Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 18 · November 18, 1999
Hans A. Bethe, The Treaty Betrayed 
Jonathan Raban, Passage to Juneau
Amos Elon, Exile's Return
Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said
Timothy Garton Ash, Ten Years After
Louise Glueck, Arboretum (poem)
Alan Ryan, The Twisted Path to the Top
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann
Brian Urquhart, Mission Impossible
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
John Banville, The Tragicomic Dubliner
No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien by Anthony Cronin
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Mark Lilla, Ménage à Trois
Briefe 1925 bis 1975 und andere Zeugnisse by Hannah Arendt, by Martin Heidegger, edited by Ursula Ludz
Edmund S. Morgan, Just Say No
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government by Garry Wills
Stuart Hampshire, The Eye of the Beholder
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
Anne Barton, Not an Ideal Husband
On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece by Stephen Minta
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler
James Fenton, Dutch Treat
Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626): Imperial Sculptor 1999-January 9, 2000. Museum, Los Angeles/ Zwolle: Waanders Publishers an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, October 12,, Catalog of the exhibition by Frits Scholten
Denis Donoghue, Lives of a Poet
Crux: The Letters of James Dickey edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, by Judith S. Baughman
James Dickey: The Selected Poems edited with an introduction by Robert Kirschten
The James Dickey Reader edited by Henry Hart
John Allen Paulos, The Way to Numerical Heaven
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner, translated by Michael Henry Heim
Bernard Knox, Virgil the Great
Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid by Michael C.J. Putnam
Virgil: His Life and Times by Peter Levi
Virgil's Experience: Nature and History; Times, Names, and Places by Richard Jenkyns
Letters
Arnold B. Come, Erikson's Enigma
Michael Ybarra, Sam Tanenhaus, 'The Red Scare'
Martin Filler, Not Basque
Contributors
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.
Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)
Hans A. Bethe is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Cornell University. During the construction of the first atomic bomb he was head of the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos and he has worked on arms control for the last forty years. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967. (November 2000)
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)
Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)
James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
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)
Louise Gluck's most recent book is Vita Nova. (November 2000)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
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.
Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.
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)
John Allen Paulos is Professor of Mathematics at Temple University and the author of Innumeracy, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, and, most recently, Once Upon a Number. He writes the "Who's Counting" column for ABCNews.com. (November 2000)
Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
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)
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)
