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March 30, 1989 • Volume 36, Number 5

  • Roger Shattuck

    The Reddening of America e-edition

    A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul

  • Andrew Hacker

    Do We Have What It Takes? e-edition

    More Like Us: Making America Great Again by James Fallows

  • Garry Wills

    The Dark Legacy of the Enlightenment e-edition

    The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1, Slaves and Liberators by Hugh Honour

    The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2, Black Models and White Myths by Hugh Honour

  • Neal Ascherson

    Inside the Whale e-edition

    The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places by Nadine Gordimer, edited and with an introduction by Stephen Clingman

    The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside by Stephen R. Clingman

  • Gordon A. Craig

    Dangerous Liaisons e-edition

    Der Teufelspakt: Die deutsch-russischen Beziehungen vom Ersten zum Zweiten Weltkrieg by Sebastian Haffner

    The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939–1941 by Anthony Read, by David Fisher

    Between Churchill and Stalin: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance by Steven Merritt Miner

  • Robert M. Adams

    Software Wars e-edition

    Hence by Brad Leithauser

  • Michael Massing

    Desperate Over Drugs e-edition

    The Pizza Connection: Lawyers, Money, Drugs, Mafia by Shana Alexander

    The Cocaine Wars by Paul Eddy, with Hugo Sabogal, by Sara Walden

    Sealing the Borders: The Effects of Increased Military Participation in Drug Interdiction by Peter Reuter, by Gordon Crawford, by Jonathan Cave

    Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellín Cartel—An Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption by Guy Gugliotta, by Jeff Leen

    Desperadoes: Latin Drug Lords, US Lawmen, and the War America Can’t Win by Elaine Shannon

    White Rabbit: A Doctor’s Story of Her Addiction and Recovery by Martha Morrison MD.

    Drug Abuse Prevention: Further Efforts Needed to Identify Programs That Work

    The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control by David F. Musto MD.

  • Nicholas Lemann

    Confidence Boy e-edition

    The Making of a Senator: Dan Quayle by Richard F. Fenno Jr.

  • David Brion Davis

    The Ends of Slavery e-edition

    Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by John Gabriel Stedman. transcribed for the first time from the original 1790 manuscript, edited by Richard Price, by Sally Price

    The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848 by Robin Blackburn

    The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality by George M. Fredrickson

  • Denis Donoghue

    The Revel’s Ended e-edition

    Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess

  • Abraham Brumberg

    Moscow: The Struggle for Reform e-edition

  • Alistair McCleery,
    Hans Walter Gabler,
    John Kidd,
    Charles Rossman

    The New ‘Ulysses’: Grave Matters

  • Murray Kempton

    A Tale of Two Governments e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.


Abraham Brumberg (1926–2008) was an essayist, editor and translator. His memoir, Journey Through Vanishing Worlds, was published by New Academia in 2007.

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is the author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at New York University, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. His works include The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and The American Classics.

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

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.

Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) was a Scottish-American historian of Germany. He taught at both Princeton and Stanford, where he was named the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1979.

Nicholas Lemann is Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.


Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the winner of the 2012 Philosophical Book Award (Hannover) for his most recent book, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises.

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His study of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. His latest book, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, was published in February 2013.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)

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

Roger Shattuck (1923–2005) was an American writer and scholar of French culture. He taught at Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University, where he was named University Professor. His books includeForbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography.