Table of Contents
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
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 and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)
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 most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
Peter Gay is Director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815–1914 will be published in late October. (October 2001)
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's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)
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 was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
