Table of Contents

Volume 41, Number 11 · June 9, 1994

Sherwin B. Nuland, The Pill of Pills

Listening to Prozac by Peter D. Kramer

Thomas Powers, Were the Atomic Scientists Spies?

Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness—A Soviet Spymaster by Pavel Sudoplatov, and Anatoli Sudoplatov, with L. Jerrold, and Leona P. Schecter, foreword by Robert Conquest

Michael Meyer, The Magician

Images: My Life in Film by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Marianne Ruuth

The Best Intentions by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate

Ingmar Bergman: Film and Stage by Robert Emmet Long

Sunday's Children by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate

Norman Davies, The Misunderstood War

A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg

Umberto Eco, A Case for Textual Harassment

John Gross, The Book of Books

The Columbia Encyclopaedia: Fifth Edition edited by Barbara A. Chernow, edited by George A. Vallasi

John Banville, A Real Funny Guy

The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis

Perry Link, The Old Man's New China

'Don't Force Us to Lie': The Struggle of Chinese Journalists in the Reform Era by Allison Liu Jernow

The Rise of China: How Economic Reform is Creating a New Superpower by William H. Overholt

Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era by Merle Goldman

Jonathan Mirsky, The Prodigal Sons

Claire Tomalin, At the Heart of the Onion

Roald Dahl: A Biography by Jeremy Treglown

Helen Vendler, Breakfast with Miss Bishop

One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop, selected and edited by Robert Giroux

Veronica Geng, Prime Suspects, USA

Gordon S. Wood, Inventing American Capitalism

The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 by Christopher Clark

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land: The Plunder of Early America by Daniel M. Friedenberg

The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism by Allan Kulikoff

From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750–1850 by Winifred Barr Rothenberg

The Origins of American Capitalism: Selected Essays by James A. Henretta

Robert Block, City of the Future

Garry Wills, Sons and Daughters of Chicago

Plan of Chicago by Daniel H. Burnham, by Edward H. Bennett, edited by Charles Moore

Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel by Carla Cappetti

Henry Hobson Richardson: J.J. Glessner House, Chicago by Elaine Harrington

Frank Lloyd Wright 10, 1994 An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York February 20–May

Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect catalog of the exhibition edited by Terence Riley

Murray Kempton, Blindness in Haiti

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Letters

Monica Strauss, 'Dissent on Schindler's List'
Marion Graeffin Doenhoff, 'Dissent on Schindler's List'
Harold Pinter, 'Dissent on Schindler's List'
Alan G. Gross, 'Dissent on Schindler's List'
Catherine Yronwode, Joyce Carol Oates, Serial Killers
Anthony B. Cavender, Serial Killers
David Brion Davis, A Later Triumph

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Contributors

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Umberto Eco is an Italian philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays.

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)

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.

Perry Link is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (April 2008)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)

Sherwin B. Nuland is Clinical Professor of Surgery and a Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. He is the author of How We Die, which won the National Book Award in 1994, and Lost in America. (December 2005)

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), 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.

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

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.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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