Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 1 · January 11, 2001
Pete Hamill, Lars 
John Updike, Lear, Far and Near
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel catalog of the exhibition by Scott Wilcox, with contributions by Eva Bowerman, Clay Dean, Morna O'Neill, Stephen Vella, and Emily Weeks.
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 20, 2000–January 14, 2001
Geoffrey O'Brien, Seven Years in the Life
The Beatles Anthology the Beatles
1 the Beatles
Richard Crampton, Myths of the Balkans
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804–1999 by Misha Glenny
The Balkans: A Short History by Mark Mazower
Explaining Yugoslavia by John B. Allcock
Darryl Pinckney, Riffs
Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray edited by Albert Murray and John F. Callahan
Daniel Mendelsohn, Tragedy in Denver
Tantalus
Tantalus: Ten New Plays on Greek Myths by John Barton
J.M. Coetzee, The Marvels of Walter Benjamin
Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926 Edmund Jephcott, Harry Zohn, and others. by Walter Benjamin, edited by Marcus Bullock, edited by Michael W. Jennings. Translated from the German by Rodney Livingstone, Stanley Corngold,
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, Translated from the German and French by Howard Eiland, by Kevin McLaughlin
Selected Writings,Volume 2: 1927-1934 by Walter Benjamin, edited by Michael W. Jennings, edited by Howard Eiland, edited by Gary Smith. Translated from the German by Rodney Livingstone and others.
Martha C. Nussbaum, Disabled Lives: Who Cares?
Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency by Eva Feder Kittay
Life As We Know It:A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child by Michael Bérubé
Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It by Joan Williams
Andrew Delbanco, Night Vision
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling, edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier
John Leonard, Mind Painting
Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
Tim Parks, A Chorus of Cruelty
Ronald Dworkin, A Badly Flawed Election
Letters
Stephen Gottschalk, Gary A. Jones, et al. The Real Mrs. Eddy
Adolf Gruenbaum, Freud and the Interpreters
Stanley K. Sheinbaum, Robert M. Solow, Don't Forget Keynes
Rosemary M. Colt, Mizener Did It First
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
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 new work of fiction, Summertime, from which the piece in this issue is drawn, will be published by Harvill Secker in October. (August 2009)
Richard Crampton is Professor of East European History and Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is the author of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, The Balkans Since the Second World War, and a number of histories of Bulgaria. (June 2005)
Andrew Delbanco is Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. He is working on a book about college education. (November 2009)
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."
Pete Hamill worked for almost four decades on newspapers, and served as Editor-in-Chief of both the New York Post and the New York Daily News. He has published fifteen books, including eight novels, of which the most recent is Diego Rivera. (January 2001)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper's and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published earlier this year; a collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was just published in paperback.
(October 2009)
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Her most recent book is Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. (January 2001)
Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (September 2009)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas.
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
