Table of Contents

Volume 47, Number 18 · November 16, 2000

Russell Baker, Where Has Joe Gone?

Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer

Timothy Garton Ash, The Last Revolution

Garry Wills, Honorable Man

The Gentleman from New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan by Godfrey Hodgson

Elizabeth Hardwick, The Torrents of Wolfe

O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life by Thomas Wolfe, text established by Arlyn Bruccoli, by Matthew J. Bruccoli

The Notebooks of Thomas Wolfe edited by Richard S. Kennedy, edited by Paschal Reeves

Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe

You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe

The Web and the Rock by Thomas Wolfe

Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, edited by Park Bucker

Robert Skidelsky, What's Left of Marx?

Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen

James Fallows, Internet Illusions

Vote.com by Dick Morris

Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times revised edition by Robert W. McChesney

Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology by Darin Barney

You Say You Want a Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics by Reed E. Hundt

Lorrie Moore, Patios & Poolsides

Sam the Cat and Other Stories by Matthew Klam

John Golding, Renoir the Irregular

Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts by Robert L. Herbert

Max Rodenbeck, Witch Hunt in Egypt

Alfred Brendel, Beethoven's Musical Characters

Nicholas Lemann, Can Populism Be Popular?

The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy by Theda Skocpol

The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust by John B. Judis

Raymond Bonner, The Russians Are Coming!

Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert I. Friedman

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Dancing with the Moon

In the Arms of Africa:The Life of Colin M. Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker

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Letters

Nadine Gordimer, Anthony Sampson, et al. President Mbeki's Career
Austin Briggs, Richard B. Woodward, et al. Norman Rockwell Lives!

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Contributors

K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism. He has recently edited Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption with Martin Bunzl. (September 2007)

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (July 2008)

Raymond Bonner has been a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for The New York Times, and has written extensively about the Bush administration’s treatment of terrorist suspects. (April 2008)

Alfred Brendel is a pianist and the author of Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out , as well as several volumes of poetry. (October 2002)

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

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)

John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Nicholas Lemann is the national correspondent for The Atlantic. (June 1998)

Lorrie Moore teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her most recent book is the story collection Birds of America. She has won the Rea Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. (September 2007)

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He is based in Cairo. (May 2008)

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published last year in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2008)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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