Table of Contents

Volume 49, Number 4 · March 14, 2002

James Fallows, He's Got Mail

republic.com by Cass Sunstein

Is the Internet Good for Democracy? the Boston Review

Michael Tomasky, The Story Behind the Towers

Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority by Jameson W. Doig

Lorrie Moore, Burning at Both Ends

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Daniel Mark Epstein

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems edited by Colin Falck

The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay edited and with an introduction by Nancy Milford

Samantha Power, Genocide and America

Charles Rosen, Steak and Potatoes

April Bernard, Funny Weather (poem)

Jeff Madrick, Enron: Seduction and Betrayal

Report of Investigation by the Special Investigative Committee of the Board of Directors of Enron Corp. by William C. Powers Jr., Raymond S. Troubh, and Herbert S. Winokur Jr.

James Fenton, Sketches in Clay

Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova Catalog of the exhibition edited by Bruce Boucher

Juan Muñoz Catalog of the exhibition edited by Neal Benezra, Olga M. Viso, Michael Brenson, and Paul Schimmel

Impressionist Still Life Catalog of the exhibitionby Eliza E. Rathbone and George T.M. Shackelford

Lincoln Chen, Helen Epstein, Can AIDS Be Stopped?

William Weaver, The Mystery of Ignazio Silone

La cultura a Torino tra le due guerre (Culture in Turin Between the Two Wars) by Angelo D'Orsi

Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945 by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

L'informatore: Silone, i comunisti e la Polizia (The Informer: Silone, the Communists, and the Police) by Dario Biocca and Mauro Canali

Processo a Silone: La disavventura di un povero cristiano(Silone on Trial: The Misadventure of a Poor Christian) by Giuseppe Tamburrano, with Gianna Granati and Alfonso Isinelli

John R. Searle, 'Sneaked' or 'Snuck'?

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker

Michael Wood, Girls with Green Hair

Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende,translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

Leaving Tabasco by Carmen Boullosa, translated from the Spanish by Geoff Hargreaves

Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire by José Manuel Prieto,translated from the Spanish by Carol and Thomas Christensen

Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo, translated from the Spanish by Paul Hammond

Alan Ryan, Keynes's Last Stand

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937–1946 by Robert Skidelsky

Shirley K. Baker, Sarah A. Mikel, Robert Darnton, 'The Great Book Massacre': An Exchange

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Letters

Eric Reeves, Daniel Benjamin, The Attack on Khartoum
Henry Hardy, Russell's 'History'
Floyd Abrams, John Banville, 'Cowboys & Indians'

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Contributors

April Bernard has published a novel and three collections of poetry, most recently Swan Electric. (November 2006)

Lincoln Chen is a faculty member at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was formerly Takemi Professor of International Health at Harvard's School of Public Health and Executive Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation. (March 2002)

Helen Epstein's book The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS has just been published. (July 2007)

James Fallows is National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author, most recently, of Free Flight. (March 2002)

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)

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Director of Policy Research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. (March 2008)

Lorrie Moore teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her most recent book is the story collection Birds of America. She has won the Rea Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. (September 2007)

Samantha Power, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the author of "A Problem from Hell," which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Parts of the essay in this issue will appear as a foreword to Roméo Dallaire's Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, to be published in January. (November 2004)

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction and Freedom and Neurobiology. (November 2006)

Michael Tomasky is Editor of Guardian America, The Guardian’s American Web site. (June 2008)

William Weaver is celebrated for his numerous translations from the Italian, including Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and novels and stories by Italo Calvino. Weaver's translation of Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal is also published by NYRB Classics.

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

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