Table of Contents

Volume 47, Number 3 · February 24, 2000

Lars-Erik Nelson, Legacy

A Charge to Keep by George W. Bush

First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty by Bill Minutaglio

Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins, by Lou Dubose

W: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty by Elizabeth Mitchell

Charles Hope, On Francis Haskell (1928–2000)

John Bayley, The Heart of the Matter

The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra

James Fenton, Free Spirit

Daumier, 1808-1879 1999; the Grand Palais, Paris, October 5, 1999-January 3, 2000; and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., February 19-May 14, 2000. by an exhibition at the National Gallery, Ottawa, June 11-September 6, Catalog of the exhibition by Henri Loyrette, by Michael Pantazzi

Daumier: Le Cabinet des dessins by Judith Wechsler

Tim Parks, In the Locked Ward

Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival by Jay Neugeboren

Transforming Madness by Jay Neugeboren

Geoffrey O'Brien, Stompin' at the Savoy

Topsy-Turvy a film directed by Mike Leigh

Jonathan Galassi, Happenings (poem)

Ian Buruma, Divine Killer

Mao: A Life by Philip Short

Mao Zedong by Jonathan Spence

Ian Frazier, Little House off the Highway

Helen Vendler, Life Itself

Collected Poems, 1948-1998 by D.J. Enright

Malcolm Gladwell, True Grit

Think Like a Champion by Mike Shanahan, with Adam Schefter

Rockne of Notre Dame: The Making of a Football Legend by Ray Robinson

When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss

David Gilmour, The Empire's New Clothes

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl E. Meyer, by Shareen Blair Brysac

Eliot Weinberger, On 'Hindoo Holiday'

P.N. Furbank, Brave New World

France in the Enlightenment by Daniel Roche, Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer

Jack F. Matlock, The Nowhere Nation

Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry by Anatol Lieven

The Ukrainian Resurgence by Bohdan Nahaylo

Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44 by Martin Dean

State and Institution Buildingin Ukraine edited by Taras Kuzio, by Robert S. Kravchuk, by Paul D'Anieri

Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations by Paul J. D'Anieri

Marcia Cavell, Allen Esterson, Mortimer Ostow, et al. 'Freud Under Analysis': An Exchange


Letters

Carolyn Kunin, David W. Ross, et al. Playing the Piano
Justus Reid Weiner, Amos Elon, 'Exile's Return'
Fritz Stern, Ernst Gombrich, Only a Guideline



Contributors

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

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

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)

Ian Frazier is a writer of essays and other nonfiction. His new book is On the Rez. (February 2000)

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

Jonathan Galassi's translation of Montale's Collected Poems 1920–1954 was published in 1998. (November 2004)

David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference. An archive of his articles for The New Yorker is available at www.gladwell.com. (February 2000)

Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)

Jack F. Matlock Jr. was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 and is the author of Autopsy on an Empire. He is George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (February 2000)

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

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. (April 2008)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Cleaver. (September 2008)

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

Eliot Weinberger's most recent book is a sequence of essays, An Elemental Thing. (August 2007)


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