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Volume 45, Number 11 · June 25, 1998

John Updike, Funny Faces

Celebrity Caricature in America April 10-August 23, 1998. by an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., Catalog of the exhibition by Wendy Wick Reaves

Ian Buruma, Down and Out in East Tokyo

San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo by Edward Fowler

Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life by Sheldon Garon

Whitney Balliett, Murray Kempton, On Frank Sinatra (1915–1998)

Frederick C. Crews, The Mindsnatchers

The Threat by David M. Jacobs

Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace by Jodi Dean

Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us by Whitley Strieber

Effie Traylor-Parkes, Neither Here Nor There

Bogdana Carpenter, Zbigniew Herbert, Three Poems (poem)

Roger E. Alcaly, How to Think About the Stock Market

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein

It Was a Very Good Year: Extraordinary Moments in Stock Market History by Martin S. Fridson

Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition by Benjamin Graham, by David Dodd

A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel. sixth edition

What Works on Wall Street by James P. O'Shaughnessy. revised edition

Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies by Jeremy J. Siegel

Advances in Behavioral Finance edited by Richard H. Thaler

Securities Markets in the 1980s, Volume I: The New Regime, 1979-1984 by Barrie A. Wigmore

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, with introduction and appendix by Warren Buffett. fourth revised edition

Garry Wills, Those Were the Days

The Children by David Halberstam

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, with Michael D'Orso

Gabriele Annan, The Charms of Theodore Fontane

Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich by Gordon A. Craig

Nicholas Lemann, I'd Walk a Mile for a Fee

Cornered: Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice by Peter Pringle

Mark Lilla, The Politics of Jacques Derrida

History of Structuralism by François Dosse, translated by Deborah Glassman

Politics of Friendship by Jacques Derrida, translated by George Collins

Cosmopolites de tous les pays, encore un effort! by Jacques Derrida

Moscou aller-retour by Jacques Derrida

The Other Heading: Reflections on Today's Europe by Jacques Derrida, translated by Pascale-Anne Brault, by Michael B. Naas

Force de loi by Jacques Derrida

Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International by Jacques Derrida, translated by Peggy Kamuf

John Bayley, Under the Overcoat

The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin, Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield

Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin, Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield

Sam Tanenhaus, Keeping the Faith

The Soviet World of American Communism by Harvey Klehr, by John Earl Haynes, by Kyrill M. Anderson

William Weaver, Roman Candle

Jasper Griffin, Fun City

Athens from Alexander to Antony by Christian Habicht

Pankaj Mishra, A New, Nuclear, India?

Ivan Hewett, Jessica Krash, Charles Rosen, 'Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde?': An Exchange

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Letters

Daniel Levine, Mark Lilla, Reactions

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Contributors

Roger Alcaly, who formerly taught economics at Columbia University, is a principal of Mount Lucas Management Corporation, an investment firm in Princeton, New Jersey. (October 1999)

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Whitney Balliett's most recent book is Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954—2001 (August 2003).

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Bogdana Carpenter is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Michigan. (April 2006)

Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)

Zbigniew Herbert, a leading Polish poet, died in 1998. The Collected Poems: 1956–1998, edited and translated by Alissa Valles, will be published by Ecco in February. (January 2007)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Nicholas Lemann is the national correspondent for The Atlantic. (June 1998)

Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

Sam Tanenhaus, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of Whittaker Chambers, is writing a biography of William F. Buckley Jr. (April 2002)

Effie Traylor-Parkes's last book was Queen of the Night, a biography of Nell Gwyn. (June 1998)

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.

William Weaver is celebrated for his numerous translations from the Italian, including Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and novels and stories by Italo Calvino. Weaver's translation of Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal is also published by NYRB Classics.

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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