Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 19 · December 2, 1999
Louis Menand, Opening Moves 
John Russell, Confessions of a Child of the Century
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper by John Richardson
Charles Hope, A Wind from the West
Il Rinascimento a Venezia e la pittura del Nord ai tempi di Bellini, Dürer, Tiziano [The Venetian Renaissance and Northern Painting in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian] 1999-January 9, 2000. an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice,September 5,, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Bernard Aikema, by Beverly Louise Brown
Helen Epstein, Something Happened
The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS by Edward Hooper
John Updike, On 'The Portrait of a Lady'
Christopher Hitchens, The Real Thing
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Kenneth Koch, To Old Age (poem)
Mark Lilla, The Perils of Friendship
Briefe 1925 bis 1975 und andere Zeugnisse by Hannah Arendt, by Martin Heidegger, edited by Ursula Ludz
Sue M. Halpern, Back to Life in Texas
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry
Duane's Depressed by Larry McMurtry
Lawrence Weschler, Life and Death of a Hero
The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearanceof Fred Cuny by Scott Anderson
J.M. Coetzee, Going All the Way
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation by William H. Gass
Gordon A. Craig, Mission Possible
A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fry by Andy Marino
Surrender On Demand by Varian Fry
Michael Wood, Keeping the Reader Alive
Remembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic, and Teacher Randall Jarrell by Mary von Schrader Jarrell
No Other Book: Selected Essays by Randall Jarrell, edited and with an introduction by Brad Leithauser
Tony Judt, Is There a Belgium?
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Who Was Hadrian?
Hadrian: The Restless Emperor by Anthony R. Birley
David Brion Davis, Jews and Blacks in America
In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935 by Hasia Diner
Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States edited by Jack Salzman, by Cornel West
Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism by Seth Forman
What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance by Murray Friedman
African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict edited by V.P. Franklin, by Nancy L. Grant, by Harold M. Kletnick, by Genna Rae McNeil
killing rage: ending racism by bell hooks
Lawrence Buell, Leo Marx, An Exchange on Thoreau
Letters
Gaspar Miklos Tamas, Neal Ascherson, A Cup of Coffee
Michael Warner, Edmund S. Morgan, American Sermons
Michael A. Pawel, Hilary Mantel, Growing Up
Contributors
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)
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)
Helen Epstein's book book The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa was published last year. (August 2008)
Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)
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.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.
John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Lawrence Weschler is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His books Calamities of Exile, A Wanderer in the Perfect City, and Boggs: A Comedy of Values were published this year. (December 2000)
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
