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Volume 47, Number 2 · February 10, 2000

Sergei Kovalev, Putin's War

Sanford Schwartz, The Suspended Moment

Heade, Martin Johnson 1999- January 16, 2000; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 13-May 7, 2000; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 28-August 17, 2000. an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 29,, Catalog of the exhibition by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., with contributions by Janet L. Comey, by Karen E. Quinn, by Jim Wright

Martin Johnson Heade: A Survey, 1840-1900 by Barbara Novak, by Timothy A. Eaton

The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks 1999-January 2, 2000; the Denver Art Museum, February 12-April 30, 2000; and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, September 24, 2000-February 7, 2001; originally at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, February 7-September 6, 1999. an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 10,, Catalog of the exhibition by Carolyn J. Weekley, with the assistance of Laura Pass Barry

David Brion Davis, C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999)

Robert Darnton, Looking the Devil in the Face

A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine by Anka Muhlstein, Translated from the French by Teresa Waugh

Garry Wills, Waiting for Bobby

In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy by Ronald Steel

Peter Gay, 'My German Question'

Julian Barnes, The Afterlife of Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind by David Cesarani

Larry McMurtry, Lighting Out for the Territory

On the Rez by Ian Frazier

William H. McNeill, The Flu of Flus

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata

Allan Massie, La Vagabonde

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

Creating Colette Volume I: From Ingenue to Libertine, 1873-1913 by Claude Francis, by Fernande Gontier

Creating Colette Volume II: From Baroness to Woman of Letters, 1912-1954 by Claude Francis, by Fernande Gontier

Brad Leithauser, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Broadway

Stephen Sondheim: A Life by Meryle Secrest

Putting It Together 20, 2000 a revue by Stephen Sondheim, directed by Eric D. Schaeffer, by 1999-February at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, November 21

Henry Allen, After My Suicide (poem)

A.O. Scott, The Panic of Influence

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Norman Manea, Made in Romania

Timothy Garton Ash, Anarchy & Madness

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Contributors

Henry Allen is a cultural critic at The Washington Post. His new book, What It Felt Like, will be published in the fall. (March 2000)

Julian Barnes has written nine novels, a book of short stories, and two collections of essays. His most recent book is Something to Declare: Essays on France.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (February 2009)

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)

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 books include Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name and (as editor with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
 (December 2009)

Peter Gay is Director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He wrote Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815–1914.

Sergei Kovalev, a biologist and former political prisoner, is a leading candidate on the Yabloko Party list for the December election to the Russian State Duma. He is President of the Institute for Human Rights and Chairman of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (November 2007)

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Norman Manea is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer in residence at Bard College. The most recent of his novels translated into English is The Black Envelope. His forthcoming book, A Hooligan's Return, will be published later this year. (February 2000)

Allan Massie's most recent novel is Nero's Heirs. (February 2000)

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.

William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather's Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)

Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)

A. O. Scott is a film critic at The New York Times and the former Sunday book critic for Newsday. His writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Slate, and many other publications.

Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.

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