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Changeling

Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton

by John Lahr

Prick Up Your Ears

a film directed by Stephen Frears, screenplay by Alan Bennett

The Orton Diaries

edited by John Lahr

Head to Toe

by Joe Orton


What Doctors Don’t Know

Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School

by Melvin Konner MD.


The Riddle of Terrorism

The Age of Terrorism

by Walter Laqueur

Alchemists of Revolution: Terrorism in the Modern World

by Richard E. Rubenstein

The Financing of Terror

by James Adams

The World Held Hostage: The War Waged by International Terrorism

by Desmond McForan


In Natasha’s Trunk

The Russian Album

by Michael Ignatieff


Leonard Schapiro’s Russia

Russian Studies

by Leonard Schapiro, edited by Ellen Dahrendorf, introduction by Harry Willetts


Gilding Lincoln’s Lily

Freedom

by William Safire


The Last Disaster of the War

It was, of course, inconceivable that the opinion of one person, a young and inexperienced officer at that, could change a vast military plan approved by the President of the United States.

American Emperors

Empire

by Gore Vidal


Big Bad Wolfe?

The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe

edited by Francis E. Skipp, foreword by James Dickey

Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe

by David Herbert Donald


Moshe and His Brothers

The Family Mashber

a novel by Der Nister (The Hidden One"), Translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf


Sight Gags

The Arcimboldo Effect: Transformations of the Face from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century

An exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice (February–May, 1987)

The Arcimboldo Effect: Transformations of the Face from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century

by Pontus Hulten et al.


Doomsday Book

The Rat

by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim


Betrayal

Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer

by Peter Wright

The Secrets of the Service

by Anthony Glees


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