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June 24, 1993 • Volume 40, Number 12

  • Alan Ryan

    Cautionary Tales e-edition

    Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics by Jane Jacobs

  • Denis Donoghue

    Dream Work e-edition

    All the Pretty Horses: Vol. 1, The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy

  • Jonathan D. Spence

    Unjust Desserts e-edition

    The Story of Qiu Ju a film by Zhang Jimou

  • Lord Zuckerman

    The New Nuclear Menace e-edition

    A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Desirable? Feasible? edited by Joseph Rotblat, edited by Jack Steinberger, edited by Bhalchandra Udgaonkar

  • John Bayley

    Night Mail e-edition

    Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness edited and with an introduction by Carolyn Forché

  • James Fenton

    War in the Garden e-edition

  • Ian Buruma

    The Anarch at Twilight e-edition

    Aladdin’s Problem by Ernst Jünger, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

    A Dangerous Encounter by Ernst Jünger, translated by Hilary Barr

  • Sarah Kerr

    Made in America e-edition

    Latinos: A Biography of the People by Earl Shorris

  • Jorge Luis Borges,
    Robert Mezey

    Poem about Quantity (poem) e-edition

  • J.H. Elliott

    The Rediscovery of America e-edition

    Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America by James Axtell

    American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard

    1492 and All That: Political Manipulations of History by Robert Royal

    European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism by Anthony Pagden

    The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber

    The Middle Ground: Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650–1815 by Richard White

    The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries by James Lockhart

  • Gabriele Annan

    The Skull Beneath the Skin e-edition

    Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Tim Parks

  • John Pope-Hennessy

    Flowers of Florence e-edition

    The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’ and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent by Charles Dempsey

  • Jasper Griffin

    Ancient Hearts on Fire e-edition

    In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self by Ruth Padel

    Classical and Modern Interactions: Postmodern Architecture, Multiculturism, Decline, and other Issues by Karl Galinsky

  • Murray Kempton

    A Family’s Fortune e-edition

    Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune by David Margolick

  • Arthur Hertzberg

    Is Anti-Semitism Dying Out? e-edition

    Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred by Robert S. Wistrich

    The History of Anti-Semitism by Léon Poliakov, translated by Richard Howard

    The Satanizing of the Jews: Origin and Development of Mystical Anti-Semitism by Joel Carmichael

    Foreigners Out’: Xenophobia and Right-wing Violence in Germany a Helsinki Watch Report

    Highlights from an Anti-Defamation League Survey on Anti-Semitism and Prejudice in America.

    What Do We Know About Black Anti-Semitism? by Jennifer L. Golub

    Attitudes Toward Jews in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia (1991) by Renae Cohen, by Jennifer L. Golub

    Attitudes Toward Jews in the Soviet Union: Public Opinion in Ten Republics by Lev Gudkov, by Alex Levinson

  • Lee H. Hamilton,
    Gareth Evans,
    Carver,
    Stanley Hoffmann, et al.

    A UN Volunteer Military Force—Four Views

LETTERS

Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine short story writer, poet, and essayist. His fiction, which drew on his interest in mathematics and detective stories, made him one of the influential writers of the twentieth century. English-language anthologies of his stories include Ficciones, The Aleph, and Labyrinths.

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.

James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999, Fenton was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2007 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

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

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)

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.


Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Life. His article in this issue draws on his essay in Tyringham Topics.
 (February 2013)

Charles Hope was Director of the Warburg Institute, London, from 2001 to 2010. He is the author of Titian.


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.

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (December 2008)

Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.

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.

J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of History in the Making.

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone. His latest book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. He is currently writing a memoir of his father, who once told him that the last time he met Clare Boothe Luce was in the office of Allen Dulles.


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.

Arthur Hertzberg (1921–2006) was a Conservative rabbi, scholar and activist. His books include The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism and The Zionist Idea.

Jonathan Spence is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Death of Woman Wang, Treason by the Book, The Question of Hu, and The Search for Modern China.