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Volume 41, Number 6 · March 24, 1994

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Of Ivory and the Survival of Elephants

At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife by Raymond Bonner

Battle for the Elephants by Iain Douglas-Hamilton, by Oria Douglas-Hamilton, edited by Brian Jackman

The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion by Jonathan S. Adams, by Thomas O. McShane

The Fate of the Elephant by Douglas H. Chadwick

Elephant: The Animal and its Ivory in African Culture edited by Doran H. Ross

Gordon A. Craig, The True Believer

Goebbels by Ralf Georg Reuth, translated by Krishna Winston

Goebbels and 'Der Angriff' by Russel Lemmons

Joseph Goebbels: ein nationaler Sozialist by Ulrich Höver

Robert M. Adams, The Great Perhaps

Life Work by Donald Hall

The Museum of Clear Ideas by Donald Hall

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland

John Updike, Degas Out of Doors

Degas Landscapes 21–April 3, 1994, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 24–July 3, 1994 an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January

Degas Landscapes catalog of the exhibition by Richard Kendall

Jeremy Bernstein, Eye on the Prize

A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè by Emilio Segrè

James Fenton, A Death in London

Juergen Habermas, Adam Michnik, 'More Humility, Fewer Illusions'—A Talk between Adam Michnik and Jürgen Habermas

Tim Parks, Worth a Detour

A Ghost in Trieste by Joseph Cary, drawings by Nicholas Read

James Fallows, The Computer Wars

Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America by Stephen Manes, by Paul Andrews

Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing by Randall E. Stross

Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children by David Sheff

Computer Wars: How the West Can Win in a Post-IBM World by Charles H. Ferguson, by Charles R. Morris

Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM by Paul Carroll

Murray Kempton, A Raisin in the Sun

Robert Bernard Martin, The Discreet Charms of Mrs. G.

Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories by Jenny Uglow

Michael Massing, The Welfare Blues

Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair by Susan Sheehan

Frank Kermode, The Old New Age

The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution by Christopher Hill

The Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies: Miracles and the Pulp Press During the English Revolution by Jerome Friedman

Joyce Carol Oates, 'I Had No Other Thrill or Happiness'

Serial Killers by Joel Norris

Probing the Mind of a Serial Killer by Jack A. Apsche

Death Benefit: A Lawyer Uncovers a Twenty-year Pattern of Seduction, Arson, and Murder by David Heilbroner

The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy by Ann Rule

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer directed by Nick Broomfield

Killing for Company: The Story of a Man Addicted to Murder by Brian Masters

The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough: The Secret Murders of Milwaukee's Jeffrey Dahmer by Anne E. Schwartz

A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer

Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton

True Crime, Vol. 2: Serial Killers & Mass Murderers by Valarie Jones, by Peggy Collier

Mary M. Clark, Barbara A. White, Richard Bernstein, 'Guilty If Charged': An Exchange

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Letters

Edward N. Luttwak, Robert M. Solow, 'Endangered American Dream'
George Thuroczy, István Deák, 'Misjudgment at Nuremberg'
Theodore H. Draper, 'Joseph Lash and the CP

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Contributors

Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at Los Alamos. His Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element was published in paperback in March. (April 2009)

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)

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)

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.

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His latest book, ConcerningE.M. Forster, will be published in December.
 (October 2009)

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's most recent books are The Hidden Life of Dogs, Certain Poor Shepherds, and The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture.

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

Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. (September 2008)

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas.

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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