Table of Contents
Volume 45, Number 20 · December 17, 1998
Malcolm Gladwell, Just Say 'Wait a Minute' 
The Fix by Michael Massing
Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out by Mike Gray
Geoffrey O'Brien, Silent Screams
Les Vampires (1915-1916) a film directed by Louis Feuillade
The Mystery of Irma Vep a revival of the 1984 production by Charles Ludlum, directed by and starring Everett Quinton. at the Westside Theatre, New York
Irma Vep (1996) a film directed by Olivier Assayas
John Gross, 'A Nice Pleasant Youth'
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum
Norman Mailer, A Man Half Full
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
John Russell, Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!
Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995 edited by Jonathan W. Bernard
The Music of Elliott Carter, second edition by David Schiff, foreword by Elliott Carter
Alan Ryan, Wise Man
Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff
The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, by Roger Hausheer
A.O. Scott, A Matter of Life and Death
Gain by Richard Powers
Christopher Hitchens, Last Summer on the Vineyard
The Gun Runner's Daughter by Neil Gordon
No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson
Mackerel By Moonlight by William F. Weld
Simon Leys, Giant
Victor Hugo: A Biography by Graham Robb
Shadows of a Hand: The Drawings of Victor Hugo by Ann Philbin, by Florian Rodari
James Chace, New World Disorder
A World Transformed by George Bush, by Brent Scowcroft
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Africa: The Hidden History
Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
Leon Levy, Jeff Madrick, Hedge Fund Mysteries
Keith Thomas, God in the Computer
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention by David F. Noble
Louis Menand, William James & the Case of the Epileptic Patient
Genuine Reality: A Life of William James by Linda Simon
Manhood at Harvard: William James and Others by Kim Townsend
Volume 4, 1856-1877
Volume 6, 1885-1889
Volume 5, 1878-1884
The Correspondence of William James edited by Ignas K. Skrupskelis, by Elizabeth M. Berkeley
The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry, with an introduction by Charlene Haddock Seigfried
William James Remembered edited by Linda Simon
James Fenton, Through the Looking-Glass
On Reflection 16-December 13, 1998. by Jonathan Miller. catalog of an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, September
Letters
Steven Petranik, Query
Contributors
K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Experiments in Ethics. He is working on a book about the role of honor in moral life. (November 2008)
James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)
James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference. An archive of his articles for The New Yorker is available at www.gladwell.com. (February 2000)
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)
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
Leon Levy is currently the chairman of the board of trustees of the New York—based Oppenheimer Funds. He is president of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and vice-chairman of the Jerome Levy Institute for Economic Research at Bard College. (December 1998)
Simon Leys is the author of a dozen books, mostly on Chinese art, culture, and politics. His latest work is The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story. (December 2007)
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book The Case for Big Government will be published this fall. (September 2008)
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book
Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The
Castle in the Forest.
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.
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. (October 2008)
John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
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.
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)
