Table of Contents

Volume 46, Number 16 · October 21, 1999

Lars-Erik Nelson, The Good Soldier

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir by John McCain, with Mark Salter

John McCain: An American Odyssey by Robert Timberg

Jonathan Aaron, The Wolf of Gubbio (poem)

Martin Filler, Ghosts in the House

Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works by Francesco Dal Co, by Kurt W. Forster

Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Coosje van Bruggen

Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa text by Kurt W. Forster, photographs by Ralph Richter

Frank O. Gehry: Kurt W. Forster Art Publishers) edited by Christina Bechtler, in collaboration with Kunsthaus Bregenz

Gehry Talks: Architecture + Process edited by Mildred Friedman, with an essay by Michael Sorkin, commentaries by Frank O. Gehry

Stephane Mallarme, Seabreeze (poem)

Charles Simic, Who Cares?

Denis Donoghue, Frost: The Icon and the Man

Robert Frost: A Life by Jay Parini

Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin by Robert Faggen

Pico Iyer, Room at the Top

Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering by Sherry B. Ortner

Andrew Hacker, The Unmaking of Men

Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi

The Decline of Males by Lionel Tiger

What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman by Danielle Crittenden

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue by Wendy Shalit

The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World by Helen Fisher

The Dark Side of Man:Tracing the Origins of Male Violence by Michael P. Ghiglieri

Joyce Carol Oates, Wearing Out the West

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Ian Buruma, MacArthur's Children

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

Steven Weinberg, A Designer Universe?

Charles Rosen, On Playing the Piano

Eric L. McKitrick, The Liberator

All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer

James Fenton, Lost Treasures

From Pigalle to Préault: Neoclassicism and the Sublime in French Sculpture, 1760-1840 by Alison West

John Bayley, Eminent Victorian

George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes

R.J.W. Evans, The Magic of Bohemia

Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes in the Life of a European City by Peter Demetz

The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History by Derek Sayer

Thomas Flanagan, The Best He Could Do

True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway, edited with an introduction by Patrick Hemingway

Hemingway: The Final Years by Michael Reynolds

Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture by Leonard J. Leff

Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels by Rose Marie Burwell

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Letters

David Stoll, Peter Canby, 'I, Rigoberta Menchu'
Susan Howe, Christopher Benfey, 'The Poet Position'
Barbara E. Joe, Dissidents in Cuba

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Contributors

Jonathan Aaron's new collection of poems, Journey to the Lost City, has just been published. (August 2006)

John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year's Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September. (December 2008)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History at Oxford. His books include Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. (September 2007)

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

Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.

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).

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Pico Iyer’s The Open Road , about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. His essay in this issue will appear, in somewhat different form, as the introduction to a new Penguin Classics edition of The Snow Leopard . (September 2008)

Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)

Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. (October 2008)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (November 2008)

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.

Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. (September 2008)

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