Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 4 · March 9, 2000
Richard Dorment, Genius in Exile 
From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky by Matthew Spender
Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky by Nouritza Matossian
Louis Menand, A Fine Detachment
Christopher Hitchens, O'Brian's Great Voyage
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed by Dean King
Garry Wills, Storm Over Jefferson
Zbigniew Herbert, Mr. Cogito. Ars Longa (poem)
Benjamin DeMott, The West Virginian
For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today by Jedediah Purdy
Eva Hoffman, The Uses of Hell
The Holocaust in American Life by Peter Novick
Al Alvarez, High Rollers
Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss by Frederick Barthelme, by Steven Barthelme
W.S. Merwin, Through a Glass (poem)
Jerome S. Bruner, Tot Thought
The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn by Alison Gopnik, by Andrew N. Meltzoff, by Patricia K. Kuhl
The Myth of the First Three Years: A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and Lifelong Learning by John T. Bruer
Joyce Carol Oates, I'll Take Manhattan
City of God by E.L. Doctorow
Aileen Kelly, The Secret Sharer
Things That Happened commentaries by by Volume 19. Glas New Russian Writing, by Boris Slutsky, edited, translated, and with an introduction and G.S. Smith
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Edmund S. Morgan, Marie Morgan, Who's Really Who
American National Biography Societies published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned, by John A. Garraty, by Mark C. Carnes
Michael Wood, Eyes Wide Open
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino, Translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin
Ronald Dworkin, Philosophy & Monica Lewinsky
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton by Richard A. Posner
The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory by Richard A. Posner
David Brion Davis, David Levering Lewis, David Brion Davis, Jews and Blacks in America: An Exchange
Letters
Antony Beevor, Jason Epstein, 'Time to Kill'
Maria Sozzani Brodsky, The First Brodsky Fellowships
Norman Manea, Due Credit
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)
Jerome Bruner is University Professor at New York University. His newest book, Making Stories, appeared in the spring. (September 2003)
Benjamin Demott is Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Amherst. His most recent book is Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind. (May 2005)
Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
Zbigniew Herbert, a leading Polish poet, died in 1998. The Collected Poems: 1956–1998, edited and translated by Alissa Valles, will be published by Ecco in February. (January 2007)
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.
Eva Hoffman's books include Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews, Exit into History, and The Secret, a novel. (October 2007)
Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (September 2007)
Marie Morgan, author of Chariot of Fire, is a historian of nineteenth-century America who frequently collaborates with Edmund Morgan. (September 2007)
Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton. Her collection of short novellas Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway has just been published and her novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike will be published this summer. (May 2008)
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.
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
