Table of Contents
Volume 49, Number 9 · May 23, 2002
Garry Wills, Scandal
The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A Reflection on the Priest's Crisis of Soul by Donald B. Cozzens
Don't Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys by Michel Dorais, translated by Isabel Denholm Meyer
The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality by Eugene Kennedy
Hilary Mantel, Getting Through 
By the Lake by John McGahern
Harold Pinter, Cancer Cells (poem)
Amos Elon, No Exit
Margaret Atwood, Cops and Robbers
Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard
Joseph E. Stiglitz, A Fair Deal for the World
On Globalization by George Soros
Robert Craft, The Perils of Mrs. Eliot
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius by Carole Seymour-Jones
Alan Lightman, Megaton Man
Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics by Edward Teller, with Judith L. Shoolery
James Fenton, Shock Absorbed
Surrealist Love Poems edited by Mary Ann Caws
Surrealism: Desire Unbound Catalog of the exhibition edited by Jennifer Mundy
La Révolution Surréaliste Catalog of the exhibition by Werner Spies
Eamon Duffy, On the Brink of Oblivion
From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages by John Aberth
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe by Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell
Gordon A. Craig, The Russians Are Coming!
The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
David Lodge, Happy Birthday!
Critical Times: The History of the 'Times Literary Supplement' by Derwent May
Natalia Ginzburg, Winter in the Abruzzi
William H. McNeill, The Big R
Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn C. Loury
In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery by David Brion Davis
Jared Diamond, Living on the Moon
Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock
The History of Iceland by Gunnar Karlsson
The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection with a preface by Jane Smiley and an introduction by Robert Kellogg
Bernard Lewis, In the Finger Zone
Jonathan Mirsky, There Were Worse Places
Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora of Communities of Shanghai by Marcia Reynders Ristaino
Michael Kimmelman, The Keys to Beethoven
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion by Charles Rosen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Piano Music a recording by Charles Rosen
Caleb Crain, A Star Is Born
'My Heart Is a Large Kingdom': Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller edited by Robert N. Hudspeth
Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the New-York Tribune, 1844–1846 edited by Judith Mattson Beanand Joel Myerson
Joseph Frank, In Search of Dostoevsky
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin,translated from the Russian by Roger and Angela Keys, with an introduction by Susan Sontag
Francisco Goldman, Victory in Guatemala
Letters
Aharon Apelfeld, John Connelly, et al. Bruno Schulz's Wall Paintings
R. Veness, Gore Vidal, You Can Look It Up
Contributors
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)
Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)
Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
Caleb Crain is the author of Sweet Grafton, a novella published in the winter 2008 issue of the journal n+1. (May 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)
Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book is Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570. (May 2008)
Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)
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)
Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Stanford. He is the author of Dostoyevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881. (June 2008)
Natalia Ginzburg died in 1990. A collection of her essays, A Place to Live, in which the story in this issue appears, is published this month by Seven Stories Press. (May 2002)
Francisco Goldman is the author of two novels, The Long Night of White Chickens and The Ordinary Seaman. He divides his time between Mexico City and New York City.
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times. Starting this fall he is based in Berlin writing the Abroad column for the Times on culture and society across Europe. He is the author, most recently, of The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. (October 2007)
Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent books are Music of a Distant Drum and What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. (May 2002)
Alan Lightman, a physicist, teaches at MIT. His latest book is The Diagnosis. (May 2002)
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and
the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine novels, including Beyond Black. The excerpt in this issue is drawn from her new novel, Wolf Hall, which will be published by Henry Holt in 2009. (July 2008)
William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian’s Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather’s Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)
Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian specializing in Chinese affairs. He has been to Tibet six times. (July 2008)
Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. His many plays include The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, and Moonlight. Please also see haroldpinter.org.
Joseph E.Stiglitz received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. He is Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia. The author of Globalization and Its Discontents, he has been Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. (March 2003)
Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished
historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal
Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards,
among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities.
He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor
to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
