Table of Contents

Volume 48, Number 3 · February 22, 2001

Paul Berman, Rabbit Undone

Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel by John Updike

Charles Fried, Ronald Dworkin, 'A Badly Flawed Election': An Exchange

Gordon S. Wood, All in the Family

An American Family: The Kennans—The First Three Generations by George F. Kennan

John Leonard, The Hunger Artist

The Body Artist by Don DeLillo

Alan Ryan, Schools: The Price of 'Progress'

Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms by Diane Ravitch

Roger Shattuck, Farce & Philosophy

Stories & Remarks by Raymond Queneau, with a preface by Michel Leiris, translated and with an introduction by Marc Lowenthal

The Bark Tree[Le Chiendent] by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Barbara Wright

Odile by Raymond Queneau,translated from the French by Carol Sanders

Raymond Queneau (1985) by Allen Thiher

Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau,translated from the French by Barbara Wright

Zazie[Zazie dans le métro] by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Barbara Wright

Œuvres complètes, Volume One by Raymond Queneau, edited by Claude Debon

We Always Treat Women Too Well [On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes] by Raymond Queneau. translated from the French by Barbara Wright

James Fenton, The Heroes of Kwangju

Kwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age by Lee Jai-eui, translated from the Korean by Kap Su Seol and Nick Mamatas

The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea's Tiananmen edited by Henry Scott-Stokesand Lee Jai-eui, with a foreword by President Kim Dae-jung

Ingrid D. Rowland, Star Trek

Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Grafton

Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science by Hilary Gatti

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by J.L. Heilbron

Charles Simic, Intensive Care

The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman

Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

Good Benito by Alan Lightman

Dance for Two by Alan Lightman

Tony Judt, Could the French Have Won?

Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France by Ernest R. May

Denis Donoghue, The World Seen and Half-Seen

The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor

Death in Summer (1998) by William Trevor

After Rain (1996) by William Trevor

Excursions in the Real World (1994) by William Trevor

Felicia's Journey (1994) by William Trevor

The Collected Stories (1993) by William Trevor

Two Lives (1991) by William Trevor

Nights at the Alexandra (1987) by William Trevor

Fools of Fortune (1983) by William Trevor

Pankaj Mishra, The Great Narayan

The English Teacher (1945) by R.K. Narayan

Swami and Friends (1935) by R.K. Narayan

The Bachelor of Arts (1937) with an introductionby Graham Greene

The Dark Room (1938) by R.K. Narayan

Mr. Sampath: The Printer of Malgudi (1949) by R.K. Narayan

Waiting for the Mahatma (1955) by R.K. Narayan

The Vendor of Sweets (1967) by R.K. Narayan

The Painter of Signs (1977) by R.K. Narayan

My Dateless Diary: An American Journey (1988) by R.K. Narayan

The Financial Expert (1952) by R.K. Narayan

The Guide (1958) by R.K. Narayan

My Days (1973) by R.K. Narayan

Malgudi Days (1982) by R.K. Narayan

Mark Danner, The Road to Illegitimacy

Darryl Pinckney, Beyond the Fringe

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Letters

John Havelock, A Fair Shake

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Contributors

Paul Berman is the author of A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968. (October 2001)

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.

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (July 2009)

Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued by Penguin in paperback.
 (July 2009)

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.

Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

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.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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