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Volume 47, Number 19 · November 30, 2000

Anthony Grafton, Over the Rainbow

Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World an exhibition at the New York Public Library, October 14, 2000-January 27, 2001

Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Societyin the Western World edited by Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent

Charles Simic, Tragicomic Soup

Your Name Here by John Ashbery

Other Traditions the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, by John Ashbery

Andrew Hacker, The Case Against Kids

The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless by Elinor Burkett

The Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and Altruism edited by Louis-André Gérard-Varet, edited by Serge-Christophe Kolm, edited by Mercier Ythier Jean

Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much by Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Mark Lilla, Night Thoughts

The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq, Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, Translated from the Frenchby Paul Hammond

H.P. Lovecraft: Contre le monde, contre la vie by Michel Houellebecq

Rester vivant et autres textes by Michel Houellebecq

Sam Tanenhaus, Un-American Activities

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator by Arthur Herman

Hilary Mantel, Staring at the Medusa's Head

Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa

Jonathan Raban, The Last Harpoon

A Whale Hunt: Two Years on the Olympic Peninsula with the Makah and Their Canoe by Robert Sullivan

James M. McPherson, Blitzkrieg in Georgia

Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy by Richard M. McMurry

Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865 edited by Brooks D. Simpson, by Jean V. Berlin

Gabriele Annan, Turncoats

Too Far Afield by Günter Grass, Translated from the Germanby Krishna Winston

Eric Christiansen, A Fine Life

The Hundred Years War: Volume 2, Trial by Fire by Jonathan Sumption

Edward W. Said, The Cruelty of Memory

Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Tagreid Abu-Hassabo

Taht al-Mazella [Under the Shelter] by Naguib Mahfouz

Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy Part 2 by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins, by Lorne M. Kenny, by Olive E. Kenny

Children of Gebelaawi by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Philip Stewart

Echoes from an Autobiography by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies

Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Fatma Moussa-Mahmoud

The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy Part 3 by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins, by Angele Botros Samaan

Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy Part 1 by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins, by Olive E. Kenny

Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Frances Liardet

Amam al-'Arsh [Before the Throne] by Naguib Mahfouz

A.S. Byatt, Justice for Willa Cather

Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella

Tim Parks, On 'Party Going'

P.N. Furbank, Epic-Making

Barbarism and Religion Volume 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764Volume 2: Narratives of Civil Government by J.G.A. Pocock

David J. Rothman, The Shame of Medical Research

Lars-Erik Nelson, The Perils of Secrecy

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Letters

M.F. Perutz, Getting Better
Yvonne Cloetta, David Lodge, Our Man on Capri

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Contributors

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

A. S. Byatt's book of essays On Histories and Stories will be published in the US next year. Her new novel, The Biographer's Tale, will be published here in January. (November 2000)

Eric Christiansen is Tutor in History at New College, Oxford, and the author of The Northern Crusades. (November 2000)

P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)

Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (October 2007)

Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt/John Macrae Books in 2009. (August 2008)

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)

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

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)

Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.

Edward W. Said is University Professor at Columbia University and the author of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. His The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After was published last spring. Reflections on Exile will appear in early 2001. (November 2000)

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.

Sam Tanenhaus, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of Whittaker Chambers, is writing a biography of William F. Buckley Jr. (April 2002)

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