Table of Contents

Volume 47, Number 14 · September 21, 2000

Avishai Margalit, The Odds Against Barak

Jasper Griffin, The Invented Man

Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe

Viktor Erofeyev, A Scandal in Moscow

Robin Robertson, Apart (poem)

A.O. Scott, A Finished Woman

Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy by Frances Kiernan

Christopher Hitchens, Lord Trouble

Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray

Tim Parks, The Non-Conformist

Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism: Art and Politics Under Fascism by Emily Braun

Pankaj Mishra, Death in Kashmir

Benjamin DeMott, Notes of a Son and Brother

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Rosemary Dinnage, Lost World

Rodinsky's Room by Rachel Lichtenstein, by Iain Sinclair

Timothy Garton Ash, Kosovo: Was It Worth It?

Kosovo: War and Revenge by Tim Judah

Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo by Ivo H Daalder, by Michael E. O'Hanlon

Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond by Michael Ignatieff

Kosovo House of Commons. Foreign Affairs Committee, London: Stationery Office

The Crisis in Kosovo 1989-1999 by Marc Weller

Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions by William J. Buckley

Israel Rosenfield, A New Vision of Vision

Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain by Semir Zeki

Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See by Donald D. Hoffman

Luc Sante, The Henry James of Crime

Tony Judt, The Story of Everything

One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945 by David Reynolds

Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to 2000 by J.M. Roberts

Brad Leithauser, No Laughing Matter

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson

Whitney Balliett, Mad Genius

God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser

Brian Urquhart, How Not to Deal with Bullies

The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security by Richard Butler

The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s by David Cortright, by George A. Lopez

We The Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the Twenty-first Century Report of the Secretary-General

J.S. Marcus, Apocalypse Now

Die Fahrt im Einbaum oder Das Stück zum Film vom Krieg[The Journey in the Dugout Canoe, or The Piece about the Film about the War] by Peter Handke

My Year in the No-Man's-Bay by Peter Handke, Translated from the German by Krishna Winston

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke, Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

Plays: 1 by Peter Handke, Translated from the German by Michael Roloff, with an introduction by Tom Kuhn

Sommerlicher Nachtrag zu einer winterlichen Reise[Summer Afterword to a Winter Journey] by Peter Handke

Noch einmal vom Neunten Land[One More Time from the Ninth Country] by Peter Handke, by Joze Horvat

On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke, Translated from the German by Krishna Winston

Der Himmel über Berlin: Ein Filmbuch[released in America as "Wings of Desire"] by Wim Wenders, by Peter Handke

Abschied des Träumers vom Neunten Land[The Dreamer's Farewell to the Ninth Country] by Peter Handke

Repetition by Peter Handke, Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia by Peter Handke, Translated from the German by Scott Abbott

Unter Tränen fragend[Questioning Through Tears] by Peter Handke

Bernard Knox, Stairway to Heaven

Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, translated by Merwin W.S.

Gabriele Annan, Twin Peaks

What Are You Like? by Anne Enright

Elaine Scarry, Swissair 111, TWA 800, and Electromagnetic Interference

Mark Danner, The Shame of Political TV

James G. Blight, David Chanoff, Jonathan Mirsky, 'The Never-Ending War': An Exchange

Tom Stoppard, Daniel Mendelsohn, 'The Invention of Love': An Exchange

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Letters

Martin Macpherson, John Ryle, Children at War

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

Whitney Balliett's most recent book is Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954—2001 (August 2003).

Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; and Torture and Truth. Danner's work has been honored with many awards, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He divides his time between Berkeley and New York. His work is archived at markdanner.com.

Benjamin Demott is Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Amherst. His most recent book is Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind. (May 2005)

Rosemary Dinnage's books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Viktor Erofeyev is the author of Russian Beauty, a novel, and the editor of The Penguin Book of New Russian Writing. He lives in Moscow. (March 2001)

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 most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)

Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and Public Orator at Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (December 2007)

Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

J. S. Marcus's most recent novel is The Captain's Fire. He is currently a fellow at the Santa Maddalena Foundation, near Florence. (April 2001)

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 2008)

Robin Robertson's Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea will be published in September. (May 2008)

Israel Rosenfield's most recent book is Freud's Megalomania. A revised and expanded edition of his book Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness has just been published in France. (May 2006)

Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Elaine Scarry is the author of On Beauty and Being Just and recently received the Truman Capote Prize for Dreaming by the Book. She teaches at Harvard, where she is completing a project on war and the social contract. (October 2000)

A. O. Scott is a film critic at The New York Times and the former Sunday book critic for Newsday. His writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Slate, and many other publications.

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)

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