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Diane Johnson

After Jonestown

Our Father Who Art in Hell by James Reston Jr.

The Children of Jonestown by Kenneth Wooden

Awake in a Nightmare
Jonestown: The Only Eyewitness Account by Ethan Feinsod

In My Father’s House: The Story of the Layton Family and the Reverend Jim Jones by Min S. Yee and Thomas N. Layton

Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy by Shiva Naipaul

The Strongest Poison by Mark Lane
Peter Green

Greece Against Itself

Mediaeval Greece by Nicolas Cheetham

A Short History of Modern Greece by Richard Clogg

Ephesus After Antiquity: A Late Antique, Byzantine and Turkish City by Clive Foss

Ambassador MacVeagh Reports: Greece 1933-1947 edited by John O. latrides

The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece by Bruce R. Kuniholm

The Greek World by Eliot Porter, with a text by Peter Levi

The Greek Upheaval: Kings, Demagogues and Bayonets by Taki Theodoracopulos

The Struggle for Greece 1941-1949 by C.M. Woodhouse
Irvin Ehrenpreis

Digging In

Poems 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney

A Coast of Trees: Poems by A.R. Ammons

Selected Poems by Mark Strand
Patricia Craig

Innocents

The Temptation of Eileen Hughes by Brian Moore

A Gift Horse and Other Stories by Kate Cruise O'Brien
Kirkus Reviews

Short Reviews

Polywater by Felix Franks

Wounded Men, Broken Promises: How the Veterans Administration Betrays Yesterday’s Heroes by Robert Klein

Letters

Contributors

Jeremy Bernstein is a theoretical physicist and the author, most recently, of A Bouquet of Numbers and Other Scientific Offerings, a collection of essays.
 (December 2016).

Irvin Ehrenpreis (1920–1985) was the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. In 1984 he received the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa for the final volume of his trilogy, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age.

Richard Ellmann (1918–1987) was an American critic and biographer. He taught at Northwestern, Oxford and Emory, where he was named Robert W. Professor in 1980. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joycein 1959; a revised edition was awarded the James Tate Black Memorial Prize in 1982.

Marshall Frady’s books include Wallace, Billy Graham, Southerners, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, and, most recently, Martin Luther King, Jr. He is currently writing a biography of Fidel Castro. (February 2004)

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. His books include The Hellenistic Age: A Short History and a translation of the Iliad. His translation of the Odyssey is forthcoming. (October 2017)

Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is the author of Rethinking Social Policy and The Homeless, among other books. (June 2016)

Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. She is the author of Lulu in Marrakech and Le Divorce, among other novels, and a memoir, Flyover Lives.
 (October 2017)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007) was an American historian and social critic. He served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. His Journals: 1952– 2000 were published in 2007.