Table of Contents

Volume 46, Number 20 · December 16, 1999

Alison Lurie, Not for Muggles

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

James Fallows, Billion-Dollar Babies

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis

High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars by Charles H. Ferguson

James Fenton, Giving Offense

Clemente 1999-January 9, 2000. an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 8,, Catalog of the exhibition by Lisa Dennison

Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection 9, 2000. an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 2, 1999-January, Catalog of the exhibition by Norman Rosenthal, by Richard Shone, by Martin Maloney, by Brooks Adams, by Lisa Jardine

Saul Steinberg: Drawing into Being 1-October 30, 1999. an exhibition at the PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, October, Catalog of the exhibition by Bernice Rose, by Arne Glimcher

Robert Skidelsky, Family Values

The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 by Niall Ferguson

The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson

Hilary Mantel, A Legacy

Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan

Robert O. Paxton, The Trial of Maurice Papon

Gore Vidal, Chaos

Geoffrey O'Brien, Rock of Ages

Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977 by James Miller

John Banville, The Motherless Child

James Joyce by Edna O'Brien

Christopher de Bellaigue, The Struggle for Iran

Iran: Comment sortir d'une revolution religieuse by Farhad Khosrokhavar, by Olivier Roy

Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah by Baqer Moin

Being Modern in Iran by Fariba Adelkhah, Translated from the French by Jonathan Derrick

Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran by Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Vaclav Havel, The First Laugh

Hermione Lee, Unfinished Women

Ellen Glasgow: A Biography by Susan Goodman

Enrique Krauze, Chiapas: The Indians' Prophet

Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader by John Womack Jr.

Religión, política y guerrilla en Las Cañadas de la Selva Lacandona by Maria del Carmen Legorreta Díaz

Marcos: La genial impostura by Bertrand De la Grange, by Maité Rico

Tim Flannery, Wonders of a Lost World

The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet by by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, translated, edited, annotated, and with an introduction E.M. Beekman

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Buried Lives

The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century by William Roger Louis editor-in-chief, edited by Nicholas Canny

The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century by William Roger Louis editor-in-chief, edited by P.J. Marshall

Garth Fowden, Varieties of Polytheistic Experience

Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries by Ramsay MacMullen

John Bayley, It Happened One Night

The Guest from the Future:Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin by György Dalos, Translated from the German by Antony Wood

The Diaries of Nikolay Punin edited by Sidney Monas, and Jennifer Greene Krupala, Translated from the Russian by Jennifer Greene Krupala

Pankaj Mishra, The Other India

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Letters

Marc Ryser, Kenneth Wolf, et al. 'Playing the Piano'
Stevan Harrell, Living & Dying
Barbara Probst Solomon, Thomas Flanagan, Pretty to Think So

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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.

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

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

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

Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 2008)

Garth Fowden is Research Professor at the Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Research Foundation, Athens. He is the author of The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind and Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity. (December 2000)

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)

Enrique Krauze is the author of Mexico: Biography of Power. He is Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Letras Libres and was, for twenty years, Deputy Editor of Vuelta, whose editor was Octavio Paz. (December 2000)

Hermione Lee is the author of a biography of Virginia Woolf and of Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography, which has recently appeared in paperback. Her new biography, Edith Wharton, has just been published. (May 2007)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 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.

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (October 2008)

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. He is also a Regional Editor of North American Birds magazine. (November 2008)

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published last year in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2008)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.

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