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. (November 2007)
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.
Daniel Barenboim is Artistic Director and General Music Director of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. (March 2001)
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 this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 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's new book, School of Genius, a history of the Royal Academy in London, will be published in the US in May. (May 2006)
Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 2008)
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’s memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, was published in 2003. Her latest novel is Beyond Black. (January 2008)
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the author, most recently, of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, mostly from these pages, will be published this year. He teaches at Bard. (January 2008)
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)
