Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 2 · February 14, 2002
Tim Flannery, Birds Out of Time
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes by Peter Matthiessen, with paintings and drawings by Robert Bateman
John Banville, 'Cowboys and Indians' 
Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter
Aryeh Neier, The Military Tribunals on Trial
Gabriele Annan, The Woman Who Rode Away
Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
Jeff Madrick, Welch's Juice
Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch with John A. Byrne
Margaret Atwood, Mystery Man
The Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921–1960 edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett, and with a foreword by Josephine Hammett Marshall
Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers by Jo Hammett, edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett
Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories & Other Writings selected and edited by Steven Marcus
Edmund S. Morgan, The Fastest Killer
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82 by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox by Jonathan B. Tucker
John Updike, New Kind on the Block
New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890–1940 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price
James Traub, The Land of the Naked Cowboy
Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon by Lynne B. Sagalyn
John Leonard, King of High & Low
Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Stephen King's Rose Red by Stephen King
The Essential Stephen King by Stephen J. Spignesi
Allan Keiler, The Modest Maestro
Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere by Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Anguish of a New York Liberal
Steven Weinberg, Can Missile Defense Work?
Shlomo Avineri, Amos Elon, 'The Deadlocked City': An Exchange
Letters
Abraham Brumberg, István Deák, Jews in Poland
Ludo De Witte, Brian Urquhart, Lumumba and the UN
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
Margaret Atwood is the author of eleven novels, among them The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace, and The Blind Assassin. Her most recent works of fiction are Oryx and Crake, The Tent, and Moral Disorder. (December 2006)
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Tim Flannery, former director of the South Australian Museum, is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (December 2008)
Allan Keiler is Professor of Music at Brandeis. His latest book, Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey, was published last year. He is writing a biography of Franz Liszt. (February 2002)
John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book The Case for Big Government will be published this fall. (September 2008)
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)
Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)
James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently writing a book about Times Square. (February 2002)
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
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. (September 2008)
