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Volume 43, Number 12 · July 11, 1996

Murray Kempton, The Shadow Saint

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens

Tony Judt, Europe: The Grand Illusion

Richard Jenkyns, The Pleasures of Melodrama

George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art by Robert L. Patten

Garry Wills, The Would-Be Progressives

They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era by E.J. Dionne Jr.

In Defense of Government: The Fall and Rise of Public Trust by Jacob Weisberg

The New Promise of American Life edited by Lamar Alexander, edited by Chester E. Finn Jr.

Values Matter Most: How Republicans or Democrats or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life by Ben J. Wattenberg

Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America by Michael Tomasky

Alan Ryan, The Politics of Dignity

The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit, translated by Naomi Goldblum

Joseph Brodsky, Cabbage and Carrot (poem)

Andrew Hacker, Goodbye to Affirmative Action?

The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America by John David Skrentny

Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice by Terry Eastland

Divided by Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals by Donald R. Kinder, by Lynn M. Sanders

In Defense of Affirmative Action by Barbara R. Bergmann

The Future of the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr., by Cornel West

John Weightman, The Book of Cohen

Belle du Seigneur: A Novel by Albert Cohen, translated and with an introduction by David Coward

Michael Massing, How To Win the Tobacco War

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger

The Cigarette Papers by Stanton A. Glantz, by John Slade, by Lisa A. Bero, by Peter Hanauer, by Deborah E. Barnes

Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-up by Philip J. Hilts

James Fenton, The Orpheus of Ulster

The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney

The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney

Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture by Seamus Heaney

Bill McKibben, Some Versions of Pastoral

Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture by Craig Canine

Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry

The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma by Paul R. Ehrlich, by Anne H. Ehrlich, by Gretchen C. Daily

Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea by Victor Davis Hanson

Robert Conquest, Stalin and the Jews

Out of the Red Shadows: Anti-Semitism in Stalin's Russia by Gennadi Kostyrchenko

Nepravedniy Sud: Posledniy Stalinskiy Rasstrel (The Unjust Trial: Stalin's Last Execution) edited by V.P. Naumov

The Bones of Berdichev: The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman by John Garrard, by Carol Garrard

P.N. Furbank, A Simple Facilitator

Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions by Lloyd Kramer

Caroline Fraser, Mrs. Eddy Builds Her Empire

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

'With Bleeding Footsteps': Mary Baker Eddy's Path to Religious Leadership by Robert David Thomas

Christian Science by Mark Twain

The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy & the History of Christian Science by Willa Cather, by Georgine Milmine

Thomas M. Doerflinger, Jeff Madrick, 'How to Succeed in Business': An Exchange

Murray Kempton, The Nation's Progress

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Letters

Alberto Arbasino, The Band Wagon
Martin Bernal, Jasper Griffin, 'Black Athena' Revisited
Ronald T. Ridley, It Was the Roof
Yoav J. Tenembaum, Avishai Margalit, It Wasn't 1984
C.A. Schneck, Denis Donoghue, Sassoon's War

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Contributors

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Robert Conquest, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of The Great Terror. (March 1997)

James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)

Caroline Fraser is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. (December 2004)

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (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.

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

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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