Table of Contents

Volume 42, Number 1 · January 12, 1995

James Fallows, The Republican Promise

Contract With America

On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency by Drew Elizabeth

Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics by Kevin Phillips

The Politics of the High-Wage Path: The Challenge Facing Democrats by Ruy A. Teixeira

John Updike, Heade Storms

Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 4, 1994–January 8, 1995

Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade catalog of the exhibition by Sarah Cash, technical notes by Claire M. Barry

Noel Annan, The Fabulous Five

The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby by Genrikh Borovik, edited and with an introduction by Phillip Knightley

My Five Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by their KGB Controller by Yuri Modin, by Jean-Charles Deniau, by Aguieszka Ziarek, translated by Anthony Roberts, Introduction by David Leitch

Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century by Anthony Cave Brown

Jared Diamond, Portrait of the Biologist as a Young Man

Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson

Rosemary Dinnage, The Downhill Slope

The Afterlife and Other Stories by John Updike

A Private View by Anita Brookner

Simon Leys, Balzac's Genius & Other Paradoxes

Balzac: A Life by Graham Robb

Eavan Boland, When the Spirit Moves

Kwame Anthony Appiah, How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying

Race and Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell

Timothy Garton Ash, Prague: Intellectuals & Politicians

Prudence Crowther, James Taibi, A Call for Papers

Carol Albert, Judith Alpert, Lori Caplowitz Bohm, et al. 'Victims of Memory': An Exchange

Maurice Halperin, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., James G. Blight, et al. Talking to Cuba: An Exchange

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Letters

A.D. Harvey, Thomas Mann, On Not Signing an Appeal
Ronald Speirs, Reading Brecht, Writing Brecht
David Marsh, Ingrid D. Rowland, 'So What?'
Ian Strasfogel, Michael Meyer, Reading Brecht, Writing Brecht
John Willett, Reading Brecht, Writing Brecht
Marshall E. Blume, Dan Rottenberg, et al. Technology's Lesson
Herbert C. Morton, The F-Word
Lucian W. Pye, The Baby Mao

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Experiments in Ethics. He is working on a book about the role of honor in moral life. (November 2008)

Prudence Crowther is the copy chief at BusinessWeek. (April 2007)

Jared Diamond, a Professor of Physiology and Public Health at UCLA and winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Medal of Science, is the author of, among other books, Guns, Germs, and Steel. (March 2004)

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

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

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. (November 2008)

Simon Leys is the author of a dozen books, mostly on Chinese art, culture, and politics. His latest work is The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story. (December 2007)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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