Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 7 · April 26, 2001
Ryszard Kapuscinski, Death in Sudan 
John Ashbery, Random Jottings of An Old Man (poem)
Andrew O'Hagan, Double Lives
Aiding and Abetting Muriel Spark
Jack Flam, Space Men
Paths to the Absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still John Golding
Robert Darnton, The Great Book Massacre
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Nicholson Baker
Robert Cottrell, Founding Father
My Six Years with Gorbachev Anatoly S. Chernyaev, translated from the Russian and edited by Robert D. English and Elizabeth Tucker
George F. Kennan, Memorandum for the Minister
Garry Wills, A Tale of Two Cardinals
Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin edited by Alphonse P. Spilly, C.PP.S.
Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith John L. Allen Jr.
The Spirit of the Liturgy Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, translated from the German by John Saward
David Coward, Liberated Women
George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large Belinda Jack
The Life of Marie d'Agoult, Alias Daniel Stern Phyllis Stock-Morton
Marie d'Agoult: The Rebel Countess Richard Bolster
Brian Urquhart, Mrs. Roosevelt's Revolution
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declarationof Human Rights Mary Ann Glendon
Tim Parks, Borges and His Ghosts
Selected Non-Fictions Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Eliot Weinberger, translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger
Oliver Sacks, Inside the Executive Brain
Pankaj Mishra, You Can't Go Home Again
The Atlantic Sound Caryl Phillips
Louis Menand, The Socrates of Cambridge
The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright edited by Frank X. Ryan
Brad Leithauser, Tough Cookie
The Oxford Book of Sonnets edited by John Fuller
Jasper Griffin, From Abakainon to Zygris
The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World edited by Richard J.A. Talbert
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Equality of What?
Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality Ronald Dworkin
Rick Livingston, 'The Reach of Reason': An Exchange
Letters
Terence S. Turner, 'Life Among the Anthros'
Contributors
K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism. He has recently edited Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption with Martin Bunzl. (September 2007)
John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)
David Coward is Research Professor in French at Leeds University, and is completing a history of French literature. His translation of Albert Cohen's Belle du Seigneur won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize in 1996. (April 2001)
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)
Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His new book, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship, has just been published. (March 2003)
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
Ryszard Kapuscinski lives in Warsaw. The essay in this issue appears in The Shadow of the Sun, which is being published this month by Knopf. (April 2001)
George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club—which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize in 2002—and of American Studies, a collection of essays.
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.
Andrew O'Hagan's novel Be Near Me has just been published in the US. He is a recipient of the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (June 2007)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His novel Cleaver was published in February. (April 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.
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (June 2008)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
