For a New Russia by Anatoly Sobchak

Zal Ozhidaniya (The Waiting Room) by Vitaly Korotich

Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An Inside Account of the Man and His Era by Sergei Khrushchev, edited and translated by William Taubman

Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes dictated by Nikita Khrushchev, foreword by Strobe Talbott, translated and edited by Jerrold L. Schecter, by Vyacheslav V. Luchkov

Moscow Circles by Benedict Erofeev, translated by J. R. Dorrell


Letters

Jonathan Demme, Help Manno Charlemagne
Noam Chomsky, Lord Zuckerman, Universal Grammar
E.P. Thompson, David Cannadine, The Making



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)

Benedetta Craveri is a professor of French literature at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, and the Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. She regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books and to the cultural pages of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Her books include Madame du Deffand and Her World and La Vie privée du Maréchal de Richelieu, and Amanti e regine: Il potere delle donne. She is married to a French diplomat.

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.


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