Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 8 · May 17, 2001
Russell Baker, Mr. Right 
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Rick Perlstein
Suburban Warriors Lisa McGirr
Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons
John Updike, 'Therefore I Print'
William Blake
William Blake Catalog of the exhibition by Robin Hamlyn and Michael Phillips, with introductory essays by Peter Ackroyd and Marilyn Butler
Richard Horton, Thalidomide Comes Back
Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine Trent Stephens and Rock Brynner
John Bayley, What Happened to the Hippopotamus's Wife?
The Biographer's Tale A.S. Byatt
On Histories and Stories A.S. Byatt
Avishai Margalit, The Middle East: Snakes & Ladders
James Traub, Bleak House
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care Nina Bernstein
Elizabeth Hardwick, The Foster Father
Pico Iyer, On the Road
Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment Richard Bernstein
Tim Judah, Greater Albania?
Jonathan Mirsky, Un-Chinese Activities
Treason by the Book Jonathan D. Spence
John Weightman, Molière Imaginaire
Molière: A Theatrical Life Virginia Scott
Stuart Hampshire, He Had His Ups and Downs
Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness 1921–1970 Ray Monk
Gabriele Annan, Shock Treatment
Border Crossing by Pat Barker
Gordon S. Wood, Tocqueville's Lesson
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop
James Fenton, A Friend, a Booke, and a Garden
Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens John Evelyn, edited by John E. Ingram
John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening edited by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Alan Ryan, Live and Let Live
Two Faces of Liberalism John Gray
Bernard Knox, Liberating a Masterpiece
Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) Torquato Tasso, edited and translated from the Italian by Anthony M. Esolen
Timothy Garton Ash, The European Orchestra
Gore Vidal, Ian Buruma, Pearl Harbor: An Exchange
John F. Murray, David J. Rothman, 'The Shame of Medical Research': An Exchange
Letters
Frances FitzGerald, 'Freedom to Write'
Bernard Sinsheimer, Ronald Steel, 'Mr. Fixit'
Daniel F. Tritter, Tony Judt, How Flemish Is It?
Jeanne Guillemin, M.F. Perutz, 'Biohazard'
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (April 2008)
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
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)
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.
Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Pico Iyer’s most recent novel is Abandon. A new book, The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, will be out next spring. (December 2007)
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has just been awarded the 2007 Emet Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his work in political thought, ethics, and philosophy. (December 2007)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. (May 2008)
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)
James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently writing a book about Times Square. (February 2002)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)
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)
