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May 23, 1996

May 23, 1996

Al Alvarez

New Poet in Town

Ants on the Melon

by Virginia Hamilton Adair

Pico Iyer

Mystically Yours

Journey to Ithaca

by Anita Desai

Jonathan Mirsky

How China Lost Taiwan

Richard Horton

Truth and Heresy About AIDS

Inventing the AIDS Virus

by Peter H. Duesberg

Infectious AIDS: Have We Been Misled?

by Peter H. Duesberg

AIDS: Virus- or Drug Induced?

edited by Peter H. Duesberg

R.J.W. Evans

Kings and the Queen of the Arts

Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

by Jonathan Brown

Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe 1450-1800

by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Gore Vidal

Twain on the Grand Tour

Thomas R. Edwards

Babylon Re-Revisited

The Last of the Savages

by Jay McInerney

Richard C. Lewontin

In the Blood

Frank Kermode

The Wild Goose Chase

The Search for the Perfect Language

by Umberto Eco

Revan Schendler

Brown Leaves

a poem

James Fenton

The Best Show in London

Tony Judt

France Without Glory

“The political authorities born of the Resistance thought it prudent to speak and act as though the Vichy government of 1940–1944 had been a brief, unhappy interlude, a sort of illegitimate interruption of republican continuity…. This unity of purpose, however, was bought at the price of an incomplete confrontation with the memory and experience of the occupation years.”

The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s

by Eugen Weber

Shanghai on the Métro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French between the Wars

by Michael B. Miller

French Fascism: The Second Wave, 1933–1939

by Robert Soucy

French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture

by David Carroll

Prison Journal 1940–1945

by Edouard Daladier

La France à l'heure allemande, 1940–1944

by Philippe Burrin

Etre juif en France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

by Renée Poznanski

Paris after the Liberation, 1944–1949

by Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper

The Locust Years: The story of the Fourth French Republic, 1946–1958

by Frank Giles

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Murray Kempton

The Shame of Lebanon

David Remnick

Hammer, Sickle, and Book

Za Gorizontom (Beyond the Horizon)

by Gennady Zyuganov

Veru v Rossiyu (I Believe in Russia)

by Gennady Zyuganov

Rossiya i Sovremenii Mir (Russia and the Modern World)

by Gennady Zyuganov

Preobrazheniye (Transformation)

by Andrei Kozyrev

Marion Graeffin Doenhoff,
Gordon A. Craig

‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’: An Exchange

Richard K. Matthews,
Gordon S. Wood

An Exchange on James Madison

Letters

Ian Buruma,
Alfred Sherman

Mrs. Thatcher’s Ghost

Roger Shattuck,
John Weightman

‘Zola: A Life’

James Fallows,
Thomas K. Landauer

‘The Trouble with Computers’

Norman Kelvin,
Richard Dorment

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