Table of Contents

Volume 45, Number 12 · July 16, 1998

Russell Baker, The Exile

Nixon in Winter by Monica Crowley

Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes edited by Stanley I. Kutler

Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes by Allen J. Matusow

Ian Buruma, In the Empire of Islam

Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V.S. Naipaul

Joyce Carol Oates, A Lost Generation

Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country by William Finnegan

Diane Johnson, My Blue Heaven

Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers by Julia Grant

Baby and Child Care Seventh edition, by Benjamin Spock, by Steven Parker

Family Man by Calvin Trillin

The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, by Cornel West

Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith F. Small

Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality by William Wright

Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families by Bill McKibben

Dr. Spock: An American Life by Thomas Maier

Cathleen Schine, Sleepwalkers

Last Vanities by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Tim Parks

Andrew Delbanco, On Alfred Kazin (1915–1998)

Garry Wills, Slumming

Bulworth a film by and with Warren Beatty

Henry Allen, 407 Highland Ave., Orange, N.J. (poem)

Helen Epstein, Life & Death on the Social Ladder

Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality by Richard G. Wilkinson

Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working Life by Robert Karasek, by Töres Theorell

The Power of Clan: The Influence of Human Relationships on Heart Disease by Stewart Wolf, by John G. Bruhn

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky

Michael Wood, On the Love Boat

Identity by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher

A Lover's Almanac by Maureen Howard

The Red Hat by John Bayley

The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman

Gabriele Annan, Nesting Dolls

33 Moments of Happiness by Ingo Schulze, translated by John E. Woods

Simple Storys by Ingo Schulze

Geoffrey O'Brien, Child's Play

Cymbeline of Music, June 3-6, and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., June 23-July 5, 1998 a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Adrian Noble. performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Brooklyn Academy

John Bayley, The Way We Write Now

Without by Donald Hall

Going Fast by Frederick Seidel

Ten Commandments by J.D. McClatchy

Blizzard of One by Mark Strand

On Love by Edward Hirsch

Tim Judah, How Milosevic Hangs On

Brian Urquhart, Looking for the Sheriff

FDR and the Creation of the UN by Townsend Hoopes, by Douglas Brinkley

United Nations: The First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler

The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War by Richard N. Haass

Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report by the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.

Elaine Scarry, James E. Hall, An Exchange on TWA 800

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Letters

Noel Malcolm, Kosovo's History
David Ball, An Appeal for the Oslo Agreement
Huston Smith, Freeman Dyson, Words and Things

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Contributors

Henry Allen is a cultural critic at The Washington Post. His new book, What It Felt Like, will be published in the fall. (March 2000)

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

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (July 2008)

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)

Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is Melville: His World and Work. (April 2008)

Helen Epstein's book book The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa was published last year. (August 2008)

Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)

Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)

Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton. Her collection of short novellas Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway has just been published, and her novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike will be published this summer. (June 2008)

Cathleen Schine is the author of seven novels, including Rameau's Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, and the forthcoming The New Yorkers. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)

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.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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