Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 17 · November 2, 2000
Jason Epstein, The Coming Revolution 
Gordon A. Craig, Fate & the Führer
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945 by Pierre Ayçoberry, Translated from the French by Janet Lloyd
Czeslaw Milosz, From Milosz's ABC's
J.M. Coetzee, The Genius of Robert Walser
The Robber by Robert Walser, Translated from the German and with an introduction by Susan Bernofsky
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser, Translated from the German and with an introduction by Christopher Middleton
John Updike, Dürer and Christ
Dürer's Passions September 9-December 3, 2000 by an exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts,, album of the exhibition, with a separately bound essay Jordan Kantor, foreword by Joseph Leo Koerner
Thomas Powers, The Interesting One
Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas
Daniel Mendelsohn, Fun with Freud
Freud's Megalomania by Israel Rosenfield
Joyce Carol Oates, Pilgrim's Progress
Cherry by Mary Karr
Maya Lin, Making the Memorial
Bernard Williams, Wagner & Politics
John Bayley, A Passage to Colombo
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Richard Horton, How Sick Is Modern Medicine?
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu M.D.
Larry McMurtry, Pulpmaster
Zane Grey: Romancing the West by Stephen J. May
Maverick Heart: The Further Adventures of Zane Grey by Stephen J. May
Anthony Hecht, Sentenced to Reality
Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai, Translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch, by Chana Kronfeld
Tim Flannery, In the Primordial Soup
The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup by Christopher Wills, by Jeffrey Bada
Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated by Steve Jones
David Kahn, Did Roosevelt Know?
Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert B. Stinnett
George M. Fredrickson, The Skeleton in the Closet
Slave Narratives edited by William L. Andrews, by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South by Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson
Mark Danner, The Lost Olympics
Joan Didion, God's Country
Contributors
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
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 latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 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.
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction. (February 2008)
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)
Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 2008)
George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)
Anthony Hecht'sCollected Later Poems and Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry were published in 2003. He died on October 20. (December 2004)
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.
David Kahn is the author of The Codebreakers. (November 2000)
Maya Lin is an artist/architect who lives in New York City. The essay in this issue is drawn from her book Boundaries, just published by Simon and Schuster. (November 2000)
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.
Daniel Mendelsohn, is the author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics
Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, mostly from these pages, will be published in August. He teaches at Bard. (June 2008)
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
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)
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), 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.
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 2000)
