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From reading Henry Kissinger’s new book On China,1 I have learned that Mr. Kissinger met with Deng Xiaoping at least eleven times—more than with any other Chinese leader—and that the topic of one of their chats was whether Fang Lizhi would confess and repent.On June 3, 1989, Deng, chair of the Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, ordered tanks from Chinese
Peter Brown’s latest book is a genre-defying personal account of the life, work, and intellectual development of an acclaimed historian of late antiquity.
Inside the buyout at Penguin Random House and changes at Knopf. Major book editors including Shelley Wanger, Jonathan Segal and Victoria Wilson will depart.
“That’s how it started. My war, and my life.”
At a memorial service Wednesday for Joan Didion, who died in December, Vanessa Redgrave read, nephew Griffin Dunne remembered and Patti Smith sang.