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October 26, 1989 • Volume 36, Number 16

  • Nicholas Lemann

    Whistling in the Pentagon e-edition

    The Pentagonists: An Insider’s View of Waste, Mismanagement, and Fraud in Defense Spending by A. Ernest Fitzgerald

    New Weapons, Old Politics: America’s Military Procurement Muddle by Thomas L. McNaugher

  • Robert M. Adams

    Balancing Act e-edition

    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

  • Robert I. Friedman

    The Secret Agent e-edition

    Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied On His Country for Israel and How He was Betrayed by Wolf Blitzer

  • C. Vann Woodward

    The Narcissistic South e-edition

    Encyclopedia of Southern Culture edited by Charles Reagan Wilson, edited by William Ferris

  • William H. Gass

    Being and Dying e-edition

    The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš, translated by Michael Henry Heim

  • Philip Gossett

    Up from Beethoven e-edition

    Nineteenth-Century Music by Carl Dahlhaus, translated by J. Bradford Robinson

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    Stories from the Ice Age e-edition

    Spring Bamboo: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories compiled and translated by Jeanne Tai, with a foreword by Bette Bao Lord, an introduction by Leo Ou-fan Lee

    I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling edited by Tani E. Barlow, with Gary J. Bjorge

    Lapse of Time by Wang Anyi, introduction by Jeffrey Kinkley

    Baotown by Wang Anyi, translated by Martha Avery

  • Ian Buruma

    From Hirohito to Heimat e-edition

    La Mémoire vaine: du crime contre l’humanité by Alain Finkielkraut

    Hotel Terminus a film by Marcel Ophuls

    From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film by Anton Kaes

    In Hitler’s Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape From the Nazi Past by Richard J. Evans

    What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?: Growing Up German by Sabine Reichel

    The Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials by Arnold C. Brackman

    Hirohito: Behind the Myth by Edward Behr

  • Jasper Griffin

    A Front-Line Classicist e-edition

    Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard Knox

  • George M. Fredrickson

    Can South Africa Change? e-edition

    In the Name of Apartheid: South Africa in the Postwar Period by Martin Meredith

    South Africa: No Turning Back edited by Shaun Johnson, foreword by Lord Bullock

    Inside Apartheid: One Woman’s Struggle in South Africa by Janet Levine

    Democratic Liberalism in South Africa: Its History and Prospect edited by Jeffrey Butler, edited by Richard Elphick, edited by David Welsh

    After Apartheid: The Solution for South Africa by Frances Kendall, by Leon Louw, foreword by Samuel Motsuenyane

    Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge by Francis Wilson, by Mamphela Ramphele

    Can South Africa Survive? Five Minutes to Midnight edited by John D. Brewer

  • Lionel Gossman

    Success Story e-edition

    The Triumph of Liberalism: Zürich in the Golden Age, 1830–1869 by Gordon A. Craig

  • Garry Wills

    Love in the Lower Depths e-edition

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    Basic Englishing e-edition

  • Olwyn Hughes,
    Anne Stevenson,
    Al Alvarez

    Sylvia Plath: An Exchange

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.

George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His recent books include Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner.

Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His reconstruction of Gustavo III, the original version of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, had its première at the Göteborg Opera in Sweden this past September. (March 2003)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. His books include Murderer in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, and the novel The China Lover. His book Year Zero: A History of 1945 will be published in September 2013.

Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917–2009) was an Irish historian and politician. He was elected to the Irish parliament in 1969 and served as a Minister from 1973 until 1977. His works include States of Ireland, The Great Melody and Memoir: My Life and Themes.

Peter Singer is the Ira W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of *Animal Liberation*, the editor of *In Defense of Animals: The Second Wav*, and, with Paola Cavalieri, co-editor of *The Great Ape Project*.

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His books include Homer on Life and Death.

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.

William H. Gass is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, and emeritus professor of philosophy. His first novel, Omensetter’s Luck, about life in a small town in Ohio in the 1890s, was published in 1966. Since then he has published several more works of fiction, including In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, The Tunnel, and Middle C. He has also published several collections of essays, including Fiction and the Figures of Life, Habitations of the Word, Finding a Form, and Life Sentences. Gass has received many awards and honors, including grants from the Rockefeller and Solomon R. Guggenheim foundations, four Pushcart Prizes, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the American Book Award, and three National Book Critics Circle Awards for Criticism. In 2000, he was honored with the PEN/Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award.

Al Alvarez is the author of Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

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.

Jonathan Mirsky is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London. (June 2013)

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


C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) was a historian of the American South. He taught at Johns Hopkins and at Yale, where he was named the Sterling Professor of History. His books include Mary Chesnut’s Civil War and The Old World’s New World.