Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 8 · May 9, 2002
Tony Judt, The Road to Nowhere 
Anthony Grafton, Great Walls
Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence Catalog of the exhibition by Thomas P. Campbell and others
Al Alvarez, A Light Black World
The Darkness and the Light by Anthony Hecht
Aileen Kelly, Keeping the Sparks Alive
Sakharov: A Biography by Richard Lourie
Graham Robb, The Shock of the Old
Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle- Class Culture, 1815–1914 by Peter Gay
Gordon S. Wood, Rambunctious American Democracy
How Democratic Is the American Constitution? by Robert A. Dahl
On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding by Michael Novak
James Madison by Garry Wills
Charles Simic, The Mystery of Presence
Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski,translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh, Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams
Another Beauty by Adam Zagajewski,translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
Adam Zagajewski, Farewell for Zbigniew Herbert (poem)
Richard C. Lewontin, The Politics of Science
Science, Truth, and Democracy by Philip Kitcher
Science, Money, and Politics:Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel S. Greenberg
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
W.S. Merwin, The Impossible Blue Butterfly
Darlington's Fall by Brad Leithauser
Claire Messud, Fairy Tale in Reverse
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir, with Michèle Fitoussi, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz
John Banville, In the Puddles of the Past
Irish Classics by Declan Kiberd
Poetry & Posterity by Edna Longley
Gabriele Annan, Who Killed Bogomil Trumilcik?
The Horned Man by James Lasdun
Helen Epstein, The Hidden Cause of AIDS
Letters
Paul Lawrence Rose, Thomas Powers, Copenhagen, cont'd.
Samantha Power, They Never Met
Kevin Kennedy, The Burning of the Reichstag
Linda Hamalian, Query
Contributors
Al Alvarez's most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in these pages. (May 2008)
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 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.
Helen Epstein's book The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS has just been published. (July 2007)
Anthony Grafton teaches the history of Renaissance Europe at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger, Cardano's Cosmos, and Bring Out Your Dead.
Tony Judt is University Professor at NYU. His new book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, will be published in April. (May 2008)
Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)
Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
Claire Messud's most recent novel is The Emperor’s Children. Her earlier novels include When the World Was Steady. (July 2008)
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Rimbaud, and Victor Hugo. His latest book is The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War. (March 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.
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
Adam Zagajewski's books include Another Beauty and Without End: New and Selected Poems. The poem in this issue is from his new book, Eternal Enemies, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (April 2008)
