Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 8 · May 11, 2000
Lars-Erik Nelson, Fantasia 
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald
John Russell, 'The King of the Cats'
Balthus by Nicholas Fox Weber
Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works by Virginie Monnier, by Jean Clair
John Ashbery, Honored Guest (poem)
Jonathan Miller, Doing Opera
Hilary Mantel, Figures in a Landscape
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Jeremy Bernstein, Creators of the Bomb
In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist by S.S. Schweber
Clifford Geertz, Indonesia: Starting Over
Al Alvarez, Visions of Light
Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott
Tim Flannery, Forever Amber
The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World by George Poinar Jr., by Roberta Poinar. with photographs and drawings by the authors.
Denis Donoghue, The Fabulous Yeats Boys
Jack Yeats by Bruce Arnold
The Life of W.B. Yeats by Terence Brown
Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox
Alma Guillermoprieto, The Children's War
Edmund S. Morgan, How the French Lost America
The Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson
John Bayley, Pushkin's Shakespearean Lover
Mark Lilla, Philosophy for a Messy World
Justice Is Conflict by Stuart Hampshire
Sophia Woodman, China's Dirty Clean-Up
Thomas Powers, The Plot Thickens
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era by Allen Weinstein, by Alexander Vassiliev
VENONA: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America by John Earl Haynes, by Harvey Klehr
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew, by Vasili Mitrokhin
A Time for Spies: Theodore Stephanovich Mally and the Era of the Great Illegals by William E. Duff
The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives by Nigel West, by Oleg Tsarev
A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster by Ted Morgan
Letters
Bill Harlan, Ian Frazier, The Game at Lead
Marek Edelman, Jacek Kuron, Free Dr. Brovina!
Andrew O'Hagan, Nobody's Perfect
Joyce Carol Oates, 'The Perfect Lady'
Robert Conquest, Michael Ignatieff, The 'Anglosphere'
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at
Los Alamos. His forthcoming book is about the element plutonium. (May 2006)
Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)
Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 2008)
Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)
Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)
Jonathan Miller has directed operas and plays throughout the world, most recently Pelléas and Mélisande at the Metropolitan Opera. His many books include The Body in Question, States of Mind, On Reflection, and Nowhere in Particular. The article that appears in this issue is based on a talk given at the New York Public Library. (May 2000)
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)
Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.
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.
John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)
Sophia Woodman is Research Director of the organization Human Rights in China (HRIC) and the editor of HRIC's quarterly journal, China Rights Forum. She lives in Hong Kong. (May 2000)
