Table of Contents
Volume 48, Number 20 · December 20, 2001
Joseph Lelyveld, Another Country
Political Fictions by Joan Didion
Charles Hope, E.H. Gombrich (1909–2001) 
Charles Simic, A World Gone Up in Smoke
New and Collected Poems, 1931–2001 by Czeslaw Milosz
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czeslaw Milosz, edited and with an introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine
Czeslaw Milosz, An Honest Description of Myself with a Glass of Whiskey at An Airport, Let Us Say, in Minneapolis (poem)
Czeslaw Milosz, Forget (poem)
Robert L. Herbert, An Anarchist's Art
Signac, 1863–1935 catalog of the exhibition by Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon, Anne Distel, John Leighton, and Susan Alyson Stein
Signac et la libération de la couleur: De Matisse à Mondrian edited by Erich Franz
Signac: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint by Françoise Cachin, with Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon
Tim Judah, In Conquered Kabul
Brad Leithauser, Golden Notebooks
The Complete Sagas of Icelanders edited by Vidar Hreinsson
The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection with a preface by Jane Smiley and an introduction by Robert Kellogg
Matthew Meselson, Bioterror: What Can Be Done?
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller, Steven Engelberg, and William Broad
J.M. Coetzee, Dupe of History
Embers by Sándor Márai,translated by Carol Brown Janeway
Land, Land! Erinnerungen(Land, Land: A Memoir) by Sándor Márai, translated by Hans Skirecki
Memoir of Hungary, 1944–1948 by Sándor Márai, translated by Albert Tezla
Der Wind kommt vom Westen: Amerikanische Reisebilder(The Wind Comes from the West) by Sándor Márai, translated by Artur Saternus
Das Vermächtnis der Eszter(Eszter's Legacy) by Sándor Márai,translated by Christina Viragh
Bekenntnisse eines Bürgers: Erinnerungen (Confessions of a Bourgeois: A Memoir) by Sándor Márai, translated by Hans Skirecki
Jonathan Mirsky, Inside the Whale
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing by Ian Buruma
John Gregory Dunne, The Hardest War
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge
The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb by George Feifer
The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War by Samuel Hynes
Larry McMurtry, Mad About the Book
Patience and Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture by Nicholas A. Basbanes
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Charles Rosen, The Future of Music
Timothy Garton Ash, Europe at War
Thomas Flanagan, John Ford's West
Searching for John Ford: A Life by Joseph McBride
Gordon A. Craig, Racing with the Moon
Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel by Douglas Botting
Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon, A Failure of Intelligence?
James Fenton, From Florence to Las Vegas
Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's 'Ginevra de' Benci' and Renaissance Portraits of Women Catalog of the exhibition edited by David Alan Brown
The Art of the Motorcycle Catalog of the exhibition published by the Guggenheim Las Vegas
Masterpieces and Master Collectors Catalog of the exhibition published by the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
Aelbert Cuyp Catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
Luc Sante, Mean Streets
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury, with a foreword by Jorge Luis Borges
William H. McNeill, The Conservation of Catastrophe
Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 by Stephen J. Pyne
Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire by Murry A. Taylor
Fire by Sebastian Junger
Tim Parks, The Luck of Letty Fox
Christopher Jencks, Who Should Get In? Part II
Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation by Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut
The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience edited by Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind
Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America by Roberto Suro
Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy by George J. Borjas
Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities by Mary C. Waters
The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration edited by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston
The Case Against Immigration by Roy Beck
The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform by James G. Gimpel and James R. Edwards Jr
Tony Judt, 'The War on Terror'
Ludo De Witte, Colin Legum, Brian Urquhart, The Tragedy of Lumumba: An Exchange
Letters
George Feifer, Albert L. Weeks, et al. Lenin & 'The Radiant Future'
Contributors
Daniel Benjamin is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He served on the National Security Council staff between 1994 and 1999. Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon's book on religously motivated terrorism will be published next year. (December 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)
John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 2004)
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)
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 most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)
Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”
Charles Hope is Director of the Warburg Institute, London, and the author of Titian. (December 2002)
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 is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
Joseph Lelyveld is a former editor and correspondent of The New York Times. He is the author of Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. (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.
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)
Matthew Meselson is Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard. He is engaged in research on molecular genetics and evolution. (December 2001)
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Cleaver. (September 2008)
Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
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.
Steven Simon is assistant director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He served on the National Security Council staff between 1994 and 1999. Steven Simon and Daniel Benjamin's book on religously motivated terrorism will be published next year. (December 2001)
