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June 26, 1997 • Volume 44, Number 11

  • Louis Menand

    Made in the USA e-edition

    American Visions Time, Inc., in association with Thirteen/WNET, PBS by Robert Hughes. an eight-part television documentary produced by BBC Television and

    American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America by Robert Hughes

  • Robert Darnton

    Free Spirit e-edition

    The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History by Sir Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Patrick Gardiner

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    The Imperfect Spy e-edition

    Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism’s Greatest Spymaster by Markus Wolf

    Die Troika (The Troika) by Markus Wolf. (out of print)

    In eigenem Auftrag (On My Own Orders) by Markus Wolf. (out of print)

    Geheimnisse der russischen Küche (Secrets of Russian Cuisine) by Markus Wolf

    Markus Wolf: ‘Ich bin kein Spion’ (Markus Wolf: ‘I Am Not a Spy’) by Irene Runge, by Uwe Stelbrink. (out of print)

    Spymaster: The Real-Life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police by Leslie Colitt

    Wolfs West-Spione (Wolf’s West-Spies) by Peter Richter, by Klaus Rösler

  • Alfred Kazin

    Struggles of a Prophet e-edition

    The Actual by Saul Bellow

  • Amos Elon

    At Pharaoh’s Court

    Egypt’s Road to Jerusalem: A Diplomat’s Story of the Struggle for Peace in the Middle East by Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  • Al Alvarez

    A Magnificent Failure e-edition

    The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  • Alan Ryan

    Conservatives, Nice and Nasty e-edition

    Growing Up Republican: Christie Whitman: The Politics of Character by Patricia Beard

    Christine Todd Whitman: The Making of a National Political Player by Art Weissman

  • John Gross

    Lessons of an Immoderate Master e-edition

    F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism by Ian MacKillop

    F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography by G. Singh

  • István Deák

    Memories of Hell e-edition

    Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Arthur Denner, translated by Abigail Pollak

    Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman by Calel Perechodnik, edited and translated by Frank Fox

    Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo, translated by Rosette C. Lamont, with an introduction by Lawrence L. Langer

    Death Comes in Yellow: Skarzysko-Kamienna Slave Labor Camp by Felicja Karay, translated by Sara Kitai

    The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp by Wolfgang Sofsky, translated by William Templer

    The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lódz Ghetto edited by Alan Adelson, translated by Kamil Turowski

    Did the Children Cry? Hitler’s War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-1945 by Richard C. Lukas

    Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide edited with an introduction by Alan S. Rosenbaum, with a foreword by Israel W. Charny

    Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka by Richard Glazar, translated by Roslyn Theobald, foreword by Wolfgang Benz

  • Mary R. Lefkowitz

    Fruits of the Loom e-edition

    Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

  • Stephen Jay Gould

    Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism e-edition

  • D.J. Enright

    Welcome to Moor e-edition

    The Dog King by Christoph Ransmayr, translated by John E. Woods

  • Amartya Sen

    Tagore and His India e-edition

  • Robert J. Gordon,
    Zvi Griliches,
    Jeff Madrick

    The Cost of Living: An Exchange

  • Archie Brown,
    Jack F. Matlock Jr.

    Gorbachev & the Coup: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Al Alvarez is the author of Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

Jack F. Matlock Jr. was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 and is the author of Autopsy on an Empire. He is George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (February 2000)

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.

Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA, is the author most recently of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. (June 2012)

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and Summers Long Ago: On Grandfather’s Farm and in Grandmother’s Kitchen, published by the Berkshire Publishing Group. His most recent publication, as editor, is the second edition of the Encyclopedia of World History.

D.J. Enright (1920–2002) was a British poet, novelist and critic. He held teaching positions in Egypt, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. In 1981 Enright was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Josef Joffe is editorial page editor and a columnist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich and an associate of Harvard’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. (December 1997)

Jeff Madrick writes an economics column for Harper’s Magazine, is editor of Challenge Magazine, and is director of the Rediscovering Government Initiative at the Roo­sevelt Institute. His most recent book is Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America.

Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet and of the forthcoming Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist.. He is also the founder of 350.org, the global climate campaign that has been actively involved in the fight against natural gas fracking.

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of many books, including The Magic Lantern, an eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989. His most recent book is Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name. He is currently leading an Oxford University 
research project for the discussion of global free speech norms (www.freespeechdebate.com) and working on a book about free speech.

John Gross (1935–2011) was an English editor and critic. From 1974 to 1981, he was editor of The Times Literary Supplement; he also served as senior book editor and critic at The New York Times. His memoir, A Double Thread, was published in 2001.

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.


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.

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.

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.

Mary Lefkowitz is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. Her books include Not Out of Africa and Black Athena Revisited, which she edited with Guy Rogers. (June 1997)

Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard. His books include The Marketplace of Ideas, American Studies and The Metaphysical Club.

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

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His most recent book is The Idea of Justice. (May 2011)