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Volume 43, Number 3 · February 15, 1996

Thomas Powers, The Last Hurrah

Bob Dole by Richard Ben Cramer

Senator for Sale: An Unauthorized Biography of Senator Bob Dole by Stanely G. Hilton

Bob Dole: The Republicans' Man For All Seasons by Jake H. Thompson

James Fenton, A Short History of Anti-Hamitism

The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gérard Prunier

J. F., On Rwanda

John Bayley, Alice, or The Art of Survival

Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen

The Complete Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll, iillustrated by Renée Flower

James Fallows, Caught in the Web

The Road Ahead by Bill Gates, with Nathan Myhrvold, by Peter Rinearson

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway by Clifford Stoll

I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier by Fred Moody

Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People by Michael A. Cusumano, by Richard W. Selby

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

Road Warriors: Dreams and Nightmares Along the Information Highway by Daniel Burstein, by David Kline

Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure Story by Jerry Kaplan

The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity by Thomas K. Landauer

Rosemary Dinnage, Death's Gray Land

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

Regeneration by Pat Barker

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

Tony Judt, Austria & the Ghost of the New Europe

Czeslaw Milosz, Bringing a Great Poet Back to Life

Laments by Jan Kochanowski, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak, by Seamus Heaney

Ernst Gombrich, Icon

Three Essays on Style by Erwin Panofsky, edited by Irving Lavin, with a memoir by William S. Heckscher

Perspective as Symbolic Form by Erwin Panofsky, translated by Christopher S. Wood

Brad Leithauser, Notions of Freedom

The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry edited by Kathleen Scherf

Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry by Gordon Bowker

Murray Kempton, The Beat of War

Reporting World War II, Part One:1 American Journalism 1938-1944 Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946

William Pfaff, On the Death of Mitterrand

Susan Sontag, On Wei Jingsheng

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Letters

Margaret Atwood, Niels Barfoed, et al. The Case of Wei Jingsheng

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Contributors

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

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

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued by Penguin in paperback.
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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.

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet’s Song. (December 2007)

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), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), 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.

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

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