Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 5 · March 29, 2001
Oliver Sacks, Leaving Nirvana 
Michael Ignatieff, Bush's First Strike
Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda Khidhir Hamza, with Jeff Stein
Viktor Erofeyev, The Possessed
The Rasputin File Edvard Radzinsky, translated by Judson Rosengrant
John Banville, The Wild Colonial Boy
True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey
Gordon S. Wood, The Greatest Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Joseph J. Ellis
The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire Francis Jennings
Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government Catherine Allgor
Hilary Mantel, The Monster We Know
A New World Amit Chaudhuri
An Obedient Father Akhil Sharma
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
Ian Buruma, The Emperor's Secrets
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
Brad Leithauser, Let's Face the Music
Reading Lyrics edited and with an introduction by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball
James Fenton, The Story of a Room
The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation:Vol. 1: Federico da Montefeltro's Palace at Gubbio and Its Studiolo Olga Raggio
The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation: Vol. 2: Italian Renaissance Intarsia and the Conservation of the Gubbio Studiolo Antoine M. Wilmering
Tim Flannery, Fraud Among the Flowers
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud Karl Sabbagh
Daniel Mendelsohn, Breaking Out
The Throne of Labdacus Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Supernatural Love: Poems 1976–1992 Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Paul Seabright, The Road Upward
Development as Freedom Amartya Sen
Neal Ascherson, The Remains of der Tag
Whitehall and the Jews 1933–1948: British Immigration Policyand the Holocaust Louise London
Farewell Leicester Square Betty Miller
John Bayley, The Last Puritan
Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation Jeffrey Meyers
Daniel Barenboim, Germans, Jews, and Music
Amram Ducovny, Harris Green, Geoffrey C. Ward, et al. An Exchange on 'Jazz'
Letters
William G. Keehn, Joan Didion, Praying in Public
Leo Steinberg, Sanford Schwartz, Your Teeth Are Showing
James Le Fanu, Richard Horton, What Doctors Don't Know
Stuart A. Smith, Balak the Dog
Larry McMurtry, Corrections
Darryl Pinckney, Corrections
The Editors, Corrections
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London.
(December 2009)
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.
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.
Viktor Erofeyev is the author of Russian Beauty, a novel, and the editor of The Penguin Book of New Russian Writing. He lives in Moscow. (March 2001)
James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)
Tim Flannery is a Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future. (November 2009)
Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 2009)
Daniel Mendelsohn is the Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome this winter. A collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was recently published in paperback. His translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C.P. Cavafy was published last year. (March 2010)
Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.
Paul Seabright is leaving the University of Cambridge, where he was Reader in Economics, to teach economics at the University of Toulouse. (March 2001)
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)
