Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 6 · April 11, 2002
Russell Baker, The Performer
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss
The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt edited by H.W. Brands
Ian Buruma, The Blood Lust of Identity 
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf, translated from the French by Barbara Bray
Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America by Tom Hayden
Sanford Schwartz, The Master of the Blur
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting Catalog of the exhibition by Robert Storr
Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977 by Robert Storr
The Daily Practice of Painting by Gerhard Richter
Robert M. Solow, Party Line
Economic Report of the President together with The Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers by The Council Of Economic Advisors
John Lanchester, The Dangers of Innocence
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Christian Caryl, Tyrants on the Take
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise by Martha Brill Olcott
Fintan O'Toole, Guns in the Family
Blood-Dark Track: A Family History by Joseph O'Neill
Janet Malcolm, Nudes Without Desire
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949–50 Catalog of the exhibition by Maria Morris Hambourg
Dancer: Photographs of Alexandra Beller by Irving Penn Catalog of the exhibition with an introduction by Anne Wilkes Tucker and an essay by Sylvia Wolf
Jared Diamond, Why Did the Vikings Vanish?
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga by William W. Fitzhugh and Elisabeth I. Ward
James Fenton, The Poet's Eye
George Romney, 1734–1802 Catalog of the exhibition by Alex Kidson
Those Delightful Regions of Imagination: Essays on George Romney edited by Alex Kidson
Sam Tanenhaus, A Family Affair
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair by Sam Roberts
The Man Behind the Rosenbergs by Alexander Feklisov and Sergei Kostin
Charles Simic, Divine, Superfluous Beauty
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers edited by Tim Hunt
The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers,Volume Five: Textual Evidence and Commentary edited by Tim Hunt
Howard Gardner, Too Many Choices?
The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line by Susan E. Eaton
Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens
Neal Ascherson, Surviving for Art
The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki by Marcel Reich-Ranicki, translated from the German by Ewald Osers
John Bayley, The Hard Hitter
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel edited by Nathalie Babel, translated from the Russian by Peter Constantine, with an introduction by Cynthia Ozick
Andrew Hacker, How Are Women Doing?
Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States by Rickie Solinger
Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History by N.E.H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer
Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility edited by Lawrence L. Wu and Barbara Wolfe
The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers
The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls by Colette Dowling
Perry Link, China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier
Peter Holland, Ghosts
Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt
Thomas Nagel, In the Stream of Consciousness
Consciousness and the World by Brian O'Shaughnessy
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Greek Way
Big Love by Charles L. Mee
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The House of the Prophet
Martin Luther King Jr. by Marshall Frady
Gerald Holton, Jonothan Logan, Michael Frayn, et al. 'Copenhagen': An Exchange
Letters
George C. McElroy, Roberto Vivarelli, et al. 'Economic Sentiments'
Harriet Turner, Rosemary Dinnage, 'The Illness of Ingrained Sorrow'
Contributors
K. Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism. He has recently edited Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption with Martin Bunzl. (September 2007)
Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (July 2008)
John Bayley has written two books about his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris and Iris and Her Friends. (July 2004)
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His novel The China Lover will be published this fall. (June 2008)
Christian Caryl is the Tokyo Bureau Chief of Newsweek. He has reported from thirty-seven countries, including Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq. (August 2008)
Jared Diamond, a Professor of Physiology and Public Health at UCLA and winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Medal of Science, is the author of, among other books, Guns, Germs, and Steel. (March 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)
Howard Gardner teaches psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His most recent book, with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, is Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. (April 2002)
Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)
Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote the entry on Shakespeare in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (December 2004)
John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)
Perry Link is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (April 2008)
Janet Malcolm was born in Prague. She was educated at the High School of Music and Art, in New York, and at the University of Michigan. Along with In the Freud Archives, her books include Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. She lives in New York with her husband, Gardner Botsford.
Daniel Mendelsohn, is the author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics
Circle Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. A collection of his essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, mostly from these pages, will be published in August. He teaches at Bard. (June 2008)
Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. His most recent book is Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays. (May 2006)
Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. He is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. (November 2007)
Sanford Schwartz's essays and reviews have been collected in The Art Presence and Artists and Writers. (July 2008)
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.
Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (November 2007)
Sam Tanenhaus, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of Whittaker Chambers, is writing a biography of William F. Buckley Jr. (April 2002)
