Table of Contents

Volume 49, Number 10 · June 13, 2002

John Gregory Dunne, A Farewell to Arms

When I Was a Young Man by Bob Kerrey

Geoffrey O'Brien, Popcorn Park

Garry Wills, Priests and Boys

Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain by Philip Jenkins

Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet by Philip Jenkins

Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis by Philip Jenkins

Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine, with a foreword by Dr. Joycelyn M. Elders

Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church by Michael S. Rose

Robert Cottrell, Big Money in the New Russia

The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman

Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000 by Stephen Kotkin

Michael Ignatieff, The Rights Stuff

The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement by Jeri Laber, with a preface by Václav Havel

Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention by A.W. Brian Simpson

In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All by William F. Schulz, with a foreword by Mary Robinson

James Fenton, The Woman Who Did

Bad Blood by Lorna Sage

Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth-Century Women Writers by Lorna Sage

James M. McPherson, Could the South Have Won?

Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America by William C. Davis

The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War by William W. Freehling

Lee and His Army in Confederate History by Gary W. Gallagher

The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia by Brian Steel Wills

Roger Shattuck, 'Think Like a Demigod'

Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall

Caroline Moorehead, Lost in Cairo

Richard Dorment, The Great Room of Art

Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780–1836 edited by David H. Solkin

Joseph Kerman, The Full Monte

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria conducted by William Christie, directed by Adrian Noble

L'incoronazione di Poppea conducted by Christophe Rousset, directed by Pierre Audi

Orfeo conducted by Jane Glover, directed by Diane Paulus

W.S. Merwin, Echoes of Rumi

Benny Morris, Camp David and After: An Exchange (1. An Interview with Ehud Barak)

Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, Camp David and After: An Exchange (2. A Reply to Ehud Barak)

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Letters

Jerad Walters, 'I Am the Walrus'
Susan Sontag, It Was Anna's Diary

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Contributors

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)

John Gregory Dunne's new novel, Nothing Lost, will be published in May. (January 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)

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005).

James M. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a collection of essays. (April 2008)

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.

Caroline Moorehead is the author of Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life and Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees. Her most recent book, an edition of Martha Gellhorn’s letters, appeared in paperback this year. (October 2007)

Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Café. (April 2008)

Roger Shattuck is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. He has most recently edited new editions of two books by Helen Keller. He is University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. (May 2005)

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.

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