"The Crushing Power of Big Publishing" by Mark Crispin Miller, and "Gutenberg Unbound" by Tom Engelhardt, in The Nation (Mar. 17, 1997), 72 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011.
"‘It Is Surprising That There Are Any Happy Wives’: The Art Interchange, 1878–1886" by Mary W. Blanchard, in Journal of Women’s History (Fall 1996), Indiana Univ. Press, Journals Division, 601 N. Morton St., Bloomington, Ind. 47404–3797.
"Midnight’s Grandchildren" by Pankaj Mishra, in Prospect (Apr. 1997), 4 Bedford Sq., London WC1B 3RA.
"The Catholic Church and Poland’s Return to Europe" by Timothy A. Byrnes, in East European Quarterly (Jan. 1997), Box 29 Regent Hall, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 80309.
"Japan’s Aging Economics" by Milton Ezrati, in Foreign Affairs (May–June 1997), 58 E. 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
The poetry of Walter de la Mare selected and introduced by Anthony Hecht
WE NOW KNOW: Rethinking Cold War History. By John Lewis Gaddis. Oxford University Press. 425 pp. $30
"ONE HELL OF A GAMBLE": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1 964. By Aleksandr A. Fursenko and Timothy Naftali. W. W. Norton & Company. 420 pp. $27.50
BORGES: A Life. By James Woodall. Basic Books. 333 pp. $30
THE HANDICAP PRINCIPLE. By Amotz Zahavi and Avishag Zahavi. Na'ama Ely, trans.Oxford University Press. 320 pp. $25