Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 14 · September 20, 2001
Kang Zhengguo, Arrested in China
Russell Baker, Out of Step with the World 
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon by Joseph Mitchell
My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
James Fenton, Expressions of the Age
Der Potsdamer Platz: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und der Untergang Preussens [Potsdamer Platz: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and the Decline of Prussia] catalog of the exhibition edited by Katharina Henkel and Roland März
Avishai Margalit, Settling Scores
Charles Sprawson, Death of a Champion
The Crossing: The Glorious Tragedy of the First Man to Swim the English Channel by Kathy Watson
Richard Holmes, Triumph of an Artist
A Life of James Boswell by Peter Martin
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman
Hermione Lee, On Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
John Leonard, Nuclear Fission
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Andrew Delbanco, An Experiment in Darkness
The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language by Ernest Freeberg
The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl by Elisabeth Gitter
Stephen Kinzer, Our Man in Honduras
John Terborgh, The Age of Giants
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History ofNorth America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery
Amy Knight, The Truth about Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg: Report of the Swedish–Russian Working Group
Cell Occupancy Analysis of Korpus 2 of the Vladimir Prison: An Examination of the Consistency of Eyewitness Sightings of Raoul Wallenberg with Prisoner Registration Cards from the Prison Kartoteka by Marvin W. Makinen and Ari D. Kaplan
Swedish Aspects of the Raoul Wallenberg Case by Susanne Berger
Liquidatsia: The Question of Raoul Wallenberg's Death or Disappearance in 1947 by Susan Ellen Mesinai
Report on the Activities of the Russian–Swedish Working Group for Determining the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg (1991–2000)
Sherwin B. Nuland, 'A Very Wide and Deep Dissection'
The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America by Barron H. Lerner
Ian Buruma, The Fall of Mr. Toad
Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction by Michael Crick
Michael Wood, Dog Days
Amores Perros a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, written by Guillermo Arriaga
William H. McNeill, Continental Choo-Choo
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Haward Bain
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose
Charles Simic, Paradise Lost
Literature and the Gods by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Tim Parks
Daniel Mendelsohn, Boy Wonder
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Geoffrey O'Brien, On 'Sleepless Nights'
Stuart Hampshire, Living for the Future
The Diaries of Beatrice Webb edited by Norman MacKenzie and Jeanne MacKenzie, abridged by Lynn Knight, preface by Hermione Lee
Larry McMurtry, Sacagawea's Nickname
Joseph Connors, The Lion of Florence
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance by Anthony Grafton
On Alberti and the Art of Building by Robert Tavernor
Gordon A. Craig, Keeping Germany Fat
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews by Harold James
Doing Business with the Nazis: Britain's Economic and Financial Relations with Germany, 1931–1939 by Neil Forbes, with a foreword by Richard Overy
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black
Mark Lilla, The Lure of Syracuse
Gidi Grinstein, Dennis Ross, Hussein Agha, et al. Camp David: An Exchange
Helen Fein, Jurek Krzystek, István Deák, 'Neighbors': An Exchange
Jeremy Bernstein, Thomas Powers, Heisenberg's Visit: An Exchange
Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker, David Brion Davis, 'The Many-Headed Hydra': An Exchange
Letters
Rabbi Everett Gendler, David Lowenthal, et al. What Science Can Explain
Estep Nagy, Esther I. Wilder, et al. The Sporting Life
James Traub, Malcolm X's Brother
Contributors
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back.
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.
Joseph Connors, the Director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, writes on Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. He was formerly Director of the American Academy in Rome and professor of art history at Columbia.
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
Andrew Delbanco is Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. He is working on a book about college education. (November 2009)
James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
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)
Amy Knight is the author most recently of How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies. (November 2008)
Hermione Lee is the author of a biography of Virginia Woolf and of Virginia Woolf's Nose: Essays on Biography, which has recently appeared in paperback. Her new biography, Edith Wharton, has just been published. (May 2007)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper's and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
Mark Lilla is Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993) and the editor of New French Thought: Political Philosophy (1991). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His forthcoming book is On Compromise and Rotten Compromises.
(September 2009)
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.
William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather's Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published earlier this year; a collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was just published in paperback.
(October 2009)
Sherwin B. Nuland is Clinical Professor of Surgery and a Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. He is the author of How We Die, which won the National Book Award in 1994, and Lost in America. (December 2005)
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. (September 2009)
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.
Charles Sprawson is the author of Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero. (September 2001)
John Terborgh is Research Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke. His latest book is Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature. (December 2009)
Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (September 2009)
Kang Zhengguo is a Senior Lecturer at Yale. His most recent book is Lumeng (Deer Dreams) and he is now at work on his autobiography. (September 2001)
