Table of Contents

Volume 47, Number 15 · October 5, 2000

Elaine Scarry, TWA 800 and Electromagnetic Interference: Work Already Completed and Work that Still Needs to be Done

Pico Iyer, Foreign Affair

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Robert M. Solow, Should We Pay the Debt?

Fintan O'Toole, Are the Troubles Over?

Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles Square by David McKittrick, by Seamus Kelters, by Brian Feeney, by Chris Thornton

Ireland North and South: Perspectives from Social Science edited by Anthony F. Heath, edited by Richard Breen, edited by Christopher T. Whelan

The Trouble with Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA by Malachi O'Doherty

Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They? Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 by Peter Pringle, by Philip Jacobson

Northern Ireland's Troubles: The Human Costs by Marie-Therese Fay, by Mike Morrissey, by Marie Smyth

Thomas Flanagan, Barbara Gelb, Master of the Misbegotten

O'Neill: Life with Monte Cristo by Arthur Gelb

Ronald Steel, Mr. Fix-It

Woodrow Wilson by Louis Auchincloss

James Fenton, The Master Builders

Wren's "Tracts" on Architecture and Other Writings by Lydia M. Soo

Hawksmoor's London Churches: Architecture and Theology by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England 1690-1730 edited by Christopher Ridgway, edited by Robert Williams

The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren by Paul Jeffery

Inigo Jones by John Summerson, by Sir Howard Colvin

Robert Stone, Battle Hymn of the Republic

Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer

Pankaj Mishra, The Birth of a Nation

John Ashbery, The Book that No One Knows

David Brion Davis, The Other Revolution

Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860 by Bonnie S. Anderson

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Geoffrey C. Ward. based on the documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes

Not For Ourselves Alone:The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Ken Burns, by Paul Barnes

Mark Danner, Clinton & Colombia: The Privilege of Folly

Elaine Scarry, The Fall of EgyptAir 990

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Letters

David Abraham, Christopher S. Allen, et al. Injustice in Austria
Benjamin DeMott, Interviewing Eggers
John Derbyshire, The Pogrom in Limerick

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Contributors

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.

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.

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

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

Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was a novelist, scholar, and critic. He was the author of The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 (1959) and the novels The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994).

Pico Iyer’s The Open Road , about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. His essay in this issue will appear, in somewhat different form, as the introduction to a new Penguin Classics edition of The Snow Leopard . (September 2008)

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.

Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. He is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. (November 2007)

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)

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (November 2008)

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, a recent fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the author of biographies of Walter Lippmann and Robert Kennedy. (June 2006)

Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. He is the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. He has also written short stories, essays, and screenplays, and published a short story collection, Bear and His Daughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and in Key West, Florida.

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