Table of Contents

Volume 47, Number 1 · January 20, 2000

Ernst Gombrich, Portrait of the Artist as a Paradox

Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama

Russell Baker, Cruel and Usual

Proximity to Death by William S. McFeely

Pankaj Mishra, The House of Mr. Naipaul

Between Father and Son: Family Letters by V.S. Naipaul

Lars-Erik Nelson, Clinton & His Enemies

Dead Center: Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation by James MacGregor Burns, by Georgia J. Sorenson

Vote.com by Dick Morris

Clinton's World: Remaking American Foreign Policy by William G. Hyland

John Banville, Endgame

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

Joseph Brodsky, 1-Jan-65 (poem)

Charles Simic, Anatomy of a Murderer

Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant by Dusko Doder, by Louise Branson

James Fenton, Looking at a Snowdrop

A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden by Joe Eck, by Wayne Winterrowd

My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid, illustrated by Jill Fox

My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love edited by Jamaica Kincaid

The Genus Galanthus by Aaron P. Davis, illustrated by Christabel King

Annuals and Biennials by Roger Phillips, by Martyn Rix

The Explorer's Garden: Rare and Unusual Perennials by Daniel J. Hinckley

Small Books of Great Gardens: Alhambra: A Moorish Paradise Enchantment, each volume, 79 photographs by Claire de Virieu, text by Gabrielle van Zuylen, by Gilles de Brissac, by Pierre Bergé, by Madison Cox, by Lauro Marchetti, by Esrne Howard

John Terborgh, A Dying World

One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis

The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People by Nigel J.H. Smith

Larry McMurtry, Now Voyager

Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban

Fintan O'Toole, Game Without End

The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV: The Shorter Plays edited by S.E. Gontarski

No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider edited by Maurice Harmon

Rosemary Dinnage, On the Road

Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses by Ian Hacking

Charles Rosen, The Drama Inside the Concerto

Concerto Conversations by Joseph Kerman

Tim Parks, Perils of Translation

Andrew Delbanco, Sunday in the Park with Fred

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski

D.J. Enright, Life Is Beautiful

Lovers for a Day: New and Collected Stories by Ivan Klíma, Translated from the Czech by Gerald Turner

Benedetta Craveri, Talk!

L'Art de la conversation edited by Jacqueline Hellegouarc'h, with a preface by Marc Fumaroli

'De l'air galant' et autres Conversations (1653-1686): Pour une étude de l'archive galante by Madeleine de Scudéry, edited by Delphine Denis

Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century by Roger Chartier, by Alain Boureau, by Cécile Dauphin, translated by Christopher Woodall

Les Caractères by Jean de La Bruyère, edited by Louis Van Delft

Steven Goldberg, Anthony Hecht, Edward T. Oakes, et al. 'A Designer Universe?': An Exchange

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Letters

Richard Cohen, Swordplay
Enrique Krauze, Far from Chiapas
Pillarisetti Sudhir, Jasper Griffin, The Virtuous East

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Contributors

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. (April 2008)

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.

Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His Collected Poems in English will be published next spring. He died in 1996. (January 2000)

Benedetta Craveri is a professor of French literature at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, and the Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. She regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books and to the cultural pages of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Her books include Madame du Deffand and Her World and La Vie privée du Maréchal de Richelieu, and Amanti e regine: Il potere delle donne. She is married to a French diplomat.

Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is Melville: His World and Work. (April 2008)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

D. J. Enright's books include The Alluring Problem, Fields of Vision, Collected Poems 1948—1998, and, most recently, Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book. (August 2000)

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)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.

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.

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

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)

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

John Terborgh is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke. His latest book is Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature. (November 2007)

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