Table of Contents

Volume 47, Number 12 · July 20, 2000

John Leonard, The Wise Woman and the Whale

Herman Melville by Elizabeth Hardwick

Geoffrey O'Brien, The Triumph of Marxism

Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kanfer

The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx edited by Stefan Kanfer

Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers by Simon Louvish

Lars-Erik Nelson, Watch Out, Democrats!

America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters by Ruy Teixeira, by Joel Rogers

Government Works: Why Americans Need the Feds by Milton J. Esman

The Selling of 'Free Trade': NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy by John R. MacArthur

Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money by David S. Broder

The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century by Dick Morris

Frank Kermode, The Geat of Geats

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by R.M. Liuzza

Joyce Carol Oates, Haunted by Salmon

The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie

Ian Buruma, Tibet Disenchanted

James Fenton, London's New Left Bank

Tate Modern: The Handbook edited by Iwona Blazwick, by Simon Wilson

Representing Britain 1500-2000: 100 Works from Tate Collections by Martin Myrone

Istvan Deak, Strangers at Home

Sunshine a film directed by István Szabó

Amartya Sen, East and West: The Reach of Reason

David Hajdu, Fascinatin' Rhythm

Harry Partch by Bob Gilmore

Enclosure 3: Harry Partch edited and with an essay by Philip Blackburn

Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos by Harry Partch, edited and with an introduction by Thomas McGeary

Genesis of a Music by Harry Partch

Michael Ignatieff, The New American Way of War

Lifting the Fog of War by Admiral Bill Owens, with Ed Offley

Private Warriors by Ken Silverstein

Fire in the East: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age by Paul Bracken

Total War 2006: The Future History of Global Conflict by Simon Pearson

Gulf War Air Power Survey by Eliot Cohen. others.

Iraq and the War of Sanctions: Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Anthony H. Cordesman

Edmund S. Morgan, Back to Basics

Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench by Vincent Crapanzano

Helen Epstein, The Mystery of AIDS in South Africa

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Letters

E.L. Doctorow, Peter Matthiessen, et al. United States v. Leonard Peltier
Antony Beevor, Goodbye to All That
Jeffery Toobin, 'A Vast Conspiracy'
Amos Elon, Moshe Ma'oz, et al. 'The View from Damascus'

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Contributors

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)

Helen Epstein's book book The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa was published last year. (August 2008)

James Fenton is the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (November 2008)

David Hajdu, author of Lush Life and Positively 4th Street, teaches at Syracuse University and is music critic for The New Republic. (June 2005)

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)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (October 2008)

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (October 2008)

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. (October 2008)

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His most recent book is Rationality and Freedom. (December 2004)

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