Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 13 · August 9, 2001
Alison Lurie, The Underduckling 
Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller Jackie Wullschlager
Charles Hope, The Last 'Last Supper'
Leonardo: The Last Supper with essays by Pinin Brambilla Barcilon and Pietro C. Marani,translated from the Italian by Harlow Tighe
Il Genio e le Passioni: Leonardo e il Cenacolo: Precedenti, innovazioni, riflessi di un capolavoro (The Genius and the Passions: Leonardo and the Last Supper: Precedents, Innovations, Reflections of a Masterpiece) Catalog of the exhibition edited by Pietro C. Marani, with a preface by Ernst H. Gombrich
Leonardo: The First Scientist by Michael White
Leonardo da Vinci by Sherwin B. Nuland
Geoffrey O'Brien, Very Special Effects
A.I. a film by Steven Spielberg
Al Alvarez, Ice Capades
Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Downright Lunacy by Fergus Fleming
Antarctica: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance edited by Charles Neider
Let Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers by Michael H. Rosove
Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk by Jennifer Niven
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic by Valerian Albanov
Great Exploration Hoaxes by David Roberts
The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti
Toni Morrison, On 'The Radiance of the King'
James Fenton, The Muse of Hartford
Magician of the Modern: Chick Austin and the Transformation of the Arts in America by Eugene R. Gaddis
Sylvie Kauffmann, Witness to Executions
John Lanchester, Love on a Laptop
Thinks... by David Lodge
Sergei Kovalev, The Putin Put-On
Joseph Kerman, Bayreuth Blues
The Wagners: The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty by Nike Wagner, translated from the German by Ewald Osers and Michael Downes
Colm Tóibín, Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
Robert Skidelsky, What Makes the World Go Round?
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 by Niall Ferguson
John Updike, Hawthorne Down on the Farm
Elizabeth Drew, Bush's Weird Tax Cut
Richard Horton, The Plagues Are Flying
Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe by Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio
Larry McMurtry, Zuni Tunes
Zuni and the American Imagination Eliza McFeely
Nina Bernstein, James Traub, Lost Children: An Exchange
Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, Camp David: The Tragedy of Errors
Letters
James R. Russell, Massacres of the Armenians
Contributors
Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author, with A.S. Khalidi, of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine. (May 2008)
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)
Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.
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)
Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)
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.
Sylvie Kauffmann is the US correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde. (August 2001)
Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).
Sergei Kovalev, a biologist and former political prisoner, is a leading candidate on the Yabloko Party list for the December election to the Russian State Duma. He is President of the Institute for Human Rights and Chairman of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation in Moscow. (November 2007)
John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)
Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)
Robert Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff from September 1998 to January 2001. He is currently Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. (May 2008)
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
Toni Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton, is the author of seven novels. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. (August 2001)
Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published last year in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2008)
Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Among his nonfiction works are Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play, Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin. His most recent novel, The Master, which is based on the life of Henry James, won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. He lives in Dublin.
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.
