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December 19, 1991 • Volume 38, Number 21

  • Hugh Trevor-Roper

    Was Giordano Bruno a Mole? e-edition

    Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy

  • Ian Buruma

    Ghosts of Pearl Harbor e-edition

    Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans that Led to Pearl Harbor by William H. Honan

    Pearl Harbor Ghosts: A Journey to Hawaii Then and Now by Thurston Clarke

    A Time For War: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Path to Pearl Harbor by Robert Smith Thompson

    An Enemy Among Friends by Kiyoaki Murata

    Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II by James Rusbridger, by Eric Nave

  • Richard Dorment

    Lautrec’s Bitter Theater e-edition

    The Letters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec edited by Herbert D. Schimmel, Introduction by Gale B. Murray

    Toulouse-Lautrec 1991–January 19, 1992 Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, February 21–June 1, 1992 an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, October 10,

    Toulouse-Lautrec Yale University Press catalog of the exhibition by Richard Thomson, by Claire Frèches-Thory, by Anne Roquebert, by Danièle Devynck

    Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878–1891 by Gale B. Murray

    Nightlife of Paris: The Art of Toulouse Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor

  • Lee H. Hamilton

    A Two-State Solution? e-edition

    No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark A. Heller, by Sari Nusseibeh

  • Patricia Storace

    Look Away, Dixie Land e-edition

    Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell by Darden Asbury Pyron

    Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone With the Wind’ by Alexandra Ripley

  • Michael Massing

    The Betrayal of the Contras e-edition

    Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua’s Contra Rebels by Sam Dillon

    Executive Report 102–19 on the Nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence report by the Select Committee on Intelligence

  • Milan Kundera,
    David Bellos

    The Umbrella, the Night World, and the Lonely Moon e-edition

    Chronique des Sept Misères by Patrick Chamoiseau

    Solibo Magnifique by Patrick Chamoiseau

    Eros dans un train chinois by René Depestre

    Hadriana dans tous mes rêves by René Depestre

    Alléluia pour une femme-jardin by René Depestre

  • Charles Rosen

    Radical, Conventional Mozart e-edition

    Mozart Speaks: Views on Music, Musicians, and the World selected and with a commentary by Robert L. Marshall

    Autonomy and Mercy: Reflections on Mozart’s Operas by Ivan Nagel, translated by Marion Faber, by Ivan Nagel

    Mozart’s Operas by Daniel Heartz

  • Robert M. Adams

    The Floating Operetta e-edition

    Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig

  • Avishai Margalit

    The Myth of Jerusalem

  • Benedetta Craveri,
    Joan Sax

    Women in Retreat e-edition

    Storia delle donne in Occidente: Dal Rinascimento all’età moderna (A History of Women in the West: From the Renaissance to the Modern Era) edited by Arlette Farge, edited by Natalie Zemon Davis

    Letteratura per il popolo in Francia (1600–1750) (Literature for the French People, 1600–1750) by Giovanni Dotoli

    Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King

    Ange ou diablesse: La représentation de la femme au XVIe siècle (Angel or Devil: The Representation of Women in the Sixteenth Century) by Sara F. Matthews Grieco

    Le travail des apparences: Le corps féminin, XVIIIe–XIXe siècle (The Work of Appearances: The Female Body in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries) by Philippe Perot

  • David Remnick

    Dead Souls e-edition

    Katyn: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Polish Massacre by Allen Paul

    The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons by Mikhail Gorbachev

    Gorbachev by Gerd Ruge, translated by Peter Tegel

    Memoirs: The Gorbachev Enigma by Yegor Ligachev

    The Future Belongs to Freedom by Eduard Shevardnadze, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick

    I Hope by Raisa Gorbachev, translated by David Floyd

    Raisa: The 1st First Lady of the Soviet Union by Urda Jürgens

    The Second Russian Revolution Discovery Channel by Brian Lapping Associates a six-part documentary series made for BBC Television and the, produced by Norman Percy

    The Second Russian Revolution: The Struggle for Power in the Kremlin by Angus Roxburgh

    Nizabvayemoe (Unforgettable) by Anna Larina Bukharina

    For a New Russia by Anatoly Sobchak

    Zal Ozhidaniya (The Waiting Room) by Vitaly Korotich

    Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An Inside Account of the Man and His Era by Sergei Khrushchev, edited and translated by William Taubman

    Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes dictated by Nikita Khrushchev, foreword by Strobe Talbott, translated and edited by Jerrold L. Schecter, by Vyacheslav V. Luchkov

    Moscow Circles by Benedict Erofeev, translated by J. R. Dorrell

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.

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Among the exhibitions he has organized is “James McNeill Whistler,” seen at the Tate Gallery, London, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 
(June 2013)

Benedetta Craveri is a professor of French literature at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, and the Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. She regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books and to the cultural pages of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Her books include Madame du Deffand and Her World, La Vie privée du Maréchal de Richelieu, and Amanti e regine: Il potere delle donne. She is married to a French diplomat.

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.

Lee H. Hamilton is director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. He served as vice-chairman of the 9/11 Commission and cochairman of the Iraq Study Group and from 1999 to 2010 was president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
 (June 2011)

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

David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin’s Tomb, The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, and Resurrection. He is the editor of The New Yorker.

Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at MIT.

Lord Zuckerman (1904–1993) was a British zoologist and military strategist. Having advised the Allies on bombing strategy during World War II, he spent much of his later life campaigning for nuclear non-proliferation. Zuckerman was knighted in 1956 and made a life peer in 1971.

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.

Charles Rosen is a pianist and music critic. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal.

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece, and Sugar Cane, a children’s book. She lives in New York.

David Cannadine is the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton.

H. R. Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) was a British historian and the author of The Last Days of Hitler. He taught at Oxford, where he was the Regius Professor Modern History.