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Volume 46, Number 12 · July 15, 1999

James Fenton, Degas in New Orleans

Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America an exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, May 1-August 29, 1999., Catalog of the exhibition by Gail Feigenbaum, by Jean Sutherland Boggs

Lars-Erik Nelson, Washington: The Yellow Peril

Report of the Select Committee on US National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China submitted by Mr. Cox of California, Chairman.

Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised US Security for Chinese Cash by Edward Timperlake, by William C. Triplett II

Wislawa Szymborska, The She-Pharaoh

John Gregory Dunne, Birth of a Salesman

Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam

For the Love of the Game: My Story by Michael Jordan

The Best American Sports Writing of the Century edited by. David Halberstam

King Hussein, Avi Shlaim, His Royal Shyness: King Hussein and Israel

Tim Parks, Sentimental Education

An Equal Music by Vikram Seth

Garry Wills, A Reader's Guide to the Century

The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm

The Twentieth Century: A World History by Clive Ponting

National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century by National Geographic Society

Chronicle of the 20th Century edited by Clifton Daniel, by John W. Kirshon, foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., by An updated edition will be published in November.

Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century edited by Lorraine Glennon

Why the American Century? by Olivier Zunz

A History of the World in the Twentieth Century by J.A.S. Grenville

The American Century by Harold Evans, with Gail Buckland, by Kevin Baker

The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century edited by Michael Howard, by William Roger Louis

The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century edited by Richard W. Bulliet

The Century by Peter Jennings, by Todd Brewster

Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad

David Lodge, Waugh's Comic Waste Land

Jonathan Mirsky, Holding Out in Hong Kong

Joseph McBride, The Joys of Necrophilia

Gods and Monsters a film written and directed by Bill Condon. Condon's screenplay appears in Scenario: The Magazine of Screenwriting Art, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998-1999).

James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters by James Curtis

Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928-1998 by David Ehrenstein

Bride of Frankenstein by Alberto Manguel. (distributed in the US by Indiana University Press)

Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram

Benjamin M. Friedman, The Power of the Electronic Herd

The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman

Leo Marx, The Full Thoreau

The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell

Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science by Laura Dassow Walls

Alexander Stille, Palermo: The Photography of Death

Mark Danner, Kosovo: The Meaning of Victory

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Contributors

Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (November 2008)

King Hussein died on February 7, 1999. (July 1999)

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

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)

Joseph McBride's books include Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, Orson Welles, and Hawks on Hawks. His biography Searching for John Ford will be published in December. He writes a regular column on film for Irish America magazine. (July 1999)

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 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)

Avi Shlaim is Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. His new book, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World since 1948, will be published in October. (July 1999)

Alexander Stille is the author of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic and The Future of the Past. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 2008)

Wislawa Szymborska, one of Poland's leading poets, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. (February 2006)

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.

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