Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 9 · May 25, 2000
Thomas Powers, The Unanswered Question 
Copenhagen a play by Michael Frayn, directed by Michael Blakemore, opened April 11, 2000.
Zbigniew Herbert, Buttons (poem)
Tatyana Tolstaya, The Making of Mr. Putin
First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin, with Nataliya Gevorkyan, Natalya Timakova, Andrei Kolesnikov, Translated from the Russian by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The Russian original, Ot pervovo litsa, is available on the website www.vagrius.com.
Mary Robinson, Chechnya: Mary Robinson's Report
P.N. Furbank, Dreams of the Body
Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Louis Menand, Bloom's Gift
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
Garry Wills, The Vatican Regrets
Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past for the Doctrine of the Faith, December 1999 by Rev. Christopher Begg, Msgr. Bruno Forte, Rev. Sebastian Karotemprel S.D.B., Msgr. Roland Minnerath, Rev. Thomas Norris, Rev. Rafael Salazar Cárdenas M.Sp.S., Msgr. Anton Strukelj. Issued from the Vatican by Cardinal Ratzinger of the Congregation. Available at www.vatican.va.
Alison Lurie, On Edward Gorey (1925–2000)
Timothy Garton Ash, Beauty and the Beast in Burma
Robert Skidelsky, All in the Family
Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia by James Fox
Cathleen Schine, A Tale of Two Countries
Le Mariage by Diane Johnson
Larry McMurtry, Cookie Pioneers
Something in the Soil by Patricia Nelson Limerick
Texas History Movies text by John Rosenfield Jr., illustrations by Jack Patton
J.M. Coetzee, Messages & Silence
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Diamond Dust by Anita Desai
Richard Horton, An Autopsy of Dr. Osler
William Osler: A Life in Medicine by Michael Bliss
David Gilmour, The Man Who Would Be Good
The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 4: 1911-19 edited by Thomas Pinney
Christopher Benfey, Tea with Okakura
Okakura Tenshin and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston October 23, 1999-March 26, 2000. an exhibition at Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan,, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Saeko Yamawaki, by Nobuko Sakamoto, by Makiko Yamada, by Hitomi Sato
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Bill McKibben, Acquaintance of the Earth
Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists: A Conservative Manifesto by Peter Huber
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, by Amory Lovins, by L. Hunter Lovins
Julian Moynahan, Not-So-Great Expectations
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Jonathan Mirsky, The Never-Ending War
Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy by Robert S. McNamara, by James G. Blight, by Robert K. Brigham, by Thomas J. Biersteker, by Herbert Y. Schandler
Reporting Vietnam, Part One: American Journalism 1959-1969; Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975 two volumes
American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War by David Kaiser
Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Viet Nam War by Robert K. Brigham
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Dragon Ascending: Vietnam and the Vietnamese by Henry Kamm
The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy's and Johnson's Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam by Richard H. Shultz Jr.
In the Jaws of History by Bui Diem, with David Chanoff
A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam by Lewis Sorley
Vietnam, the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict by Michael Lind
America's War in Vietnam: A Short Narrative History by Larry H. Addington
Memories of a Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong, Translated from the Vietnamese by Nina McPherson, by Phan Huy Duong
Letters
John P. Frank, Ronald Dworkin, A Question of Ethics
Martin Malia, Aileen Kelly, Slutsky & History
James Wood, Auden's 'Flippancy'
Antony Beevor, Jason Epstein, Stalingrad, cont'd.
Claudia Roth Pierpont, Passionate Mind
Contributors
Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His edition of Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings was published last spring by the Library of America. (October 2009)
J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (August 2009)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His books include Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name and (as editor with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
(December 2009)
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)
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)
Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.
Bill McKibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
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.
Jonathan Mirsky is a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs. In 2002 he was the first I.F. Stone Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Journalism School.
(August 2009)
Julian Moynahan is Professor of English Emeritus at Rutgers University. His most recent book is Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture. (May 2000)
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
Mary Robinson is the former President of Ireland and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. (May 2000)
Cathleen Schine is the author of seven novels, including Rameau's Niece, The Love Letter, She is Me, and the forthcoming The New Yorkers. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published in 2007 in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (January 2009)
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.
Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, What Jesus Meant, was published in 2006.
