Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 2 · February 4, 1999
John Updike, One Cheer for Literary Biography 
Lars-Erik Nelson, The Republicans' War
The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution? by Linda Killian
Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress by Nicol C. Rae
Lessons Learned the Hard Way: A Personal Report by Newt Gingrich
Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr, and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis by Alan M. Dershowitz
Janet Malcolm, The Genius of the Glass House
Julia Margaret Cameron's Women 1998-January 10, 1999; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 27-May 24, 1999; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, August 27-November 30, 1999. an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 19,, Catalog of the exhibition by Sylvia Wolf, by others
Ian Buruma, Sex and Democracy in Taiwan
James M. McPherson, The Unheroic Hero
Thomas Powers, The Black Arts
Secrecy: The American Experience by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Bay of Pigs Declassified edited by Peter Kornbluh
Flora Lewis, The New Anti-Terrorism
Rosemary Dinnage, Good Grief
Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier
Martin Filler, High Wire Acts
Logbook by Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works in three volumes, by Peter Buchanan
Technology, Place & Architecture: The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture edited by Kenneth Frampton
Helen Epstein, Blood & Money
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr
Tim Parks, A Prisoner's Dream: Eugenio Montale in Translation
Collected Poems 1920-1954 by Eugenio Montale, translated and annotated by Jonathan Galassi
Garry Wills, The Great Black Hope
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick
More Than a Champion: The Style of Muhammad Ali by Jan Philipp Reemtsma, translated by John E. Woods
James Fenton, Sheridan the Revolutionary
A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Fintan O'Toole
Letters
Isaac Levi, Sidney Morgenbesser, Jonathan Lieberson Prize
David Astor, Diana Hopkinson, Berlin & Von Trott
Contributors
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year's Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 2008)
Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.
Helen Epstein's book book The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa was published last year. (August 2008)
James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)
Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.
Flora Lewis is a columnist based in Paris. Her most recent book is Europe: Road to Unity. (February 1999)
Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. (December 2008)
Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Cleaver. (September 2008)
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
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.
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.
