Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 11 · June 29, 2000
Hilary Mantel, Conservative Rebel 
Selected Letters of Rebecca West edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Bonnie Kime Scott
William H. McNeill, A Short History of Humanity
Ian Buruma, Found Horizon
Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood by Orville Schell
The Search for the Panchen Lama by Isabel Hilton
John Ashbery, Crossroads in the Past (poem)
Gabriele Annan, Close to the Edge
Mr. Phillips by John Lanchester
Ian Hacking, Our Fellow Animals
The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee
Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer
Ingrid D. Rowland, Born Again in Rome
Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture by Leonard Barkan
John D. Rosenberg, The Devil & Mr. Ruskin
John Ruskin: The Early Years by Tim Hilton
John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton
Jonathan Mirsky, 'Taiwan Stands Up'
Joyce Carol Oates, An Endangered Species
Everything in This Country Must: A Novella and Two Stories by Colum McCann
Pastoralia by George Saunders
In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark
Scar Vegas and Other Stories by Tom Paine
Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields
Robert Darnton, Paris: The Early Internet
Neal Ascherson, Under Siege
Ladysmith by Giles Foden
Gordon S. Wood, Early American Get-Up-and-Go
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby
John Bayley, Phantom Observations
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Roger Shattuck, Decline and Fall?
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
Brad Leithauser, Gaiety Redeemed
Mayflies: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur
James Traub, The Worst Place on Earth
Letters
Michael Isikoff, 'A Vast Conspiracy'
S. Asherah Stern, Alison Lurie, 'Lovely Ballerina'
John Leonard, Thomas Flanagan, Poor Papa
W. Daniel Wilson, Gordon A. Craig, The Goethe Case
Gillian Gill, Caroline Fraser, Mrs. Eddy's Voices
Roger L. Shinn, The Churches & Capital Punishment
Robert P. McIntosh, Where the Bison Were
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
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)
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)
Ian Hacking holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. His most recent book is Historical Ontology. (April 2005)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)
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)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
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. (June 2008)
John D. Rosenberg, William Peterfield Professor of English at Columbia, has written critical studies of Ruskin, Tennyson, and Carlyle. He is working on a collection of essays, Elegy for an Age: Essays in Victorian Literature. (April 2003)
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)
James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently writing a book about Times Square. (February 2002)
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)
