Table of Contents

Volume 46, Number 15 · October 7, 1999

Russell Baker, Only in America

Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs by Marguerite Young, edited and with an introduction by Charles Ruas

Gabriele Annan, Family Secrets

The Last Life by Claire Messud

W.S. Merwin, The Summer (poem)

Ingrid D. Rowland, The Real Caravaggio

Caravaggio: A Life by Helen Langdon

Caravaggio's 'Saint John' and Masterpieces from the Capitoline Museum in Rome 1999, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, July 15-September 12, 1999. an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, April 20-June 20,, Catalog of the exhibition by Maria Elisa Tittoni, by Patrizia Masini, by Sergio Guarino

Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image February 1-May 24, 1999. an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Mormando Franco

Caravaggio: A Passionate Life by Desmond Seward

M in the UK by Bloomsbury in November, and in the US by Henry Holt in February 2000.) by Peter Robb

Benjamin DeMott, It's a Wonderful Life

Home Town by Tracy Kidder

Fiona MacCarthy, Skin Deep

Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery by Sander L. Gilman

Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff

Veton Surroi, Victims of the Victims

Michael Massing, The End of Welfare?

No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City by Katherine S. Newman

Patricia Storace, The Poet of Karma

Fintan O'Toole, Our Own Jacobean

Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics by Harold Pinter

Ashes to Ashes a play by Harold Pinter, directed by Karel Reisz. at the Gramercy Theater, New York, January 19-April 25, 1999.

The Proust Screenplay: Remembrance of Things Past by Harold Pinter

The Hothouse a play by Harold Pinter, directed by Karen Kohlhaas. at the Atlantic Theater, New York, February 25-March 27, 1999.

Noel Annan, The Camel at the Door

First Childhood by Lord Berners

A Distant Prospect by Lord Berners

Collected Tales and Fantasies by Lord Berners

Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric by Mark Amory

Roger E. Alcaly, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy by Robert M. Solow, by John B. Taylor. The Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy, edited and with an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman

Central Banking in Theory and Practice by Alan S. Blinder

Gordon S. Wood, The American Love Boat

Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image by Andrew Burstein

Tim Parks, Unlocking the Mind's Manacles

Storie permesse, storie proibite: polarità semantiche familiari e psicopatologie by Valeria Ugazio

Harry A. Cooper, Marilyn McCully, 'The Picasso Papers': An Exchange

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Contributors

Roger Alcaly, who formerly taught economics at Columbia University, is a principal of Mount Lucas Management Corporation, an investment firm in Princeton, New Jersey. (October 1999)

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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)

Benjamin Demott is Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Amherst. His most recent book is Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind. (May 2005)

Fiona Maccarthy is the author of biographies of Eric Gill and William Morris. Her most recent book is Byron: Life and Legend. (December 2005)

Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.

W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.

Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. He is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. (November 2007)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.

Veton Surroi is the publisher of Koha Ditore, an ethnic Albanian daily paper published in Kosovo. He is also a member of the UN-supervised Kosovo Transitional Council. (October 1999)

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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