Table of Contents

Volume 48, Number 11 · July 5, 2001

J.M. Coetzee, In the Midst of Losses

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew John Felstiner

Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan translated from the German by John Felstiner

Glottal Stop: 101 Poems Paul Celan, translated from the German by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh

Breathturn Paul Celan, translated from the German by Pierre Joris

Threadsuns Paul Celan, translated from the German by Pierre Joris

Brad Leithauser, Frequent Fliers

Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly Sue Halpern

Ingrid D. Rowland, Etruscan Secrets

Gli Etruschi (The Etruscans)

The Etruscans edited by Mario Torelli, translated from the Italian by Rhoda Billingsley et al.

Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History Sybille Haynes

Helen Epstein, AIDS: The Lesson of Uganda

Eamon Duffy, A Deadly Misunderstanding

Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews James Carroll

David Lodge, Sick with Desire

The Dying Animal by Philip Roth

Gabriele Annan, Escape!

The Peppered Moth Margaret Drabble

Bill McKibben, Some Like It Hot

Climate Change 2001:Third Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

National Energy Policy: Report of the National Energy Policy Development Group Dick Cheney, Colin L. Powell, Paul O'Neill, Gale Norton (Secretary of the Interior), Ann M. Veneman (Secretary of Agriculture), Donald L. Evans (Secretary of Commerce), Norman Y. Mineta (Secretary of Transportation), Spencer Abraham (Secretary of Energy),

Ian Buruma, The Japanese Malaise

Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan by Alex Kerr

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel

Alan Ryan, A New Vision of Liberty

Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment Emma Rothschild

Jason Epstein, Reading: The Digital Future

James Fenton, 'Good Voices Are Rare'

The Complete Poems of William Empson edited by John Haffenden

David Brion Davis, Slavery—White, Black, Muslim, Christian

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa by Lamin Sanneh

Amos Elon, Scenes from a Marriage

Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936–1968 edited and with an introduction by Lotte Kohler, translated from the German by Peter Constantine

Frank Kermode, Art Among the Ruins

Practicing New Historicism by Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt

Shakespeare After Theory by David Scott Kastan

Boris Jordan, Masha Lipman, A Free Press in Russia?

Frederic Bozo, Tony Judt, 'The French Difference': An Exchange

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Letters

Mike Wallace, A Letter from Dr. Kevorkian
Jeffrey M. Dickemann, 'Skeleton in the Closet'
John Updike, A Missing 'S'
Christopher de Bellaigue, 'The Sick Man of Europe'
Charles Dunlop, Updated on the Web

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Contributors

Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)

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)

J. M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. His latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, was published in December. (March 2008)

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)

Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book is Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570. (May 2008)

Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)

Helen Epstein's book book The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa was published last year. (August 2008)

Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)

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)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)

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

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

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)

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