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August 10, 1995 • Volume 42, Number 13

  • Thomas Powers

    No Laughing Matter e-edition

    Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million by David Wise

    Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy by Tim Weiner, by David Johnston, by Neil A. Lewis

    Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the FBI’s Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America’s Deadliest Spy by Peter Maas

    Sellout: Aldrich Ames and the Corruption of the CIA by James Adams

  • Joan Didion

    The Teachings of Speaker Gingrich

    1945 by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen

    To Renew America by Newt Gingrich

  • Elizabeth Hardwick

    Reckless People e-edition

    Independence Day by Richard Ford

  • W.B. Yeats

    Two Unpublished Poems by W.B. Yeats (poem) e-edition

  • Jonathan D. Spence

    In China’s Gulag e-edition

    Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons by Pu Ning

    Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China’s Gulag by Harry Wu, by Carolyn Wakeman

    Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ma Bo, translated by Howard Goldblatt

    Grass Soup by Zhang Xianliang, translated by Martha Avery

  • John Updike

    Hopper’s Polluted Silence e-edition

    Edward Hopper and the American Imagination 22–October 15 an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June

    Edward Hopper and the American Imagination catalog of the exhibition by Deborah Lyons, by Adam D. Weinberg. edited by Julie Grau, with contributions by fourteen others

    Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist by Gail Levin

    Edward Hopper’s New England by Carl Little

    Hopper by Mark Strand

    Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné edited by Gail Levin

  • Robert Darnton

    Cherchez la Femme e-edition

    Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates

  • John Banville

    Nice Work e-edition

    Therapy by David Lodge

    Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge

  • Strobe Talbott

    Why NATO Should Grow

  • John Bayley

    The Backward Look e-edition

    The Life of Arseniev: Youth by Ivan Bunin, Books 1–4 translated by Gleb Struve, by Hamish Miles, Book 5 translated by Heidi Hillis, by Susan McKean, by Sven A. Wolf, edited, annotated and with an introduction by Andrew Baruch Wachtel

    Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem 1885–1920, A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Fiction edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo

    Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore 1920–1933, A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Fiction edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo

  • Sarah Kerr

    The Confidence Men e-edition

  • Cathleen Schine

    The Way We Live Now e-edition

    Moo by Jane Smiley

  • Gabriele Annan

    End of the Line e-edition

    The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine’s Last Years in Paris by Ernst Pawel

  • Heinrich Heine,
    Hal Draper

    Gedächtnisfeier (poem) e-edition

  • Ingrid D. Rowland

    Mother of the World e-edition

    Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna an exhibition held in 1994 at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, the

    Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930 catalog of the exhibition by Jean-Marcel Humbert, by Michael Pantazzi, by Christiane Ziegler

  • Gustave Flaubert,
    Geoffrey Wall

    ‘Here We Are In Egypt’ e-edition

  • Felix G. Rohatyn

    The Budget: Whom Can You Believe? e-edition

  • Garry Wills

    The New Revolutionaries e-edition

    The Turner Diaries by Andrew" (William L. Pierce) "Macdonald

    Warriors Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America by James William Gibson

    The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation by Dick J. Reavis

    Guns, Crime, and Freedom by Wayne R. LaPierre, foreword by Tom Clancy

    Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace by Leonard L. Lewin

    The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism by James A. Aho

    In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s by Michael S. Sherry

    This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy by James A. Aho

    Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America by James D. Tabor, by Eugene V. Gallagher

  • Christine K. Cassel,
    Howard Schuman,
    Richard C. Lewontin

    ‘Sex, Lies, and Social Science’: Another Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

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

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.

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

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

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.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris.


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

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.


Felix Rohatyn is an investment banker and has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, and US Ambassador to France. (October 2008)

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has also published a translation of Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture and a history of Villa Taverna, the US ambassador’s residence in Rome.

Cathleen Schine is the author of several novels, including Rameau’s Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, The New Yorkers, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Her latest novel, Fin & Lady, will be published in July 2013. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

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.

Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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.

Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was a writer and teacher. Among his books are On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from Howells to Faulkner, and the memoirs A Walker in the Cityand New York Jew. In 1996, he received the first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism from the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

Theodore H. Draper (1912–2006) was an American historian. Educated at City College, he wrote influential studies of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution and the Iran-Contra Affair. Draper was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association.