Table of Contents

Volume 45, Number 14 · September 24, 1998

Joyce Carol Oates, Depth-Sightings

Sight-Readings: American Fictions by Elizabeth Hardwick

Louis Menand, Jerry Don't Surf

Saving Private Ryan a film directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Robert Rodat

Martin Gardner, The New New Math

Multicultural and Gender Equity in the Mathematics Classroom: The Gift of Diversity (1997 Yearbook) edited by Janet Trentacosta, by Margaret J. Kenney

Focus on Algebra: An Integrated Approach by Randall I. Charles, by Alba González Thompson

Life by the Numbers: Math As You've Never Seen It Before narrated by Danny Glover. Seven boxed videotapes produced by WQED, Pittsburgh

John Gross, The Case of the Loony Lexicographer

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Ian Buruma, Don't Say Goodbye

East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia by Christopher Patten

Al Alvarez, Memento Mori

The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford

Grave Matters: A Lively History of Death Around the World by Nigel Barley

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch

A.O. Scott, The Sun Also Sets

Cities of the Plain, Vol. 3, The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy

Laurence H. Tribe, Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness

A New Birth of Freedom: Human Rights, Named and Unnamed by Charles L. Black Jr.

Michael Scammell, Loyal Toward Reality

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry edited and with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz

Winter Dialogue by Tomas Venclova, translated by Diana Senechal

Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination by Adam Zagajewski

Mysticism for Beginners by Adam Zagajewski

Sue M. Halpern, Fresh Air Blues

Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral by Charles. Siebert

Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn

The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City by Robert Sullivan

Robert Cottrell, Chechnya: How Russia Lost

Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power by Anatol Lieven

Russia and Chechnia [sic]: The Permanent Crisis Essays on Russo-Chechen Relations edited by Ben Fowkes

Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus by Carlotta Gall, by Thomas de Waal

Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict, Volume I by John B. Dunlop

Sarah Kerr, Small Expectations

Man or Mango?: A Lament by Lucy Ellmann

Alan Ryan, The L-Word

Liberalism and Its Discontents by Alan Brinkley

General Olusegun Obasanjo, The Country of Anything Goes

Joseph Connors, The Way to Grant's Tomb

The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture by Joseph Rykwert

Mark Danner, The Killing Fields of Bosnia

To End a War by Richard Holbrooke

Croatia: A Nation Forged in War by Marcus Tanner

The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar text by Eric Stover, photographs by Peress Gilles, foreword by Richard Goldstone

Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honig, by Norbert Both

Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia by Chuck Sudetic

Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica: Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II by David Rohde

Lars-Erik Nelson, A Gory Future?

Henry A. Kissinger, Tony Judt, The 'Tangled Web': An Exchange

Bob Davis, David Wessel, Jeff Madrick, Revolution Watch: An Exchange

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Letters

Stephanie Coontz, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, et al. 'Divorce Culture'
Michael Trencher, Martin Filler, Aalto and Hitler
Katheryn K. Russell, Nicholas Lemann, 'Affirmative Race Law'
Abigail Thernstrom, The Lani Guinier Case

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Contributors

Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)

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)

Joseph Connors, the Director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, writes on Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. He was formerly Director of the American Academy in Rome and professor of art history at Columbia.

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.

Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)

John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)

Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)

Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)

Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.

Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.

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)

Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired general of the Nigerian Army, was president of Nigeria from 1976 until 1979. He was recently released from prison. (September 1998)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)

Michael Scammell is Professor of Writing and Translation at Columbia. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, and has just completed a biography of Arthur Koestler. (November 2005)

A. O. Scott is a film critic at The New York Times and the former Sunday book critic for Newsday. His writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Slate, and many other publications.

Laurence H. Tribe is the Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard University. His books include American Constitutional Law, Constitutional Choices, and Abortion. (September 1998)

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