Table of Contents

Volume 43, Number 9 · May 23, 1996

Al Alvarez, New Poet in Town

Ants on the Melon by Virginia Hamilton Adair

Pico Iyer, Mystically Yours

Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai

Jonathan Mirsky, How China Lost Taiwan

Richard Horton, Truth and Heresy About AIDS

Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter H. Duesberg

AIDS: Virus- or Drug Induced? edited by Peter H. Duesberg

Infectious AIDS: Have We Been Misled? by Peter H. Duesberg

R.J.W. Evans, Kings and the Queen of the Arts

Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Jonathan Brown

Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe 1450-1800 by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Gore Vidal, Twain on the Grand Tour

Thomas R. Edwards, Babylon Re-Revisited

The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney

Richard C. Lewontin, In the Blood

Frank Kermode, The Wild Goose Chase

The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco

Revan Schendler, Brown Leaves (poem)

James Fenton, The Best Show in London

Tony Judt, France Without Glory

The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s by Eugen Weber

Shanghai on the Métro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French between the Wars by Michael B. Miller

French Fascism: The Second Wave, 1933–1939 by Robert Soucy

French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture by David Carroll

Prison Journal 1940–1945 by Edouard Daladier

La France à l'heure allemande, 1940–1944 by Philippe Burrin

Etre juif en France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Renée Poznanski

Paris after the Liberation, 1944–1949 by Antony Beevor, by Artemis Cooper

The Locust Years: The story of the Fourth French Republic, 1946–1958 by Frank Giles

Murray Kempton, The Shame of Lebanon

David Remnick, Hammer, Sickle, and Book

Za Gorizontom (Beyond the Horizon) by Gennady Zyuganov

Veru v Rossiyu (I Believe in Russia) by Gennady Zyuganov

Rossiya i Sovremenii Mir (Russia and the Modern World) by Gennady Zyuganov

Preobrazheniye (Transformation) by Andrei Kozyrev

Marion Graeffin Doenhoff, Gordon A. Craig, 'Hitler's Willing Executioners': An Exchange

Richard K. Matthews, Gordon S. Wood, An Exchange on James Madison

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Letters

Thomas K. Landauer, James Fallows, 'The Trouble with Computers'
Roger Shattuck, John Weightman, 'Zola: A Life'
Alfred Sherman, Ian Buruma, Mrs. Thatcher's Ghost
Norman Kelvin, Richard Dorment, Half-Full Use

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Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. (September 2007)

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

Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published in paperback in March. (November 2009)

Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued in paperback. (September 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)

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Jonathan Mirsky is a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs. In 2002 he was the first I.F. Stone Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Journalism School.
 (August 2009)

David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

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