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June 1, 1989 • Volume 36, Number 9

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Henry Gifford

The Real Thing

On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Antonina W. Bouis

The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories compiled by Sergei Zalygin

Balancing Acts: Contemporary Stories by Russian Women edited by Helena Goscilo

The Human Experience: Contemporary American and Soviet Fiction and Poetry US/USSR Committee edited by the Soviet/American Joint Editorial Board of the Quaker, with forewords by William Styron, by Daniil Granin
Ian Buruma

The Bartered Bride

In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow

The US and the Philippines: In Our Image Neudel, KCET, Los Angeles A three-part television series, produced by Andrew Rearson and Eric

Ermita: A Filipino Novel by F. Sionil José
Gore Vidal

Remembering Orson Welles

Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady

The Big Brass Ring a screenplay by Orson Welles, with Oja Kadar
George Soros

The Gorbachev Prospect
George F. Kennan

The History of Arnold Toynbee
Benjamin M. Friedman

A Deficit of Civic Courage

Report of the National Economic Commission
Christopher Hill

The Raj Quartet

The British Isles: A History of Four Nations by Hugh Kearney
Robert Hughes

The Patron Saint of Neo-Pop

America by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner
J.M. Cameron

Winners

Grey Is the Color of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya, translated by Alyona Kojevnikov

Fear No Evil by Natan Sharansky, translated by Stefani Hoffman
Rosemary Dinnage

Exiles

Latecomers by Anita Brookner

Baumgartner’s Bombay by Anita Desai
Derek Walcott

The Master of the Ordinary

Philip Larkin: Collected Poems edited with an introduction by Anthony Thwaite
Alistair McCleery,
John Kidd

‘The Scandal of Ulysses’: Yet Another Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents. 

Rosemary Dinnage’s books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

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.

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (June 2011)

Robert Hughes’s most recent book, Things I Didn–?t Know, a memoir, was published last fall. (September 2007)

George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century’s Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)

John Kidd is the founding director of the James Joyce Research Centre at Boston University. (September 1997)

George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Foundations. The article in this issue is based on a talk he gave at the 2012 Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.  (February 2012)

Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. His latest collection of poems, White Egrets, will be published next year. (November 2009)

Simon Schama‘s most recent book is A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British, 1603–1776, the companion volume to his ongoing BBC/History Channel television series. (February 2002)

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