Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 10 · June 21, 2001
Garry Wills, The Dramaturgy of Death 
Daniel Mendelsohn, Double Take
The Producers book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman
Janet Malcolm, Justice to J.D. Salinger
Susan Sontag, In Jerusalem
John Updike, The Imaginary Builder
Piranesi and Architectural Fantasy
Neal Ascherson, In the Pit of History
The Shadow of the Sun Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska
Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa Ann Jones
Charles Rosen, Within a Budding Grove
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition edited by Stanley Sadie
Gordon S. Wood, In the American Grain
John Adams David McCullough
Michael Wood, Nabokov on the Wing
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov–Wilson Letters, 1940–1971 edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Simon Karlinsky
Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates
Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, with new translations from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov
Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) Stacy Schiff
Robert L. Herbert, Spirits on Canvas
Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and H. Travers Newton Jr.
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art Debora Silverman
David Hajdu, The Spirit of the Spirit
The Spirit Archives Will Eisner
Outer Space Spirit: 1952 by Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Wally Wood
A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories Will Eisner
Life on Another Planet Will Eisner
New York: The Big City Will Eisner
Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood Will Eisner
The Building Will Eisner
Invisible People Will Eisner
Minor Miracles Will Eisner
Family Matter Will Eisner
Will Eisner Reader: Seven Graphic Stories by a Comics Master
Thomas Powers, Notes from Underground
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War through the Dawn of a New Century James Bamford
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age Steven Levy
Richard Seaver, On Jérôme Lindon, 1926–2001
Patricia Storace, Love Among the Ruins
The Persian Bride James Buchan
Stephen Kinzer, Guatemala: The Unfinished Peace
Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process Susanne Jonas
Los Difíciles Senderos de la Paz en Guatemala Gudrun Molkentin
Memoria Verdad y Esperanza: Version Popular del Informe Guatemala: Nunca Más a report by the Archbishopric of Guatemala
El Guerrillero y el General: Rodrigo Asturias y Julio Balconi Sobre la Guerra y la Paz en Guatemala Dirk Kruijt and Rudie Van Meurs
El Drama de la Pobreza en Guatemala: Sus Rasgos y Efectos Sobre la Sociedad a report by the government of the Republic of Guatemala
William Empson, Sartre Resartus
No Exit and The Flies Jean-Paul Sartre, translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert
Joyce Carol Oates, The Wind Done Gone
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter William Wells Brown, with an introduction by Hilton Als
Passing Nella Larsen, with an introduction by Ntozake Shange
Witold Rybczynski, City Lights
The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century Joseph Rykwert
Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America Pietro S. Nivola
Thomas R. Edwards, The Great Sultan
A Few Corrections Brad Leithauser
Alexander Stille, Making Way for Berlusconi
Anthony Quinton, Springtime for Hegel
Hegel: A Biography Terry Pinkard
Richard C. Lewontin, Genes in the Food!
The Ecological Risks ofEngineered Crops Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellon
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Vandana Shiva
Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods Alan McHughen
Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation a report by the Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Research Council
Brian Urquhart, Reflections on the Mitchell Report
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)
Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)
William Empson (1906—1984) was the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity and Some Versions of Pastoral. His Complete Poems were recently published. (June 2001)
David Hajdu, author of Lush Life and Positively 4th Street, teaches at Syracuse University and is music critic for The New Republic. (June 2005)
Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”
Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Managua, Berlin, and Istanbul, is the author of Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. He is writing a book about Rwanda. (June 2008)
Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).
Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.
Daniel Mendelsohn, is the author 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, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, mostly from these pages, will be published in August. He teaches at Bard. (June 2008)
Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton. Her collection of short novellas Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway has just been published, and her novel My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike will be published this summer. (June 2008)
Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.
Anthony Quinton is the former president of Trinity College, Oxford, former chairman of the British Library, and the author of Hume. (June 2001)
Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)
Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is architecture critic for Slate. His new book on American building, Last Harvest, has just been published. (May 2007)
Richard Seaver, President of Arcade Publishing, has translated some forty books from the French. (June 2001)
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
Alexander Stille is the author of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic and The Future of the Past. His most recent book is The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. (April 2008)
Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece and Sugar Cane a children's book. She lives in New York.
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.
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.
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)
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)
