Volume 41, Number 10 (1994-05-26)

Breyten Breytenbach

Sacred Woods

Forests: The Shadow of Civilization

by Robert Pogue Harrison

Hunters and Poachers: A Cultural and Social History of Unlawful Hunting in England 1485–1640

by Roger B. Manning

Murray Kempton

Romancing Flaubert

Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse

by Francine du Plessix Gray

Patricia Storace

In the Promised Land

Fima

by Amos Oz, translated by Nicolas de Lange

Alma Guillermoprieto

The Bitter Education of Vargas Llosa

A Fish in the Water: A Memoir

by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane

Denis Donoghue

The Delirium of the Brave

In a time of Violence

by Eavan Boland

Roger E. Alcaly

The Golden Age of Junk

Highly Confident: The True Story of the Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken

by Jesse Kornbluth

A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation

by Benjamin J. Stein

The First Junk Bond: A Story of Corporate Boom and Bust

by Harlan Platt

Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken

by James Grant

King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist

by Mark Stevens

Den of Thieves

by James B. Stewart

Nightmare on Wall Street: Salomon Brothers and the Corruption of the Marketplace

by Martin Mayer

High Yield Bonds: Issues Concerning Thrift Investments in High Yield Bonds, 3/2/89, GGD-89-48

General Accounting Office

The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk-Bond Raiders

by Connie Bruck

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M.F. Perutz

The White Plague

The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won
and Lost

by Frank Ryan

Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History

by Sheila M. Rothman

Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the 'Immigrant Menace'

by Alan M. Kraut

Alan Brinkley

For Their Own Good

Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States

by Theda Skocpol

Recollections of the New Deal: When the People Mattered

by Thomas H. Eliot, edited and with an introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith

Tony Judt

Everywhere there has been a growing absorption in what Freud called the “narcissism of minor differences.” None of this began recently, born again as it were in 1989. Nationalism, in Isaiah Berlin’s words, is not “resurgent”—it never died.

The Wrath of Nations: Civilization and the Furies of Nationalism

by William Pfaff

Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding

by Walker Connor

Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity

by Liah Greenfeld

Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism

by Steven J. Zipperstein

Liberal Nationalism

by Yael Tamir

Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism

by Michael Ignatieff