HarperCollins has published
DORIS LESSING's
newest collection of stories,
Th e Real Thing,
and will bring out her book about Zimbabwe,
Ajrican Lallghter,
this fall. ...
JAKOV LIND 's
first book in English was
Tral/e1s to the E/III;
among his other works in English is his novel
The Illspector.
...
RICHARD
LOURIE
is a writer and translator. His newest book is
Rllssia Speaks : An Oral
History from the Rel/oilltion to the Present.
...
NORMAN MANEA
left Ro–
mania and lived in exile in Berlin before coming to the United States in 1989.
A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation award this year, he teaches literature at
Bard College. Farrar, Straus
&
Giroux will bring out his next book of stories,
Complllsory Happi/'/ess,
next spring....
ADAM MICHNIK
is now the editor–
in-chief of Poland's largest daily newspaper,
Gazeta Wyborcza.
His
Letters frolll
Prison and Other Essays
appeared in 1985;
The Chllrch and the Left
is
forthcoming this fa ll (U . of Chicago Press) ....
MIRCEA MIHAIES ,
a
member of the Romanian Writers' Union Directorate, is editor-in- ch ief of the
cultura l weekly
Orizo/II
and teaches English literature at the Unversity of
Timisoara ....
CZESLAW MILOSZ ,
who received the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1980, is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the Uni–
versity of California, Berkeley. Among his books is a new essay collection,
Begirmillg with My Streets
(Farrar, Straus
&
Giroux) ....
SIDNEY MONAS
is
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Texas, Austin.
He is working on books abo ut the impact of censorship in Russia and about St.
Petersburg....
RICHARD PIPES
is Frank
J.
Baird, Jr. Professor of History at
Harvard University. Knopf published his latest book ,
The Rllssian Rel/ollltioll,
which will be followed by
Rllssia Under the Nelli Rep,illle.
...
CHARLES
RUSSELL
is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at Rutgers University,
Newark. He is author of
Poets, Prophets, arid Rel/ollltiollaries: Th e Literary Avallt–
Garde from Rill/balld throllgh Postl1lodernisl1l
and
The A I/ant- Garde Today .. ..
SUSAN SONTAG's
new novel,
The Vo lrallo LOl/er,
has been published by Far–
rar, Straus
&
Giroux....
VLADIMIR TISMANEANU
is the author of
TIle
Reil1l/wtiorl oj Politics: Eastem Ellrope frOI1l Stalin to Hal/I'I
(Free Press) , among
other books. He is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Maryland
and Associate Director of its Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies.
. . . Two coll ections of
TATYANA TOLSTAY
A 's fiction,
0/1
tIle coldell
Porrh
and
Sleepwalker
ill II
Fog
(Knopf) have been published here.
DUBRAVKA UGRESIC
works at the In stitute for Literary Theory, University
of Zagreb; her novel,
Fordillg the Streal1l
<if
COriSfiOIlSlless,
and stories,
In the Jaws
oj Life,
have been published in England ....
OKSANA ZABUZHKO
is a poet
and Research Scholar at the Ukrainaian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kiev.
Several volumes of her poetry are in print.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI's
new book
of poems,
Tlllo Cities,
w ill be published in January (Farrar, Straus
&
Giroux). He
teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.
