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February 15, 1996 • Volume 43, Number 3

  • Thomas Powers

    The Last Hurrah e-edition

    Bob Dole by Richard Ben Cramer

    Senator for Sale: An Unauthorized Biography of Senator Bob Dole by Stanely G. Hilton

    Bob Dole: The Republicans’ Man For All Seasons by Jake H. Thompson

  • James Fenton

    A Short History of Anti-Hamitism e-edition

  • J. F.

    On Rwanda e-edition

  • John Bayley

    Alice, or The Art of Survival e-edition

    Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen

    The Complete Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll, iillustrated by Renée Flower

  • James Fallows

    Caught in the Web e-edition

    The Road Ahead by Bill Gates, with Nathan Myhrvold, by Peter Rinearson

    Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

    Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway by Clifford Stoll

    The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity by Thomas K. Landauer

    I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier by Fred Moody

    Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure Story by Jerry Kaplan

    Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People by Michael A. Cusumano, by Richard W. Selby

    Road Warriors: Dreams and Nightmares Along the Information Highway by Daniel Burstein, by David Kline

    Gates: How Microsoft’s Mogul Reinvented an Industry—and Made Himself the Richest Man in America by Stephen Manes, by Paul Andrews

  • Rosemary Dinnage

    Death’s Gray Land e-edition

    The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

    Regeneration by Pat Barker

    The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

  • Tony Judt

    Austria & the Ghost of the New Europe e-edition

  • Czeslaw Milosz

    Bringing a Great Poet Back to Life e-edition

    Laments by Jan Kochanowski, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak, by Seamus Heaney

  • Ernst Gombrich

    Icon e-edition

    Three Essays on Style by Erwin Panofsky, edited by Irving Lavin, with a memoir by William S. Heckscher

    Perspective as Symbolic Form by Erwin Panofsky, translated by Christopher S. Wood

  • Brad Leithauser

    Notions of Freedom e-edition

    The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry edited by Kathleen Scherf

    Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry by Gordon Bowker

  • Murray Kempton

    The Beat of War e-edition

    Reporting World War II, Part One:1 American Journalism 1938-1944 Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946

  • William Pfaff

    On the Death of Mitterrand e-edition

  • Susan Sontag

    On Wei Jingsheng e-edition

LETTERS

Contributors

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. He is the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. He has also written short stories, essays, and screenplays, and published a short story collection, Bear and His Daughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and in Key West, Florida.

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner’s Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot’s Ghost; Oswald’s Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The Castle in the Forest.

Anne Hollander’s books include Seeing Through Clothes, Sex and Suits, and Feeding the Eye. Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting, a companion book for the upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery in London, will be published this spring. (February 2002)

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Margaret Atwood is the author of eleven novels, among them The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake. Her latest novel, The Year of the Flood, was published in 2009.
 (April 2010)

Michael Ondaatje’s novels are Coming Through Slaughter, In the Skin of a Lion, The English Patient, and Anil’s Ghost. His books of poetry include The Cinnamon Peeler and Handwriting. His most recent book is The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

A. S. Byatt’s book of essays On Histories and Stories will be published in the US next year. Her new novel, The Biographer’s Tale, will be published here in January. (November 2000)

Rosemary Dinnage’s books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

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.

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. He died in 2004.

William Pfaff’s latest book, The Irony of Manifest Destiny, was published last year. He is a former board member of the Social Science Research Council.
 (November 2011)

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.

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

James Fenton is a visiting fellow at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library.
 (March 2012)

Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.