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Martin Gardner

Giving God a Hand

Oral Roberts: An American Life by David Edwin Harrell Jr.

Miracles of Seed-Faith by Oral Roberts

The Holy Spirit in the Now by Oral Roberts

He’s the God of a Second Chance! by Richard Roberts

Ashes to Gold by Patti Roberts and Sherry Andrews

I Gotta Be Me by Tammy Bakker and Cliff Dudley

Run to the Roar by Tammy Bakker and Cliff Dudley

To Cross a River by Jimmy Swaggart, with Robert Paul Lamb

The Pre-Adamic Creation and Evolution by Jimmy Swaggart

Catholicism and Christianity by Jimmy Swaggart

Shout it From the Housetops by Pat Robertson, with Jamie Buckingham

Beyond Reason: How Miracles Can Change Your Life by Pat Robertson, with William Proctor

Answers to 200 of Life’s Most Probing Questions by Pat Robertson

Salvation for Sale: An Insider’s View of Pat Robertson’s Ministry by Gerard Thomas Straub
Luc Sante

All Conquers Love

Les Liaisons dangereuses a play by Christopher Hampton, from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos, directed by Howard Davies. at the Music Box Theater, New York City

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
John Weightman

Summing Up Sartre

Sartre: A Life by Annie Cohen-Solal, translated by Anna Cancogni, edited by Norman MacAfee

Sartre: A Life by Ronald Hayman

Sartre’s Second Critique by Ronald Aronson

A Preface to Sartre by Dominick LaCapra

The Politics of Prose: Essay on Sartre by Denis Hollier, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman, foreword by Jean-François Lyotard

Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century edited by Hélène Vivienne Wenzel

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life…A Love Story by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier, translated by Lisa Nesselson

Letters

Contributors

Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.

Ian Buruma is the author of numerous books, including Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Year Zero: A History of 1945, and, most recently, A Tokyo Romance.

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.

Frederick C. Crews’s new book, Freud: The Making of an Illusion, will be published in the fall.
 (February 2017)

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and Justice for Hedgehogs. He was the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact” and he was recently awarded the Balzan Prize for his “fundamental contributions to Jurisprudence.”


Thomas R. Edwards (1928–2005) was Professor of English at Rutgers and editor of Raritan. His last book was Over Here: Criticizing America.

Martin Garbus is an attorney who has represented Andrei Sakharov, Václav Havel, the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela, Amnesty International, and the ACLU in issues involving free speech and human rights. (December 2016)

Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was a science writer and novelist. He was the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, The Night is Large and Visitors from Oz.

Robert Hughes (1938–2012) was an art critic and television writer. In the award-winning documentary series, The Shock of The New, Hughes recounted the development of modern art since the Impressionists; in The Fatal Shore, he explored the history of his native Australia. Hughes’s memoir, Things I Didn’t Know, was published in 2006.

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.

Geoffrey O’Brien’s books include The Phantom Empire, Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film, 2002–2012, and, most recently, the poetry collection The Blue Hill. (August 2019)

Luc Sante teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard. His latest book is The Other Paris.
 (May 2019)

George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Foundations. (November 2016)

John Weightman (1915–2004) was a critic and literary scholar. After working as a translator and announcer for the BBC French service, Weightman turned to the study of French literature. He taught at King’s College London and the University of London. His books include The Concept of the Avant-Gardeand The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd.