Table of Contents

Volume 48, Number 9 · May 31, 2001

Masha Lipman, Russia's Free Press Withers Away

Sanford Schwartz, Camera Work

Vermeer and the Delft School Catalog of the exhibition by Walter Liedtke, with Michiel C. Plomp and Axel Rüger.

Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces Philip Steadman

Vermeer: A View of Delft Anthony Bailey

Brad Leithauser, Mock Argument (poem)

Charles Simic, The Thinking Man's Comedy

Bellow, A Biography James Atlas

Alan Ryan, The Group

The Metaphysical Club Louis Menand

Pankaj Mishra, Dreaming of Mangoes

The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri

Ian Buruma, The Road to Babel

Helen Vendler, 'A Lament in Three Voices'

A Treatise on Poetry Czeslaw Milosz, translated from the Polish by the author and Robert Hass

Milosz's ABC's Czeslaw Milosz, translated from the Polish by Madeline Levine

William F. Schulz, Women in Prison

Jennifer Schuessler, In the Radical Nursery

How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories Dorothy Gallagher

Edmund S. Morgan, The Price of Honor

The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s–1880s Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Honor and Slavery Kenneth S. Greenberg

Jeff Madrick, The Charms of Property

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else Hernando de Soto

Christopher Hitchens, Bad Guy Number One

Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright Andrew Motion

Brad Leithauser, A Betting Man

Bells Are Ringing music by Jule Styne, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, directed by Tina Landau, and starring Faith Prince

Steven Weinberg, Can Science Explain Everything? Anything?

Istvan Deak, Heroes and Victims

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland Jan T. Gross

The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust Tzvetan Todorov, translated from the French by Arthur Denner

The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis: Persecution, Deportation, and Murder, 1933–1945 Michel Reynaud and Sylvie Graffard, translated from the French by James A. Moorhouse, with an introduction by Michael Berenbaum

Barbara Montgomery Dossey, Lynn McDonald, Hugh Small, et al. Florence Nightingale: An Exchange

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Letters

Robert W. Gutman, Bernard Williams, Wagner & Politics
Colin Jones, More Teeth

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Contributors

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)

Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)

Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.

Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.

Masha Lipman is the former Deputy Editor of the Russian news magazine Itogi. (May 2001)

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book The Case for Big Government will be published this fall. (September 2008)

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.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (June 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)

Jennifer Schuessler is on the staff of The New York Times Book Review. (March 2008)

William F. Schulz is Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA, and the author of In Our Own Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All. (April 2002)

Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)

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.

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science. (September 2008)

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