Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 3 · February 18, 1999
Russell Baker, Decline and Fall 
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties by Murray Kempton
Michael Wood, The Art of Losing
Evening by Susan Minot
Model Behavior by Jay McInerney
The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine
Yehuda Amichai, Chana Kronfeld, The Precision of Pain and the Blurriness of Joy (poem)
John Updike, More Light on Delft
Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684 1998-February 27, 1999. an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, December 17,, Catalog of the exhibition by Peter C. Sutton
V.S. Naipaul, Reading & Writing
Robert Pinsky, ABC (poem)
Amos Elon, 'A Fugitive from Egypt and Palestine'
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess by Hannah Arendt, First complete edition, edited by Liliane Weissberg, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
Tim Parks, Sightgeist
Blindness by José Saramago, Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
Geoffrey O'Brien, The Last Shakespearean?
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
John Terborgh, Trouble in Paradise
In the Dust of Kilimanjaro by David Western
William R. Polk, Iraq: A New Leaf
John Bayley, Green and Secretive Islands
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative by W.S. Merwin
The River Sound by W.S. Merwin
Francis Haskell, Mysterious Masterpieces
Lorenzo Lotto: Master Painter of the Renaissance 1997-March 1, 1998; the Accademia di Belle Arti, Bergamo, April 2-June 28, 1998; the Grand Palais, Paris, October 12, 1998-January 11, 1999. an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., November 2,, Catalog of the exhibition by David Alan Brown, by Peter Humfrey, by Mauro Lucco
Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara Ferrara, September 26-December 14, 1998; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 14-March 28, 1999; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, April 27-July 11, 1999. an exhibition at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,, Catalog of the exhibition by Peter Humfrey, by Mauro Lucco, edited by Andrea Bayer
Dosso's Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy edited by Luisa Ciammitti, by Steven F. Ostrow, by Salvatore Settis
Andrew Hacker, Who's Sticking to the Union?
From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future by Stanley Aronowitz
Combating the Resurgence of Organized Labor: A Modern Guide to Union Prevention by Alfred T. DeMaria
The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance by Taylor E. Dark
Graduate Student Unionization Controversy at Yale University by the Yale University Office of Public Affairs. www.yale.edu/opa/gradschool/gradschool.html
Alex Levine, Steven Weinberg, T.S. Kuhn's 'Non-Revolution': An Exchange
Letters
Robert Craft, Bernard Knox, Another Scipio
Anatol Lieven, Robert Cottrell, Not Bad, Just Sad
Contributors
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was one of Israel's leading writers. His books of poetry include Now and in Other Days, Songs of Jerusalem and Myself, Love Poems, Amen and Open, Closed, Open.
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)
Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)
Francis Haskell, formerly Professor of Art History at Oxford, is the author of Patrons and Painters, Rediscoveries in Art, Past and Present in Art and Taste, and History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past. (February 1999)
Chana Kronfeld is the author of On the Margins of Modernism. (April 1999)
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
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)
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)
Robert Pinsky is Poet Laureate of the United States. His most recent books, The Sounds of Poetry and The Handbook of Heartache, were published last fall. (February 1999)
William R. Polk was Professor of History and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Center of the University of Chicago and President of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs. From 1961 to 1964 he was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the US Department of State. He is the author of Neighbors and Strangers: The Fundamentals of Foreign Affairs. (February 1999)
John Terborgh is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke. His latest book is Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature. (November 2007)
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.
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
