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November 5, 1992 • Volume 39, Number 18

  • John Terborgh

    A Matter of Life and Death e-edition

    The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson

  • Thomas Byrne Edsall

    Clinton’s Revolution e-edition

  • David Remnick

    Invitation to a Beheading e-edition

    Stalin: Triumph & Tragedy by Dmitri Volkogonov, edited and translated by Harold Shukman

  • John Bayley

    Answers Without Questions e-edition

    Mr. Mani by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Hillel Halkin

    Katerina by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green

  • István Deák

    Holocaust Heroes e-edition

    Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism by Alexander Stille

    The Italian Refuge: Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust edited by Ivo Herzer

    All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941–1943 by Jonathan Steinberg

    Norway’s Response to the Holocaust: A Historical Perspective by Samuel Abrahamsen

    Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust edited by Richard C. Lukas

    ‘My Brother’s Keeper?’: Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust edited by Antony Polonsky

    The Survival of Love: Memoirs of a Resistance Officer by Józef Garlinski

    The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs during World War II by Vladimir Dedijer, translated by Harvey L. Kendall

  • Jack Flam

    Passions of Matisse e-edition

    Henri Matisse: A Retrospective 1992–January 12, 1993 an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York September 24,

    Henri Matisse: A Retrospective catalog of the exhibition by John Elderfield

    Collecting Matisse by Albert Kostenevich, by Natalia Semenova

  • John Weightman

    How Wise Was Montaigne? e-edition

    Michel de Montaigne: The Essays translated and edited by M.A. Screech

    Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the ‘Essays’ by M.A. Screech

  • Garry Wills

    Father Knows Best e-edition

  • Stephen Jay Gould

    Dreams That Money Can Buy e-edition

    The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story by Peter Lefcourt

    Box Socials by W.P. Kinsella

    The Cleveland Indian: The Legend of King Saturday by Luke Salisbury

    Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime by Andrew Zimbalist

    The Diamond Revolution: The Prospects for Baseball After the Collapse of Its Ruling Class by Neil J. Sullivan

    The Brooklyn Dodgers by Peter C. Bjarkman

    Lost Ballparks: A Celebration of Baseball’s Legendary Fields by Lawrence S. Ritter

    The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History Chartwell Books, 110 Enterprise Avenue, Secaucus, New Yersey, 07094; Amereon Ltd., P.O. Box 1200, Mattituck, New York, 11952.) by Phil Dixon, by Patrick J. Hannigan

    Baseball: The Perfect Game Photographs by Danielle Weil, Introduction by David Halberstam, text by Peter Richmond

  • Denis Donoghue

    Book of Books Books e-edition

    The World of Biblical Literature by Robert Alter

    Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text by Burton L. Visotzky

    The Voice of Jacob: On the Composition of Genesis by Leslie Brisman

    The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature by Ricardo J. Quinones

  • Jonathan Mirsky

    Squaring the Chinese Circle e-edition

    Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture by Jonathan D. Spence

    The Cambridge History of China: Volume 15, The People’s Republic Part 2: Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution 1966–1982 edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, edited by John K. Fairbank

  • Stanley Hoffmann

    Bush Abroad

    Marching in Place by Michael Duffy, by Dan Goodgame

    The Ruses for War: American Intervention Since World War II by John Quigley

    The Shape of the New Europe edited by Gregory F. Treverton

    Guardians of the Gulf: A History of America’s Expanding Role in the Persian Gulf by Michael A. Palmer

    The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America’s Purpose by Robert W. Tucker, by David C. Hendrickson

    The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis by Elaine Sciolino

    Lines in the Sand by Deborah Amos

    Mr. Bush’s War: Adventures in the Politics of Illusion by Stephen R. Graubard

    George Bush’s War by Jean Edward Smith

    Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics by Eric Alterman

    The Commanders by Bob Woodward

    It Doesn’t Take a Hero: The Autobiography by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, by Peter Petrie

    Illusions of Triumph by Mohamed Heikal

    Desert Shield to Desert Storm: The Second Gulf War by Dilip Hiro

    Triumph Without Victory: The History of the Persian Gulf War US News and World Report

    On Strategy II: A Critical Analysis of the Gulf War by Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr.

    Storm over Iraq by Richard P. Hallion

    Needless Deaths in the Gulf: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War

    Ethics and the Gulf War by Kenneth L. Vaux

    Just War and the Gulf War by James Turner Johnson, by George Weigel

    But Was It Just? Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War by Jean Bethke Elshtain, by Stanley Hauerwas, by Sari Nusseibeh, by Michael Walzer, by George Weigel

    Against the Fires of Hell: The Environmental Disaster of the Gulf War by T.M. Hawley

    The Fire This Time by Ramsey Clark

    Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky

    The Gulf War and the New World Order edited by Haim Bresheeth, edited by Nira Yuval-Davis

    War and the Media by Philip M. Taylor

    Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War by John R. MacArthur

    The Media and the Gulf War: The Press and Democracy in Wartime edited by Hedrick Smith

    A Search for Enemies by Ted Galen Carpenter

    Designing Defense for a New World Order by Earl Ravenal

    Defense for a New Era: Lessons of the Persian Gulf War by Les Aspin, by William Dickinson. the House Armed Services Committee

  • Charles S. Nicoll,
    Sharon M. Russell,
    Audrey Lau,
    Peter Singer

    ‘Animal Liberation’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

John Bayley is a critic and novelist. His books include Elegy for Iris and The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Jan Gross and Tony Judt, of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.

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 Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, Eclipse, The Sea (winner of the Man Booker Prize), and Ancient Light. As Benjamin Black he has written six crime novels, including Vengeance.

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) was an American geologist, biologist and historian of science. He taught at Harvard, where he was named Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and at NYU. His last book was Punctuated Equilibrium.

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His most recent books are Chaos and Violence: What Globalization, Failed States, and Terrorism Mean for US Foreign Policy and Rousseau and Freedom, coedited with Christie McDonald.


Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)

Jonathan Mirsky, a journalist and historian of China, is the former East Asia Editor of The Times of London.
 (May 2013)

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.

John Terborgh, who has worked in the Peruvian Amazon since 1973, is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke and Director of its Center for Tropical Conservation. His latest book, co-edited with James A. Estes, is Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature.
 (April 2012)

John Weightman (1915–2004) was a critic and literary scholar. After working as a translator and announcer for the BBC French service, Weightman turned to the study of French literature. He taught at King’s College London and the University of London. His books include The Concept of the Avant-Gardeand The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd.

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.

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*.

Francine du Plessix Gray received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006 for her memoir Them: A Memoir of Parents.