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Volume 44, Number 11 · June 26, 1997

Louis Menand, Made in the USA

American Visions Time, Inc., in association with Thirteen/WNET, PBS by Robert Hughes. an eight-part television documentary produced by BBC Television and

American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America by Robert Hughes

Robert Darnton, Free Spirit

The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History by Sir Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Patrick Gardiner

Timothy Garton Ash, The Imperfect Spy

Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster by Markus Wolf

In eigenem Auftrag (On My Own Orders) by Markus Wolf. (out of print)

Geheimnisse der russischen Küche (Secrets of Russian Cuisine) by Markus Wolf

Die Troika (The Troika) by Markus Wolf. (out of print)

Markus Wolf: 'Ich bin kein Spion' (Markus Wolf: 'I Am Not a Spy') by Irene Runge, by Uwe Stelbrink. (out of print)

Wolfs West-Spione (Wolf's West-Spies) by Peter Richter, by Klaus Rösler

Spymaster: The Real-Life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police by Leslie Colitt

Alfred Kazin, Struggles of a Prophet

The Actual by Saul Bellow

Amos Elon, At Pharaoh's Court

Egypt's Road to Jerusalem: A Diplomat's Story of the Struggle for Peace in the Middle East by Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Al Alvarez, A Magnificent Failure

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Alan Ryan, Conservatives, Nice and Nasty

Growing Up Republican: Christie Whitman: The Politics of Character by Patricia Beard

Christine Todd Whitman: The Making of a National Political Player by Art Weissman

John Gross, Lessons of an Immoderate Master

F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism by Ian MacKillop

F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography by G. Singh

Istvan Deak, Memories of Hell

Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Arthur Denner, translated by Abigail Pollak

Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman by Calel Perechodnik, edited and translated by Frank Fox

Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo, translated by Rosette C. Lamont, with an introduction by Lawrence L. Langer

Death Comes in Yellow: Skarzysko-Kamienna Slave Labor Camp by Felicja Karay, translated by Sara Kitai

The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp by Wolfgang Sofsky, translated by William Templer

The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lódz Ghetto edited by Alan Adelson, translated by Kamil Turowski

Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-1945 by Richard C. Lukas

Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide edited with an introduction by Alan S. Rosenbaum, with a foreword by Israel W. Charny

Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka by Richard Glazar, translated by Roslyn Theobald, foreword by Wolfgang Benz

Mary R. Lefkowitz, Fruits of the Loom

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism

D.J. Enright, Welcome to Moor

The Dog King by Christoph Ransmayr, translated by John E. Woods

Amartya Sen, Tagore and His India

Robert J. Gordon, Zvi Griliches, Jeff Madrick, The Cost of Living: An Exchange

Archie Brown, Jack F. Matlock, Gorbachev & the Coup: An Exchange

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Letters

Bertram Fields, Josef Joffe, Scientologists and Nazis
Jared Diamond, William H. McNeill, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel'
David F. Durham, Bill McKibben, The Fifth Horseman
Denis Brian, Einstein Plus

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Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)

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)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

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. (August 2007)

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Mary Lefkowitz is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. Her books include Not Out of Africa and Black Athena Revisited, which she edited with Guy Rogers. (June 1997)

Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.

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)

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His most recent book is Rationality and Freedom. (December 2004)

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