Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 18 · November 15, 2001
Tony Judt, America and the War
Hilary Mantel, Before the Deluge 
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
Orhan Pamuk, The Anger of the Damned
Bernard Knox, Love in Hell
Inferno by Dante Alighieri, a verse translation from the Italianby Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Dante: A Life in Works by Robert Hollander
Dante by R.W.B. Lewis
Pankaj Mishra, The Making of Afghanistan
Geoffrey O'Brien, Hitchcock: The Hidden Power
Hitchcock et l'Art: Coïncidences Fatales (Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences) catalog of the exhibition edited by Dominique Païniand Guy Cogeval
The Hitchcock Murders by Peter Conrad
Stuart Hampshire, The Pleasure of Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter J. Conradi
Anthony Grafton, Lost New York
Ben Katchor: Picture Stories by Ben Katchor
Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay by Ben Katchor
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories by Ben Katchor
The Jew of New York by Ben Katchor
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District by Ben Katchor
Tim Judah, With the Northern Alliance
E.P. Sanders, In Quest of the Historical Jesus
The Changing Faces of Jesus by Geza Vermes
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity by Paula Fredriksen
Joyce Carol Oates, Dark Laughter
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith by Patricia Highsmith, with a foreword by Graham Greene
A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith
Amos Elon, A German Requiem
Two Millennia of German Jewish History Jewish Museum, Berlin
Christopher de Bellaigue, The Perils of Pakistan
István Deák, Artful Dodger
Masquerade: Dancing around Death in Nazi-Occupied Hungary by Tivadar Soros, edited and translated from the Esperanto by Humphrey Tonkin, with forewords by Paul and George Soros
P.N. Furbank, The Art of Malice
Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, with Jean-François Fitou, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
Larry McMurtry, Life on the Missouri
Steven Weinberg, The Future of Science, and the Universe
Kevin Cahill, Bill McKibben, Nuclear Power: An Exchange
Letters
Abraham Brumberg, István Deák, 'Neighbors'
Peter D'Epiro, Bernard Knox, Not Bisexual
Thomas A. DiMaggio, Robert Cottrell, Overlapping Russians
The Editors, Wrong Notes
Contributors
István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (November 2009)
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)
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)
Tim Judah is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. He has reported on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Sudan for The New York Review. (October 2006)
Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued in paperback. (September 2009)
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. Her new novel, Wolf Hall, will be published in the US this month. (November 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.
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian. His most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond.
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)
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton, is the author most recently of the novel Little Bird of Heaven and the story collection Dear Husband. (December 2009)
Orhan Pamuk is the author, most recently, of Other Colors. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Maureen Freely has translated many of Orhan Pamuk's works into English. Her most recent novel is Enlightenment. (December 2008)
E. P. Sanders is the Art and Sciences Professor of Religion at Duke and the author of Paul and Palestinian Judaism, Jesus and Judaism, and Judaism: Practice and Belief. (April 2003)
Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the National Medal of Science.
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.
