Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 6 · April 12, 2001
Charles Simic, Miraculous Mandarin
Collected Poems James Merrill, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser
Familiar Spirits Alison Lurie
James Traub, Excelsior! 
Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign Michael Tomasky
Gabriele Annan, Act Two
Love, Etc. Julian Barnes
Anthony Hecht, Mirror (poem)
Tony Judt, The French Difference
Les cartes de la Franceà l'heure de la mondialisation, a dialogue with Dominique Moisi by Hubert Védrine
James Fenton, Wounded by Un-Shrapnel
James M. McPherson, Southern Comfort
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan
Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War Charles B. Dew
The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780–1860 Leonard L. Richards
W.S. Merwin, To My Father's Houses (poem)
Helen Epstein, Time of Indifference
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health Laurie Garrett
Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor edited by Jim Yong Kim, Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and John Gershman
Poverty, Inequality, and Health edited by David A. Leon and Gill Walt
John Russell, Comrade Picasso
Picasso: The Communist Years Gertje R. Utley
Peter Brown, Charmed Lives
Antioch: The Lost Ancient City
Antioch: The Lost Ancient City, catalog of the exhibition edited by Christine Kondoleon
Andrew Hacker, The Big College Try
Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A University President's Perspective James J. Duderstadt
Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education Murray Sperber
The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen
Hermione Lee, Tracking the Untrackable
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes
Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding David Ellis
Reflections on Biography Paula R. Backscheider
Gordon A. Craig, The X-Files
The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the US Army Joseph W. Bendersky
"Communazis": FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers Alexander Stephan
J.S. Marcus, Shadows on the Danube
The Struggle for a Democratic Austria: Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice edited by Matthew Paul Berg, in collaboration with Jill Lewis and Oliver Rathkolb; translated from the German by Helen Atkins and Matthew Paul Berg; with a preface by John Kenneth Galbraith
Haider: Licht und Schatten einer Karriere [Light and Shadows of a Career] Christa Zöchling
Larry McMurtry, Grand Canyon Sweet
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell Donald Worster
Frank Kermode, But Could She Cook?
Elizabeth I: Collected Works edited by Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose
Colin McGinn, Can You Believe It?
The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World Hilary Putnam
David Gilmour, Little War, Big Mess
Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854–1856 Trevor Royle
Al Alvarez, The Prodigal Prodigy
Learning Human: Selected Poems Les Murray
Robert Darnton, Un-British Activities
Letters
Earl L. Dachslager, Odd Choices
Harold J. Bursztajn, Greg Eddleston, et al. 'Death with Dignity'
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton. The twentieth-anniversary edition of his book The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity was published last year.
(June 2009)
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (February 2009)
Helen Epstein is the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS.
(June 2009)
James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. (July 2009)
David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (April 2009)
Anthony Hecht'sCollected Later Poems and Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry were published in 2003. He died on October 20. (December 2004)
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)
Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (October 2008)
Hermione Lee is the author of a biography of Virginia Woolf and of Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography, which has recently appeared in paperback. Her new biography, Edith Wharton, has just been published. (May 2007)
J. S. Marcus's most recent novel is The Captain's Fire. He is currently a fellow at the Santa Maddalena Foundation, near Florence. (April 2001)
Colin McGinn teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Miami and is a Cooper Fellow. His most recent book is Shakespeare’s Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays. (March 2008)
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.
James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. (December 2008)
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)
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.
James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently writing a book about Times Square. (February 2002)
