Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 14 · September 23, 1999
Lars-Erik Nelson, Notes from Underground
Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran by Edward Shirley
Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Secrecy and Free Speech by Frank Snepp
Tom Stoppard, Pragmatic Theater
Pankaj Mishra, The Last of His Kind
Daniel J. Kevles, Cancer: What Do They Know?
The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor
One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins by by Robert A. Weinberg
Richard Dorment, His Son the Art Dealer
Matisse: Father & Son by John Russell
Bernard Knox, Genius Con Brio
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, translated by Richard Howard
James Fallows, Hurry Up Please It's Time
Investigating the Impact of the Year 2000 Problem by 105th Congress Special Committee on the Y2K Technology Problem
Y2K: The Millennium Bug by Tiggre Don L.
The Simple Living Journal's Y2K Preparation Guide: 110 Ways to Create a Sustainable LifeCrisis or Not by Janet Luhrs, by Cris Evatt
Y2K: The Millennium Crisis by Bradford Morgan
Time Bomb 2000: What the Year 2000 Computer CrisisMeans to You! by Yourdon Edward, by Yourdon Jennifer
Get Rich with Y2K: How to Cash in on the Financial Crisis in the Year 2000 by Porter Steven L.
Edward W. Said, Leaving Palestine
Edmund S. Morgan, Persuading the Persuaded
American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr. edited by Michael Warner
Jeff Madrick, How New Is the New Economy?
Turbulence in the World Economy by Robert Brenner
"Foundations of the Goldilocks Economy: Supply Shocks and the Time-Varying Nairu" by Robert J. Gordon
Myths of Rich & Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think by W. Michael Cox, by Richard Alm
"The High Pressure U.S. Labor Market of the 1990s" by Alan Kreuger, by Lawrence Katz
"Computers and Aggregate Economic Growth" by Daniel E. Siche
The Emerging Digital Economy by Department of Commerce
"Economic Statistics, the New Economy, and the Productivity Slowdown" by Jack E. Triplett
The New Dollars and Dreams: Americans Incomes and Economic Change by Frank Levy
J.M. Coetzee, Against the South African Grain
Dog Heart: A Memoir by Breyten Breytenbach
Vaclav Havel, Paying Back the West
Caroline Fraser, Far from Babar
The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
Theodore H. Draper, Freedom and Its Discontents
The Story of American Freedom by Eric Foner
William H. McNeill, The Greatest Might-Have-Been of All
Anne Barton, John Berryman's Flying Horse
Berryman's Shakespeare: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings by John Berryman, edited by John Haffenden
Alan Ryan, Please Fence Me In
Property and Freedom by Richard Pipes
The Stakeholder Society by Bruce Ackerman, by Anne Alstott
Orville Schell, The Jiang Zemin Mystery
Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite by Bruce Gilley
Letters
Robert L. Bernstein, Fang Lizhi, An Appeal to the 'Fortune' Conference in Shanghai
Kishore Mahbubani, Ian Buruma, The Singapore Difference
Jeremy Bernstein, Donne and the Bomb
Daniel Wikler, Jonathan Mirsky, The Dalai Lama and the CIA
Contributors
Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)
J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)
Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)
Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)
James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)
Caroline Fraser is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. (December 2004)
Vaclav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)
Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Director of Policy Research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. (March 2008)
William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather’s Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 2008)
Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)
Edward W. Said is University Professor at Columbia University and the author of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. His The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After was published last spring. Reflections on Exile will appear in early 2001. (November 2000)
Orville Schell is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City. (August 2008)
Tom Stoppard's most recent play, The Invention of Love, will have its first American productions in January at the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, and in February at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia. (September 1999)