Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 7 · April 27, 2000
Charles Simic, Forgotten Games 
Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema by Jodi Hauptman
James Fenton, Auden at Home
Collected Poems by W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
The English Auden: Poems, Essays, and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939 edited by Edward Mendelson
About the House by W.H. Auden
Jonathan Mirsky, A Lamas' Who's Who
Diane Johnson, Going West
In America by Susan Sontag
Adam Zagajewski, Two Poems (poem)
Brian Urquhart, In the Name of Humanity
Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict by William Shawcross
Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 53/55 (1998) (Srebrenica Report) United Nations Document
Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda by United Nations Document
William H. McNeill, Goodbye to the Bison
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 by Andrew C. Isenberg
Karl Kirchwey, K. 453 (poem)
Daniel Mendelsohn, Not an Ideal Husband
Euripides' Alcestis translated and adapted by Ted Hughes
Alma Guillermoprieto, Colombia: Violence Without End?
Ian Buruma, Dancing on a Wobbly Deck
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Battle of the Bien-Pensant
Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century by Susan Gubar
Anne Barton, The Truth as Masquerade
John Banville, Landscape Artist
Microcosms by Claudio Magris, Translated from the Italian Iain Halliday
Caroline Fraser, Overachiever
Mary Baker Eddy by Gillian Gill
John Weightman, Reconstructing the Colonel
Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort by Roger Martin du Gard, Translated from the French by Luc Brébion, Translated from the French by Timothy Crouse
Jason Epstein, The Rattle of Pebbles
Richard Posner, Ronald Dworkin, 'An Affair of State': An Exchange
Letters
David Cesarani, Julian Barnes, Morality & Arthur Koestler
Luc Bondy, Austria & Europe
Contributors
K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism. He has recently edited Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption with Martin Bunzl. (September 2007)
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.
Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard.
He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 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)
Caroline Fraser is the author of God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. (December 2004)
Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (September 2006)
Diane Johnson is the author, most recently, of Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain. Her latest novel is L’Affaire. (February 2008)
Karl Kirchwey's new book of poems, in which the poem in this issue will appear, is At the Palace of Jove. He is Director of Creative Writing and Senior Lecturer in the Arts at Bryn Mawr.
(November 2002)
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)
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the author, most recently, of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, mostly from these pages, will be published this year. He teaches at Bard. (January 2008)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. (May 2008)
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (March 2008)
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
Adam Zagajewski's books include Another Beauty and Without End: New and Selected Poems. The poem in this issue is from his new book, Eternal Enemies, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (April 2008)
