Why is Mikhail Gorbachev so revered in the U.S. and yet reviled at home?

On the one hand Gorbachev shows that there is hope, but on the other hand Gorbachev's

experience shows that the hope is up against Russian tradition.

William Tauman will join us to talk about his new biography, Gorbachev, his life and times.

How does our colonist, N.K. Jamison Doodt, she's our science fiction and fantasy colonist,

and she just finished her broken Earth trilogy in the process winning two Hugo Awards for

Best Novel in a Row.

Fantasy and science fiction in all these other genres are still telling human stories.

They're just not necessarily telling it with humans.

She'll join us here to talk about reading, writing, and reviewing science fiction and fantasy.

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world, plus we'll talk about

what we're reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

William Tauman joins us now from Amherst, Massachusetts, where he is a professor emeritus of political

science and a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Khrushchev.

His new biography is of Gorbachev.

That book Gorbachev, his life and times, is reviewed this week in the book review by Peter

Baker.

Bill, thanks for joining us.

My pleasure.

So your biography of Khrushchev came out in 2003.

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