Table of Contents

Volume 47, Number 5 · March 23, 2000

Russell Baker, The Love Boat

About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made by Ben Yagodam

Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross edited by Thomas Kunkel

Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker by Renata Adler

Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing by Ved Mehta

Here But Not Here by Lillian Ross

The Years with Ross by James Thurber

Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill

Tony Judt, Tale from the Vienna Woods

Henry Allen, The Great Voyeur

Walker Evans 1-May 14, 2000; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 2-September 12, 2000; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 17, 2000-March 11, 2001. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February, Catalog of the exhibition by Maria Morris Hambourg, by Jeff L. Rosenheim, by Douglas Eklund, by Mia Fineman

Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology by Jeff L. Rosenheim, by Douglas Eklund

John Bayley, It Happened at Elsinore

Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike

Elizabeth Hardwick, Far from Rome

Robert M. Solow, Welfare: The Cheapest Country

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Robert E. Goodin, by Bruce Headey, by Ruud Muffels, by Henk-Jan Dirven

James Fenton, Auden's Shakespeare

Ian Buruma, East Is West

A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee

Waiting by Ha Jin

Joseph Kerman, The Miracle Worker

Mozart by Peter Gay

The Life of Mozart by John Rosselli

Mozart in Revolt: Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception by David Schroeder

Mozart: A Cultural Biography by Robert W. Gutman

Michael Ignatieff, The Man Who Was Right

Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest

Tim Parks, In Love with Leopardi

Leopardi: A Study in Solitude by Iris Origo

All'apparir del vero: Vita di Giacomo Leopardi by Rolando Damiani

Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo

Gabriele Annan, On Borrowed Time

The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann, Translated from the German and with an introduction by Peter Filkins

Istvan Deak, The Pope, the Nazis & the Jews

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell

The Vatican and the Red Flag: The Struggle for the Soul of Eastern Europe by Jonathan Luxmoore, by Jolanta Babiuch

The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965 by Michael Phayer

Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler edited by Frank J. Coppa

The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI edited by Georges Passelecq, and Bernard Suchecky, Translated from the French by Steven Rendall, with an introduction by Garry Wills

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Letters

Leila Ahmed, An Open Letter to President Khatami
William Styron, Death in Virginia
Eliot Weinberger, On the First Day

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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)

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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. (July 2008)

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)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (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)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

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)

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (November 2007)

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