Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 7 · April 22, 1999
Richard Holmes, Lost Tale of a Lost Child 
Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot by Mary Shelley, edited with an introduction by Claire Tomalin
Elizabeth Hardwick, Head Over Heels
Monica's Story by Andrew Morton
Ada Louise Huxtable, Museums: Making It New
Towards a New Museum by Victoria Newhouse
Brad Leithauser, Let's Face the Music
Annie Get Your Gun music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, as revised by Peter Stone, directed by Graciela Daniele, starring Bernadette Peters. at the Marquis Theater, New York City
Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir by Mary Ellin Barrett
Irving Berlin: A Life in Song by Philip Furia
Irving Berlin: American Troubadour by Edward Jablonski
Stuart Hampshire, The Reason Why Not
What We Owe to Each Other by T.M. Scanlon
Larry McMurtry, Chopping Down the Sacred Tree
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson
Diane Johnson, Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999)
Christopher Hitchens, The Cosmopolitan Man
The Essential Gore Vidal edited by Fred Kaplan
The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel by Gore Vidal
Thomas Flanagan, Waking from the Nightmare
Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
The Star Factory by Ciaran Carson
Jean Strouse, J.P. Morgan's Last Romance
Christopher de Bellaigue, Bombay at War
M.F. Perutz, The Top Designer
Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People by Steven Vogel, illustrated by Kathryn K. Davis, by Steven Vogel
Of Flies, Mice, and Men by François Jacob, translated by Giselle Weiss
Timothy Garton Ash, Hail Ruthenia!
James Fenton, An Ardor for Armor
Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries 1998-January 17, 1999. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 8,, Catalog of the exhibition by Stuart W. Pyhrr, by José-A. Godoy
Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art by Stephen N. Fliegel
Arms and Armor in The Art Institute of Chicago by Walter J. Karcheski Jr.
Robert Cottrell, It Still Flies
Sue Rusche, Malcolm Gladwell, 'Just Say No': An Exchange
Letters
Rona Goffen, H.W. Henrikson, et al. 'Titian's Women'
Contributors
Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)
James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was a novelist, scholar, and critic. He was the author of The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 (1959) and the novels The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994).
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
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)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)
Jean Strouse is the author of Alice James, A Biography and Morgan, American Financier. A Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, she lives in New York City.
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.
