Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 6 · April 13, 2000
Andrew O'Hagan, Nobody's Perfect
Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe
Jonathan Mirsky, On Noel Annan (1916–2000) 
George Soros, Who Lost Russia?
John Updike, A Wistful Master
Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages October 3, 1999-January 9, 2000; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 10-May 14, 2000. Yale University Press) an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,, Catalog of the exhibition by Julien Chapuis
Anthony Lewis, Nearly a Coup
A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin
The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton by Joe Conason, by Gene Lyons
Kenneth Koch, To Psychoanalysis (poem)
John Banville, A Rare Species
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Alma Guillermoprieto, Our New War in Colombia
David J. Garrow, The Man Who Was King
I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. by Michael Eric Dyson
M.F. Perutz, The Threat of Biological Weapons
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World—Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It by Ken Alibek, with Stephen Handelman
Tatyana Tolstaya, Out of This World
Gordon A. Craig, Germany's Greatest
Das Goethe-Tabu: Protest und Menschenrechte im klassischen Weimar by W. Daniel Wilson
Goethe: The Poet and the Age Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation (1790-1803) by Nicholas Boyle
Das Inkognito: Goethes ganz andere Existenz in Rom by Roberto Zapperi
Christiane und Goethe: Eine Recherche by Sigrid Damm
Jared Diamond, The Golden Phonebook
Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Translated from the Italian by Mark Seielstad
James Fenton, Auden's Enchantment
Later Auden by Edward Mendelson
The Dyer's Hand by W.H. Auden
The English Auden: Poems, Essays, and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939 by W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
W.H. Auden: A Commentary by John Fuller
Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse, 1926-1938 by W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
The Table Talk of W.H. Auden by Alan Ansen, edited by Nicholas Jenkins
Gordon S. Wood, An Affair of Honor
Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser
Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America by Thomas Fleming
Scandalmonger by William Safire
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character by Roger G. Kennedy
A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Arnold A. Rogow
Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government by Karl-Friedrich Walling
Lorrie Moore, The Odd Women
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont
Willibald Sauerländer, The Art of the Cool
Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man by Derek Wilson
Holbein's Ambassadors Press) by Susan Foister, by Ashok Roy, by Martin Wyld
Hans Holbein by Oskar Bätschmann, by Pascal Griener
Darryl Pinckney, James Baldwin: The Risks of Love
James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories edited by Toni Morrison
Michael P. Clark, Andrew Delbanco, Robert Oliphant, et al. 'The Decline & Fall of Literature': An Exchange
Letters
Antony Beevor, Jason Epstein, The Stalingrad Front
Jack F. Matlock, 'Ukraine Today'
Richard Dorment, Gorky's Panels
Roland Littlewood, Rosemary Dinnage, 'Mad Travelers'
George A. Collier, Jane F. Collier, et al. Chiapas & the Church
Contributors
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
Jared Diamond, a Professor of Physiology and Public Health at UCLA and winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Medal of Science, is the author of, among other books, Guns, Germs, and Steel. (March 2004)
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)
David J. Garrow is the Presidential Distinguished Professor at Emory University Law School and the author of Bearing the Cross, which won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize. (April 2000)
Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)
Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)
Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times , has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (September 2008)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
Lorrie Moore teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her most recent book is the story collection Birds of America. She has won the Rea Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. (September 2007)
Andrew O'Hagan's novel Be Near Me has just been published in the US. He is a recipient of the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (June 2007)
M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
Willibald Sauerländer is a former director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. His most recent books are Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments and Essai sur les Visages des Bustes de Houdon. (June 2007)
George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Institute, is the author most recently of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets. (September 2008)
Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
