Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 19 · November 29, 2001
Tony Judt, On 'The Plague' 
John Updike, The Thing Itself
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints catalog of the exhibition edited by Nadine M. Orenstein, with additional contributions by Manfred Sellink, Jürgen Müller, Michiel C. Plomp, Martin Royalton-Kisch, and Larry Silver
Tim Judah, War in the Dark
John Bayley, Fresh Oysters
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm
The Complete Early Short Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume One (1880–82): 'He and She' and Other Stories translated from the Russian by Peter Sekirin
William Pfaff, Afghanistan: The Moving Target
Thomas Flanagan, Western Star
Searching for John Ford: A Life by Joseph McBride
Alastair Reid, When the Era Was an Era
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Timothy Garton Ash, Is There a Good Terrorist?
Sanford Schwartz, To Be a Pilgrim
Gwen John: A Life by Sue Roe
Eric L. McKitrick, The Good Loser
Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper Jr.
Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart by Felicity Allen
Benjamin DeMott, The Sad Tale of Newton Arvin
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth
Aileen Kelly, In the Promised Land
Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War by Jeffrey Brooks
Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov
James Fenton, Beautiful Objects
Mermaids Explained by Christopher Reid, with a foreword by Charles Simic
Electric Light by Seamus Heaney
Hilary Mantel, A Past Recaptured
A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford
A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
John Gross, The Reader Strikes Back
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson
Christopher Jencks, Who Should Get In?
The Ecological Indian: Myth and History by Shepard Krech III
The Case Against Immigration by Roy Beck
Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy by George J. Borjas
America's Demography in the New Century: Aging Baby Boomers and New Immigrants as Major Players by William Frey and Ross DeVol
The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience edited by Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind
Immigration from Mexico: Assessing the Impact on the United States by Steven Camarota
The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration edited by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston
Charles Gross, Benjamin Kissin, Alvin Plantinga, et al. 'Saving Us from Darwin': An Exchange
Letters
Stanley Crouch, Richard L. Garwin, 'Facing Up to Things'
Aryeh Neier, A Court for Terrorists
Morris Dickstein, The Irving Howe Lecture
Ives Goddard, 'The Road to Babel'
Frederick J. Augustyn Jr., Early Feminists for Life
Mark Baker, M.B.B. Biskupski, et al. Bruno Schultz's Frescoes
Contributors
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Benjamin Demott is Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Amherst. His most recent book is Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind. (May 2005)
James Fenton iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)
Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was a novelist, scholar, and critic. He was the author of The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 (1959) and the novels The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994).
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 books include Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name and (as editor with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
(December 2009)
John Gross's most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which was published in paperback last September. (May 2009)
Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is working on a book about the social and political consequences of growing inequality. (September 2007)
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)
Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)
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)
Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)
William Pfaff is an American author and syndicated columnist in Paris. His most recent book is The Bullet's Song. (December 2007)
Alastair Reid is a poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of Latin American literature. He had been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1959 and has translated works by Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges. Among his many books for children are A Balloon for a Blunderbuss, I Keep Changing, and Millionaires (all illustrated by Bob Gill), and Supposing (illustrated by Abe Birnbaum). In 2008 he published two career-spanning collections of work, Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations and Outside In: Selected Prose.
Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
