Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 17 · November 1, 2001
Stanley Hoffmann, On the War 
J.M. Coetzee, The Razor's Edge
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
Ingrid D. Rowland, The Nervous Republic
Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire by Garry Wills
Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State by David Rosand
The Tombs of the Doges of Venice by Debra Pincus
Richard L. Garwin, The Many Threats of Terror
Gordon A. Craig, Founding Father
Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany by Charles Williams
Michael Kimmelman, Wandering Minstrel
Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations by Bruno Monsaingeon,translated from the French by Stewart Spencer
Richter the Enigma a film by Bruno Monsaingeon
Richter—Rediscovered—Carnegie Hall Recital RCA Red Seal
Gabriele Annan, Ghost Story
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Anthea Bill
Martin Filler, Berlin: The Lost Opportunity
City of Architecture, Architecture of the City: Berlin 1900–2000 edited by Thorsten Scheer, Josef Paul Kleihues, and Paul Kahlfeldt
Rebuilding the Reichstag by Norman Foster
The Reichstag: The Parliament Building by Norman Foster by Bernhard Schulz
Architektur in Berlin: Jahrbuch 2000 edited by the Architectenkammer, Berlin
Martin Malia, Lenin and the 'Radiant Future'
Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service
Lenin's Embalmers by Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson, translated from the French by Barbara Bray
Jasper Griffin, The Unkindest Cut
Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale by Laura Engelstein
Eunuchs and Castrati by Piotr O. Scholz
Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood by Gary Taylor
Tony Judt, Romania: Bottom of the Heap
M.F. Perutz, Growing Up Among the Elements
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
Timothy Garton Ash, Odd Man Out
The Heart Beats on the Left by Oskar Lafontaine, translated from the Germanby Ronald Taylor
Anne Barton, The Group
The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802 by John Worthen
M.F. Burnyeat, Philosophy for Winners
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb, Long-Distance Runner
Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life by Charles Affron
Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen by Stuart Oderman
Thomas Powers, The Nestor of the Rockies
Kit Carson and the Indians by Tom Dunlay
Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer? edited by R.C. Gordon-McCutchan
Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48 by George Douglas Brewerton
Richard Jenkyns, The Labyrinth of Arthur Evans
Motya: Unearthing a Lost Civilization by Gaia Servadio
Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth by Joseph Alexander MacGillivray
Darryl Pinckney, The Black American Tragedy
Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley
Letters
Russian Human Rights Organizations, On the Consequences of Terrorist Acts in the Us
Avishai Margalit, David Matas, Sophistry & the Settlers
Guy Richards, Not So Needlessly
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. (March 2007)
M.F. Burnyeat is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato and A Map of Metaphysics Zeta. (November 2001)
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)
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)
Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
Richard L. Garwin is Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Columbia. He has just published a book on nuclear weapons and nuclear power, Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age? (November 2001)
Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker and is the dance critic of The New York Observer. (May 2008)
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)
Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 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)
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times. Starting this fall he is based in Berlin writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. He is the author, most recently, of The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. (October 2007)
Martin Malia is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of Russia Under Western Eyes, from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum. (November 2001)
M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
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.
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.
