Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 12 · July 19, 2001
Elizabeth Hardwick, Celebrities
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach
Andrew Butterfield, Bronze Beauties 
Donatello e il suo tempo: Il bronzetto a Padova nel Quattrocento e nel Cinquecento Catalog of the exhibition edited by Davide Banzato and Gian Franco Martinoni
Melissa Green, Daphne in Mourning (poem)
John Leonard, Liaisons Dangereuses
Positively 4th Street:The Life and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña,and Richard Fariña by David Hajdu
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes
Michael Ignatieff, Chains of Command
Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat by Wesley K. Clark
Hilary Mantel, The Devil's Playground
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
Tony Judt, 'Twas a Famous Victory
Jane Jacobs, Charles Dickens, Seer
Stephen Kinzer, Country Without Heroes
Charles Simic, That Elusive Something
The Strength of Poetry by James Fenton
Richard C. Lewontin, After the Genome, What Then?
Jeff Madrick, Mr. Fixit
Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom Bob Woodward
Greenspan: The Man Behind Money Justin Martin
Ian Buruma, The Japanese Berlusconi?
Patrice Higonnet, The Last French Saint
Simone Weil Francine du Plessix Gray
Tim Flannery, Glow in the Dark
The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus John Emsley
Hayden N. Pelliccia, Was Jason a Hero?
The Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios, translated from the Greek with an introduction, commentary, and glossary by Peter Green
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)
Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. He is the author of The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. (April 2008)
Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 2008)
Melissa Green's poem in this issue is drawn from the collection she has just completed, Daphne in Mourning. She is also the author of another book of poems, The Squanicook Eclogues. (July 2001)
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.
Patrice Higonnet teaches French history at Harvard. His latest book is Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution. (July 2001)
Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)
Jane Jacobs's most recent book is The Nature of Economies. Her essay in this issue is the introduction to the Modern Library edition of Hard Times, which is being published later this month. (July 2001)
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
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)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
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).
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Director of Policy Research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. (March 2008)
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt in 2009. (July 2008)
Hayden Pelliccia teaches Classics at Cornell. (April 2007)
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.
