Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 2 · February 8, 2001
P.N. Furbank, A Royal Mystery 
The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette by Chantal Thomas, translated from the French by Julie Rose
Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson
Henry Siegman, Israel: A Historic Statement
Sanford Schwartz, Back to the Future
The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn
John Leonard, Cri de Coeur
Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future by Jason Epstein
Paul Muldoon, Affairs of State (poem)
Clifford Geertz, Life Among the Anthros
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney
Benjamin DeMott, Caught in the Curve
Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe
Jonathan Mirsky, The Truth About Tiananmen
The Tiananmen Papers compiled by Zhang Liang, edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, and with an afterword by Orville Schell
John Lanchester, The Land of Accidents
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
David Hajdu, Not Quite All That Jazz
Jazz by Ken Burns
Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954–2000 by Whitney Balliett
Jazz: A History of America's Music by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
George M. Fredrickson, The Double Life of W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 by David Levering Lewis
John Banville, Joyce in Bloom
The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904–1920 by John McCourt
Larry McMurtry, The First American Epic
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition edited by Gary E. Moulton
Tim Judah, Goodbye to Yugoslavia?
Jeremy Bernstein, Michael Frayn, Thomas Powers, Heisenberg in Copenhagen: An Exchange
Letters
Lizabeth Cohen, David Brion Davis, et al. The Election Mess
Robert B. Stinnett, David Kahn, Remember Pearl Harbor
James S. Doyle, In Memory of Lars
M. Brook Taylor, James M. McPherson, The Canadian Connection
The Editors, The Oldest Beatle
Contributors
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Benjamin Demott is Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Amherst. His most recent book is Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind. (May 2005)
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)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
David Hajdu, author of Lush Life and Positively 4th Street, teaches at Syracuse University and is music critic for The New Republic. (June 2005)
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
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.
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
Paul Muldoon, a native of Northern Ireland, is Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and the author of eight collections of poetry. The poem in this issue appears in his ninth, Moy Sand and Gravel, to be published in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (June 2002)
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)
Henry Siegman is a Senior Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a former executive head of the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America, and has served as general secretary of the American Association for Middle East Studies. (April 2006)
