Table of Contents, December 21, 2000 - The New York Review of Books

Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity (La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano) by Andrea de Jorio, translated and edited by Adam Kendon

Joyce Carol Oates, Valentine in Sepia

What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century by Henry Allen

James Fenton, The Exhibition Follies

The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Museum by Francis Haskell

James Chace, The Age of Schlesinger

A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Keith Thomas, Wrapping It Up

The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France by Natalie Zemon Davis

Anita Desai, Passion in Lahore

Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid

Eamon Duffy, The Luck of the English

A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603 by Simon Schama

Dan Jacobson, Dog Spelled Backwards

Only Yesterday by S.Y. Agnon, Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav

Robert Darnton, Extraordinary Commonplaces

Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe

Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks edited by J.A. Gere, edited by John Sparrow

Clive James, Great Days

Dream Stuff by David Malouf

Mark Danner, Scandal & the Road to Deadlock

Ronald Dworkin, The Phantom Poll Booth

Tony Judt, The White House & the World

Letters

Israel Rosenfield, 'Freud's Megalomania'
A.S. Byatt, Misunderstanding
Sandra Cisneros, Joan Didion, et al. An Open Letter to the President

Contributors

Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.

James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)

Prudence Crowther is the copy chief at BusinessWeek. (April 2007)

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.

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

Anita Desai's most recent novel is The Zigzag Way. (July 2007)

Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book is Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570. (May 2008)

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."

James Fenton's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)

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).

Dan Jacobson is a novelist and essayist. His latest book is Heschel's Kingdom, a memoir and account of his travels in Lithuania. (November 2002)

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. His latest and longest book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, will be published in the spring. (January 2007)

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

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 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.

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

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. She is the editor, with Christopher Beha, of the forthcoming Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction. (September 2008)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently writing a book about Times Square. (February 2002)