Table of Contents

Volume 39, Number 20 · December 3, 1992

John Updike, Pilgrim's Progress

The Discovery of America by Saul Steinberg

Michael Massing, The New Mafia

The Gotti Tapes: Including the Testimony of Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano foreword by Ralph Blumenthal, afterword by John Miller

War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Narcotics Policy edited by Alfred W. McCoy, edited by Alan A. Block

Evil Money: Encounters Along the Money Trail by Rachel Ehrenfeld

The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Operations by the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International

Robert M. Adams, Cornering the Market

Arcadia by Jim Crace

Nothing but Blue Skies by Thomas McGuane

Leviathan by Paul Auster

The Art of Hunger by Paul Auster

Stephen Kinzer, Self-Portrait of a Revolutionary

The Patient Impatience: from boyhood to guerrilla: a personal narrative of Nicaragua's struggle for liberation by Tomás Borge

Bernard Knox, A Dangerously Modern Poet

Catullus by Charles Martin

The Poems of Catullus translated by Charles Martin

Ada Louise Huxtable, Inventing American Reality

Thomas R. Edwards, Design for Living

Natural History by Maureen Howard

Murray Kempton, The Last Hurrah

Martin Gardner, A-Symmetry

Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer? by Ian Stewart, by Martin Golubitsky

Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art and Nature by Michael Field, by Martin Golubitsky

M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry by Doris Schattschneider

Wordplay:Ambigrams and Reflections on the Art of Ambigrams by John Langdon

Gabriele Annan, Sighing Fields

O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

Alan Ryan, Who Was Edmund Burke?

The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O'Brien

Thomas Byrne Edsall, What Clinton Won

Benjamin M. Friedman, Clinton's Opportunity

Martin Garbus, Herbert Romerstein, Andrew Brown, 'The Attack on I.F. Stone': An Exchange

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Letters

Pat Choate, Bashing Japan?
Richard B. Pesikoff, Ian Buruma, Bashing Japan?

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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)

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (November 2008)

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)

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.

Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Managua, Berlin, and Istanbul, is the author of Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. He is writing a book about Rwanda. (June 2008)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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