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February 1, 1990 Issue - 15 Articles-
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Matter Over Mind (Review) Roger Penrose
, pp. 3-5 Mind Children, by Hans Moravec
- Mind Children by Hans Moravec
- The Battle for San Salvador
Julia Preston
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Rereading Indian Summer (Review) John Updike
, pp. 13-14 Indian Summer, by William Dean Howells
- Indian Summer by William Dean Howells
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Inventing Shakespeare (4 Reviews) Anne Barton
, pp. 15-17 Reinventing Shakespeare, by Gary Taylor
- Reinventing Shakespeare by Gary Taylor
- Young Hamlet by Barbara Everett
- Myriad-Minded Shakespeare by E.A.J. Honigmann
- Shakespearean Constitutions by Jonathan Bate
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Mothers of Us All (Review) Edmund S. Morgan
, p. 18 Albion's Seed, by David Hackett Fischer
- Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer
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Look At Me (Review) Gabriele Annan
, pp. 19-20 Memoirs of a Public Baby, by Philip O'Connor
- Memoirs of a Public Baby by Philip O'Connor
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The Empire Strikes Back (5 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
, pp. 21-25 Tiananmem: The Rape of Peking, by Michael Fathers and Andrew Higgins
- Tiananmem: The Rape of Peking by Michael Fathers and Andrew Higgins
- Tiananmen Square by Scott Simmie and Bob Nixon
- Tiananmen Diary by Harrison E. Salisbury
- June Four
- Beijing Spring by David C. Turnley, Peter Turnley, and Melinda Liu, ...
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House Hunting (Review) Martin Filler
, pp. 26-29 The Most Beautiful House in the World, by Witold Rybczynski
- The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski
- The Revolt of the Romanians
Pavel Campaneanu
, pp. 30-31 - What Should be Done About the Guilty?
Aryeh Neier
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From Abailard to Les Zutistes (2 Reviews) Robert Adams
, pp. 36-38 A New History of French Literature, by Denis Hollier and R. Howard Bloch
- A New History of French Literature by Denis Hollier and R. Howard Bloch
- The Oxford Companion to French Literature by Paul Harvey and Janet Ewing Heseltine
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Maugham's Half & Half (4 Reviews) Gore Vidal
, pp. 39-44 Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham, by Robert Calder
- Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham by Robert Calder
- A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
- 'The Incomprehensible Holocaust'
Maurice Hatton and Istvan Deak
, p. 45 An Exchange
- Our Man in Panama
Murray Kempton
, p. 45 - Letters
Wolf Blitzer, Robert I. Friedman, and Susan Gamble Yerkes, ...
, pp. 46-48