A Writer's Reality, by Mario Vargas Llosa.

For the last 25 years, the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has been known to connoisseurs of fiction as one of the greatest living novelists (The Time of the Hero, The Green House, Conversations in the Cathedral).

Gandhi and Churchill by Arthur Herman

The Last Days of Europe by Walter Laqueur

Dean Acheson by Robert L. Beisner

Red Star Over Hollywood by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh

Latin American Crack-Up?

A long season of democratic renewal is drawing to an end, with Venezuela and Bolivia leading the way.

Alger Hiss’s Looking Glass Wars by G. Edward White

Vixi by Richard Pipes

Kissinger & Chile: The Myth That Will Not Die

Unpublished telephone transcripts confirm what has long been clear: the U.S. did not topple Salvador Allende.

Castro's Gambit

On the surface, the dictator has nothing to worry about; beneath the surface lies a different story.

Feltrinelli by Carlo Feltrinelli

Watching Christopher Hitchens

Is the controversial journalist saying good-bye to the Left?

Cuba Confidential by Ann Louise Bardach; Cuba Diaries by Isadora Tattlin

Retrying the Rosenbergs (Again)

Were husband and wife guilty of treason or, as some diehard apologists now suggest, only of "nontraditional patriotism"?

Reaching for Glory edited by Michael Beschloss

Broadcasting Freedom by Arch Puddington

"Elian, Take Me With You"

A child-custody case sheds a bright light on why we still have a Cuba problem.

The Passing of an Illusion by Francois Furet

Why We Were in Central America

The region is far better off than it has ever been before; apologies, by the President or anyone else, are not in order.

Conspiracy by Daniel Pipes

Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus

The recent death of Alger Hiss makes the appearance of Sam Tanenhaus's book a particularly timely intellectual and political event. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography bids fair, indeed, to become the last word on one of the longest-running controversies of the cold war.

A Twilight Struggle by Robert Kagan

It all seems so remote today, but in the summer of 1979, with the cold war still very much on, a Marxist-led guerrilla movement, the Sandinistas, came to power by force of arms in the small Central American country of Nicaragua.

What “Operation Restore Democracy” Restored

The election of René Préval to the presidency of Haiti last December, followed by the staged departure of American troops after a year-long occupation, is being hailed as a major foreign-policy success for the United States, and for the Clinton administration in particular.

The Secret World of American Communism, by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov

One day when I was about twelve years old, while rummaging in my father's bookcase, I came across Whittaker Chambers's Witness. et Communist party, and other formerly super-secret sources. Yale University Press has undertaken to publish an annotated selection of these materials under the rubric, "Annals of Communism." The Secret World of American Communism is the first volume of the series.

Double Lives, by Stephen Koch

The end of the cold war has begun to generate a vast flood of “revisionist” literature, the gravamen of which is that for decades the West was largely fighting a phantom of its own fevered imagination.

Thursday's Child Has Far to Go, by Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur is well-known to readers of COMMENTARY as one of the most talented and readable historians of our time.

Is Cuba Next?

Since the collapse of Communist power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Fidel Castro's Cuba has entered into the deepest crisis of its history.

Anti-Americanism, by Paul Hollander

After the cold war, what does the Left have left?

Counsel to the President, by Clark Clifford

The cover of this handsome volume is graced by a somewhat flattering oil painting of the author, and the title is highlighted by a row of five-pointed stars apparently purloined from the Presidential Seal.

The Last Communist

Consider for a moment the career of this Caribbean dictator: he takes office as a reformer, but quickly reveals a vast, indeed unlimited, appetite for power.