Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 11 · June 24, 1999
Timothy Garton Ash, Kosovo and Beyond 
Louis Menand, Billion-Dollar Baby
Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace a film by George Lucas
John Updike, On Saul Steinberg (1914–1999)
Helen Epstein, The Fly in the DNA
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner
Christopher de Bellaigue, Justice and the Kurds
Turkey's Kurdish Question by Henri J. Barkey, by Graham E. Fuller
Anthony Grafton, The Jew from Tangier
A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel by A.B. Yehoshua
Joseph Kerman, Beethoven and the Big Change
Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance by Leon Plantinga
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4, Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor," and Choral Fantasy Choir fortepiano Robert Levin. the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, and the Monteverdi, directed by John Eliot Gardiner
John Ashbery, This Room (poem)
Joyce Carol Oates, The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder by Lawrence Schiller
Death of a Little Princess: The Tragic Story of the Murder of JonBenét Ramsey by Carlton Smith
Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey? by Cyril Wecht, by Charles Bosworth Jr.
A Mother Gone Bad: The Hidden Confession of JonBenét's Killer by Andrew G. Hodges
Luc Sante, On 'The Big Con'
Gordon A. Craig, The War Against War
Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross by Caroline Moorehead
The Good Listener: Helen Bamber, A Life Against Cruelty by Neil Belton
Peter Brown, A New Augustine
Saint Augustine by Garry Wills
The Works of Saint Augustine III/11: Newly Discovered Sermons translated by Edmund Hill
Saint Augustine: Letters VI (1*-29*) translated by Robert B Eno
Howard Gardner, The Enigma of Erik Erikson
Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson by Lawrence J. Friedman
Michael Wood, Tight Little Island
The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst
England, England by Julian Barnes
Leo Marx, The Struggle Over Thoreau
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 1: 1837-1844 Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 2: 1842-1848 Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 3: 1848-1851 Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 4: 1851-1852 Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings by Henry D. Thoreau, edited by Bradley P. Dean
Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau's Hitherto "Lost Journal" (1840-1841) Together with Notes and a Commentary edited by Perry Miller
Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal by Sharon Cameron
Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism by George#tedited by Sessions
A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851 by Henry David Thoreau, with an introduction and notes by H. Daniel Peck
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 5: 1852-1853 Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
Charles Hope, In Lorenzo's Garden
Three Worlds of Michelangelo by James H. Beck
John Banville, The Friend of Promise
Cyril Connolly: A Life by Jeremy Lewis
Joan Didion, Uncovered Washington
Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story by Michael Isikoff
Active Faith: How ChristiansAre Changing the Soul of American Politics by Ralph Reed
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline by Robert H. Bork
Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, Peter Green, 'Who Killed Homer?': An Exchange
Letters
Kenneth R. Johnston, Anne Barton, Wordsworth's Spin
Lawrence Ladin, Larry McMurtry, What Would Dr. Johnson Think?
Michael Comenetz, Charles Rosen, Rhymes with 'IX'
Edward Jablonski, Brad Leithauser, On to Berlin
Contributors
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton. The twentieth-anniversary edition of his book The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity will be published in June. (April 2008)
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)
Helen Epstein's book The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS has just been published. (July 2007)
Howard Gardner teaches psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His most recent book, with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, is Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. (April 2002)
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)
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)
Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).
Leo Marx is the Kenan Professor of American Cultural History (Emeritus) at MIT and most recently the editor, with Bruce Mazlish, of Progress:Fact or Illusion? (July 1999)
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.
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)
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
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)
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.
