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 Cosmopolitanism and Experiments in Ethics. He is working on a book about the role of honor in moral life. (November 2008)
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.
(July 2009)
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.
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 the 2008 Erasmus Prize. His novel The China Lover was published in September 2008.
Christian Caryl is a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy and Newsweek and a Senior Fellow of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (October 2009)
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 iis the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems. (July 2009)
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. (April 2009)
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 Chancellorial Chair in Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside. He is working on a book on rhythm, metaphor, and politics in contemporary Chinese language. (January 2009)
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.
Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard. His translations, with commentary, of the Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems of Constantine Cavafy were published earlier this year; a collection of his essays mostly from these pages, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, was just published in paperback.
(October 2009)
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. His new book, Ship of Fools: How Corruption and Stupidity Killed the Celtic Tiger, will be published in the fall. (August 2009)
Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (November 2009)
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. (May 2009)
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)
