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May 13, 1993 • Volume 40, Number 9

  • Michael Ignatieff

    The Balkan Tragedy e-edition

    The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War by Misha Glenny

    The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-up, 1980–92 by Branka Magaš

    The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War by Slavenka Drakulić

  • Gordon S. Wood

    Jefferson at Home e-edition

    Jeffersonian Legacies edited by Peter S. Onuf

  • Gordon A. Craig

    Letters On Dark Times e-edition

    Hannah Arendt Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926–1969 edited by Lotte Kohler, by Hans Saner, translated by Robert Kimber, by Rita Kimber

  • John Updike

    The Lean and Optical Dane e-edition

    Christen Koobke by Sanford Schwartz

  • Timothy Ferris

    The Case Against Science e-edition

    Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man by Brian Appleyard

  • Alan Ryan

    Twenty-first Century Blues e-edition

    Preparing for the Twenty-first Century by Paul Kennedy

  • Leo Steinberg

    This Is a Test e-edition

  • John Bayley

    ‘Anna of All the Russias’ e-edition

    The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Updated and Expanded Edition translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, edited by Roberta Reeder

    Remembering Anna Akhmatova by Anatoly Nayman, translated by Wendy Rosslyn

    In a Shattered Mirror: The Later Poetry of Anna Akhmatova by Susan Amert

  • Amos Elon

    The Nowhere City e-edition

  • Andrew Hacker

    Paradise Lost e-edition

    Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans, and the Decline of Middle-Class Prosperity by Kevin Phillips

  • Garry Wills

    Hanging Out with Greeks e-edition

    The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics by Bernard Knox

    New Perspectives in Early Greek Art England edited by Diana Buittron-Oliver

    The Norton Book of Classical Literature edited by Bernard Knox

  • Joseph McBride

    The Lost Kingdom of Orson Welles e-edition

    This Is Orson Welles by Orson Welles, by Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum

    This Is Orson Welles (audio tapes) conversations between Welles and Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum

    The Cradle Will Rock a screenplay by Orson Welles, edited by James Pepper

    The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction by Robert L. Carringer

  • Ann Hulbert

    Grim Fairy Tale e-edition

    The Furies by Janet Hobhouse

  • Thomas Powers

    The Truth About the CIA e-edition

    Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA by Mark Perry

    Casey: From the OSS to the CIA by Joseph Persico

    The Bear Trap: Afghanistan’s Untold Story by Gen. Mohammad Yousaf, by Mark Adkin

    The Red Web: MI6 and the KGB Master Coup by Tom Bower

    The FBI–KGB War: A Special Agent’s Story by Robert J. Lamphere, by Tom Schactman

    Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter by Tom Mangold

    Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors that Shattered the CIA by David Wise

    No Other Choice: The Cold War Memoirs of the Ultimate Spy by George Blake

    The Cambridge Spies: The Untold Story of Maclean, Philby, and Burgess in America by Verne W. Newton

    The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War by Jerrold L. Schechter, by Peter S. Deriabin

    The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950 by Arthur B. Darling

    General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950–February 1953 by Ludwell Lee Montague

    Moscow Station: How the KGB Penetrated the American Embassy by Ronald Kessler

    The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA by Burton Hersh

    America’s Secret Eyes in Space: The U.S. Spy Satellite Program by Jeffrey T. Richelson

    American Espionage and the Soviet Target by Jeffrey T. Richelson

LETTERS

Contributors

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

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.

Amos Elon (1926–2009) was an Israeli journalist. His final book was The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews In Germany 1743 – 1933.

Ann Hulbert is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford. She is currently at work on a book about twentieth-century American child-rearing experts. (June 1998)

Michael Ignatieff, a former leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, is a fellow at Massey College and teaches human rights and international politics at the University of Toronto.
 (December 2012)

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England.

Joseph McBride’s books include Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, Orson Welles, and Hawks on Hawks. His biography Searching for John Ford will be published in December. He writes a regular column on film for Irish America magazine. (July 1999)

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

Timothy Ferris is Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest book, The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature, was published in February. (March 2010)

William Styron (1925–2006) was the author of several novels, including Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Rose B. Styron is a poet, journalist and human rights activist. She is the author of By Vineyard Light, a collection of poems centered on Martha’s Vineyard, where she and her husband, writer William Styron, spent extended summers. Her other books include From Summer to Summer, Thieves’ Afternoon and Modern Russian Poetry.

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment.

Toni Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton, is the author of seven novels. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. (August 2001)

William Shawcross is the author of several books on Cambodia. (December 1996)

Margaret Atwood is the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Blind Assassin, among other novels. Her most recent work of fiction is I’m Starved for You, a long short story available as an e-book.


(May 2012)

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was an American playwright and essayist. His 1949 play, Death of A Salesman, received a Tony Award for Best Author, The New York Drama Circle Critics’ Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. His many plays include The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, and Moonlight. Please also see haroldpinter.org.

E.L. Doctorow is the author most recently of All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories, which appeared last year. His essay in this issue will appear in different form as the introduction to a new edition of As I Lay Dying, to be published by Modern Library in May.
 (May 2012)

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

John Updike (1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death. His major work was the set of four novels chronicling the life of Harry “Rabbit: Angstrom, he two of which, Rabbit is Richand Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

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.

Janet Coleman worked at the NYR from 1963 to 1966. She is the author of The Compass: The Improvisational Theater That Revolutionized American Comedy and (with Al Young) Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs. She is one of playwright/director Richard Maxwell’s New York City Players and, for Pacifica Radio, a producer and host. She is writing a biography of Viola Spolin, the creator of theater games.

Richard A. Falk is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown. His latest book is The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

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.