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Volume 42, Number 13 · August 10, 1995

Thomas Powers, No Laughing Matter

Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million by David Wise

Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy by Tim Weiner, by David Johnston, by Neil A. Lewis

Sellout: Aldrich Ames and the Corruption of the CIA by James Adams

Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the FBI's Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America's Deadliest Spy by Peter Maas

Joan Didion, The Teachings of Speaker Gingrich

1945 by Newt Gingrich, by William R. Forstchen

To Renew America by Newt Gingrich

Elizabeth Hardwick, Reckless People

Independence Day by Richard Ford

W.B. Yeats, Two Unpublished Poems by W.B. Yeats (poem)

Jonathan D. Spence, In China's Gulag

Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons by Pu Ning

Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag by Harry Wu, by Carolyn Wakeman

Grass Soup by Zhang Xianliang, translated by Martha Avery

Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ma Bo, translated by Howard Goldblatt

John Updike, Hopper's Polluted Silence

Edward Hopper and the American Imagination 22–October 15 an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June

Edward Hopper's New England by Carl Little

Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné edited by Gail Levin

Hopper by Mark Strand

Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist by Gail Levin

Edward Hopper and the American Imagination catalog of the exhibition by Deborah Lyons, by Adam D. Weinberg. edited by Julie Grau, with contributions by fourteen others

Robert Darnton, Cherchez la Femme

Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates

John Banville, Nice Work

Therapy by David Lodge

Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge

Strobe Talbott, Why NATO Should Grow

John Bayley, The Backward Look

The Life of Arseniev: Youth by Ivan Bunin, Books 1–4 translated by Gleb Struve, by Hamish Miles, Book 5 translated by Heidi Hillis, by Susan McKean, by Sven A. Wolf, edited, annotated and with an introduction by Andrew Baruch Wachtel

Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore 1920–1933, A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Fiction edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo

Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem 1885–1920, A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Fiction edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo

Sarah Kerr, The Confidence Men

Cathleen Schine, The Way We Live Now

Moo by Jane Smiley

Gabriele Annan, End of the Line

The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine's Last Years in Paris by Ernst Pawel

Heinrich Heine, Gedächtnisfeier (poem)

Ingrid D. Rowland, Mother of the World

Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna an exhibition held in 1994 at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, the

Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930 catalog of the exhibition by Jean-Marcel Humbert, by Michael Pantazzi, by Christiane Ziegler

Gustave Flaubert, 'Here We Are In Egypt'

Felix G. Rohatyn, The Budget: Whom Can You Believe?

Garry Wills, The New Revolutionaries

The Turner Diaries by Andrew" (William L. Pierce) "Macdonald

Warriors Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America by James William Gibson

The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation by Dick J. Reavis

Guns, Crime, and Freedom by Wayne R. LaPierre, foreword by Tom Clancy

Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace by Leonard L. Lewin

The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism by James A. Aho

In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s by Michael S. Sherry

This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy by James A. Aho

Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America by James D. Tabor, by Eugene V. Gallagher

Christine K. Cassel, Howard Schuman, Richard C. Lewontin, 'Sex, Lies, and Social Science': Another Exchange

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Letters

Kay Merkel Boruff, McNamara & Vietnam
Peter Dale Scott, McNamara & Vietnam
David B. Zoellner, Theodore H. Draper, McNamara & Vietnam
Gordon Tullock, Richard Horton, The Global Threat
Slawomir Magala, Alfred Kazin, The Polish Invasion?

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Contributors

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

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.

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)

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.

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

Cathleen Schine is the author of seven novels, including Rameau's Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, and the forthcoming The New Yorkers. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man. He gave this year’s Reith Lectures for the BBC. (August 2008)

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.

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.

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